The Energon Pub

News Credits: 972 · Tue May 05, 2009 5:57 pm

Hasbro have updated their online video section Monkeybar TV with a second episode of Flash Animated Transformers Action.

Set in an undisclosed timeline where the character designs are an amalgamation of the live action movie and universe toy designs, this three minute episode features Optimus Prime and Bumblebee tracking down and facing off against Megatron and Cyclonus.

Bumblebee even manages to borrow some attacking strategy from Animated Soundwave.

To check out the episode, please click here.

News Credits: 7 · Tue May 05, 2009 6:10 pm

Bumblebees design is far the best since G1, but the whole animation is painful to watch along with the story (Megatron: We're under attack, Cyclonus, play firefighter!)... The Rude awakening of OP and many Youtube videos seem more professional than this.

Tue May 05, 2009 6:21 pm

dude sorry to say this but this sucks! that was the first TF animation that i did not like!

Tue May 05, 2009 6:43 pm

Pros: cool designs for Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Cyclonus. Megatron,
Cyclonus and Bumblebee's voices were all very cool and Prime's was decent.

Cons: everything else

News Credits: 462 · Tue May 05, 2009 6:53 pm

Oh, wow. That was just cheesy, even moreso than G1.

Notice that Cyclonus sounds like Richard Newman, and Megs' altmode was similar to Cyclonus's but a bit different.

Also, the Autobts seem more destructive than the Decepticons in this one.

And, since it ended with the Universe logog, would that make this the second episode to Universe (the first episode was Action Blast 1)?

Tue May 05, 2009 7:07 pm

Concept: Nice, combining Movie Aesthetics with a G1 flare
Story: Bland, Ooooh Fire and explosions, and the 'Cons are stealing Energon. Can we get something new here?
Acting:Most Voices Were Good With The Exception of Prime
Animation: Very Shotty
Verdict: :Meh

Tue May 05, 2009 7:27 pm

oi.. i am tired of this camaro bumblebee crapzilla... cyclonus wouldnt be there... or megatron would be galvatron... animation is better than most flash animations ive seen... but its just tooo wrong...

Tue May 05, 2009 7:29 pm

That was ok. I like the character designs, but everything else...

Oh well, at least it was better than Action Blast.

Oh and actually Bumblebee's strategy is more akin to OP's strategy, not Soundwave.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Slayershoop · Tue May 05, 2009 7:32 pm

Wow this was stupid, sure Bumblebee looked cool, but this sucked #-o

News Credits: 16 · Tue May 05, 2009 7:34 pm

Since when did Optimus Prime sound like he was programmed by a fortune cookie.

Optimus Prime wrote:Your confidence clouds your caution.

What?

News Credits: 1 · Tue May 05, 2009 7:40 pm

That was better than Animated. The designs were cool. Voices were decent. Dialogue was meh. But still better than Animated.

I like the movie/classics style combined. It would be cool to see THAT Bumblebee and Prime.

News Credits: 1452 · Tue May 05, 2009 8:23 pm

Meh, it was okay. The whole music puns were kind of lame.

News Credits: 3 · Tue May 05, 2009 8:24 pm

Corny.

I've seen more plot in a Survivor episode.

News Credits: 21 · Tue May 05, 2009 8:31 pm

FAIL!

News Credits: 1 · Tue May 05, 2009 8:40 pm

For a 3 minute ditty, I quite liked it. The designs were cool, and it was sorta refreshing to see Megatron with Cyclonus; it doesn't always HAVE to be Galvatron. Felt like a flashback to G1 overall, just condensed into three minutes.

I like it for what it is, and hope they continue to delve into more Universe/G1-esque ideas once the movie's played out.

Tue May 05, 2009 8:50 pm

mm..its cool, i like it.

News Credits: 8 · Tue May 05, 2009 9:03 pm

Not to bad. Defiantly needs work but for a short little clip that was most likely done in some ones free time it wasnt bad. Better concept and style than bayformers thats for sure. They should use this for the basis for the next TF series. And get the guys that did GIJOE Resolute to do it. That would kick ass.

News Credits: 335 · Tue May 05, 2009 9:05 pm

Sweet Sassy Molassy that was Classy.

... is what I would say if it was even kinda sorta of cool.

It's like they put grapes and apples in one bag and called them grapples.

Tue May 05, 2009 9:32 pm

i saw this in storyboard form (well part of it) over at Andy Kuhn's Blog:
http://kuhnart.blogspot.com/2009/02/transformers.html
good stuff.

News Credits: 32 · Tue May 05, 2009 9:34 pm

That was kinda cool. I was surprized to see Cyclonus in there. What was with the designs? It's like they couldn't decide whether to do Classics or movie. So they went with both.

Wed May 06, 2009 2:47 am

Terrible. Just Terrible. If you're listening Hasbro- please never try to combine classics and movie aesthetics- we've already seen what kind of cruddy toys it gets us- Ironhide, Ratchet, and Galvatron. Three of the worst (I'll count em separate if you release em) toys to blemish an otherwise fantastic line.

Please do not try this approach for classics 3.0 or whatever nonsense it might be called.