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I have something special to share with you all. Something very special.
The first three episodes of Season 4!
Back in 2019, this happened:
Sabrblade wrote:On August 17, 2019, UK fan convention TFNation played host to a most momentous occasion in which Transformers Animated story editor Marty Isenberg presented a scripted performance of the original story treatment outline for what would have been the three-part season 4 premiere of Transformers Animated had it been greenlit for a fourth season.
Titled "Trial of Megatron" (as opposed to The AllSpark Almanac II, The Complete AllSpark Almanac, and Issue #71 of the TCC Magazine titling it "The Trial of Megatron"), the outline for this three-parter was presented not as a live script reading done in the style of those performed at BotCons of years past, but was instead presented with pre-recorded dialogue acted by almost the entire Animated voice cast (only Tara Strong and Judd Nelson were absent, with their respective roles of Sari Sumdac and Rodimus Prime performed by other people) and set to all new original artwork created for the story by fan artists.
At the time, representatives from TFWiki, The Allspark, and TFW2005 were onsite to provide full coverage of this event; coverage that I compiled together for a full report posted here previously.
And now, fast forward two years later to this past weekend. On the Saturday of August 14, TFNation 2021 held an 11-hour livestream on YouTube in lieu of a physical convention, and for which they pulled enough strings to get clearance to actually play this recorded script reading of all three episodes for anyone and everyone to watch publicly.
After the livestream ended, they archived the whole stream to their YouTube channel, and have further uploaded individual videos for the three specific episode readings.
Now, these aren't script readings in the traditional sense. Rather, these are audio recordings of the entire cast reading a narrated outline of the three episodes, each narrating the action specific to each of their characters. This makes it seem like each character is narrating their own actions, even referring to themselves in the third-person. Think of this more as just a bunch of different narrators taking turns reading the same story.
And so, without further ado, here are the videos for all three parts of "Trial of Megatron":
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D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I am so glad they made it public. If this doesn't show how much Animated is still loved, not sure what else could!
Makes me wonder if it's possible for Animated to return for one more season. I know it's pretty unlikely, but it's happened to cancelled shows before (namely, The Clone Wars and Young Justice)
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D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I am so glad they made it public. If this doesn't show how much Animated is still loved, not sure what else could!
Makes me wonder if it's possible for Animated to return for one more season. I know it's pretty unlikely, but it's happened to cancelled shows before (namely, The Clone Wars and Young Justice)
This was all done unofficially without input from Cartoon Network or Hasbro.
Not to mention that Transformers is leaving Cartoon Network (again) to go to both Netflix and Nickelodeon next year.
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Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Motto:"For too long, I've let life pass me by! Now I want to take part in the grand drama; my legacy will be written large among the stars!"
Sabrblade wrote:
#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I am so glad they made it public. If this doesn't show how much Animated is still loved, not sure what else could!
Makes me wonder if it's possible for Animated to return for one more season. I know it's pretty unlikely, but it's happened to cancelled shows before (namely, The Clone Wars and Young Justice)
This was all done unofficially without input from Cartoon Network or Hasbro.
Not to mention that Transformers is leaving Cartoon Network (again) to go to both Netflix and Nickelodeon next year.
That’s true, but if this garners enough of a fan response it could always get Hasbro’s attention.
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Interesting. Both Keyan and fellow YouTuber PaperPlane were given these two shorts by Marty Isenberg, but both promised not to make them public without Marty's permission, who likewise kept them from public viewing in lieu of an official release by Hasbro. I guess things changed.
Previously, these two shorts were only ever screened by Derrick J. Wyatt at BotCon 2009 and BotCon 2012.
EDIT: This is the message Marty gave him about uploading them now:
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Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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And he put them on YouTube as well:
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Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Ah, it's good to see more content for TFA. This show deserved much better than it got, and they were treated pretty shabbily by Hasbro and CN. They devoted little to no attention to promoting the series, they moved it around constantly, then whined and complained about 'low ratings'. And in the end, they dumped it just so it wouldn't 'distract' anyone from the latest Bayverse movie. In terms of quality and heart, TFA was far superior to the formulaic cinema claptrap.
The figures for the series were fun and interesting, the TV episodes were new, but still nostalgic. Even now, it still rates as one of the best TF series in recent history. They really need to bring this show back and carry on the story lines which were just getting revved up when they cancelled unjustly.
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D-Maximal_Primal wrote:New Animated content in the year 2022. I am loving this. I love it
Only because it's preexisting content from 2008 that's only now seeing the light of day outside of private screenings.
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D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:New Animated content in the year 2022. I am loving this. I love it
Only because it's preexisting content from 2008 that's only now seeing the light of day outside of private screenings.
Even so, lost content not lost now is great
I'm not the biggest fan of Animated for no reason in particular, but theese videos were so fun. Even if the second was really cringe, they were very enjoyable.
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This is a thorough-researched documentary covering the entirety of what could have been, what might have been, and what definitely was NOT going to be, for Transformers Animated Season 4:
"When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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Keyan Carlile has made a second lengthy video covering the never-made Animated Season 4:
He made this in response to a whole slew of new information having come to light in the time since he made his previous Animated Season 4 video above.
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Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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