Create your own Transformers Series

Discussion in 'Transformers General Discussion' started by T-Wrecks, Jun 4, 2008.

  1. Goatboy

    Goatboy Well-Known Member

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    I'd been thinking for while how I would update some of the later gimmick led G1 lines, and this is what i came up with.

    Transformers - Battle for Nebulos
    The basic set up would be the same as the marvel comics mini series. But Nebulos would be an old Quintisson colony world with many strange life forms(old quint experiments) and the human like Nebulons have developed much of there technical knowledge from studying old Quintisson relics.
    The Nebulons use a nano virus developed from Quintesson tech to disable the warring Transformers. This attacks and destroys many of the Transformers internal systems causing most to go into stasis lock and leaving the rest helpless. But the organic natives and the techno organic Quintisson relics are unharmed.
    The power hungry Lord Zarak then uses the same Quintesson tech to develop the headmaster's in order to use the(in his eyes) more powerful Decepticons to take control of Nebulos.
    Galen(who had disapproved of using the nano virus in the first place) and his supporters steal the secrets of the headmaster process and use it to join with the Autobots to stop the increasingly unstable Zarak.

    The headmasters would be bots who's cpu's were damaged. There would also be an eventual and unforeseen blending of the Transformers personality and mind with that of there Nebulon partner
    Target masters would be Transformers who's targeting systems had been damaged but did not need the headmaster joining.
    Power masters would be bots who's power core's were damaged. There Nebulon partners would also act a bit like mini cons and be able to give quick power boosts to other Transformers.
    The brain masters and breast masters would become headmasters and target masters.
    The pretenders would be transformers who had to be encased in a techno organic life support shell to protect them from the nano virus that was still in the atmosphere. (The toys would use a gimmick a bit like the Takara transcanning movie figures but without the transforming outer shell)
    The Action masters:D  would have had there transforming systems damaged, but there new techno organic infused bodies would be faster stronger and more agile.
    The Micro masters would be native Nebulons who have been altered with a combo of Quintisson and cybertronion tech giving them techno organic bodies and allowing them to transform.
     
  2. rabbid1

    rabbid1 Well-Known Member

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    A re-introduction of G1- same characters, recognizable, but updated- and more realistic- vehicle and alt modes.

    As for the story- hammer out the entire story before production while applying fixes where needed, and this way it won't have gafs, goofs and continuity errors.
     
  3. Johnator

    Johnator 'Til All Are Gone!

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    This would be perfect.
     
  4. Sideways

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    instead of every series based from the autobots' side, id like to see one where the Decepticons are the main focus.
     
  5. Chaos Muffin

    Chaos Muffin Misadventure Veteran

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    G3 - Reunion
     
  6. VictoryLeo19

    VictoryLeo19 Well-Known Member

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    id like to see a series with an entirely new cast of characters, see how that pans out, possibly a new character for the title of prime. i liked the fact that beast wars had actual development and made it interesting even though the cast was small, and G1 had such a broad cast that i was always hooked. i think a medium of the two would be interesting, maybe make it set during the cybertronian wars or something...
     
  7. Born 2B Alive!

    Born 2B Alive! Director Of Entertainment

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    I always wanted to do a Transformers animated series based on Gen One during the time of Shockwave keeping Cybertron going for 4 million years. Very little has ever been done showing events that happened on Cybertron during that desperate 4 million year time frame.
     
  8. Darkspeed

    Darkspeed Avatar Freak

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    I'm all in favour of a movieverse-esque series, with a little more darker tone to it. TFA is nice, and the writing brilliant, but if it had a more BW feel to it (In terms of, say, Dinobot's death), then it'd be a killer! ^^
     
  9. Wazzpinator

    Wazzpinator is playin ODST

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    A Shattered Glass t.v series. It would be fun to visit backwards land some more.Confuse kids who watch animated by making them think that Megatron really wants peace and freedom and Optimus wants your head on a stick. And for extra fun, make the opening backwards.
    (The order in which things are said, not words.)

    Course, if they did make a t.v show like this, you couldn't have toys because their exclusives.
     
  10. T-Wrecks

    T-Wrecks Well-Known Member

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    Transformers: Rollout!
    The Autobots and Decepticons now triple change from robot to vehicle to beast.

    Wave 1
    Optimus Prime-Truck/Gorilla
    Bumblebee-Ford Focus/Bee
    Grimlock-Ford Mustang GT/T-Rex
    Slag-Ford Torus/Triceratops
    Swoop-Ford GT/Pterodactyl
    Megatron-Marine Ship/Dragon
    Starcream-Convertible/Pheonix
     
  11. SharkyMcShark

    SharkyMcShark Hi. I'm better than you

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    Movie-verse. Either live action or cartoony - doesn't matter really. More characters, sort of like G1 in that there are a lot of characters hanging around.
     
  12. GENOZAUR

    GENOZAUR Banned

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    my idea for a series would be a g1 animated trilogy that would cover the war between the autobots and the decepticons during the first season while towards the end of season 1 it would also explore in some part the origins of the great war, and the rise of optimus prime megatron character origin wise.

    while going into season 2 it would have ultra magnus and his own team existing as the so called wild cards of the three teams with optimus and the autobots on one side, megatron and the decepticons on the other side and caught right in the middle would be ultra magnus and the wreckers with their believing that they themselves are the true representatives of the original uncorrupt cybetronion society that existed before the political government corruption

    basicly people the second season would explore in some part how optimus and megatron and ultra magnus actually came to first know one another with it being made clear in a somewhat kryptic manner that the reason they knew one another before the war is because they shared the same creator in the autobot wiseman alpha trion. in short they would be his sons and through that family bond origin wise they would als be brothers to one another in the lteral sense as well

    but with the events that lead to the great war itself being due to the corruption that originally once existed in the original cybertronion society with megatrons origins exploring how he came to lead a revolt against that social corruption with this fact making it clear that this version of his character is really more along the lines of being the antihero/martyr for his oppressed people as opposed to his being the out and out murderous tyranical more or less 2 dimensional villain that the 80's cartoon portrayed him as being

    with optimus prime and megatron having had a rather violent parting of ways with one another in the distant past due to their radically and thoroughly diametrically opposing personel idealogies.

    basicly people optimus would in some part be in the role of the warrior who is fighting for his society and the greater good even though he is all to well aware of the corruption that exists in said society even as he attempts to salvage the redeeming positive qualities that once existed in said former society with those qualities being used to model the new society on.

    prime would be caught between the rock and the hard place as it were.

    by the time of the third season a series of events would occur in which the three brothers must unite thier followers and fight against the greater true original evil that is responsible for bringing about the corruption that ravaged and destroyed the original cybertronion society.

    in this case with the 3 brothers literally finding themselves posessing the abilty to become a far greater single amalgamated being with this being itself existing as the champion of primus itself . in short the 3 literally combine to become a greater warrior and leader that has all the most positive greater redeaming qualities of each of the 3 put together and none of the negative character flaws or weaknesses.

    me i figure their combined form would have optimus for the main inner core body with ultra magnus doubling as the lower body and breastplate chest armor with megatron forming the shoulder armor and back armor along with the back mounted over shoulder cannons and and jetpack

    basicly picture a combiner that has the best design elements of rid omega prime and armada magna jet convoy.

    if anything those 3 existing as a combiner team would really level and even out each of them as a single individual person in which each one posesses thier individual strengths but with thier weaknesses as individuals being rendered virtually nonexistance due to each one posessing in some part the shared strengths ofthe other 2.

    for example megatrons temper and rage being tempered by optimus's compassion purity of heart and spirit and selflessness

    ultra magnus's lack of confidence in himself being compensated in some part by megatrons utterly unquestionable confidence and optimus's faith in his brother ultra magnus.

    and optimus would have megatrons desire to succeed at any cost to his person with that personel ambition being temepered by primes own personnel logic mental wits and optimus's physical reflexes being enhanced even further by megatrons raizor sharp wits, reflexes and agility.

    each of them literally pooling their best personel strengths as they give and share those strengths with one another in mind, in body, and in spirit as well

    as for the name of the combiner form i figure omega prime would be all to fitting


    i actually think that would make for a unique, interesting and thought provoking series


    what are your thoughts on the matter people?
     
  13. Dragonclaw

    Dragonclaw Briefly the owner of KB Toys

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    I'd want something to fall between G2 and BW:

    Razorclaw gets fed up with Megatron / Galvatron and splinters off, taking the rest of the Predacons as well as any other 'bots who wish to follow...any vehicle Decepticons are given animal alt-modes as the Predacons become the new evil faction so the Autobots have 2 focusses to worry about.

    In season 2 The Autobots will have political issues of their own with some of the "new character" Autobots taking a very heavy handed approach...when the Decepticons are finally defeated at the end of the season, but by this time much of the Autobot heirarchy is a darker, almost twisted group.

    Season 3 will have the Autobots commit the very attrocities BW Megatron accuses them of in the name of justice and punishment, causing many of the Autobots to rethink their current leadership...Ashamed to wear the Autobot emblem they form the Maximals and are declared outlaws and rogues by the Autobot heirarchy, who will be the new villain for the 3rd season as well as the occasional Predacon plot.
     
  14. Jochimus

    Jochimus Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!

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    What would I do for my own TF series?

    A live-action half-hour series of two-part episodes that combines occasional motion-capture-based CGI (mostly for transformation sequences) with kaiju-type "suit" sequences using suits built from the same patterns as the CGI figures (not unlike the way Hasbro manufactured some of the BW figures), thus enabling the suits and the CGI to match in both look and performance. There would be humans, naturally, but the principal cast of actors would be playing the simulacrums/proxies of the Autobots and Decepticons, thus enabling the show to remain focused squarely on the robots even when there isn't a lot of carnage happening (preferably the same actors would be either wearing the suits or doing the voices, too). There wouldn't be much in the way of location, except maybe a small town (the Autobots' base of operations, where they adopt more rural-type "civilian" vehicle modes), a Area-51-type military base about forty miles away that "doesn't exist" (actually the Decepticons' headquarters, enabling them to have more high-powered assault-vehicle modes), and a bigger city in between them (the blaster fodder :D ) .

    Granted, there'd probably be budget concerns, hence cutting to a half-hour format and having the proxy actors double as the robots themselves, in addition to minimizing the factions to five-on-five and sticking to backlot and soundstage shooting; if we lose one or two of our actors for whatever reason, or we need if need something dramatic that will end with a couple of the characters leaving the show, we just bring in a replacement character (something I'm sure Hasbro wouldn't have any problem with; they can just keep producing toys of the older characters along with the new ones). Also, miniature sets (which actually wouldn't be that small since the TFs aren't usually kaiju-size) for battle sequences would have to be built and re-built economically, so they'd probably be cast into molds, and then as with typical kaiju movies I'd probably recycle the buildings that don't get wrecked for the next shoot.

    As for the accompanying toy line...we go BIG. Supreme Class Optimus and Megatron figures, with the other characters dictated by size class from there (ex: Bumblebee would probably be a Voyager and Ironhide a Leader). And ALL of them come with 3 3/4" figures of their proxies.
     
  15. Draco Prime

    Draco Prime Autobot

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    "The First 13 Transformers", A short series of a 10 part, 1 hour long each series introducing all of the 13. from introducing what forms they chosen to transform into, Why "The Fallen" fell and joined Unicron, How Vector Prime became appointed guardian of space and time by Primus, and how the Matrix came into creation.
     
  16. DrGrim

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    I'd like to see a series set in the G1 universe, but none of the G1 characters are in it. They'd (a group of Autobots) be on some other mission, maybe in space or something but a group of Decepticons would be tracking them down - or something. It's just that, as much as I love Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, Starscream, etc. etc. etc., it's be nice to see something with a totally new cast and non-recycled characters. And since this made up series of mine would be new characters and not popular licenses like Prime and Bumblebee, it'd be no problem to occasionally kill someone off.

    I'd also have a geek-gasm if they finally made cartoons that followed where the original G1 cartoon left off with The Rebirth, and they could give the original cartoon a proper ending. The last episode could have Optimus Prime and Galvatron fight to the finish. Prime could take his energon axe and slice off Galvatron's head. Also, there could be more screen time for Fortress Maximus and Scorponok.

    EDIT: A REAL G2 cartoon would be neat too.
     
  17. Ramrider

    Ramrider TF Art Lad

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    I actually like bits of this idea. I dunno about the kaiju bit; the rubber suits do pretty much invariably look like rubber suits, no matter how well they may be sculpted, but if it can work, then cool. Definitely like the idea of having the actors/VAs doubling as holographic avatars, though.

    Those accompanying figures you're hankering for would be completely impractical - it's an awfully big-budget line, with even the cheapest character retailing at $20. You'd probably at least need to allow for more 'pocket money' (Legend/Scout) versions as well so that kids could actually own the characters. But I do like the idea of including the avatars as pack-ins. Maybe they could be slightly smaller-scale, though - maybe like MASK figures (with up-to-date articulation, natch), or something?

    A series focusing on each of 13 Transformers, in 10 parts? That'd have each episode mostly focusing on one character, with an increasing portion each episode being dedicated to someone else (and a couple of episodes having a few minutes on one character, focusing on another character for most of the ep, then finishing with a few minutes on a third). At least suggest a 13-part series with an episode per character, and possibly a 14th for an overview of the concept... :p 
     
  18. Lock Cade

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    In addition to my wanting a G1 retelling, I think we could use a live-action Transformers series... not exactly in continuity with the movies, but nothing like the cartoon series either.
     
  19. scourge25

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    I am currently writing my own series. It is not based of G1 or other series. Its just made up with diffent Autobots and Decepticons from diffrent areas starting form Beast Wars and ending in Cybertron. I am not borrowin any stories form any of those. So its kind of carzy by it is turning out pretty good.:) 
     
  20. Ops_was_a_truck

    Ops_was_a_truck JOOOLIE ANDREWWWWWS!!!!!!

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    I've always loved the 100-200 years in the future-verse that Don Figeuroa created for Macromasters. I'd have loved to see that storyline continued. Whenever I dream up an idea for a new Transformers series, it's always along those lines - a combined Autobot/Maximal force, bolstered by some reformed classic Decepticons, teaming up against some ultimate new evil.