Animated Season 3

Red Alert · 08-31-2008, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Kickback

Guys.

You're speculating on toys too much.

But,

He tell me

girafeswordsman · 08-31-2008, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Kickback

Guys.

You're speculating on toys too much.

What's wrong with speculating? Thats all we got at the moment, and its totally possible that they will make toys, so whats the problem.

shroobmaster · 08-31-2008, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by girafeswordsman

What? I've always used BB as shorthand for Bumblebee, and I have seen plenty of other people do the same. I think he was talking about his size on the show, so he may be a voyager.

He was talking about his size in the show sure, and that's why he would be a Deluxe, somebody shorter than Bumblebee getting a Voyager? Hasbro should make Leader-class Prowl then.

Not to mention he'll probably be a 3 episode deal max.

Sideswipe80 · 08-31-2008, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kickback

You guys are all assuming these characters are going to have episode driven things around them, that they will join the cast of characters, have toys made out of them, etc.

For all we know, these characters may just serve a single purpose - a couple of episodes as fillers on Cybertron.

So please don't get your hopes up that Rodimus Prime is going to lead a new band of Autobots around the galaxy while Optimus Prime is on Earth with his crew. Because I think you'll end up disappointed.

I'm fine with that. I love the Main 5 Autobots.

girafeswordsman · 08-31-2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by shroobmaster

He was talking about his size in the show sure, and that's why he would be a Deluxe, somebody shorter than Bumblebee getting a Voyager? Hasbro should make Leader-class Prowl then.
Not to mention he'll probably be a 3 episode deal max.

Well he did say Brawn was bulky and seeing as how short voyager Bulkhead and Lugnut were (shorter than BB),a voyager Brawn could work.

Ravenxl7 · 08-31-2008, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Kickback

BUT.

If work on Season 3 just started, then the toys won't be available for close to 1 and 1/2 years, which puts the toys at practically 2010 going in to 2011, and if you figure Animated is trending a season a year (with the delay from 2 to 3), you're looking at Season 5 and Season 6 of the cartoon.

And they've stated just a month ago they're not working on Season 4 at the moment.

I'm 100% sure a small selection may get toys. But we're speculating toys for a season that hasn't even aired yet and we're just *NOW* getting Blitzwing as a toy and haven't even seen the upgrade in toy form for Prowl, etc.

With the rise of price in oil, movie 2 *AND* movie 3, it's silly to assume we're getting 20 new toys of 20 brand new characters.

You do have a good point there, but it's just plain fun to speculate. I think Rodimus Prime will eventually get a toy of some sort. We could wait for another year and a half for it, but I think they'll make it just because of who he is. As for the others, the only two I hope get toys are Brawn and Blackout. A bulky green guy and a large beetle guy sound like they'd make good toys, imo. I won't be surprised or disappointed if we don't get toys of these guys. At the very least two on the list have or will have physical representations of themselves (Oil Slick and Arcee).

shroobmaster · 08-31-2008, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by girafeswordsman

Well he did say Brawn was bulky and seeing as how short voyager Bulkhead and Lugnut were (shorter than BB),a voyager Brawn could work.

Except that for somebody to be smaller than Bumblebee his alt-mode would have to be small specially to get such bulky transformation, and really, in alt mode all toys have a fair size.

Not to mention most Voyagers have a gimmick, and I don't see a bulky muscle guy getting any.

Edit: Look at Animated Soundwave for example.

girafeswordsman · 08-31-2008, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by shroobmaster

Except that for somebody to be smaller than Bumblebee his alt-mode would have to be small specially to get such bulky transformation, and really, in alt mode all toys have a fair size.

Not to mention most Voyagers have a gimmick, and I don't see a bulky muscle guy getting any.

Bulkhead and Lugnut both are big muscle guys and both had minimal gimmicks, Brawn could be like them.

When a motorcycle is bigger than a car, alt mode size does not make a good arguement.

Reflector Unit · 08-31-2008, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Ravenxl7

but it's just plain fun to speculate.

Truth. We're all talking about cartoons and toys that are primarily aimed at children. If we can't have FUN discussing them, what's the point? Are we meant to be dour and perpetually expect nothing at best just in the off-chance that we might be "dissappointed?"

It's not like speculating on how awesome the Animated Brawn toy could be, or talking about how killer a story arc about Rodimus Prime kicking ass and taking names at the rim of the galaxy would be, will result in a mass suicide if/when they don't come to pass.

shroobmaster · 08-31-2008, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by girafeswordsman

Bulkhead and Lugnut both are big muscle guys and both had minimal gimmicks, Brawn could be like them.

When a motorcycle is bigger than a car, alt mode size does not make a good arguement.

They had lots automorphs even in their weapons.

The motorcycle is still the right size in robot mode considering it got a extremely sleek transformation and that's what we're using here, comparing the robot modes, shorter than Bumblebee really IS something to think about.

Not to mention as I said before, he probably won't be important enough to get a Voyager toy, hell, if Sentinel didn't, why would a new-to-the-season-shorty-bot get one?

Specially when there's people that would make more sense in Voyager sizes like BeetleGuy, Strika, Rodimus, Cyclonus etc.

btw the dude up there made me remember there's still no signs of Reflector, TFA Season 3 gonna flop badly.