Distinct would be great if they bothered telegraphing at all where any of the alt mode goes in robot mode. The transformation animations here are simply nonsensical, probably due to time constraints. I'm sure they'll pull off toys, but it'd be nice if we could tell how the toys are supposed to transform. I can't, because of the transformation animations. They're just lazy.

As for Animated, Lockdown was the exception, not the rule. And Optimus was fairly accurate when he wasn't lugging that 'trailer' around. But even when there was cheating, at least it gave the impression that stuff was moving around in a sensible manner.

It's sad that his *rubber* ball joints and bizarre shoulder pad placement makes his arms difficult to transform? Stay classy, dude.

 

This show is going to be as bad as Beast Wars, I give it about as long as Animated before Hasbro is looking for different style to try.

 

STAY classy? Never had any! HAW!

However you do have a point, ROTF Lockdown'svehicle part placement IS rather bizarre, but that's mostly part of his design and his problem than anything, more streamlined stuff like ROTF Sideways, the new Sideswipe, Skids etc. are examples that show how the paned look can be done in toy form juuust fine.

PLus, how do you even know that TF Prime toys will try the ROTF panel stuff? As far as you know it'll go more for a WFC way where they do 'em with a mix of cheating or even TF1 style where they flat out just make 'em blockier in robot mode to made the job easier.

 

3 seasons? Good because that's a damn good timespan for a kid's show now-a-days. G1 was 3 seasons, Beast Wars was 3 seasons, Animated was 3 seasons and as a whole, the Unicron Trilogy here is basically 3 seasons.

That's some great positive thinking there.

 

Not to mention that they already confirmed each season will have to be 26 episodes due to CGI costs.


Which means a good 78 episodes!

 

  So you've deducted from a few very quick preview shots that the character design for the whole show are completely faulty, and the designers where all just sitting around with their thumbs up their ass?
I really can't help but think that you are just trying to find anything bad you possibly can to say about TFP because you have this personal venom towards Sony studios for whatever reason. Which you've made no secret of.
And if you don't like any of it, that's perfectly fine. But most of the points you seem to be trying to make really are just coming off as nothing more then BS infused slander. I'm sorry if that's harsh, but in all honestly, that's all you're coming across as.

I'm not willing to believe that they just forgot to put any thought into the transformations for Tranformers. With as far as Hasbro has come with this franchise, that seems like a pretty hard mistake to make.

 

I said the transformation animations are lazy, not the animatORS. There's time and budget constraints to think of, but what we've seen still looks pretty half-assed in the transformation department. I'm willing to eat crow if that only applies to what we've seen so far and isn't indicative of the entire show, but it'd be nice if we'd seen one decent transformation animation in any of the previews.

 

What about the preview footage from Comic Con? The one where Bumblebee comes off the bridge and transforms? I thought that was pretty good.

 

If we've just talking about the on screen transformations, then I would say that they go by a little too quickly to see how they work. But then at the same time TFA did a lot of that too.
That doesn't really mean that the base transformation designs themselves are bad, we just haven't got a chance to really get a good look at them yet.

 

IDK if that counts considering it was a TRANSFORMATION AS SCENE "Scene", i think we're talking about normal transforming.