Transformers: Robots In Disguise Episodes 16 & 17 Titles Revealed

PrymeStriker wrote:They called it season three at the last two conventions. The most recent trailer was for season three. When the hell did they spontaneously decide it should become the second part of season two?

o.supreme wrote:The toy producers don't know all the details of the animated series (and vice versa), the statement "we're calling it season 3" speaks volumes. Jeffrey Combs once referred to what we now know as "Predacons Rising" to be "season 4" of TF Prime.

The only thing I took away from that short answer is that there will be "more episodes in the fall", what they are ultimately categorized as is still unknown. As some have stated, I hope SDCC sheds some more light on what is to come.

Sabrblade wrote:Looks like Ryan/Seibertron finally got his wish in today's episode of Rescue Bots with there being an enemy Cybertronian in this one (albeit, a Mini-Con rather than a Decepticon).

And it was another crossover with RID as the Mini-Con was a Cyclone and Sideswipe guest-starred.

With Sideswipe aware of what Cyclones are, this episode would logically have to come after the six RID shorts that formally introduced the Cyclones, as the second short had him unaware of what Cyclones were and needing to be told about them by Drift's Mini-Cons.

Additionally, Sideswipe sarcastically comments on both "Roll to the Rescue!" and "Power Up and Energize!" in regards to Bumblebee's own attempts to find a catchphrase, so this still takes place before the RID season 1 finale. Yet, Sideswipe also comments on the Bee Team's GroundBridge malfunctioning as though it's malfunctioned more than once before, meaning this episode must also come after at least both "Deep Trouble" and "The Champ".

Based on this, here's an update to the proposed RID season 1/RB season 4 timeline that I previously posted:

Pilot (Part 1)
Pilot (Part 2)
Trust Exercises / New Normal
More than Meets the Eye / Bridge Building
W.W.O.D.? / Arrivals
As the Kospego Commands! / Plus One
Collect 'Em All / Back to Virtual Reality
True Colors / Vanishing Returns
Rumble in the Jungle / Ghost in the Machine
Can You Dig It? / Enemy of My Enemy
Adventures in Bumblebee-Sitting! / Mayor May Not
Hunting Season / All Spark Day
Out of Focus / Part-Time Heroes
Sideways / The More Things Change... / The More Things Stay the Same
Even Robots Have Nightmares / Hot Rod Bot
Some Body, Any Body / King Burns
One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing / Pizza Pi Party
Uninvited Guest
Deep Trouble /
The Champ /
Knock, Knock! / The Power of Dibs / Back and Forth / The Tragedy of Slipstream / A Level Playing Field / Two Plus Two Equals More
The Need for Speed
The Trouble with Fixit
Lockout
Similarly Different
The Buzz on Windblade
Ghosts and Impostors
Battlegrounds, Part 1
Battlegrounds, Part 2






Also, the latest episode of Robots in Disguise, "History Lessons" (whether it's considered season 2 episode 14 or season 3 episode 1), aired on Teletoon in Canada today. No idea if any Canadians recorded it or will upload said recording onto the Internet or not, though.

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm actually interested in the RiD crossovers on Rescue Bots. Not that I'm really keeping up on that show, but I quite enjoy seeing Rescue Bot takes on RiD designs.

Sabrblade wrote:So while Bounce got a design that looks (or would look) the same across both shows, Sideswipe instead got some artistic liberties for his RB cartoon design.

PrymeStriker wrote:Meanwhile, checked out "History Lessons". It was pretty good, but I think I'm a little more open to this being season two rather than season three, because this episode didn't particularly feel like a premiere. Alas, that makes "Decepticon Island" a little odd.

Kurona wrote:Also the base was attacked by Decepticons and Bumblebee went to hide? What? Wasn't the whole point in TFP that the base was hidden and that when it was found at the end of Season 2 it was a massive game-changer because the Decepticons immediately blew the hell out of it?

Kurona wrote:And I certainly don't recognise those defence systems from TFP...

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:Also the base was attacked by Decepticons and Bumblebee went to hide? What? Wasn't the whole point in TFP that the base was hidden and that when it was found at the end of Season 2 it was a massive game-changer because the Decepticons immediately blew the hell out of it?

Pretty sure he was talking about some offscreen event that we never saw in Prime, possibly set before the show's beginning in the time when there were Decepticons on Earth three years prior. And maybe they were Decepticons who weren't part of the Nemesis crew and never got to report back their finding of the Autobots' base to Megatron (if they were Vehicons, the Autobots might've even killed them).

Kurona wrote:And I certainly don't recognise those defence systems from TFP...

You are correct. They weren't in Prime. They're likely from more offscreen events, like the above incident and the time Bee and Bulkhead arm-wrestled.

psj333 wrote:In the next episode called, "Strongarm's Biggest Score", looks like her biggest score is Scatterspike, judging by the footage shown at this year's Comic Con. In the footage, you can see Scatterspike completely beat Strongarm senselessly, before took off. Is it true, that Scatterspike is being described as Strongarm's rival of sorts, hence the title?

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

Stuartmaximus wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

Stuartmaximus wrote:btw isn't Aerobolt supposed to be a good guy? i know he's supposed to be Power Surge Op Prime's minicon(well...at least where the Leader Class PSOP is concerned) so i dunno why he's hanging out with a bunch of enemy minicons(coz Clawtrap is a decepticon! you can see his insignia)

Stuartmaximus wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:And, the person who is after those minicons is totally Starscream, we all know it

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

If the Ark ever did sit there, that is, since we have no idea what happened to the Ark in this continuity after it left Cybertron through a space bridge and went on a planet-hopping adventure in space.

Flashwave wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

If the Ark ever did sit there, that is, since we have no idea what happened to the Ark in this continuity after it left Cybertron through a space bridge and went on a planet-hopping adventure in space.

But Arcee did mention the Ark to Jack when Maggy showed up in Prime, so there IS or WAS an ark.

Kurona wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

If the Ark ever did sit there, that is, since we have no idea what happened to the Ark in this continuity after it left Cybertron through a space bridge and went on a planet-hopping adventure in space.

But Arcee did mention the Ark to Jack when Maggy showed up in Prime, so there IS or WAS an ark.

We know that; we saw it take off in Fall of Cybertron. We just don't know what happened to it after.

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

If the Ark ever did sit there, that is, since we have no idea what happened to the Ark in this continuity after it left Cybertron through a space bridge and went on a planet-hopping adventure in space.

But Arcee did mention the Ark to Jack when Maggy showed up in Prime, so there IS or WAS an ark.

We know that; we saw it take off in Fall of Cybertron. We just don't know what happened to it after.

Eh? how does this tie in to FOC? coz that's what you'd be suggesting if it's the same Ark

Kurona wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

If the Ark ever did sit there, that is, since we have no idea what happened to the Ark in this continuity after it left Cybertron through a space bridge and went on a planet-hopping adventure in space.

But Arcee did mention the Ark to Jack when Maggy showed up in Prime, so there IS or WAS an ark.

We know that; we saw it take off in Fall of Cybertron. We just don't know what happened to it after.

Eh? how does this tie in to FOC? coz that's what you'd be suggesting if it's the same Ark

Because officially, WFC/FoC are part of the same universe as TFP/RiD 2015/Rescue Bots. It's stupid, pointless and doesn't make a lot of sense, but they are officially the same universe.

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

If the Ark ever did sit there, that is, since we have no idea what happened to the Ark in this continuity after it left Cybertron through a space bridge and went on a planet-hopping adventure in space.

But Arcee did mention the Ark to Jack when Maggy showed up in Prime, so there IS or WAS an ark.

We know that; we saw it take off in Fall of Cybertron. We just don't know what happened to it after.

Eh? how does this tie in to FOC? coz that's what you'd be suggesting if it's the same Ark

Because officially, WFC/FoC are part of the same universe as TFP/RiD 2015/Rescue Bots. It's stupid, pointless and doesn't make a lot of sense, but they are officially the same universe.

Well...in that case...i'm surprised they didn't just add the Bayverse in there as well! coz then we'd know what happened to the Ark.....it crashed onto the moon

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So, An autobot base in Mt Saint Helens, weapons minicons wanting freedom, repaints of season 1 and 2 characters for the bad guys. huh

btw it's HILARY not Helens, but i s'pose Helens would've been it's real world equivalent anywhoo....i got goosebumps when that volcano name was mentioned, although ended up a little disappointed when there was no huge hole there where the Ark once sat

If the Ark ever did sit there, that is, since we have no idea what happened to the Ark in this continuity after it left Cybertron through a space bridge and went on a planet-hopping adventure in space.

But Arcee did mention the Ark to Jack when Maggy showed up in Prime, so there IS or WAS an ark.

We know that; we saw it take off in Fall of Cybertron. We just don't know what happened to it after.

Eh? how does this tie in to FOC? coz that's what you'd be suggesting if it's the same Ark

Because officially, WFC/FoC are part of the same universe as TFP/RiD 2015/Rescue Bots. It's stupid, pointless and doesn't make a lot of sense, but they are officially the same universe.

Well...in that case...i'm surprised they didn't just add the Bayverse in there as well! coz then we'd know what happened to the Ark.....it crashed onto the moon

WFC and FOC were both conceived to be part of the Aligned continuity just like Prime and RID 2015 were (Rescue Bots got shoehorned in, but they made it work well enough). It's just that the video games and the shows were produced independently from one another, with each having to make references to one another afterward.

Like, FOC deliberately gave Cliffjumper a head design beased on his Prime head, the Path Blaster was designed to look like an earlier version of Optimus's gun from Prime, and the design for the Nemesis in FOC is directly based on the ship's Prime cartoon design.

Likewise, the Prime cartoon started referring to the Great War as "the War for Cybertron" many times beginning with season 2, Cliffjumper (in Arcee's flashback episode) referred to a time when he once got lost in the Sea of Rust which was a whole level he was playable in in FOC, the Nemesis was revealed to have an intelligence of its own in one season 2 episode as a reference to the ship's having been reconfigured from WFC Trypticon in FOC (but which was first done by the Exodus and Exiles novels), Miko and Bulkhead directly referred to the FOC Dinobots in one episode in season 3, the Core of Cybertron seen a few times throughout the Prime cartoon used the same design for the Core as was seen in WFC, and more.

Not to mention that after FOC came out and both before and during the airing of Prime season 3, there were two comic mini-series being published that set out to directly connect the games to the Prime cartoon, which starred the FOC Dinobots. The first was called Rage of the Dinobots, which featured the Dinobots teamed up with Prime Ultra Magnus fighting Shockwave on Cybertron in a post-FOC setting in which we saw FOC Shockwave having upgraded himself into his Prime cartoon body and having begun his experiments with Predacons, which would bring about Predaking in Prime season 3. The series ended with the Dinobots and Magnus defeating (but not killing) Shockwave, and Magnus left Cybertron in a ship that would later bring him to Earth at the start of Prime season 3.

The second comic series was simply titled Beast Hunters, and had the FOC Dinobots trying to protect Cybertron and the last of its inhabitants from any remaining threats that existed on the planet in its very dead state, as we saw in the Prime cartoon. This comic series took place during season 3 the Prime cartoon, with Shockwave being on Earth in the show meant he was no longer on Cybertron in the comics. This story also featured FOC Kickback leading some Prime Insecticons, and another Predacon experiment of Shockwave's. The end of the story took place after Predacons Rising, with Cybertron having been restored in the cartoon taking its effect in the comics and the FOC Dinobots eventually got to reunite with Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead in the Prime cartoon designs.

Now, bear in mind that while all these connections have been made, FOC Grimlock is NOT the same guy as RID 2015 Grimlock. The creators of the RID 2015 cartoon tried to make FOC Grimlock's backstory work for RID 2015 Grimlock, but utimately, that backstory didn't work for them because it was too dark and dreary for the character they wanted to write for this show, so they simply wrote up a new Grimlock. Likewise, RID 2015 Sideswipe and RID 2015 Kickback are also considered different guys from WFC Sideswipe and FOC Kickback, as RID 2015 Sideswipe is younger than Bumblebee and didn't partake in the Great War like WFC Sideswipe did, while FOC Kickback was murdered in the Beast Hunters comics so RID 2015 Kickback couldn't possibly be him (and even if FOC Kickback didn't die, RID 2015 Kickback is too different from FOC Kickback to be the same guy anyway).

As for the Bayverse, the WFC/FOC games weren't "added in" like you say, so the notion of "adding in" the Bayverse is null and void. Besides, Rise of the Dark Spark already established the Bayverse and the WFC/FOC games as separate universes anyway.

Hope that clears things up.

o.supreme wrote:Found a really bad copy of Season 2 episode 16 "Pretzel Logic" on youtube. basically the highlight was an as yet unidentified Decepticon (perhaps a bounty hunter?) observing the battle between Grimlock & *Blue Bisk* (audio is so bad I cant make out his name)...but I do know Steve Blum's Starscream, so that was a treat to hear.

the only other take away for me was that we now know the Decepticon relic hunters are not in league with Starscream, what their ultimate goals are is also yet to be revealed

Now me personally, I think TF: Prime is the 2nd best animated version of the Transformers in all its incarnations through the years. however one of the biggest complaints fans had was the hunt for the relics in the mid-season 2 arc.Yet it appears they are now doing the exact same thing in this show...
The episode was kind of lame overall, but I hope the season will get better, Seems like every episode will have one or two cool reveals to keep fans hooked until something significant happens.

Sabrblade wrote:The mysterious hunter's name is Shadelock. He seems to have a modified body-type of a Vehicon.

o.supreme wrote:*Blue Bisk* (audio is so bad I cant make out his name)