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News Credits: 3 · by **Barricade** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:43 am

omg i found this pic of transtech soundwave and he is kick azz...... why didnt they make this into a showwwwwwwwwwwww :sad:

STUPID RID.... THE SHOW SUCKED ANYWAY AND HAVE THE WORST STORY LINE AND TOYS EVER!!!!!!!!!! i hope that one day they make this into a series :oops:

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by **Greed** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:15 pm

Truthfully, I would have killed to seen Cheetor with the Guyver's head.

*sigh*

What could have been...

(Refference pic, top right head.)

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:58 pm

I dunno, I thought RiD had some pretty awesome toys, at least the ones that weren't repaints of an older series.

But Transtech would've been awesome-er.

by **Greed** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:25 pm

Transtech would have had the better story over all, I'm kind of happy some of the Transtech designs are still getting the nod: War Within Prime, Armada Scavenger, Movie Megs, etc

by **Nemesis_Apoc** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:28 pm

Transtech woulda kicked 12 kinds of ass. But, Beast Machines didn't go quite as well of Hasbro was hoping, so scrapping a sequel to it may have been a good idea. I personally loved BM and woulda slit my own wrists to see this show reach fruition, but oh well. Besides, quite a few of the designs saw the light of day in Armada, I.E. Megatron. So it wasn't totally destroyed. Just enough that none of us got to see what a fantastic series it woulda been.

by **Jaw Crusher** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:12 pm

Maybe someone could convince Hasbro to let IDW take it on in comic form... :PRAY:

by **ShockwaveUK** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:26 pm

Just because there was good concept art doesn't mean it would've translated to the toys. Beast Machines?

by **Greed** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:55 pm

shockwaveuk wrote:Just because there was good concept art doesn't mean it would've translated to the toys. Beast Machines?

I'd take a good story over toys any day of the week.

Too bad Hasbro wouldn't.

by **Jaw Crusher** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:38 pm

shockwaveuk wrote:Just because there was good concept art doesn't mean it would've translated to the toys.

Cheetor concept art: http://www.tfarchive.com/fandom/transtech/?dgallery_show=original/Cheetor03.jpg
Cheetor prototype: http://www.behindthetoys.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7195&whichpage=1

Starscream concept art: http://www.tfarchive.com/fandom/transtech/?dgallery_show=original/Starscream02.jpg
Starscream prototype: http://www.behindthetoys.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7198

Seems to me the final Transtech designs would have translated to toys pretty damn well.

News Credits: 1 · by **Fang Wolf** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:03 am

Um, I remember these from a while back, but I never noticed Star... Charge? He looks like Depthcharge, and DepthCharge is back? I assume there was a Flasedeath/reserection and posession. O_o sounds f***ing cool, also the two toys look much better than the current movie line O_o which isn't hard though.

News Credits: 18 · by **Immortal Starscream** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:45 pm

SuperSaiyajinSasuke wrote:Um, I remember these from a while back, but I never noticed Star... Charge? He looks like Depthcharge, and DepthCharge is back? I assume there was a Flasedeath/reserection and posession. O_o sounds f***ing cool, also the two toys look much better than the current movie line O_o which isn't hard though.

lol i had posted that exact same thing here on this thread already, but looks like it got erased in last nites maintanence

by **Uncrazzimatic** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:45 pm

I would love to see a transtech toy line, but atleast some of the design elements have been used for other toys, better than nothing.

News Credits: 730 · by **Raymond T.** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:08 pm

TransTech was to be the follow-up to Beast Machines. Primal and Megs from the beasts series were gone. Cheetor was the new leader. From what we know, chracters from Beasts were to be in it. But also G1 Characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave and several others Maximals joined the Autobots :TRANSBOT:

Predacons joined the Decepticons :TRANSCON:

and the war started up once again.

However, Hasbro turned down this idea and decided to make a G1 continuation instead, to continue on from the Rebirth Cartoon episodes. New Headmasters, Targetmasters and Micromasters were created and it was to pick up where the old show had left off...

Then someone decided to make Armada instead...

Armada did still use some of the G1 restart concepts. Many of the Micromasters became mini-cons. Obviously Sideways was intended as a Headmaster.

by **Greed** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:14 pm

Raymond T. wrote:TransTech was to be the follow-up to Beast Machines. Primal and Megs from the beasts series were gone. Cheetor was the new leader. From what we know, chracters from Beasts were to be in it. But also G1 Characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave and several others Maximals joined the Autobots Predacons joined the Decepticons and the war started up once again.

However, Hasbro turned down this idea and decided to make a G1 continuation instead, to continue on from the Rebirth Cartoon episodes. New Headmasters, Targetmasters and Micromasters were created and it was to pick up where the old show had left off...

Then someone decided to make Armada instead... Armada did still use some of the G1 restart concepts. Many of the Micromasters became mini-cons. Obviously Sideways was intended as a Headmaster.

Where does RID fit into the time line, it came out after Beast Machines. Why was that put on instead of TT?

What you said about Armada might be true but was there ever a reason why RID was green lighted while TT was scrapped?

Other than to save money I guess.

News Credits: 730 · by **Raymond T.** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:32 pm

Greed wrote:
Raymond T. wrote:TransTech was to be the follow-up to Beast Machines. Primal and Megs from the beasts series were gone. Cheetor was the new leader. From what we know, chracters from Beasts were to be in it. But also G1 Characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave and several others Maximals joined the Autobots Predacons joined the Decepticons and the war started up once again.

However, Hasbro turned down this idea and decided to make a G1 continuation instead, to continue on from the Rebirth Cartoon episodes. New Headmasters, Targetmasters and Micromasters were created and it was to pick up where the old show had left off...

Then someone decided to make Armada instead... Armada did still use some of the G1 restart concepts. Many of the Micromasters became mini-cons. Obviously Sideways was intended as a Headmaster.

Where does RID fit into the time line, it came out after Beast Machines. Why was that put on instead of TT?

What you said about Armada might be true but was there ever a reason why RID was green lighted while TT was scrapped?

Other than to save money I guess.

RiD is a stand-alone series. Although the American version has hints to the original series, as wel that it uses Predacons, it has no ties with any previous series.

Robots In Disguise is a translation of Carrobots, which was a Japanese production. When TransTech got axed in its early stages, it was just logical to translate the whole (and already existing) series quick and relatively cheap.

by **Uncrazzimatic** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:45 am

Raymond T. wrote:TransTech was to be the follow-up to Beast Machines. Primal and Megs from the beasts series were gone. Cheetor was the new leader. From what we know, chracters from Beasts were to be in it. But also G1 Characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave and several others Maximals joined the Autobots Predacons joined the Decepticons and the war started up once again.

However, Hasbro turned down this idea and decided to make a G1 continuation instead, to continue on from the Rebirth Cartoon episodes. New Headmasters, Targetmasters and Micromasters were created and it was to pick up where the old show had left off...

Then someone decided to make Armada instead... Armada did still use some of the G1 restart concepts. Many of the Micromasters became mini-cons. Obviously Sideways was intended as a Headmaster.

They turned down both of those ideas for Armada? :sad:

Unchrasimatic is crying twin waterfalls!

News Credits: 730 · by **Raymond T.** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:31 pm

Unchrasimatic wrote:
Raymond T. wrote:TransTech was to be the follow-up to Beast Machines. Primal and Megs from the beasts series were gone. Cheetor was the new leader. From what we know, chracters from Beasts were to be in it. But also G1 Characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave and several others Maximals joined the Autobots Predacons joined the Decepticons and the war started up once again.

However, Hasbro turned down this idea and decided to make a G1 continuation instead, to continue on from the Rebirth Cartoon episodes. New Headmasters, Targetmasters and Micromasters were created and it was to pick up where the old show had left off...

Then someone decided to make Armada instead... Armada did still use some of the G1 restart concepts. Many of the Micromasters became mini-cons. Obviously Sideways was intended as a Headmaster.
They turned down both of those ideas for Armada? Unchrasimatic is crying twin waterfalls!

Yep.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:05 pm

The cheetor face in the middle reminds me of Movie Blackout...

It's a Transformers transtech movie!!!! :shock:

News Credits: 3 · by **Barricade** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:39 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:The cheetor face in the middle reminds me of Movie Blackout...

It's a Transformers transtech movie!!!!

dont we all wish.... that would be kickass

by **Greed** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:04 am

Cujo wrote:
tigertracks 24 wrote:The cheetor face in the middle reminds me of Movie Blackout...

It's a Transformers transtech movie!!!!
dont we all wish.... that would be kickass

Wait, what?

News Credits: 3 · by **Barricade** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:07 am

Greed wrote:
Cujo wrote:
tigertracks 24 wrote:The cheetor face in the middle reminds me of Movie Blackout...

It's a Transformers transtech movie!!!!
dont we all wish.... that would be kickass

Wait, what?

that they saved transtech so that they could make it into a movie.................. :shock:

WAIT A FREAKIN SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock:

THE MOVIE IS BASED OFF TRANSTECH!!!!! well atleast the robot modes....... it's like they took transtech and threw g1 armor on them :-?

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:49 am

Cujo wrote:
Greed wrote:
Cujo wrote:
tigertracks 24 wrote:The cheetor face in the middle reminds me of Movie Blackout...

It's a Transformers transtech movie!!!!
dont we all wish.... that would be kickass

Wait, what?
that they saved transtech so that they could make it into a movie.................. WAIT A FREAKIN SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE MOVIE IS BASED OFF TRANSTECH!!!!! well atleast the robot modes....... it's like they took transtech and threw g1 armor on them

If that helps you sleep at night, believe it!

News Credits: 128 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:54 am

Cujo in a fit of insanity wrote:RID.... THE SHOW SUCKED ANYWAY AND HAVE THE WORST STORY LINE AND TOYS EVER!!!!!!!!!!

Trade the hideous freak designs of Transtech for the elegant beautiful designs of RiD?

I think not.

You flat out can not support your statement that RiD had the worst toys ever. Don't give me that, "It's my opinion" crap either.

Support it, or admit that your opinion is weak.

News Credits: 3 · by **Barricade** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:58 am

Counterpunch wrote:
Cujo in a fit of insanity wrote:RID.... THE SHOW SUCKED ANYWAY AND HAVE THE WORST STORY LINE AND TOYS EVER!!!!!!!!!!

Trade the hideous freak designs of Transtech for the elegant beautiful designs of RiD?

I think not.

You flat out can not support your statement that RiD had the worst toys ever. Don't give me that, "It's my opinion" crap either.

Support it, or admit that your opinion is weak.

ok prowl side burn and x-brawn........... i owned all of these and they broke in the first likke 3 months..... plus the fact that 90% of thier joints are ball joints and they popped out every 2 seconds transforming brings them down to KO level