The year is Two Thousand and Something-or-other and the series Transformers Prime is coming to a close. Hasbro is looking for a new Transformers cartoon to air on The Hub and they choose you to make it. How would you do it? Would you keep doing what's been done previously that has proven to be of good success, would you try something completely different; a different target audience perhaps or shuffle up the character roster? Be sure to think it through and sell it otherwise the show will plummet and Transformers sales could plummet.
If I had the gig, I would go the route of GI Joe: Resolute and attempt to get a more mature audience. The Series would be called Transformers: Rise of the Wreckers and would feature the kick-ass team from initial creation through to its glory days of the great civil war on Cybertron. Springer would be the team leader - because no one could take Impactor's colours seriously in animated form. Through the series no mech would be safe - there will be casualties on both sides, including poor civilians caught in the cross-fire. Not every episode would end in a victory, especially the first few when the Decepticons maliciousness needs to be featured. But as time goes on and the band of mechs become a team their winning streak would improve and the Autobot Army would know of The Wreckers.
Cameos would be made by famous characters - Optimus Prime, still in his infancy of command would dish out some assignment and chastise them from time to time; the Dynobots would see the team as competition instead of companions eventually leading to a showdown between Springer and Grimlock over some mission or another.
I'd animate it in 2D animation, which would allow for a greater cast diversity than what has been seen in Prime, and to allow Cybertron to be shown as the great densely-populated planet it was before things went completely to pot.
