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The Decepticon designs remind of an anime series called neon genesis evangelion. I think they look nice even if they are a bit unconventional designs for transformers. I like it.

Can anyone else tell if the actual character models will be cell shaded? It seems that way to me. All the non preproduction art pictures seem a little simple to me, not in the character design, but little things that are missing such as dynamic shading and shadows. If these images are not the final product, then I look forward to seeing what they look like with more complicated textures to them.

As a whole, I like them, but I wish they had better textures to them, and some actual raytracing (real world lighting effects).

Soundwave, well, I miss the bulk of the character, but he was always meant to be the creepy special ops guy, so now he looks like it more so than ever.

Starscream... has been reading too many twilight novels. But I still like it.

Bulkhead, love the chin, and the design, but I do miss his big truck mode.

Megatron doesn't remind me so much of Movie Megs, but more so something out of Starcraft.

Optimus Prime is clearly his movie counterpart, but the truck mode's lack of real world lighting and shading makes him look really bland.

Bumblbebee, surprise, surprise, he's biased off of the movie. So that's a meh from me. I understand why, but it still doesn't even things out for me.

Well these are my first impressions, but I'm holding off making my final judgement until I see something that doesn't look like a pre-rendered animation model. Why they decided to release these unfinished images is beyond me.

I'm still gonna watch it, but I'm not sure if that's because I'm a TF whore, or I am genuinely interested in it from what has been shown.

Also, that whole Ratchet is Prime's best friend thing instead of Jazz: I'm sure that they meant from the perspective from within the team, not in general. Since other members of Prime's War for Cybertron cabinet are not there, Ratchet wins by default.

I like Arcee, Bulkhead and Ratchet's designs. Starscream and Soundwave look interestingly different. Maybe there's more distinction between Autobot and Decepticon forms in this. It makes sense that a society where you can rebuild yourself into any imaginable configuration would have a fairly high focus on looks.

my hopes for this show just got killed when i saw and read the bios for the humans and BB. bumblebee, i hate you. TALK NORMAL!!!!!!!! UR A ROBOT IT CAN BE FIXED! i dont want to watch it anymore. these kids can have the stupid BB. im sticking with the G1 and animated BB.

I'm glad I don't have cable, and that these won't be clogging up the toy isles. Actually, I don't think you could even make toys out of these that would withstand a modern drop test. Way to go Hasblow.

Is anyone else a little confused about the marketing of this show? For a show set to debut in two weeks there has been very little push.

If you take Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes which debuts after Transformers: Prime they have had a full trailer, several (well done) webisodes as well as articles about the show on many of the major geek websites. Meanwhile, Transformers: Prime hasn't even had a proper trailer yet and you would think they would cross promoting The Hub and its signature shows across the Discovery Network (at least some of them) but I haven't noticed anything.


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Never mind. I see that the show isnt set to debut on 10/10

Is anybody else starting to feel like Optimus and Bumblebee don't fit in with the design aesthetic here at all? In terms of design, they're nothing but references to their movie designs. They throw off the consistency of the look they've gone with here.

I like the alt modes. The bots have too much of that crappy animated style. Man I will forever hate animated.

Abraxsis wrote: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.

Evangelion is TOTALLY what I thought of when I looked at Soundwave!

Granted, the Gundam analogue, not so much seeing that for the autobots.

I'm sorry. I'm trying to keep an open mind like I did with Animated's designs... but these just look horrible. I'm -seriously- hoping its because they're not actual show animations that they look so... freakish.

Out of all of them? Bulkhead is the only one I can really find interest in... Arcee looks okay, but the fact that there is NO INDICIATION OF VEHICLE MODE IN ROBOT MODE is aweful.

TFPrime is quickly losing interest for me. And for how long I've been a transformers fan, this is sad.