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Posted: **Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:06 am**

Jack Hallows wrote:i gotta say though, the idw collections are ridiculous. i was blown away by the last stand of the wreckers & it's hard cover version. i'd pay good to see that on a screen.

IDW's current greatness owes much to James Roberts and John Barber, who have set the bar really high compared to Shane McCarthy's work on "All Hail Megatron" and Mike Costa's work on the 2009-2011 ongoing. Roberts and Barber have really outdown themselves to make the comics feel so worthwhile again.

Posted: **Mon Aug 26, 2013 8:21 am**

you forgot to mention nick roche! that is one wildly imaginative dude. i wish they'd use some of these writers' input for the live action films.

Posted: **Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:02 am**

Mindmaster wrote:Well, like Sabrblade mentioned earlier, we did get the Constructicon-homage-laden Scavenger, who was an Autobot in the Armada series.

Oh yeah. How'd I forget him?

Posted: **Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:19 pm**

Jack Hallows wrote:you forgot to mention nick roche! that is one wildly imaginative dude. i wish they'd use some of these writers' input for the live action films.

Indeed. Roche rules!

Posted: **Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:06 pm**

Zap2it
Posted a Hub Network Press release stating the movie Synopsis and the air date on the Hub Network which is October 4th at 8:00 PM EST/5:00PM PST.

Spoilers in the link above.

Posted: **Fri Aug 30, 2013 6:55 pm**

Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Predacons Rising now has a concrete air date. Zap2it.com has posted a press release stating that the movie will air of the Hub on October 4 at 8 pm ET. The press release can be seen below, however be aware that there are spoilers in the press release.

THE HUB NETWORK WILL HAVE THE EXCLUSIVE WORLD PREMIERE OF HASBRO STUDIO’S ACTION-PACKED ORIGINAL MOVIE
“TRANFORMERS PRIME BEAST HUNTERS PREDACONS RISING,”
OCT. 4

The Feature Film Serves as an Epilogue to
The Popular Hub Network Series,
“Transformers Prime Beast Hunters”

LOS ANGELES — The Hub Network, a destination for kids and their families, will have the exclusive world premiere of the Hasbro Studios’ feature film, “Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Predacons Rising,” on Friday, October 4 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, with an encore at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT. This epilogue to the popular Hub Network series, “Transformers Prime Beast Hunters,” takes viewers on a cinematic adventure with a captivating storyline and Unforgettable characters and features amazing CG animation. In the “Transformers Prime Beast Hunters” series a fearsome new faction, the dragon-like PREDACONS, emerged on Earth and the AUTOBOTS adapted with never before seen BEAST HUNTERS abilities to battle this all new enemy led by the spectacular PREDAKING character.

In “Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Predacons Rising,” a resurrected UNICRON has taken over the now empty body of MEGATRON to seek vengeance on the AUTOBOTS and ultimately, the destruction of CYBERTRON. This formidable enemy forces an unlikely alliance between the AUTOBOTS, DECEPTICONS, PREDAKING and two new PREDACONS, who come together in an epic battle to help protect their newly restored planet.

“Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Predacons Rising” is executive produced by Roberto Orci (“Star Trek Into Darkness”), Alex Kurtzman (“Star Trek Into Darkness”), Jeff Kline (“Men in Black: The Animated Series”) and stars Michael Ironside (“Ultra Magnus”). It also stars the cast of “Transformers Prime,” including Will Friedle (“Bumblebee”), Peter Cullen (“Optimus Prime”), Steve Blum (“Starscream”), Nolan North (“Smokescreen”), John Noble (“Unicron”), Peter Mensa (“Predaking”), Frank Welker (“Megatron”), Jeffrey Combs (“Ratchet”), Kevin Michael Richardson (“Bulkhead”) and Sumalee Montano (“Arcee”).

“Transformers Prime” ran on the Hub Network for three seasons, the last season of which was titled “Transformers Prime Beast Hunters.” The Hub Network aired the series finale of “Transformers Prime” on Friday, July 26.

Posted: **Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:55 pm**

Very good. Four days before the DVD/Blu-Ray release.

Posted: **Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:52 pm**

I cannot flipping wait.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:48 am**

Not to be a debbie downer....again....but the movie is/was a disappointment.

Everything seemed rushed and the ending was just eh.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:55 am**

Cyclonus43 wrote:Not to be a debbie downer....again....but the movie is/was a disappointment.

Everything seemed rushed and the ending was just eh.

I thought it didn't air until October 4th?

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:59 am**

viruscarnage wrote:
Cyclonus43 wrote:Not to be a debbie downer....again....but the movie is/was a disappointment.

Everything seemed rushed and the ending was just eh.

I thought it didn't air until October 4th?

The movie is starting to (illegally) leak on video-sharing websites. Someone on Facebook showed me a YouTube link to it earlier today, and temptation gave in. I watched the first thirty minutes before the video was removed.

From what I gathered, I thought it was nice and fluid. Of course, I didn't get to see the last thirty minutes of it.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:07 pm**

Thanks to our good friends at Shout! Factory, Seibertron.com received an advanced copy of the upcoming Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Predacons Rising Blu-Ray + DVD Combo Pack, which will be released on October 8th at various retailers such as Amazon.com and Target. In order to whet your appetite further, we have provided a video clip of the menu's video montage that appears at the beginning of the Blu-Ray and have also included several images of the Blu-Ray packaging and disc itself for your viewing pleasure. The disc set includes a special bonus feature titled "A Look Behind The Scenes of Predacons Rising". Hopefully before the end of the weekend, we'll have a Seibertron.com review of this highly anticipated finale to the Transformers Prime saga. Join our discussion by clicking here.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:48 pm**

My friend found the movie on a torrent... so we're about to go watch it super early! :KREMZEEK:

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:02 pm**

Is that Unicron-possessed Megatron riding an undead robot dragon? And do we not have any TF toys to properly recreate it?

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:03 pm**

Noideaforaname wrote:Is that Unicron-possessed Megatron riding an undead robot dragon? And do we not have any TF toys to properly recreate it?

Umm, well, you could probably use the upcoming Commander-class Unicron Megatron (Or, as I've grown to call him, Unitron) on one of the Deluxes, or something. :-?

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:18 pm**

Well there's a nice close up of Sky Lynx's face on the back cover. At least he still retains the horns next to his chin just like the figure.

Unicron Megatron's rocky jet mode looks awesome.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:29 pm**

I just watched the movie, I loved it. I didn't like 1 thing though, how Optimus didn't use his Mini-gun or Star Saber but that's just my personal thing lol.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:28 pm**

I just finished watching Predacons Rising. I'm going to watch it a couple more times before I put my thoughts down. It's pretty good and seemed like a fitting conclusion to a story that began almost 3 years ago.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:50 pm**

I don't use torrent sites etc, but this is up on YouTube right now. EDIT: if it was taken down earlier, it's back up right now as I'm watching it now for the second time.
Not gonna give anything away, so gonna wait until more people have seen it before posting my thoughts/opinions. Will just say I had the same lump in my throat that I had when BB killed Megatron at the end of S3 during the finale.

'What in Alpha Trions beard...' :lol:

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:55 pm**

Excellent stuff but then again I was a fan of the regular show.

'Sooting straight'.... I chuckled at that

Non stop action, great for the kids and good plot... Plus not a ...... In sight

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:08 pm**

You know what? I watched it. I liked it, at first. I thought it was great. Until the end. While one character would definitely do what he did(ala Beast Machines), the other would never... ever... just leave...

I wasn't a big fan of Beast Machines, especially because of this act. Having the leader of the team, who you've been rooting for for the entirety of the series(or multiple series as is the case with Beast Wars/Machines) just opt to go and jump into the core of the planet to reformat/release all the sparks on the planet, only proves that the writers weren't trying very hard. I understand sacrifice is supposed to be the ultimate act of heroism, but living to keep fighting evil is more heroic, for the simple fact that if you sacrifice yourself, you get off easy. To live and keep doing what you're doing shows that you understand the hardships you face, and undertake them willingly.

Okay... End spoiler-ish rant.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:28 pm**

Wow, never thought I'd hear Megatron say that.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:43 pm**

Just watched the movie:

So it starts off with a graduation ceremony for Bumblebee, with Optimus presumably promoting him from Scout to Warrior, as Bee stated he wished to hold off on until the war was over and they were free to return to Cybertron. Though, it looks as though the event is being held in Kaon, before a giant Megatron statue... Odd choice.

Megatron's dead body lies at the bottom of the sea on Earth.

No theme song or sequence for this one. Just the season 3 title card.

Megatron is completely dead, but he cannot fully pass on to the afterlife (i.e. - join with the Allspark) because of the Dark Energon that once flowed through his veins binds him to Unicron's "Anti-Spark". I guess he's just stuck in a state of limbo, then.

When Optimus used the Matrix to silence Unicron before, all he did was render Unicron's material form dormant, while his energy form was roused when Primus awoke when Cybertron was restored.

Megatron's body has become more spiky. and his jet mode now looks a bit more like the Gaia Unicron toy's spaceship mode (the one that looks like a face volcano). Sadly, though, the only toy that comes remotely close to resembling this new form of Megatron's is the Construct-Bots Unicron Megatron toy.

Ah, that's why the ceremony was held by the Megatron statue. So Jackie could blow it up once Bee was promoted. :grin:

Seeing Bumblebee speak with Will Friedle's voice is so refreshing to hear (if that makes sense

), and small moment with "Smokey" is very nice.

Bulkhead: "Primes never party." - Oh, THANKS for the reminder! Like we REALLY needed that! :-(

Ah HA! Optimus still hasn't gotten the AllSpark back to Cybertron! Another plot point from the novels still left to be resolved. And he says he needs to go find it because Cybertron, while being back alive itself, is incapable of creating new life without it.

Smokescreen never knew about the AllSpark launching, which Optimus says happened "thousands of years" ago (firmly putting to rest the old "millions and millions of years between WFC/FOC and Prime" gap being not that long). And we get a flashback to the launching. Sweet.

Optimus mentions that the Matrix will guide him to the AllSpark's location, which he attempted to do back in Exiles. But in that book, the Matrix led him to two of the colony worlds instead, and Optimus kept getting sidetracked along the way by many things. So even if the Matrix was going to lead to the AllSpark back then, a LOT of factors really must have gotten in Optimus's way to make him put off finding it for so long.

Starscream, Shockwave, and Predaking are still unaccounted for, and Optimus appoints Magnus to head patrolling missions to find them. Bulkhead is ordered to head the reconstruction project by building a landing field to welcome returning refugees. Wheeljack, however, gets the best job of all: He gets to go with Optimus as his deep-space navigator.

Megatron and Unicron occupy the same mind space within the same body.

Cool! Bulkhead's got Vehicons working under him.

Knock Out and other Vehicons are handcuffed and locked in a cell aboard the Nemesis. Bee's holding them there in hopes to get info on Shockwave's location.

Some of these Cybertronian structures and landscapes do remind me an awful lot like some of those seen in WFC and FOC. I pray the similarities are not mere coincidences.

Enter Skylynx and Darksteel.

Phew! For a second there, I thought Smokescreen was a fried goner. Gotta love that Phase Shifter and Smoke's intelligence usage of it.

Ratchet's back.

Bumblebee suspects that, if Shockwave's back in business with his cloning experiments, there could be a lot, a LOT, more Predacons than just those two out there. Let's wait and see.

Wheeljack notes that the AllSpark was sent to a hazardous star system called "Theta Scorpii", which Optimus knows about. Would have been nice to have pointed that out thousands of years ago, eh Prime?

It was Alpha Trion himself who constructed the reliquary that contains the AllSpark's pure energy.

Hiya, Predaking.

That is a LOT of Predacons... dead ones, anyway. "Rendered extinct ages ago by the Great Cataclysm."

How's it hangin', Screamer?

Egad! Seeing them in clear light, Skylynx and Darksteel really don't look anything like their toys. Outside of the most basic of similarities, that is.

Starscream makes no hesitation to constantly speak of Megatron in reverence, despite having no real reason to. Guess he really has grown out of his old anti-Megatron feelings.

Hey look! The Darkmount citadel on Cybertron is just like the one that was on Earth.

Holy smokes! That AllSpark looks nothing like I imagined it would. Neither a cube nor a Matrix-like shape. It's... pretty freaky-looking. Though, it almost seems like Optimus found it a little too easily, compared to his eons of searching for it without luck despite having the same search tools back then as he has now.

UniMegs's entrance mirrors that of Optimus 2.0's from episode 56 "Rebellion".

It's Frank Welker's voice, but Unicron's in the driver's seat.

That is some series "Arms Up" action going on there with UniMegs's arms.

I actually do wonder if that Smelting pit will be used in the story at some point (be it now or later), since they bothered to make a big deal about it still burning functionally despite Cybertron having been dormant for millennia.

At long last, after literally eons of searching, Optimus has finally gotten the AllSpark back. Coupled with the Star Saber, that makes two of his star-searching lifelong goals met.

HA! I KNEW IT! I KNEW they wouldn't be smelted right then and there! See? Main characters from Day 1 (plus Smoke, cuz he's awesome) don't get offed so arbitrarily by this show. The plot won't let them. Muwahahahaha!

Smokescreen: "What're we supposed to call 'em, huh? 'Megacron'? 'Unitron'?"
Arcee: "Really? That's your biggest issue right now?"

RATCHET CALLED UNICRON A "GOD"!!! A G-O-D "GOD"!!! That is the first time that has ever happened in any English-language Transformers animation ever made!!!

Whoa! In the Primus/Unicron flashback, we got a glimpse of what looked like a pre-formed Cybertron, surrounded by space clouds.

Predaking's about to meet UniMegs.

Oh no... Oh no... no... No... Don't kill Predaking... No...

Unicron just read Predaking's mind and now knows of the legions of dead Predacons from earlier.

And now, Shockwave and Starscream have found them as well.

Starscream is both baffled and overjoyed to see "his master" back. He even complements his new duds.

Darksteel and Skylynx waste no time lunging at UniMegs.

Well, folks, looks like this is what the title of the film refers to: Two new beasts and a whole lot of zombies.

You FOOL, Shockwave! Stop shooting and RUN!

Ah, darn it! Not they're eating him!

The Terrorcon Predacons are headed across the Hydrax Plateau for the Well of All Sparks, the most direct route to the Core.

Starscream's staging a coup aboard the Nemesis.

LOL! Smokescreen's stuck in the wall like Knock Out once was. :lol:

Predaking finally meets his two successors.

Knock Out: "Now, will you believe that I'm joining the winning team?"
Bumblebee: "Knock Out... we needed that!"
Knock Out: "Wait. It really was the Immobilizer?" :lol:

Yay! Shockwave lives! Or should I call him "Shackwave"?

Man, Unicron and his army sure took their sweet time getting to the Well. I mean, can they be any slower?

Smokescreen just let slip the news that Optimus almost passed down the Matrix to him.

The ship is down. Right at the edge of the Well.

Whoops. Screamer's cell door broke.

YEAH! Autobots and Predacons vs. Terrorcon Predacons = AWESOME!

Oh no. The horde made it into the well. Along with the Pred trio.

Here comes Prime and Jackie!

Nice! When Bulkhead cries out Jackie's name and rides off the check on him, Arcee follows. Guess she and Wheeljack really hit it off before better than we thought.

UniMegs has the AllSpark... or does he?

A trick!

Unicron, being a being of pure energy, was sucked into the reliquary of the Primes.

Oh look, Megatron lives. Again. Huzzah. :roll:

Megatron has... changed. He has renounced his need to inflict oppression, and has declared, no, demanded that the Decepticons are no more. Has old D-16 finally come back to us?

Starscream has returned to wanting to lead the Decepticons, and has taken it upon himself to rebuilt the faction under his name. But, incoming Predacons put a damper on that, wanting to "settle scores." Ah well, sorry Screamer.

Optimus put the energy of the AllSpark into the Matrix of Leadership, so that the reliquary could hold Unicron's essence.

Thus, Optimus's spark can no longer be separated from the multitude of others. In other words, he is now "one with the AllSpark/Allspark".

Optimus: "Because the Matrix must now be relinquished with the AllSpark, it cannot be restored. Or passed down to another. But while this may very well mark the end of the age of Primes, leadership can be earned with or without the Matrix."

Well, folks, looks like we're finally getting a dead Optimus. To those who wanted one back in episode 56, wish granted.

That final line of Optimus's makes it sound like it was written to act as the tiniest of elbow room for Optimus to return to life in a new body should a sequel series need him to do so.

Darksteel was voiced by Steve Blum (whom I could have sworn was voicing Skylynx instead). Skylynx was voiced by Nolan North. No new voice actors for these two, just existing ones.

That was very cool. A lot happened in this movie, and it all felt pretty good. Except for one little thing: The title. This movie was less "Predacons Rising" and more "Unicron Rising (plus a couple of Preds)". It really shows how much the Preds felt forced in to a story that otherwise did not need them. Darksteel and Skylynx were generic brutes who served as mostly background extras who only existed to breath fire and do tough stuff. The Terrorcon Predacon army could have easily been replaced by ordinary Terrorcons with little alteration to the story. Unicron stole this movie, but at least his awakening here, due to Primus's reactivation, made a lot more sense than some random, poorly-written planetary alignment. Bumblebee also stole this movie, being practically the star of it on the Autobots' side and taking center stage in a role of command. Will Friedle can really carry his own weight, and it shows. It was also interesting to see this being entirely Cybertron-centric, with no bits on Earth outside of a few quick shots, and no human characters at all. But, I still feel Optimus's finding the AllSpark was handled a little too easily, with it being found as though it were hardly a challenge to find it. Really, Optimus really couldn't have done this already back when he had the Ark all those years ago? I mean, he had the Matrix back then, which is all that he indicates as necessary to find it now, so what was the problem back then? And then there's Megatron, who's now no longer a warmongering tyrant. Will his change of heart be reflected in future fiction? Or will Hasbro force some way to throw him back into the ways of villainy? And what of Starscream? Did the Preds kill him? Did they not?

And what of the Dinobots? Or Rescue Force Sigma-17? While I don't expect the latter to get any resolution anytime soon, the former has their own comic storyline going on, so hopefully their fate is given in there. Same with Airachnid, who's another open book.

And Soundwave. Holy smoke, Soundwave was completely missing from this movie!

Though, as fun as it was, I'm actually kinda glad that it's all over. TF: Prime was an interesting series, but now that it's run its course, I feel that I'm ready for something new. The Go! cartoon has been entertaining enough, but it's become tough to watch it, so that's a slow going process. Rescue Bots season 2 comes this Winter, but that's still a way's off. Then there's Age of Extinction coming next year, but I need something other than another Movieverse flick to keep me vested. Here's hoping that whatever comes next to replace TF: Prime turns out to be good.

Posted: **Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:47 am**

Fantastic movie, even if some bits seem a little re-hashed from things we've seen before, even Prime pulling a Primal and jumping into the core was executed well enough that his passing brought at least a tear to my eye. All in all this has been my favourite Transformers universe, I've really liked how things played out. I am sad to see it's over, but feel like it was wrapped up well enough that I'm excited to see what's next.

Posted: **Sun Sep 15, 2013 5:41 am**

the full movie is on youtube, it was posted by TheJackie1768, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIU2fTLJBEo

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