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I'm pretty underwhelmed atm. Here's hoping....

All the autobots look good, as dose starscream. I cant tell if starscream has a collar or a stubby neck though.
Soundwave looks good but I am disappointed in his lack of resemblance to any previous incarnation, and the lack of resemblance of Megatron's alt mode to anything at all. I would have hoped if they wanted to use a movie alt mode they'd a least pick the tank over the spacebug.
...so cassettes will be called deployers now, I like it.

Counterpunch wrote:Hey guys...

What toys?

What toys do you think will go along with this? They aren't going to make a whole new line and just spring it on us. It takes a year + in production and development to pump out a toy line.

As we speak, somewhere they are finishing the designs on the Movie 3 toys. We're going to go from PCC and Generations right into the Movie toys next year. There's literally no room for these things to make it to shelves.

Prime will be a prep-work and hype show leading up to the film. It may not be related to the movie, but all the visual clues are there, all of them going towards legitimizing what kids see on screen.

Bet it.

Just an excerpt from the latest Toyfare magazines article about The Hub:

Toyfare speaking with Hasbro Studios President Stephen Davis.

Toyfare: "You mentioned doing a lot of the design work in-house. Are you working with Hasbro at all to make sure the designs can translate to toys, eventually?"

Davis: "It's a very close collaboration. We have something called the A-Team, where we really pair the various constituencies from Hasbro the toy company, from Hasbro the studio and from The Hub, and when we develop, we develop in a close collaboration to make sure that we are really meeting the needs of all the constituencies. Look, at the end of the day, we are all about making great television, and our belief is that if you make really great television then the whole licensing and merchandising piece will follow. You make a really terrific show, then viewers will come and they will sample all of what you have to offer them."

It sounds, more or less, that they are waiting to see if the show will be popular enough to warrant figures. But, I agree with CP...if figures were an eventuality, we'd probably have that information.

Time will tell I guess. Although, I can't see that Soundwave as a figure. The arms and fingers are really weird.

Also, what's the deal with them having human partners? Are they going to try a "Masters" style mashup here?

Ewww.....Hate it, hate, hate it. I was going to give this show a chance, especially after completely skipping Animated, but the decepticons just pure suck. It's like the autobots=gundams and the decepticons=neon genesis evangelion. The yuckness factor exceeds my expectations so beyond far it's not even funny.

I don't know what to think of these designs, I don't care much about the animated style, and I'm not that fond of Bay's Transformers as well. So this is the crossover version I guess. Bulkhead is like a fat bastard that needs a gastric bypass and Starscream is so fin, he actually even doesn't have a shadow of his own.

However, I do look forward to this cartoon, JUST BECAUSE the voice of OPTIMUS PRIME is performed by PETER CULLEN.

It makes that just more exciting and hearing him talk like Prime brings back my childhood sentiments.

AWESOME!

I'm liking just about all of those designs. Soundwave and Starscream look SICK! They almost like vampire-ish; quite evil looking!

Bulkhead looks cool; a little less stupid-looking (intelligence-wise) than TFA, which is nice.

Cliffjumper looks good too!

One complaint though...ENOUGH with the "Cybertronian Jet" Megatron. I just don't like him in that alt mode. That's for the Seekers, IMO. Give us something different!

Soundwave....http://listicles.thelmagazine.com/wp-content/upload/ironhide_facepalm.jpg

Starcream reminds me of a Harpy in the old Jason and the Argonauts movie, not really a bad thing, I sort of like his design.

But Soundwave? Oh Primus.......



Speaking of Soundwave, anyone seeing the WFC Soundwave anywhere?

I like the designs, here.

My gut reaction to the designs is that they're cool. They look very interesting on a graphic design level. However, once I stop to consider that these are supposed to be transforming character designs, my view on the designs become less positive. There looks like there's going to be significant visual cheating(squashing, stretching, and basically morphing of parts) for some of the characters to make them go from bot to alt mode and vice versa.

Granted, there's no planned toyline for Transformers: Prime so it's not as if these character designs have to be translated into physical 3D objects(ie. toys) so I think the character designers for TF: Prime were given much more room to play around with character visuals.