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News Credits: 4 · by **MasterSoundBlaster** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:47 pm

Whoa! Jazz is looking pretty sweet! Kinda wish he was more stretched out like his FoC in game rendering or the RTS figure is, but I can't complain to much. I mean he's got his g1 shoulder cannon!

*EDIT*

Just took a look at Sideswipe and my god! Just like aligned Ironhide, it's as if Bayformers and G1 got together and made this handsome piece of artwork!

News Credits: 1 · by **Bubbah** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:24 pm

Man I love this design! He is quite sharp looking!

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:27 pm

CBratetron wrote:It is unfortunate for me that this makes me think of a TFP Bumblebee repaint.
Not sure I could ever enjoy this now.

It's sad that every character with door wings suddenly looks like a Bumblebee repaint to everyone. First Smokescreen (whom looks nothing like Bumblebee besides door wings, and the occasional forearm depending on perspective) and now Jazz.

Nobody deserves their own mold anymore. Let's make 100 retools of Bumblebee and name them something different. :BANG_HEAD:

by **RAcast** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:38 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:
CBratetron wrote:It is unfortunate for me that this makes me think of a TFP Bumblebee repaint.
Not sure I could ever enjoy this now.

It's sad that every character with door wings suddenly looks like a Bumblebee repaint to everyone. First Smokescreen (whom looks nothing like Bumblebee besides door wings, and the occasional forearm depending on perspective) and now Jazz.

Nobody deserves their own mold anymore. Let's make 100 retools of Bumblebee and name them something different.

This is where I point out that Prime Bee stole G1 Jazz's transformation scheme.
So Jazz looks exactly like he should.

I.e. Bumblebee is, in fact, the repaint. /meta

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:39 pm

YOWZA!! That is one cool cat.

This makes the following whom we've seen their Aligned designs from the Binder:

Optimus Prime
Prima
Ironhide
Sideswipe
Thundertron
Jazz

And maybe Bumblebee is that was his Binder design we saw on the pop-up book cover.

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:56 pm

RAcast wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:
CBratetron wrote:It is unfortunate for me that this makes me think of a TFP Bumblebee repaint.
Not sure I could ever enjoy this now.

It's sad that every character with door wings suddenly looks like a Bumblebee repaint to everyone. First Smokescreen (whom looks nothing like Bumblebee besides door wings, and the occasional forearm depending on perspective) and now Jazz.

Nobody deserves their own mold anymore. Let's make 100 retools of Bumblebee and name them something different.

This is where I point out that Prime Bee stole G1 Jazz's transformation scheme.
So Jazz looks exactly like he should.

Yet, this Jazz seems to have a mix of his FoC counterpart's transformation scheme (rightfully so) as well as his Movie transformation with a G1 back-kibble transformation.

Indicators:

So his transformation should be different from Bumblebee's.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:00 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:Yet, this Jazz seems to have a mix of his FoC counterpart's transformation scheme (rightfully so)

Though, you do realize that this design precedes his WFC design since this art was done several years ago.

Also, now I'm going to have to get the children's pop-up book since it will have more Aligned designs from the Binder like this. :KREMZEEK:

by **Shadowstream** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:18 pm

Well he looks better than Sideswipe, but that's not saying much. Gayverse Bayverse Jazz was less of a major divergence from his previous forms, so mixing the styles up here doesn't look as bad, but the fact is it's still there, so... :SICK:

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:37 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:Yet, this Jazz seems to have a mix of his FoC counterpart's transformation scheme (rightfully so)
Though, you do realize that this design precedes his WFC design since this art was done several years ago.

Yeah? My point stands regardless. The transformation mix is there for a reason.

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Something inside of me wonders why they're releasing all of this Earth-based 'bot concept art and hopes that Sideswipe, Jazz, and Perceptor will come to Prime. That may be wishful thinking...

...but how cool would it be to have a second team of Autobots on Earth with Team Prime? :KREMZEEK:

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:49 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:Something inside of me wonders why they're releasing all of this Earth-based 'bot concept art and hopes that Sideswipe, Jazz, and Perceptor will come to Prime. That may be wishful thinking...

...but how cool would it be to have a second team of Autobots on Earth with Team Prime?

Well, my guess as to why we're getting this art revealed is because, since Santalucia made them, he wants to show his art to people so they can look at it and give their thoughts on it, and Hasbro's finally letting him show it.

As for why now they're letting him, the upcoming pop up book will have even more of this art, so maybe they're letting him reveal this stuff as a sort of prelude to it.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:59 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:We did get that hint that Jazz & Perceptor would be in season three. Just give us some concept art for Perceptor, Mr. Santalucia.

It wasn't really a hint. Some guy in the audience asked during the Q&A, "Will we see Jazz and Perceptor in season 3 of Prime since they're popular characters?" His question came out of the blue and seemed to only ask if some Average Joe's favorite characters will be in the show or not. Since the Hasbro guys couldn't say much about who is or who isn't gonna be in season 3, they gave the same ambiguous "Stay tuned" answer that they gave to more than half of the questions asked at that panel.

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:00 am

Sabrblade wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:We did get that hint that Jazz & Perceptor would be in season three. Just give us some concept art for Perceptor, Mr. Santalucia.
It wasn't really a hint. Some guy in the audience asked during the Q&A, "Will we see Jazz and Perceptor in season 3 of Prime since they're popular characters?" His question came out of the blue and seemed to only ask if some Average Joe's favorite characters will be in the show or not. Since the Hasbro guys couldn't say much about who is or who isn't gonna be in season 3, they gave the same ambiguous "Stay tuned" answer that they gave to more than half of the questions asked at that panel.

Can't a guy consider this a small window of hope? :cry:

by **Gundamu** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:26 am

Beautiful! Just beautiful. I want to see Jazz in TFP even more now.

News Credits: 1 · by **Solrac333** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:50 am

I like the car mode, the bot mode, not so much. I do think it looks ok if they ever made a movie-verse animated series though.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:11 pm

omega666 wrote:I like the car mode, the bot mode, not so much. I do think it looks ok if they ever made a movie-verse animated series though.

Kinda like what TF: Prime looks like?

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:19 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
omega666 wrote:I like the car mode, the bot mode, not so much. I do think it looks ok if they ever made a movie-verse animated series though.
Kinda like what TF: Prime looks like?

What are you talking about? Transformers Prime obviously looks like Energon. Duuuuuuh.

teehee!

by **RAcast** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:19 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
omega666 wrote:I like the car mode, the bot mode, not so much. I do think it looks ok if they ever made a movie-verse animated series though.
Kinda like what TF: Prime looks like?

That's what I read.