I still can't believe we've seen more of Cliffjumper than Bumblebee for this show. But only five episodes? That's not much for us to nibble on.

 

it is a start, it is just the premeire of the series, there will be more

 

Well, color me excited!

Sure, the animation could be better, but you can't expect Pixar quality animation for a cable TV cartoon that has a limited budget. For what it is, I think it'll turn out pretty cool.

 

I think torrents are your best bet here, my friend. To this day I still don't know where (or even if) animated was aired in the UK.

 

Animated aired on Nicktoons in the UK, dude. Hell, you got several season 2 episodes before we did.

You might have missed Season 3, though.

 

Hasbro has pulled off some amazing technological feats in making the Animated toys. So if they can do that they can easily make TF Prime toys.

This may be a way of Hasbro advertising the next Evolution of Transformers toy designs, and if that's truly the case. I can't wait to see what these toys are going to look like and how they configure from Alt. Mode to bot Mode.

I am so glad to see how far CG toons have come since Beastwars.

On an unrelated note, even MAINFRAME has evolved. I can't wait to see the new REBOOT cartoon currently in production.

 

I guess I'm spoiled by shows like Clone Wars and Jimmy Neutron. That did not look at all impressive. Hopefully the story will compensate.

 

ALRIGHT EVERYONE SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE!!!

now, they are making new reboot cartoon? TELL ME RIGHT NOW!

my pants just rose up into the stratosphere  

 

Same. I knew they were doing SOMETHING with ReBoot, but a new cartoon?

Though I'm personally afraid I'll end up like a Geewunner with a new ReBoot show and won't give it a proper chance. But that's because the original was SO GOOD.

 

Nicktoons showed Season 3 late 2009/early 2010.

 

Wow, haven't seen someone pull out that old critique since the 2007. (Not to mention that it never really made much sense to me, since- regardless of esthetic-aren't most transformers robots that look like they are made out of car/vehicle parts?)

But in any case, if they made the movie designs work in toy form, they can make these work.
Though that said, I wouldn't be surprised if the toys are not 100% accurate. I'm kind of thinking that at worst the TFP figures may end up being as accurate to the show models as WFC Prime's figure is to the game model. But to me that's not too bad of a thing.

 

There's simply no excuse for that: WFC was developed completely independently of Hasbro, but Prime is developed entirely in-house by a studio created BY Hasbro.

But you're probably right. What transformations we've seen are either nonsensical or blatantly hidden from direct view.

 

I prefer when Hasbro has to struggle to make a design work in toy form though. When the cgi models are toy copy pastes like Energon/Cybertron its jsut boring! But when you DON'T KNOW if they toy will be accurate or not, it makes seeing how they ended up all the more exciting.

Plus, if they did it with movie toys, they can do it again!

 

Oh yes, I can't wait for Deluxes like Lockdown where you have to *remove the arm* just to transform him. Yes, I love having to shift three or four panels around on top of transforming a leg or arm, being extra careful that said panels don't fall off at the ball joint that holds them. That's *tons* of fun.

Different strokes for different folks, shroob.

 

Well I did say at worst. Though you're right, WFC was kind of independently developed from Hasbro. TFP isn't, so I guess we got nothing to worry about.  

Hey, they managed to make the morphy squash and stretch transformations of TFA work. I have confidence that they know what they're doing.

 

I don't remember seeing too much 'morphing' 'squashing' or 'stretching' in Animated aside from a select number of episodes. Bumblebee transforms like his toy and even features the toy's kibble on his back, for flip's sake. Plus unlike Prime's robots, you can actually tell where most of the vehicle goes. Big distinction there.

 

Not to pick on you, but Bee was kind of a shitty example to use, considering his toy is the cheatiest, what with his fake roofchest and whatnot. With Prime's robots, I can kiiiiiinda see where you're coming from, but when I look at them, I see car parts, and then they just kinda fit together into vehicles in my mind.

Except Arcee. I love her design, but how the fuuuuuuuuuuuuck does that work.

 

I'm not talking about transformation and even if I was, I never said anything about you, was only stating my personal preferences.

btw, pretty sad that you cant transform rotf lockdown, he's easy as hell for me

 

Your Lockdown too?

 

I loved TFA, but there was a lot of 2D cartoon tomfoolery going on with most of those transformations. Optimus's show model and his toys do not match up at all. Lockdown's another one who's on screen transformations did a lot of cheating. In the show, his feet seem to transform from the front of his car-mode, while the toy actually fakes it with the back of his car-mode.

TFP does take the more "movie" route in that there is much more of a distinct level of change between robot and alt-mode. But then there's not really anything wrong with that. Makes it feel like an actual transformation took place. And if the movie toys can pull it off, then I'm sure TFP will.

Kinda like you said: "Different strokes for different folks."