That's why there will be no Animated Springer in Animated.

Hey can someone at least color these line art pics to their animation model shown in magazine?
New Transformers Animated Season 3 Design Sketches

Is it possible or illegal?

 

Deep down I always knew it.

That underneath Lugnut's thick armor and Megatron obsessed processor, beats the spark of a lover! A shakespearean romantic!

Lugnut, Decepticon of Love.

 

G1 Cliffjumper of course. And my point was just that all those characters have very similar personalities... brash, speedy, overconfident kids. They're almost all the same character.  

As for Rodimus and Hotshot being in Energon... yeah, though in Energon, Hotshot had mellowed considerably, and Rodimus was pretty far from his usual characterization.

Well, Brawn does seem to be some sort of half-track, so one would think he'd be bigger than an economy hatchback.  

That said, Bumblebee does sort of stretch out, while Brawn may just condense his form.

But that's besides the point. Prowl already completely mangles any semblance of mass-conservation in Animated. I'm just happy that Brawn is A) below average in size and B) incredibly strong. The fact that he's smaller than Bumblebee is unimportant (though sort of funny).

No. I disagree. Brawn was always a small bot, despite his phenomenal strength... so making him small is precisely part of the charm he has always had. I think it would be inappropriate to depict him as a normal-sized bot. He should at least be short and stocky (though it's unnecessary for him to be tiny).

I agree with your basic point about minibots though. There's no reason why Gears should be smaller than Mirage or Hound, based on their vehicle modes... though as a nod to the "minibot" tradition, I do like the idea of those characters being a little shorter or more condensed-looking.

zmog

 

Short yes, something below Ratchet or even Prowl's height, but even shorter than Bumblebee? That's a little stretching it. That's my point. He's gonna be tiny as it's already clear he's even shorter than Bumblebee.

 

I agree... Brawn should be the tallest of the minibots (excluding perhaps Huffer, and ignoring for now the Wave 2 minis), but still shorter than most other Bots.

Smaller than Bumblebee IS stretching it, though this goes back to the old point that Animated Bumblebee is not G1 Bumblebee, and Animated Brawn is a pipsqueak super-strength.  

I know what you mean, but it doesn't really bother me, in as much as I don't really take much in Animated too seriously.

G1... now that's deadly serious!

zmog

 

Well, now we know which part of Ultra Magnus' name is his rank. Optimus Magnus, incidentally, has a ring to it.

Also, Lugnut and Strika being consorts amuses me more than Strika's lipstick. Their love for Megatron brought them together!

*has sudden fanart idea*

 

Guys, now, we do even KNOW that Brawn is going to show up with Bumblebee? It really doesn't matter that he's shorter than BBB if they never get a scene together.

 

Man, these sound really awesome. I wish I could see what they look like but I wont for awhile. Lucky club members.  

Strika and Lugnut eh? Should be interesting...

 

YES! Rodimus Magnus lol.

 

You have a good point, but Derrick (I think it's him, or was it the "source") said he's shorter than Bumblebee. It'd be funny he'd bother to say that if there are no plans for Rodimus's team meeting the Earth bound team and having height jokes.

 

Wouldn't be the first time they refer to another character in a bio, could be just there to give us a idea of his size,

 

It's the bio itself. Brawn's "shorter than Bumblebee, and stronger than Bulkhead".

 

Very nice... can't wait for my issue to get here. And considering Beastbox has his... it should just be another day or so for me.  

 

God no, please... we have too much of that stuff already. No threesomes!    

What I find amusing is that you seem to think that "height jokes" are somehow beneath TF:Animated, and that Brawn's reputation will be horribly denigrated.  

zmog

 

It's not about Brawn's reputation. He's always been the small guy and even in G1 he's been mocked (at least I think he was....).

It's just terribly cliched and seems to keep on going and going and going. The same joke all the time. Of course I could be proven wrong if (a) the unlikely scenario his height isn't picked on repeatedly, or (b) he doesn't meet Bumblebee, ever.

The problem I have is I foresee a repeat of the small but strong moral-of-the-day. It could just turn out weak like the Prowl's upgrade episode. I don't think it's necessary to force that if you don't portray certain characters as appearing exaggeratedly weak in the first place. Key word is in bold.

Yea it may be a kid's show, but kids aren't that slow and you don't need to dumb it down that much. Ultimately this is all just my opinion.

 

Can anyone, who has the latest club magazine, color in the leaked season 3 character sketches according to how the look in color?

 

Yeah, I think I can see what you mean. I have no problem with some height jokes at Brawn's expense... especially since he's tough enough to take it.  

However, moral-of-the-day message stories are pretty outdated, and can be pretty tiresome. I don't think we need any "big things can come in small packages" lesson stories for Brawn. That would be weak.

I think one of my favourite "short jokes" in a kids' cartoon was way back in ROBOTIX. Anyone remember that one?  

zmog

 

Got my magazine today. I think the Allspark thread covers pretty much all the vital stuff about the Season 3 teams, but there are a few things I want to add.

Red Alert - The other Autobots stick reasonably close to their prior incarnations, but Red Alert is mostly a new design. OK, you've probably seen the sketch that was leaked of her vehicle mode, which is a blocky sort of Cybertronian ambulance (with no apparent lightbar). In robot mode, though, she has Arcee's proportions, and it looks like the outer shell of the van hangs off of her hips to give her the appearance of wearing a long white coat. She has the vehicle's front as her chest ("nice headlights" indeed) and a big fan-shaped thing on her head that's clearly supposed to evoke a nurse's hat.

Cyclonus - Looks very close to his Universe incarnation with much darker colors. That having been said, I don't think we'll be seeing an Animated toy for this guy for a very long time.

Blackout - I have no idea what this guy transforms into and his techspec offers no hints. He has a vent behind his head and some giant things on his shoulders that could be thrusters, so I presume he's a gunship of some kind. If he's as big as they say, then we might not get a toy of him either!

Spittor - He is dark blue with orange highlights like his first BW toy. His altmode is described as "an all-terrain bipedal walker". Comparing his robot mode to his altmode sketch, he doesn't seem to have all that much of a transformation.

Oil Slick - Looks wicked. Very dark. You can barely see his head inside the glass, but it looks like they toned his nose down a bit from the toy. His lips are outlined kind of like Apocalypse from X-Men.

 

Someone with the magazine-Please color these if legal and possible
http://www.seibertron.com/images/news/gfx/1223055125_cartoon_animated_Rodimus.jpg

http://www.seibertron.com/images/news/gfx/1223055125_cartoon_animated_Spittor.jpg

http://www.seibertron.com/images/news/gfx/1223055125_cartoon_animated_Stryka.jpg

http://www.seibertron.com/images/news/gfx/1223055125_cartoon_animted_Blackout.jpg

http://www.52toys.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/brawn.jpg

 

Just got my issue. I haven't checked out this thread until now so I was shocked to see Hot Shot, Cyclonus, Oil Slick and a female Red Alert will be in the show.

I enjoyed the ongoing comic as well