LOL this is nonsense.
This is Botbots, not Transformers. Nobody will downvote it because it will be a simple cutesy funny show. You ever seen the Rabbids shorts? Angry Birds? The new Mickey Mouse shorts, or 2020 Looney Tunes? I predict this will be a show like that.
Heck, there was actually a show about sushi food that comes to life and fights battles between tribes... I am not even kidding. The villain is one of those waving cat statues. It was called Kobushi.  
Kobushi
If this thing got a whole season I don't see why Botbots cannot exist.

Waiiiiit, they made Gumball???
I thought that was CN's own product.
Well, color me even more impressed. Gumball is easily the best comedy cartoon of the last few years. I rewatch it even now, it is so funny. Heck that is the only reason I sometimes turn on the TV to check it in hungarian on CN out of curiosity how well they translated the jokes.

Flash IS the traditional 2D animation these days. Nobody uses CELs anymore. Who has the time (and money)? It's all digital.
What I meant is, it will likely not be cel-shaded 3D like Cyberverse or RID was.

Headmasters was better than The Prime Wars trilogy. It's not a big achievement.   That thing is so bottom of the barrel even the worst CN shows are better than that.
WFC is slowly making its way back to Prime Wars level though, even the animation got worse since the first series. At least they are not using youtubers for voice actors and the plot still sort of makes sense.

Get it through that thick head of yours, this is NOT MAINLINE TF. Is that so hard to understand???
Rescue Bots ran next to RID and Cyberverse for years and surprise, it did not change what sort of TF shows we got.
WFC is same as Prime Wars, a one time thing for fans, not a shape of things to come. Hasbro, in both cases, found some of the cheapest working studios in western media (Machinima and Rooster Teeth) and hired them to make super short movies that can be broken up into "episodes", using minimal voice talent (the current shows do not even have anyone with significant voice credit, and the biggest name the Prime Wars stuff had was Mark Hamill - and he works for surprisingly less than you'd imagine).
They are basically the cheapest way for Hasbro to give fans some "adult" shows. They only tried to not be cheap once, with GI Joe Resolute, and I guess it proved not to be worth it since it did not spark some huge GI Joe toyline...

 

I will some day make a T-shirt that says "I survived the bleak decade of Transformers anime, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt".
NO THANKS. Never again. I do not want to see another 55 episode dragged out boring cliche-fest like RID, Armada, Energon and Cybertron was... and even before that there was Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory, BWII and Neo. Of all of these, I would only rate Masterforce and BWII as watchable. And I watch bad 80-90ies movies for entertainment, but sorry, I could never finish A-E-C. Seriously once you seen enough anime you will just see the same tropes repeat all over again endlessly.
Masterforce was unique for basically having humans be the Transformers in power-up form, and BWII was something no TF show was before (or since), a comedy with characters I find genuinely funny, especially the Seacon space pirates, the Jointrons and effeminate Starscream-sama and his big lug of a one-word brother BB.

I tell you, the A-E-C years were dark times for those of us in my country who grew up on the Marvel comics and G1 cartoon, and Animated was a breath of fresh air. I never liked Prime, but I will take that over these anime any day, at least it did not have episodes that were just another race, or arena fight, or cliche new planet of the week.

I wholeheartedly enjoy Danger Mouse, so much that I have a DM logo in my desk at work as a kind of inside joke (since my job is Data Manager, DM is also my job description LOL).
It also has a lot of hilarious british humor that I think are targeted at us grown-ups. And hell, it has Stephen Fry!!!

 

That'd be fun. Like, I wasn't much for RB, but its a good show for the wee ones.

 

Tell it to the "You ruined my childhood crowd." They're gonna look at this and think "Teen Titans Go!/Thundercats Roar" all over again. A big name action IP forced into wacky comedy. I have no idea what this show will look or sound like (I'm not even sure the Botbots will talk), but the people who downvote this have already formed their opinions.

Just going from memory, they worked with CN on the first season and left after that. So they're like Wozniak I guess.

 

If it's like TTG/TCR then I will agree with them. Those shows are dreadful.

 

I mean they said that about Beast Wars.
...and Animated.
...and Prime.
...and the Bayverse.
...and Rescue Bots.
...and RiD 2015.
...and Cyberverse.
...and WfC.

At some point you just tune it out because those kinds of adults are the worst judge of what kids actually like. And ultimately, that's all that matters to the survival of a kids show and a toyline.

 

I have some bad news for those of you inflicted with terminal dork rage that little kids aren't gobbling up the plastic representations of whichever generation of TF cartoon/movie you personally think is the bestest evah.



Kids don't care what grampa likes. They want their own stuff. Just like most of us did when we were five.

 

What’s funny is as someone who grew up with these as my Transformers, a lot of it wasn’t good... animated and prime were great, but everything since then I’ve hated. I grew up watching bayverse, but the best thing about them was the toys, while the movies are just pure garbage. Hasbro has yet to make me believe they know what they are doing in terms of making shows, and that’s from someone who couldn’t care less about g1 other than as a basis for designs.

People need to focus less on these supposedly grumpy geewuners, and a pay attention to the lack of quality we’ve been getting for a decade.

 

I'm excited for this show. All the weirdos gathering together should make for some fun interactions. I wonder if they'll rerelease the older Botbots because they can't possibly exclude that many characters who already have bios and only have new ones in the show. Kids need to be able to buy the older Botbots who appear too. Hoping this means Hasbro has faith in the line but will take measures to reduce shelfwarming and make collecting them less of a hassle.

As for some of the posts here...

 

Is this BotBots series the one that is going to be on Nickelodeon, or is that project a separate one?

 

This is not the botbots series, that one is going on Netflix. This is an entirely different show.

 

So TWO BB series PLUS WFC?

 

No. The BotBot series will be on Netflix. The Nickelodeon series is completely different.

 

I like how people are acting like the negativity is just cranky old Geewunners who don’t like new things, and not the people who are pointing out how the last four/five TF series we’ve gotten have been utter dog crap.

The standard for Transformers is in the dirt, there’s no reason to believe future endeavours won’t be until we see evidence to the contrary.

 

Speak for yourself. Some of my older relatives had really cool shit to read, watch or play with. When we were all kids, we also got introduced to films, shows, books, and yes even toys. Yeah kids want their own shit, but that doesn't mean there's only disdain and zero appreciation for older shit.

 

Which is ironic because IIRC Kre-o died first...

 

I for one was super envious of my cousin, whose father kept and gave him all his old amazing Matchbox cars. My dad sadly, sold all of his so he can afford some real US made jeans (pretty rare stuff back at the time in communist ruled Hungary behind the iron curtain)...
And by your logic then none of us kids would have liked shows that were before our time. Like Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Popeye, Droopy... or animated movies like Bambi and Snow White, eh?  
But maybe that's just me... and every other kid I knew when I was a kid, with whom we used to do Tom and Jerry marathons...

Same here! I was lucky that my dad was a huge sci-fi/fantasy fan, and I mostly inherited his book collection when he left... so I grew up reading everything from Lem and Asimov and Bradbury to the sequel to E.T., Conan and John Carter and such. Not to mention the P. Howard pulp fiction comedies I loaned from my grandpa (better known as Jenő Rejtő, while he mostly wrote in hungarian, many of his foreign legion comedies made it to the west too, some were even turned into movies). And his stuff was way before my times, since P. Howard died during WW2.

That's something I wondered about too. Lost Bots are mentioned in the show description, and they were only in the first 3 series. And we are now at series 6.
I am thinking maybe the pizza vehicle means we might get a re-release of some of S1 Greaser Gang characters, etc.

I think you are kinda a little bit harsh. Last 4-5? So you mean Animated, Prime, RID, Cyberverse? I frankly liked all of these except for Prime and even then I would not compare Prime to the Botbot "The Dookz"  
If you mean the ones before Animated, aka the dark age of TF anime...then I agree wholeheartedly.  

 

So Cybertron, Armada, (energon), and Car Robots are suddenly THE DARK AGES?

 

I think it’s actually the other way around - it’s not that kids can’t enjoy old stuff, but that grown-ups tend to be more stuck in their ways, and cling to ‘the good old days’ and tend to be less favourable to newer, more modern children’s entertainment. Hence the ‘Grampa’ comment, I guess.

I think it’s the same with musical tastes, too. You get a lot of people my age (early forties) who like stuff that was around in the 80s and 90s when they were young, maybe also some older stuff from earlier decades, too, but most of our generation would probably insist that chart music isn’t as good as it used to be nowadays.

It’s just some weird psychological thing that happens to us all when we grow old. Like how learning languages is much easier for kids than it is for adults - we lose our ability to adapt.

We can either sit here and complain about modern media (and prove all the tropes about grumpy geewunners correct!), or we can be a bit more mature, and say, well, this new stuff isn’t really for us, but if the kids enjoy it, hey, let them have their fun.

No-one’s taking away your old DVDs or comic books, we can all still enjoy the old stuff too!

 

It's more that as we get older, we realize being adults is hard. Compare that to most of our childhoods and we draw joy from remembering things back when times were simpler.

Also, we weren't as discernible when we were younger. So you didn't pick up on flaws as much as you would if you watched it for the first time as an adult.