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News Credits: 191 · Sat Apr 16, 2016 2:01 pm

Madeus Prime wrote:OH MAH GAWD, Ratchet is back and he acts and looks so much cooler!!

Do you have an episode link? I've been looking everywhere but all I can find are clips which spoil things even in the thumbnails and titles...

News Credits: 462 · Sat Apr 16, 2016 2:04 pm

Kurona wrote:
Madeus Prime wrote:OH MAH GAWD, Ratchet is back and he acts and looks so much cooler!!

Do you have an episode link? I've been looking everywhere but all I can find are clips which spoil things even in the thumbnails and titles...

The episodes still aren't up yet from their usual sources.

News Credits: 19 · Sat Apr 16, 2016 2:20 pm

yeah.....sigh* i know

&....we really need that :WHISTLE:

News Credits: 191 · Sat Apr 16, 2016 8:53 pm

Spoilers for both 12 and 13.
Decepticon Island was a pretty great finale, and definitely much much much more satisfying than Season 1's finale. You get some pretty nice action and the story ties up pretty neatly - though I'm surprised at the break of the Status Quo with having Steeljaw and... EVERY other decepticon in stasis and apparently going back to Cybertron. Talking of Status Quo, it's really sad to see Ratchet go since we just got him - and before we got a chance to learn pretty much anything about Undertow. Would've been nice if Glowstrike and Saberhorn were able to escape and be the new main villains, and have Ratchet along for the ride to get development episodes for him and Undertow, maybe Toolbox as well... plus we're back to the original team + Drift and the mini-cons. OH WEEEEEEEEELL. I'm sure Season 3 or the second half of Season 2 or whatever'll be nice anyway, maybe we can finally get closure on Shockwave or Predaking or whatever. And hey, two new decepticon hunters - one each for Grimlock and Drift. Nifty. Also, the whole thing Ratchet said about being forced off planet is... interesting, as it seems to mirror Optimus being forced off in IDW's Death of Optimus Prime. Are we literally going to go down the same route of IDW? Is this what happened to Starscream in the end??? Would be fun to see a new spin-off with Optimus, Ratchet, Undertow, Toolbox and Windblade tackling this in a similar manner to Beast Machines gotta admit. And hey... if this is true, I wanna see what happened to the other 5 members of Team Prime. And Knock Out.

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Apr 17, 2016 12:15 am

My turn for spoilers:

So I very much liked how the ending was portrayed. Steeljaw did prove to be a very worthy adversary, and he was frighteningly amazing with his role in the finale. I wish for more Ratchet and Undertone as I really liked those characters.

Also: Ratchet's captured prisoner goes unnamed or even unseen......

As for where we go from here. Well, it could be that the rest of the team heading back home will be encountering and looking into cybertron, and maybe we will see more of team prime there. Optimus may find something suspicious and somehow the new council may be old decepticons or something. And ther rest of team will be establishing a more permanent base, and maybe face other cons that have not been captured. I doubt that was truly all of them on that ship.

I'm also looking forward to seeing if Drift and Grimlock do get decepticon hunters. Drifts would turn into his great sword from IDW and Grimlock his flame sword (I wish). Also be interesting to see if the minicons that the toyline will soon be focusing on will be added into future episodes. I have confidence that this show will be lasting for a while longer yet :MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 1350 · Sun Apr 17, 2016 4:19 am

Kurona wrote:Spoilers for both 12 and 13.
Decepticon Island was a pretty great finale, and definitely much much much more satisfying than Season 1's finale. You get some pretty nice action and the story ties up pretty neatly - though I'm surprised at the break of the Status Quo with having Steeljaw and... EVERY other decepticon in stasis and apparently going back to Cybertron. Talking of Status Quo, it's really sad to see Ratchet go since we just got him - and before we got a chance to learn pretty much anything about Undertow. Would've been nice if Glowstrike and Saberhorn were able to escape and be the new main villains, and have Ratchet along for the ride to get development episodes for him and Undertow, maybe Toolbox as well... plus we're back to the original team + Drift and the mini-cons. OH WEEEEEEEEELL. I'm sure Season 3 or the second half of Season 2 or whatever'll be nice anyway, maybe we can finally get closure on Shockwave or Predaking or whatever. And hey, two new decepticon hunters - one each for Grimlock and Drift. Nifty. Also, the whole thing Ratchet said about being forced off planet is... interesting, as it seems to mirror Optimus being forced off in IDW's Death of Optimus Prime. Are we literally going to go down the same route of IDW? Is this what happened to Starscream in the end??? Would be fun to see a new spin-off with Optimus, Ratchet, Undertow, Toolbox and Windblade tackling this in a similar manner to Beast Machines gotta admit. And hey... if this is true, I wanna see what happened to the other 5 members of Team Prime. And Knock Out.

I'm pretty sure stars cream was toasted by Predaking, Darksteel and Sky Lynx. I think even the voice actor said he was a goner

News Credits: 19 · Sun Apr 17, 2016 5:10 am

those two eps were great ;)^

loved the fights on the ship, loved the different coloured vehicons(i wonder if we'll get toys of those :-?

) loved seeing Ratchet again(voiced once again by Combs) it looks like most of the characters will be getting decepticon hunter armour....well...so far toywise....Optimus, Sideswipe, Bee & Grimlock have!, btw is this the final episode ever? coz it didn't end as if there was going to be another season.....no cliffhanger! since we've had Prime characters turning up....Soundwave, Ratchet & Vehicons....i wonder if Unicron may return in a future episode?(if there are to be any more seasons)

News Credits: 19 · Sun Apr 17, 2016 5:16 am

Kurona wrote:Spoilers for both 12 and 13.
Decepticon Island was a pretty great finale, and definitely much much much more satisfying than Season 1's finale. You get some pretty nice action and the story ties up pretty neatly - though I'm surprised at the break of the Status Quo with having Steeljaw and... EVERY other decepticon in stasis and apparently going back to Cybertron. Talking of Status Quo, it's really sad to see Ratchet go since we just got him - and before we got a chance to learn pretty much anything about Undertow. Would've been nice if Glowstrike and Saberhorn were able to escape and be the new main villains, and have Ratchet along for the ride to get development episodes for him and Undertow, maybe Toolbox as well... plus we're back to the original team + Drift and the mini-cons. OH WEEEEEEEEELL. I'm sure Season 3 or the second half of Season 2 or whatever'll be nice anyway, maybe we can finally get closure on Shockwave or Predaking or whatever. And hey, two new decepticon hunters - one each for Grimlock and Drift. Nifty. Also, the whole thing Ratchet said about being forced off planet is... interesting, as it seems to mirror Optimus being forced off in IDW's Death of Optimus Prime. Are we literally going to go down the same route of IDW? Is this what happened to Starscream in the end??? Would be fun to see a new spin-off with Optimus, Ratchet, Undertow, Toolbox and Windblade tackling this in a similar manner to Beast Machines gotta admit. And hey... if this is true, I wanna see what happened to the other 5 members of Team Prime. And Knock Out.

well there was a Knock Out cameo in one of the previous episodes, so who knows?

Sun Apr 17, 2016 7:27 am

All Cons are finally imprisoned on the Island? Very well. But from the second part of the finale, I can see that Springload and Kickback are not on the island. Does this liekly mean that they are still at large and will likely appear in the RID movie, and quite possibly in Season 3?

News Credits: 8 · Sun Apr 17, 2016 11:58 am

Still catching up on 10-11 stupid buffering...

Anyay, I was extatic for the Knockout reference even though its just a car, but I wasn't expecting FRIKKIN SOUNDWAVE! Heck Yeah. Russel's right though, Soundwave stalking some of the biggest military facilities on Earth is SCARY.

News Credits: 23 · Sun Apr 17, 2016 1:59 pm

Well, the finale was kind of lackluster IMHO. Not bad, but just...I don't know, just something about it seemed off. I thought it was a really stupid point to have a Minicon give away the Autobots, plus, out of all the rescuers, he says "Toolbox?! Is that you?" Yeah, go right ahead and discount the fact that Optimus is rescuing you...

News Credits: 56 · Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:19 am

Other than the return of Rachet (which was cool for us fans of TF Prime, but was pointless to the story, nothing specifically required Ratchet to be there)I thought the finale was pretty lackluster. I'd be pretty disappointed if this were the end of everything, hopefully soon we'll have news about what's next for RiD15. A lot of build up for almost no payoff.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:25 am

For all the fuss people made about Glowstrike being a female Decepticon leader, she did absolutely nothing in this finale, nay, this whole season, NAY, the entire series! And got taken out of her seat of power by Steeljaw rather quickly.

On the other hand, at least she and Saberhorn were usurped by the one Decepticon the writers have put the most effort into, as Steeljaw is a great character. He's like if Starscream was actually competent. I wonder if Takara will give us a retooled Steeljaw Supreme Mode toy like they did for Bumblebee.

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:06 pm

Sabrblade wrote:I wonder if Takara will give us a retooled Steeljaw Supreme Mode toy like they did for Bumblebee.

That would definitely be something to see. :MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:11 am

Not at the fnale yet, still early on. I just wantedto commetn at the awesome all star cast of writers they got. The writing isnt the best, i know, but holy smokes am I the only one who does a doulbe take at some of these credits when they come up. I mean one of the episode was written by Len Wein. :michaelbay:

LEN FREAKEN WEIN!!!!!! :michaelbay:

Dont know if everyone knows, but that guy is one of comics' bigest creators ever. Not Stan Lee level of course but not far off. He created Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm Colossus and Swamp Thing. I had no clue he was writing Transformers. There's also Adam Beechen (main writer) and Mairghread Scott, but I am still not over Len Wein contributing.

News Credits: 56 · Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:17 am

Unfortunately writers can only work with the material given. Still yeah it is pretty cool to see. Yes I've seen Len Wein's name pop up on several animated series from time to time. I know this is not his first Transformers episode. He wrote an episode of Beast Wars...possibly another series as well, cannot recall of the top of my head.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:27 am

All of Len Wein's Transformers credits - http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Len_Wein

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:17 am

I am pretty impressed that the show is actually using all the minicons, even the ones that come in those battlepacks with an autobot.

News Credits: 1646 · Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:28 am

william-james88 wrote:I am pretty impressed that the show is actually using all the minicons, even the ones that come in those battlepacks with an autobot.

Yeah, they seem to be incorporating them more and more in addition to the original 4 main guys from season 1. It was the reason that I bought that minicon 4-pack so I could have 3 show minicons and a weapons version of another show minicon :MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 8 · Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:36 am

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
william-james88 wrote:I am pretty impressed that the show is actually using all the minicons, even the ones that come in those battlepacks with an autobot.

Yeah, they seem to be incorporating them more and more in addition to the original 4 main guys from season 1. It was the reason that I bought that minicon 4-pack so I could have 3 show minicons and a weapons version of another show minicon

And while its pretty well known to us that they are doing it to sell the Minicons (it's working) They really don't feel like "Here's a Character, buy his toy!". And I genuinely look forward to seeing which Minis got used in each Ep.

News Credits: 4877 · Sun Apr 24, 2016 6:44 am

Flashwave wrote:And while its pretty well known to us that they are doing it to sell the Minicons (it's working) They really don't feel like "Here's a Character, buy his toy!". And I genuinely look forward to seeing which Minis got used in each Ep.

All the episodes are released on daily motion if you want to see em. They pretty much use all minicons from wave 3 and on. What I find really cool about the look of the minicons is how the animators really go to town on the designs only hinted in the toys. Like with Mincon Anvil.

This is his toy:

And from that they flesh out this really cool gargoyle design:

News Credits: 191 · Sun Apr 24, 2016 9:33 am

On the other hand, that does leave the toys disappointing. Jetstorm and Slipstream are my favourite Autobots so I was really up forgetting their toys... aaaand then it turns out they're kinda crap.

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:17 pm

Yeah, I wish the minis could look more like the show models. Some of the minis in the show are just awesome looking, such as a Anvil there

News Credits: 15 · Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:28 pm

Having finally caught up with myself with RiD, the only thing I have to say is...

*ahem*

...Bring on Season Three!!!

Which according to this video is coming in the Fall. Not sure how accurate that is, but screw it I suppose. Also, as a fan of Transformers: Prime, I need to get this out of my system:

SOOOOOOOOOOUNDDDDDWAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

...

K, and, uh...

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTCHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT

Alright, I'm good.

...

Eh, what the hell, one more.

KNOOOOOCK OUUUUUUUUUUT'S VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHICLEEEEEEEEEEE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

kkthxbai