Botcon David Kaye Panel--Info on New Animated Series!

I'm soooooo happy that Corey will be reprising Shockwave. I just hope they let him keep his old G1 Shockwave voice, that's what makes him Shockwave! It'll be nice to see some of the G1 vast return to reprise their old characters, I can't wait to hear John as Blurr again, & I hope Susan does do Arcee. It's too bad Venus Terzo couldn't do Blackarachnia, even if it's not the same Blackarachnia. Phil LaMarr as Jazz......should be interesting. Static Shock/Green Lantern as Jazz......hmmmm this actually doesn't sound too bad like it looks...............

Sounds cool to me.

Well if anything the voice cast will be great.

Hm, the voice cast is looking good.

However, the TF-cast lineup is really confusing me, especially with the story outline we saw earlier.

"Transformers dealing with human villains" thing.

Now, I just hope they make Grimlock not a retard in the cartoon, make him a T-rex, and that we get a better toy to replace the pathetic excuse of "classics" Grimlock.


That and bring in more Decepticons, because only 3(maybe 5 depending on Black Arachnia and Lugnut) just isn't enough.

Senor Hugo wrote:Now, I just hope they make Grimlock not a retard in the cartoon, make him a T-rex, and that we get a better toy to replace the pathetic excuse of "classics" Grimlock.

You don't like Classics Grimlock? I know the T-Rex head as the feet is a little stupid, but the rest of him is pretty cool. Oh well, to each his own.

You know, I was really sort of ambivalent about this series when news first broke, then moved into a vague dislike for it after the first image came out.

The second image, from last week or so, moved me back into the ambivalent column.

The news of the VO cast, Kaye's representation of their characterizations, and the fact that they're all in the same room, able to act off of each other, moves me into the "I'm looking forward to it" column.

Every series, from Beast Wars through Cybertron, has come back to the G1 conventions established from 1984-1987, because that is what works. There is a kernel at the core of this scattered mythology that perseveres - for a good reason - and this series (despite the truly awful title of the series) demonstrates that Hasbro is slowly embracing this truth.

I predict within three years that we will start hearing about a truly G1 series that wholly embraces some or all of the old animated continuities and picks up where the story left off.

Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:

Senor Hugo wrote:Now, I just hope they make Grimlock not a retard in the cartoon, make him a T-rex, and that we get a better toy to replace the pathetic excuse of "classics" Grimlock.

You don't like Classics Grimlock? I know the T-Rex head as the feet is a little stupid, but the rest of him is pretty cool. Oh well, to each his own.

Well, it's not that I don't like him. It's that Hasbro could have done a better job of designing the figure. The legs, the feet that fold underneath to reveal the hands. The tail that turns into whatever it's supposed to be.

It's just not that good a figure. I own Mirage, I loved how they designed him, it was an awesome take on Mirage. But Grimlock just didn't have that Grimlock feel.

I'm liking the extended cast list (Arcee AND Blackarachnia? HELLS YES!), and even the voice actors. Phil Lamarr can do no wrong, and I love David Kaye's Beast Wars Megs (I wish the newer Megs had shared his personality).

I'm sort of wondering why they made the choice to go with David Kaye for Optimus though, it's going to throw me off, he's been Megatron for more than a decade at this point.

PS. They definitely need more Decepticons.

PPS. PATRICK from SPONGEBOB?!? This could either be awesome or total crap, I'm on the fence as to which.

Is it sad that my first thought at seeing Magnus was "please make him all UK badass and not a wimp that lacks coping skills"?

Now I'm very interested in seeing where this goes. Maybe the press release blurbs were a bit inaccurate about the role of Decepticons? Or are we seeing a cast list that is inflated with one- or two-episode appearances by characters? Either way, the cast sounds promising...though I wonder what the odds are of one of former cartoon voice actors (Beast Wars, G1) popping-in as a one- or two-line cameo...

HybridHero wrote:PPS. PATRICK from SPONGEBOB?!? This could either be awesome or total crap, I'm on the fence as to which.

I'm not opposed to voice actors who gained their renown from other, completely different roles. Lest we forget, Welker was Freddy from Scooby Doo long before he was Megatron.