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News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:17 am

We knew it was going to happen, but the Decepticon designs have made there way out, in the form of a flyer for SDCC that advertises the new 'Transformers: Animated' series.

Here is the link to the thread that has a scanned picture of the cons.

It looks like from left to right we have:

Starscream, Black Arachnia, Blitzwing, Lugnut(?), and of course, Megatron!

Stay tuned as we keep you updated on SDCC, and if any more comes out about the new animated series in the Seibertron.com Cartoon News Section.

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:21 am

I'm not understanding why Black Arachnia is part of the group. Aren't these supposed to be vehicles? What's she going to become?

by **Ecto** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:22 am

Yay Beastwars

News Credits: 1 · by **Blozor** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:23 am

Megatron looks like a cross between the G1 and the movie versions.

Starscream reminds me of Launchpad McQuack.

by **Roboto750** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:24 am

DevastaTTor wrote:I'm not understanding why Black Arachnia is part of the group. Aren't these supposed to be vehicles? What's she going to become?

She becomes a spider, as always. We saw this in the Botcon panel this year.

Plus, we saw a brief glimpse of Megatron at Botcon, and I don't recall his head design looking that closely to the movie design.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:27 am

So anyone guess who the big guy is, I could not figure it out.

I have to look back at the Botcon stuff to see what the con names were that were given.

by **PaperBird** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:28 am

umm..he has one eye, possibly Shockwave?

by **Thenedain** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:28 am

DevastaTTor wrote:I'm not understanding why Black Arachnia is part of the group. Aren't these supposed to be vehicles? What's she going to become?

It's looking like they're nabbing bits and pieces from the various past Transformers series, almost like they're giving Universe it's own T.V. series. Just like the Autobot designs are a mix of Cybertron, movie and G1 designs, the Decepticons are yanking stuff from various universes as well. Movie inspired Megs, Beast Wars Black Arachnia, what looks almost kinda like a G2ish Starscream, and an almost Armada looking Blitzwing. I'm not sure if this was intention or not, but I kind of like the mish mash of styles.

Kind of makes me wonder what the Dinobots will be like...

News Credits: 7 · by **Optimus Frimal** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:28 am

Aargh The one next to Megs be Blitzwing I reckons

News Credits: 1 · by **spiritofcat** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:32 am

Ooooh, can't wait to see the toys of these. I'm really looking forward to this after hearing all the positive comments from Botcon.

News Credits: 1 · by **Agent 007** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:33 am

ewww

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:34 am

Now I think I have it...

The big one is...

David Kaye wrote:Prowl (Jeff Dennis)
Prime (David Kaye)
Bumblebee (Bumper Robinson--'Chris Rock' like)
Ultra Magnus (Jeff Dennis-- very Robert Stack-y)
Arcee (Susan Blu reprisal?)
Black Arachnia (Cree Summer)
Grimlock (David Kaye --did a SNL Phil Hartman Frankenstien-y voice as an example)
Lugnut (David Kaye)
Starscream (Tom Kenney)
Ratchet (Corey Burton)
Shockwave (Corey Burton)
Megatron (Corey Burton)
Jazz (Phil LaMarr, of MadTV fame)
Blurr (Reprised by John Moshita)
Bulkhead (Bill Fagerbacky-- Patrick from Spongebob)

His quote about Lugnut being a big, huge Megatron kissup, well, I assume the big one is Lugnut.

News Credits: 23 · by **Prime Evil** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:38 am

Roboto750 wrote:
DevastaTTor wrote:I'm not understanding why Black Arachnia is part of the group. Aren't these supposed to be vehicles? What's she going to become?

Plus, we saw a brief glimpse of Megatron at Botcon, and I don't recall his head design looking that closely to the movie design.

Remember that we saw two different Megatrons. The Cybertronian one, and then his Earth versions. I think they said that Megs will remain in his Cybertronian form till the end of the first season, then he'll be changed. I'm assuming that we get Earth Megs then with his closer to G1 looking head.

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:39 am

hmmm...little to go on.
This reminds me all too much of Advance Wars DS.

I am NOT digging this look at all.

Hopefully the toys will be decent anyways. It's not like I really watch the show anymore is it?

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:42 am

The Master Blaster wrote:I am NOT digging this look at all.

Same.

I'll wait and see how it turns out though, but i'm really not expecting much, so maybe, just maybe i'll be pleasantly suprised.

News Credits: 1 · by **ghostofstarscream** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:53 am

This is definitely interesting. I really like the G2 comicish Screamer! There's definitely a little of everything thrown into these designs here and that makes it so theres a lil' something for everyone to like! I'm excited for this!!

News Credits: 33 · by **Glyph** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:54 am

Oops... re-post from the thread in TFGD...

Glyph wrote:Looks cool - interesting to note that there's a clearly-recognisable design heritage in some of the characters, particularly the G1-Armada hybrid Starscream, Movie-influenced Megs and good ol' Blackarachnia. Can't make up my mind who the Tarkin-esque guy with the monocle is though...

I was a bit 'meh' about the Autobots, except for Bumblebee and Prowl, but I'm really liking the look of the 'Cons.
(But hey, I like Teen Titans, Samurai Jack, Clone Wars and Kim Possible, so what would I know?)

--EDIT--
Gah, I wanna go home and watch some Teen Titans now, but I'm stuck slowly melting my brain into my keyboard at work instead...

--EDIT #2--
After reading the thread on TFW, I gather that the monocle guy is probably Blitzwing - if they do what they look like they're going to do and treat him like a mock-SS WW2 general type, that could seriously rock - and the... thing... in front of Megs is probably Lugnutz. I haven't been keeping up with the TFA news...

by **Starscreams bad comedy** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:06 am

Can somebody shoot whoever is responsible for unleasing upon the world the horrid movie Megatron design. Im so sick of it already.

:MAD:

News Credits: 10 · by **JazZeke** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:08 am

I like Starscream and Black Arachnia, but the others are pretty nasty looking, IMO.

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:15 am

Roboto750 wrote:
DevastaTTor wrote:I'm not understanding why Black Arachnia is part of the group. Aren't these supposed to be vehicles? What's she going to become?

She becomes a spider, as always. We saw this in the Botcon panel this year.

Plus, we saw a brief glimpse of Megatron at Botcon, and I don't recall his head design looking that closely to the movie design.

I see. Guess they needed a chick decepticon to balance out Arcee. Despite the questionable designs, I just hope the stories are worth a S#!+. I was a skeptic years ago when Beast Wars came out but the stories were so good that I learned to accept and like the designs.

by **Klozminded-G1** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:15 am

Bloody hell there using that god forsake MOVIE Megatron desigh...

:sad:

by **spark of war** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:16 am

a lot of them look like a bunch of out of shape humans dressed in cardboard cutouts. where the hell is starscreams mouth anyway?

News Credits: 17 · by **Starscream** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:20 am

that's gotta be shockwave, because they didn't show shockwave at botcon and that is not lugnutz

by **Tammuz** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:21 am

Glyph wrote:Oops... re-post from the thread in TFGD...

Glyph wrote:Looks cool - interesting to note that there's a clearly-recognisable design heritage in some of the characters, particularly the G1-Armada hybrid Starscream, Movie-influenced Megs and good ol' Blackarachnia. Can't make up my mind who the Tarkin-esque guy with the monocle is though...

I was a bit 'meh' about the Autobots, except for Bumblebee and Prowl, but I'm really liking the look of the 'Cons.
(But hey, I like Teen Titans, Samurai Jack, Clone Wars and Kim Possible, so what would I know?)

--EDIT--
Gah, I wanna go home and watch some Teen Titans now, but I'm stuck slowly melting my brain into my keyboard at work instead...

--EDIT #2--
After reading the thread on TFW, I gather that the monocle guy is probably Blitzwing - if they do what they look like they're going to do and treat him like a mock-SS WW2 general type, that could seriously rock - and the... thing... in front of Megs is probably Lugnutz. I haven't been keeping up with the TFA news...

Blitzwing's Rommel? maybe that'll make it barable...

News Credits: 3 · by **Flint** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:21 am

You know, they don't look too shabby. I really dig the Starscream (especially the huge smirk on his face)and like someone said Megs is a hybrid of G1 and the movie.