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The biggest problem with Transformers Prime is the aesthetic. It's a mishmash of the TF Animated look and the TF Movie look. Neither one is appealing.

G1 was great because, for the most part, the early seasons featured robots that turned into realistic looking vehicles or devices. You know, "robots in disguise." They took plenty of liberties with the animation models, but the toys still looked like regular old cars, trucks, guns, and so on.

A few iterations based on shows since then have done that in some form or another, but in the efforts to "innovate", none has really matched G1. The Bayformers have unnecessarily complex, ugly bot modes (every Decepticon looks like an insect or a chicken), and the ones based on Animated or TF Prime just look too stylized and goofy. Stuff like Kreo has its own issues, though frankly I'd love to see a full-length Kreo stop motion movie.

Ultimately, while the acting in TF Prime is good enough for me to forgive the visuals, I don't buy toys I don't like the look of. (That includes almost the entire DOTM line.) And my nephews feel the same way. They don't dig silly.

If Hasbro would just get back to basics and think about what really made Transformers work from the beginning, it might be easier to sell toys. A Transformers show and movies with the same basic visual look as the Universe/Generations Classics toys--i.e., realistic alt modes and basically humanoid robot modes--would be the best thing ever. Ditch the crayons and aliens, and you'll sell some toys. The Binaltech line and what Kenji Ishida has done with Brave Robotics would be a great creative starting point for a reboot.

RAcast wrote:Once again, Hasbro has said multiple times that the Aligned continuity will go on for quite awhile. TFPrime will end, yes.
BUT.
We aren't looking at a reboot!
It will be another series in the same universe.
So:
[Aligned continuity season 4] :: TF Prime
as
Beast Wars :: the G1 cartoon

So do you figure it will be the same aesthetic as TF:Prime, but with different characters?

Or will it be a different look with the same characters in another setting (either past or future)?

Because if it's a different look with the same characters in pretty much the same setting, dealing with more or less the same situation, then that's just a reboot.

In whatever case, I still have hopes that the next series won't be crap. If they've been working on this for a 30th anniversary release though, then that makes me wonder what they've been doodling on. Also, makes me feel kinda like TFP was a sort of place holder.

I'm gutted! I've enjoyed Prime almost as much as G1, thanks Hasbro

Looks like this was just confirmed on the Facebook page. How sad.
https://www.facebook.com/TransformersPrimeTheHub

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:

RAcast wrote:Once again, Hasbro has said multiple times that the Aligned continuity will go on for quite awhile. TFPrime will end, yes.
BUT.
We aren't looking at a reboot!
It will be another series in the same universe.
So:
[Aligned continuity season 4] :: TF Prime
as
Beast Wars :: the G1 cartoon

So do you figure it will be the same aesthetic as TF:Prime, but with different characters?

Or will it be a different look with the same characters in another setting (either past or future)?

Because if it's a different look with the same characters in pretty much the same setting, dealing with more or less the same situation, then that's just a reboot.

In whatever case, I still have hopes that the next series won't be crap. If they've been working on this for a 30th anniversary release though, then that makes me wonder what they've been doodling on. Also, makes me feel kinda like TFP was a sort of place holder.

Wfc and foc take place in the same continuity and look completely different than prime. It could go anywhere.

Midnight_Fox wrote:

KUMA-NIN Maximus wrote:I guess that is like saying Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ruined Sherlock Holmes because his final story had us see Holmes being retired, right?

Ironically, the whole reason he survived his trip over the falls with Moriarty(which is where Doyle intended to originally end the series) was because people at the time DID say he ruined the series by ending it with his death.

Not saying this because he is family, but the reason why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle allowed Sherlock Holmes to survive was because the Queen was one of the many fans that wanted more. Not arguing that he might have gotten hate mail, which must have been more civil than you might see these days, but the fan-backed requests for more outshined those claims.

Season 3 having 13 episodes is nothing new and a well known fact.

The 75-minute DVD thing is likely something like what the "Darkness Rising" and "One Shall Stand" DVDs were: A multi-part episode with each part edited together into one single presentation.

Season 3 being the end, however, honestly doesn't come as a surprise to me. They did say that this season's finale was going to be made like a series finale, and that if they were to end the series that one would be a good place to do so. BUT, just because this is the end of the TF: Prime chapter of the story does NOT mean that it is the end of the whole story altogether. There are plans for something to come after, so we'll have to wait and see what that is.

PrymeStriker wrote:

YRQRM0 wrote:Looks like this was just confirmed on the Facebook page. How sad.

Well, if this is the outcome, I'll pray the new series in 2014 will take place where Prime left off. Similarly to how Beast Machines served Beast Wars. Also, here's hoping it takes place in the far future with the Autobots making themselves known to mankind, serving as grounds for Autobot City.

They used the word "incarnation," and not "sequel." So my guess is that in the end, the series will end with the revival of Cybertron. They made it clear that the series was all about the war for Cybertron, even though they did hint Earth had ties to it. However, even if they do cap it off with Beast Hunters, we should see more PRIME-based comics and stories come out of IDW. Maybe even talks of another follow-up series starring the Wreckers. (They better do that as Ultra Magnus deserves some respect!)

Up to Hasbro, as I think them using that word means that they are planning to create something both new and different - Hopefully a new G1-ish series, as it is the franchise's 30th anniversary. But even if they do not, I hope to be watching the first episode of the new series in the comfort of a fort made entirely of Kerokero Ace magazines and boxes containing my AFA graded Transformers.