Transformers: Robots In Disguise - Season 2 Decepticons Teaser

BERSEKAEL wrote:I wish to see some stunticons or any other combiner,and I would love legion class out of that. The actual decepticons are meh

Agreed. While the show it mindless fun, I am certainly not a fan of the "furry" approach to Decepticon design.

The non-Furry Decepticons are of some interest to me though.

Overload continues to be a treasure, and the episode makes the Blizzard Strike decos feel well-justified (even if they've got to deviate from the look of the toys to do it). Was hoping Optimus's new, teachable, ability would also soften their weakness to the cold to differentiate it from past recolors, but ah well.

Optimus is showing certain degrees of Kup-itude, but I'm down with that. The "flawless, wise leader" thing is more based on G1-nostalgia than the character's origins, in which he was a bit of a goofball. He had a smug moment! I could get used to smug Optimus.

Helps that they've set up two character arcs that somewhat conflict - a "respeckt yer elders" thing for Sideswipe and a "Know your limitations" thing for OP. The vague possessiveness Sideswipe has towards Windblade is still pretty weird, though.

Deadput wrote:

Mkall wrote:Agreed. While the show it mindless fun, I am certainly not a fan of the "furry" approach to Decepticon design.

The non-Furry Decepticons are of some interest to me though.

Do you like Beast Wars?


If you do and dislike the Decepticon designs of the show being based on animals that makes you a hypocrite.

That's a bit hyperbolic - although I like both Beast Wars and RiD15's animalistic designs, I can totally see how someone might like one and not the other - a wolf tail on a carformer might seem a lot like wheels on a wolfformer, yeah? In my eyes the two examples aren't equivalent, but I can see how it might affect someone else's enjoyment.

RevTibe wrote:

Deadput wrote:

Mkall wrote:Agreed. While the show it mindless fun, I am certainly not a fan of the "furry" approach to Decepticon design.

The non-Furry Decepticons are of some interest to me though.

Do you like Beast Wars?


If you do and dislike the Decepticon designs of the show being based on animals that makes you a hypocrite.

That's a bit hyperbolic - although I like both Beast Wars and RiD15's animalistic designs, I can totally see how someone might like one and not the other - a wolf tail on a carformer might seem a lot like wheels on a wolfformer, yeah? In my eyes the two examples aren't equivalent, but I can see how it might affect someone else's enjoyment.

Precisely RevTibe.

Beast Wars, robots with animal modes, was the entire theme of the show. The characters personalities were related to their altmodes a little bit, but not overwhelmingly so (except Waspinator, but he's special). Even when the lore did not require them to need animal modes (after all the Energon became stable), they still stuck with the theme. Why? Because there was in-lore reasons.

With RiD, there is no REASON given in-story (to my knowledge) that describes why all criminal Decepticons, from disparate backgrounds from all over Cybertron, that were locked into stasis pods that they be given some sort of animalistic persona/appearance to varying degrees. Sure, it's an obvious Hasbro marketing idea, and to give points to the show's writing most of them are pulled off well with a good personality. However to me it's a suspension of disbelief that I really have trouble accepting. Granted I'm not a 6-10 kid anymore, but I feel that similar characters/stories could have been made with more traditional-style Decepticons.

Mkall wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Deadput wrote:

Mkall wrote:Agreed. While the show it mindless fun, I am certainly not a fan of the "furry" approach to Decepticon design.

The non-Furry Decepticons are of some interest to me though.

Do you like Beast Wars?


If you do and dislike the Decepticon designs of the show being based on animals that makes you a hypocrite.

That's a bit hyperbolic - although I like both Beast Wars and RiD15's animalistic designs, I can totally see how someone might like one and not the other - a wolf tail on a carformer might seem a lot like wheels on a wolfformer, yeah? In my eyes the two examples aren't equivalent, but I can see how it might affect someone else's enjoyment.

Precisely RevTibe.

Beast Wars, robots with animal modes, was the entire theme of the show. The characters personalities were related to their altmodes a little bit, but not overwhelmingly so (except Waspinator, but he's special). Even when the lore did not require them to need animal modes (after all the Energon became stable), they still stuck with the theme. Why? Because there was in-lore reasons.

With RiD, there is no REASON given in-story (to my knowledge) that describes why all criminal Decepticons, from disparate backgrounds from all over Cybertron, that were locked into stasis pods that they be given some sort of animalistic persona/appearance to varying degrees. Sure, it's an obvious Hasbro marketing idea, and to give points to the show's writing most of them are pulled off well with a good personality. However to me it's a suspension of disbelief that I really have trouble accepting. Granted I'm not a 6-10 kid anymore, but I feel that similar characters/stories could have been made with more traditional-style Decepticons.

Because this stretches suspension of disbelief much further than thirty-foot alien robots that turn into human-scaled guns and cassette players.

Deadput wrote:

Mkall wrote: I feel that similar characters/stories could have been made with more traditional-style Decepticons.

The further we move away from tradition and cliche tropes the better.

So we both want different things. Nothing wrong with that. I'll enjoy what I got even if it's not entirely my cup of tea.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Strange dates for episodes. Back to back days for new episodes? Strange...

It is good for us who like to see new episodes as quick as possible. however it is typical CN, just trying to burn through the new episodes as quick as possible, no doubt so they can snuff this series from their roster so they can show more endless Uncle Grandpa & Teen Titans Go reruns.

Anywho... The episode was ok. I was actually way more interested in The away mission & Polar Claw than Bumblebee & Overloads battle.

Interesting to see that Steve Blum "voiced" (or more accurately provided all the noise for) Polarclaw, Backtrack & Ransack. Good to see he has quite a Frank Welker-esque ability to him. Also perhaps we might see Starscream before its all over? Who knows....

I was kind of disappointed Polarclaw didn't speak. Also I thought it was kind of weak that the Cyclones would turn on Overload so quickly. I would have maintained that,in order to show their unwillingness to take orders at all, they would not have so quickly joined Overload in the first place (I mean look what happened to Fracture if you happened to see those short episodes). However I have no doubt they will be back with Overload before the end.

psj333 wrote:For those who are already living outside of North America, the European brand known as Simba-Dickie has recently posted images of the upcoming RID toys made by them. They are radio-controlled cars. One of these toys that really caught my attention is Grimlock's vehicle mode.

Here is the image of what Grimlock's vehicle mode would have looked like in the cartoon:

http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/uplo ... imlock.jpg

But what does this mean? Does this mean that Grimlock will finally successfully scan a vehicle mode for Season 2? In Season 1, he has tried many attempts to scan a vehicle mode, but still failed.

It doesn't mean anything it's just a toy that has nothing to do with the show I mean look at that robot mode do you think it would be in the show?

Grimlock will still and always will be a Dinosaur in the show.

Fellow Seibertronians, fellow user Survivefan23 has pointed us in the direction of Toon Zone member 'Red Arrow', who has listed the episode titles for Transformers: Robots In Disguise episodes 8-13. They are as follows:

-208 Bumblebee’s Night Off

-209 Impounded

-210 Portals

-211 Outstanding

-212 Decepticon Island (Part 1)

-213 Decepticon Island (Part 2)

So what do you make of these titles? Let us know in the comments below.

bluecatcinema wrote:That "Decepticon Island" two-parter sounds interesting.

Reminds me of Transformers Animated Dinobots Island.