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Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:19 pm

I heard they were going to have Silverbolt's girlfriend in the new series. Why are they having beast wars characters in the series?They have dinobots, Slag and Grimlock but No swoops or Dinobot. Hey they might as well have Terrorsaur,too if they are going to have that spider.

Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:20 pm

What!The writer is the Beast machines. Why?

News Credits: 2 · Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:27 am

Doesn't seem too bad so far, but I'll probably pass over it because i simply don't like the animation, and for whatever reason I guess since none of the other shows since beast wars appealed to me... this doesn't look like its quite where it should be again.

Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:46 am

This show looks like hot garbage, but I'll give it a chance.

Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:46 pm

how come they look so different in the scene when they're transforming like Bulkhead looks smaller Prowl looks skinnier

Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:19 pm

Is it Spike Witwicky, Chip Chase, and the rest of the stupid human cast from G1, who has invaded the autobot bodies, and made them lame as heck? they sound like teenagers... vomit.

The one thing a TF cartoon is... is a break from Optimus and Megatron.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:24 pm

I've said it before and I'll say it again.
"Go-Bots Animated."
O and didn't Hasbro say the transformations wouldn't be anime sequences? Now why do they have to go and flat out lie to us all the time?

News Credits: 2 · Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:20 pm

Great, anime-esque Transforming sequence.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:35 pm

babylon queen wrote:I heard they were going to have Silverbolt's girlfriend in the new series. Why are they having beast wars characters in the series?They have dinobots, Slag and Grimlock but No swoops or Dinobot. Hey they might as well have Terrorsaur,too if they are going to have that spider.

You know Grimlock and Slag are G1 characters right?
And it'd be weird to have a character named dinobot when they
have a group with the same name.

edit: and swoop is in animated

News Credits: 21 · Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:31 pm

I agree with some of you this whole TEENformers is a little off putting. and with all the Autobots looking/sounding/acting so young and all the Decepticons are older. so it almost like there saying (Autobots)Kids are good! (Decepticons)Adults are Bad!

News Credits: 3 · Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:02 pm

babylon queen wrote:I heard they were going to have Silverbolt's girlfriend in the new series. Why are they having beast wars characters in the series?They have dinobots, Slag and Grimlock but No swoops or Dinobot. Hey they might as well have Terrorsaur,too if they are going to have that spider.

Uh, "That spider's" name is Blackarachnia, and it's obviously a completely different series to Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Yeesh.

News Credits: 7 · Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:52 pm

The Chaos Bringer wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again.
"Go-Bots Animated."
O and didn't Hasbro say the transformations wouldn't be anime sequences? Now why do they have to go and flat out lie to us all the time?

First Go-Bots had its own cartoon in case you were 20 years behind.

And two, how do you know that those transformation sequences are not from the intro? And as I recall they said that they would not constantly be using stock transformations.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:32 am

alls I have to say is I thought RID, Energon and Cybertron, sucked. This takes the taco in suckage.

Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:15 pm

Can't wait. This looks like it'll be cool.

News Credits: 11 · Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:55 pm

Dead Metal wrote:
kirbenvost wrote:
dasbear wrote:kirbenvost is right, you know your animation sir.

Thanks. I personally enjoy anime and find it of much higher quality than most American cartoons, so that combined with the fact that Transformers largely have been anime throughout their history, makes it kind of annoying when people complain about 'animeness'. People can dislike anime all they want, but they have to get their facts straight and keep in mind that most of the TF shows are anime.

What I posted wasn't entirely accurate, however, while the majority of the shows were created, produced, voiced, etc etc, by Japanese studios, the actual animation work has been outsourced at times to places such as Korea, China, and even the US, I believe. Regardless of this though, the fact that it's created by Japanese studios makes it anime.

But the first 4 seasons were prouced by Us companies!
I don't hate anime, I collect anime DVD, but not them kiddy stuff TF has been the last copple of times.

I stand again partially corrected, the original shows were created (conceptualized, produced, etc) by US companies, but animated by Japanese and Korean studios. The original G1 pilot and much of seasons 1 & 2, the animated Movie, and some of seasons 3 & 4 were animated by Toei Animation, a well-known japanese animation studio. The rest were shared by Japanese and Korean studios. After the show's demise in North America, Toei continued its production in Japan, creating Headmasters and so on.

Subsequent series, after Beast Wars, have been animated by other Anime studios.

And I've just discovered (if Wikipedia can be believed), that the new Animated is being animated overseas as well, but with a clearly American style.

This happens with a lot of cartoons these days, because the cost is less and the quality is higher than something done domestically. So I guess this begs the question, when is something anime?

Regardless, my overall point is just that you can't really diss Transformers for being 'too anime', when it's been anime all along. (I know that's not your opinion Dead Metal)

News Credits: 972 · Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:13 pm

kirbenvost wrote:And I've just discovered (if Wikipedia can be believed), that the new Animated is being animated overseas as well, but with a clearly American style.

This happens with a lot of cartoons these days, because the cost is less and the quality is higher than something done domestically. So I guess this begs the question, when is something anime?

Simpsons is animated in Korea, but designed in the USA, same goes for TF: Animated.

"Anime" is usually defined by the style more than the location of where it is conceptualised and animated. Many Europena Studios are going into the "Anime" style due to it's growing popularity.

Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:13 pm

O_o dear god noooo....

Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:20 pm

sorry it is probably already answered but what network is the show going to run on?

News Credits: 3 · Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:30 pm

Cartoon Network.

News Credits: 335 · Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:13 pm

We should also be getting the OAV within the next month or so.

News Credits: 972 · Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:25 pm

Down_Shift wrote:We should also be getting the OAV within the next month or so.

The OAV is the "feature length" season opener, so wouldn't it just be shown as the first "episode"?

Just asking, as I am not sure how Cartoon Network does these things, as I do not have Foxtel/Cable TV.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:18 pm

Geekee1 wrote:
The Chaos Bringer wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again.
"Go-Bots Animated."
O and didn't Hasbro say the transformations wouldn't be anime sequences? Now why do they have to go and flat out lie to us all the time?

First Go-Bots had its own cartoon in case you were 20 years behind.

And two, how do you know that those transformation sequences are not from the intro? And as I recall they said that they would not constantly be using stock transformations.

Stock transformations I might not mind, if we could only see the background! I am sick of them transforming in front of a wall of lights every time. Transforming within the scene without completely cutting away from the action for upwards of a minute looks way better to me and I know I am not the only one who feels this way.
And I call it "Go-Bots Animated" because after the glory of the movie I cannot stand something of such poor quality being branded with the now glorous name.

Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:11 pm

Personally... I want to gouge out my eyes and ears... but I need those for my future, so I'll give the show a chance. XD
Besides, if it's Transformers, I can't just brush it off.

Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:13 pm

What in the world are they smoking?? drugs are not like that anymore. It is a shame that after the success of the movie Hasbro decided to screw it up (same happened to Beast Wars-Beast Machines) -personal opinion- but many fans hated world wide, Power Rangers Autopink panthers you said it is called?

News Credits: 4 · Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:20 pm

The new cartoon and toyline will make them lots of money just like the new movie and toys made them lots of money, end of. yay! We can all sleep peacefully now.

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