From the looks of it, hiring Machinima.

Even the Machinama cartoon looks better in that regard...

I can tell just from that clip that Bee's gonna get real annoying real fast.

Animated was the only good Bee.

Also Machnima is equal to this crap fest.

I skimmed through some of Power of the Primes, and it seemed to have improved by that point.

I like the animation they had, but it kills me that that it looks so stiff specifically when there isn't a whole lot of action.

Whats wrong with Prime Bee?

The semi-movie aesthetic and broken voice crap for one. That entire series was a mess.

How was Prime a mess?

I can't speak for them but Prime's budget issues are REALLY obvious as you watch the show.

Not many characters, episodes mostly set in the desert, suddenly getting rid of two characters with celeb voice actors to save money, etc.

(Let's not even count the fact that, in the US at least, the show was airing on a channel which got an average of only 56,000 viewers daily [although according to Wikipedia, Prime got average ratings of 107,000 viewers]. Say what you will about Cartoon Network shoving RID at like 6:30am, but according to this, the series had an average viewership of 566,000 watchers in 2017, so YEAH)

I saw the trailer of cyberverse and looks like was made by a amateur.

Wait there was a second celeb besides The Rock?

I don't mind them having episodes set in the desert since it make sense. They are giant robots and they want to be in an area that no one can really spot them.

I mean not HUGE celebs, but Breakdown was voiced by Adam Baldwin and Airachnid was voiced by Gina Torres.

And Dreadwing was voiced by Tony Todd, who also voiced Megatronus/Fallen in ROTF.

Bumblebee's voice actor Will Friedle is Eric in Boy Meets World, Ernie Hudson who plays Agent Fowler is Winston in Ghostbusters, Clancy Brown who plays Silas is that Crab who owns the burger joint in Spongebob, Michael Ironside who plays Ultra Magnus is in a bunch of stuff.

Well I mean celebs who were let go like after one episode but damn Ironside as Magnus?

another factor in the lackluster storytelling in Transformers Prime comes from the series undergoing rewrites at several point (due to requirements of selling more toys & writers having burned through all their original ideas before the end of the second season).

Season 3 was at one point going to focus on an entirely new faction of space pirates known as "Star Seekers" (led by a new warrior Thundertron) but eventually this angle was scrapped & thus we received Beast Hunters for the season. Things were far enough in the design process that Thundertron still received a toy.

Well that makes sense, shame too, the Star Seekers thing sounds way cooler than Beast Hunters

Actually the Star Seekers were the focal point for BotCon 2014; both the toys and the comics/fiction that came with them featured the faction.

What made me laugh when I found out was that since he is a method actor according to trivia about him, could it be possible he only ate jello and candy shaped like energon and made his co-workers refer to him as Magnus while working on the show? :lolol

That aside I really loved Ernie Hudson as Fowler as much as I loved Ironside as Magnus. Oh, right I forgot. If you are a fan of a horror film called Reanimator Jeffrey Combs who was a part of that movie voiced Ratchet and one of the episodes was a nod to that movie if I recall.

for those wanting something a bit different I will also strongly recommend Prime's follow-up series, Robots In Disguise.

The animation is very different (lot more vibrant, extra colors & some VERY unique character designs) and the cast remains top-notch. While the writing definitely skews a bit younger than Prime's story, there's some very creative takes on nearly all the characters.

His name is Ironside he already has a transformer name hell the only prep work I can think that he would need is having the desire to bash deceptiocon skulls together.

One funny voice actor is the one for Bulkhead as he does the same voice for the principle from American Dad. So just imagine swapping the audio.

How can you recommend that show? It was bad I mean if anyone wants to watch the show please look up a list of all the episodes so you can select the episodes you rather watch. If you don't and decide to watch all the episode then I wish you luck. The show at least is better than Go.

Personally I enjoyed Transformers Prime. They managed to give me a decent conclusion in the end, which I think is uncommon in American animation where shows tend to conclude abruptly or just mid-way because of reasons, human companions *cough*WB cancelling Young Justice and Thundercats*cough* I thought were nice, and most of the transformer designs worked well for me despite worries prior to the show, specifically Smokescreen and Dreadwing. Smokescreen as a car is just superb and I like both paint jobs that he had throughout the show.

Robots In Disguise I like because Bumblebee finally stopped talking like R2-D2 and began to actually talk, and I think what really sold me on the show was the roster of the Autobots. Bumblebee felt like a more polished version of TF: Energon's Hot Shot, Sideswipe felt like the perfect rookie for Bumblebee to try and handle, Strongarm being the model soldier who needs to sometimes bend the rules was fun to watch, Fix-it was not as annoying as I though, and Grimlock was the perfect bull in a china shop. Come to think of it, the core five does have a subtle super sentai dynamic going on. As for Steeljaw, I think what I liked was that him definitely not being a Megatron-type main villain was what peaked my interest. Last but not least Russell and Denny felt like a nice homage to Spike and Sparkplug.

Do you guys think Japan can pull off their own live action Transformers TV show or movie?

Japan can't even pull off an animated Transformers show.

Were the japanese only animated series that bad?

I mean I don’t think so but apparently I’m in the minority there.

The one's I've seen weren't "bad", just generic as hell.

They feel like Brave without any of the imagination or energy.

A Japanese live action Transformers show could be fun if they use suits for the robots. TFW and Tokunation will end up crossing over if that happens :lol

First two episodes of Cyberverse are up.

I'd like to see a transformers show in the lines of X-men evolution animation.

Who would like to see Transformers Pokemon figures? Bumblebee can Pikachu and have Optimus Prime as Blastoise.

Actually an artist I follow on DeviantArt did some pretty interesting Transformers/Pokémon crossovers, including Optimus/Entei, Bumblebee/Combee, Galvatron/Garchomp, Shockwave/Genesect, Metroplex/Dialga, Trypticon/Palkia, and Megatronus/Mewtwo.

I wanna see a G1 exclusive toy where Megatron has Frank Welker's face and Optimus has Peter Cullen's face respectively.

Could be interesting to see a solo show of the minicons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryRP7-Nwtaw



Well. That's different. sort of...

Takara has announced a new Masterpiece version of Optimus Prime, featuring his most screen-accurate look to date & several previously unused accessories.


All for a mere FIFTY THOUSAND YEN.
http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/11/29/m...ssories-377631

Time to sell them organs.

Yeah thats expensive as heck. But I see where they're coming from with that price. Good thing that I have no interest in it :lol