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Well, I hope I can get pass the ugly drawings I seen so far. The show sounds interesting, very promising and I'm really excited to see Starscream again with Megatron. I hope it's not all brainless or super evil vs smarty pants goody two shoes. I know there's evil in good, good in evil. I hope it becomes "Beast Wars" smart. I hoping too darn much Well, it's new and fun, and I'm going to be there. I'm excited to see what this cartoon will be like.

It sounds like these guys know what they are doing so I'm just going to shut up and go for a ride with the show.

As for the animation I just need to see them moving then I might go or Why Oh Why!!!!

When are we gonna start seeing these designs?

Everyone that has seen them is pretty excited about them and that excitement is infectious. Still, if you wait to long to reveal them, they'll NEVER live up to my imagination of what they're like.

I went from being very jaded about this to being ok with it to now being pretty excited about this. I may have some sort of Transformers ADD. :p

Hold on, WTF? How can Prime be the Leader yet be outranked at the same time? I'm not really understanding that.

Unless if he's just a simple soldier that is smarter than those above him, but it still sounds kind of strange to me...

Liege Evilmus wrote:From what I'm hearing, I like alot of what is being said about this show, No stock footage transformations, and things like that.

I hate humans in TF stories, and the idea of them working together just gets me. If I wanted to look at people on TV, I'd put on a show, not a cartoon about robots.

As for the designs, we've only seen one or two so far, and they suck! But thats how most felt about the movie, and outside of when they moved to fast and all those features blurred, it came off well.

I'll give this a chance, but since the end of the Beast Era, I haven't realy been impressed with any of the shows. Too much stock, and to many people talking about teamwork and feelings, while all you really want is "The Gang War".

So lets see what happens, I want to stay neutral, but history has given me a reason to be jaded though.

I completely agree with you. The article mentioned a few details which made me cringe...

1. they will have powers similar to super heroes, yet they are mechanical beings so its a part of what they are..

2. they will be in a futuristic Detroit..

3. they will be fighting with humans, and humans already have robots called Automatons...sounds like a way to sneak minicons into the mix under a different guise..

4. Optimus Prime is an inexperienced leader trying to find himself, and there are superiors to him tat out rank him??

5. the art work still sucks, I don't care if the toys look great, it's still Teen titanformers to me..


6. working on shows with super heroes helped in their understanding and eventual team roster..

It's transformers not Super heroes!!


I guess I'll take a wait and see attitude, but as of right now this is my perception of the show and its not good so far.

Yeah, this is very interesting. I'm looking forward to it.

As for Prime being inexperienced, War Within (one of the best TF comics ever in many fans' opinions) revolved around the same thing. Chill.

Actually, I'm glad to hear that Optimus isn't the "top dog," so to speak. There has to be superiors, and Prime being "the boss" just doesn't make a lot of sense.

I mean, really--is it smart for the heads of power to put their lives on the line battling evil forces? No. That's what generals are for. Prime's leading a small group of Autobots on Earth. If he was leader of all the Autobots, then he'd be stuck at a desk listening to complaints about energon shortage in Sector 8, equal rights for all minicons, trying to appease anti-war demonstrators, and signing legislation into law.

Prime is a war leader: always has been, always will be. But that does not make him "The" top leader.

Even Captain Kirk reports to someone else

Now i wqas with those of us who bashed the design of these new Formers but after a while theyve sort of grown on me i still dont like the fact that prime will be the teen-bot of the series but that may change but ill give this series a fair try ..but the first instance that its a teen titan carbon copy with the humor and story line i wash my hands of the series humor is fine in my oppinion but not random stupidity at every moment...and why must there be the silly human chars again spike was awesome he had an intregal part of the story but from then on the humans have been comic relief

I like this bloke. He sounds like someone we can trust.

Bring it on, says I.

By the way, just to respond to a bit that stuck out while I was reading the comments:

skywarp-2 wrote:I completely agree with you. The article mentioned a few details which made me cringe...

1. they will have powers similar to super heroes, yet they are mechanical beings so its a part of what they are..

2. they will be in a futuristic Detroit..

3. they will be fighting with humans, and humans already have robots called Automatons...sounds like a way to sneak minicons into the mix under a different guise..

4. Optimus Prime is an inexperienced leader trying to find himself, and there are superiors to him tat out rank him??

5. the art work still sucks, I don't care if the toys look great, it's still Teen titanformers to me..

6. working on shows with super heroes helped in their understanding and eventual team roster..

1. As somebody said earlier, a lot of the G1 TFs had mechanically-based 'superpowers', just like these: invisibility, forcefields, teleportation etc...

2. You have a problem with Detroit? It's Motor City, it makes as much sense to me to have this technologically-based series set there as anywhere else. And like the man said, it'll be a lot more exciting than fighting in the desert all the time.

3. Humans don't have, as you say, "robots called Automatons"... automaton is an actual word. It's an automated robot. The show's set fifty years in the future, people have robots doing a lot of the work... sort of like they said we'd have twenty years ago back in the sixties...

4. Why not? Like Black Bumblebee pointed out, if he's the guy at the top of the foodchain, he'd have been back home on Cybertron, running the planet. Do see the US President (not just the present one ) running off to the frontline every time there's a war? No, he's got the rest of the country to worry about as well.

5.... alright, not much I can say to that one - if you don't like the designs, you don't like 'em.

6. The key point he was emphasising is not the superhero aspect, but the fact that such shows have given them experience in exploring team dynamics, which, as far as I can see, is one of the most important things in a show like this. If you have a limited cast of characters, you want to make sure you've got the best possible combination, so you can make the most of the interplay between them.

Ramrider wrote:

2. You have a problem with Detroit? It's Motor City, it makes as much sense to me to have this technologically-based series set there as anywhere else. And like the man said, it'll be a lot more exciting than fighting in the desert all the time.

HUzzah!!! I was about to give it a go there too about that. Detroit is the place where the future technology of cars basically started being produced en masse, so then why couldn't it be the center for the next future technology being massed produced...robots.

Skywarp-2, for someone with that moniker, I would expect you to be a little more open to 'bots with special abilities.

Besides those mentioned, I think Elita-1 could stop time briefly...I think she did it to save Prime, and Soundwave's bio has said that he can read the minds of some individuals.

I'm open, and it'll be interesting as the new year gets closer, what more we find out, and when we'll start seeing more of the toy designs released to the general public...perhaps after SDCC?

So Bumblebee was never supposed to be in the original 5. Wonder who was originally in the side then? Jazz?

This show just keeps sounding better and better. You can tell that they have put a great deal of thought and work into this series. The animation style may not be for everyone, but the story and characters seem to be getting a lot of time devoted to them.

dang.. i dont like this 50 years in the future thing they have going... why cant they just make a modern take on transformers with something that ressembles real world vehicles and problems.