The Energon Pub

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Jeez, that was a pair of episodes. And actually pretty good too! Now if only more of the season had been this good.

I mean, it wasn't bad, but there were fewer episodes I really enjoyed. and all those photos

[PrymeStriker]

Chris McFeely's been working on identifying as many of those Autobot cameos as possible, and has thus far pointed out all of the members of the Bee Team, all of Team Prime, all of the Rescue Bots, a large number of 1984-1986 Autobot Car namesakes, and a few other famous G1 namesakes.

The most refined findings have been posted on the episode's TFWiki page, in the Notes section.

Yeah, I can see most of those, although I only really caught Blades and Salvage as far as Rescue Bots are concerned. I don't doubt the others are in there, I just haven't found them.

Here's Chris's annotated gallery, though it contains more of his earliest guesses rather than the refined ones on the Wiki page.

Thanks for this. Helped me see Heatwave, Boulder, and High Tide. Still looking for Quickshadow, Chase, and Blurr.

[Sabrblade]

Chris McFeely's been working on identifying as many of those Autobot cameos as possible, and has thus far pointed out all of the members of the Bee Team, all of Team Prime, all of the Rescue Bots, a large number of 1984-1986 Autobot Car namesakes, and a few other famous G1 namesakes.

The most refined findings have been posted on the episode's TFWiki page, in the Notes section.

Yeah, I can see most of those, although I only really caught Blades and Salvage as far as Rescue Bots are concerned. I don't doubt the others are in there, I just haven't found them.

Here's Chris's annotated gallery, though it contains more of his earliest guesses rather than the refined ones on the Wiki page.

Thanks for this. Helped me see Heatwave, Boulder, and High Tide. Still looking for Quickshadow, Chase, and Blurr.

Chase

Blurr might be in his RID look, meaning he might be the bottommost one in the fourth pic.

[PrymeStriker]

Chris McFeely's been working on identifying as many of those Autobot cameos as possible, and has thus far pointed out all of the members of the Bee Team, all of Team Prime, all of the Rescue Bots, a large number of 1984-1986 Autobot Car namesakes, and a few other famous G1 namesakes.

The most refined findings have been posted on the episode's TFWiki page, in the Notes section.

Yeah, I can see most of those, although I only really caught Blades and Salvage as far as Rescue Bots are concerned. I don't doubt the others are in there, I just haven't found them.

Here's Chris's annotated gallery, though it contains more of his earliest guesses rather than the refined ones on the Wiki page.

Thanks for this. Helped me see Heatwave, Boulder, and High Tide. Still looking for Quickshadow, Chase, and Blurr.

Chase

Blurr might be in his RID look, meaning he might be the bottommost one in the fourth pic.

I see, I see. Thanks for this. That only leaves Quickshadow.

[Sabrblade]

Series finale from the UK:

[o.supreme]

As a stand alone episode, be default it was the best as it was the last of the season. The 2 part finale pushed forward a seasons worth of plot, two bad it could nto have focused more on this. Cyclonus' little speech in 30 seconds answered the whole seasons questions....Did we have to watch 26 episodes just to have it all explained in one little speech. I don't know what to feel at this point...

So basically in summation, THE ALIGNED CONTINUITY--- (my opinion)

Transformers Prime/Predaons Rising Film - The greatest modern take on Transformers to date. Ended way to early.

Rescue Bots- A wonderful, well written series for young children.

Rid15 - will ultimately be mostly forgettable. Had some flashes of good storytelling (Steeljaw, Megatronus, Starscream Arc...) But that's about it. A ton of wasted filler episodes, and adversaries taken down way too easily. Steeljaw, and *maybe* (but to a much lesser extent) Strongarm are characters I could see that were defined by this series, but that's about it.

I wonder what ever happened with the Bruticus Animaiton model we saw a while back??

Also I don't get the whole reason why they wanted to Summon Megatorn in the first place. I've seen Predacons Rising many times, and it appears Megatron just flys away, not that he left Cybertron entirely. Besides, he ended the Decepticons and would have waanted nothing to do with what they are now

[Stuartmaximus]

yeah I watched it, aye it was ok, we've speculated for weeks now that Galavatronus would probably turn up in the final episode...and he did

It was cool to see RID & TF Prime autobots together(ok....minus Smokescreen, Arcee and Wheeljack)

dunno if they were just generic bots or were there any significant characters in the crowd who were watching things unfold on the big screen?

all in all the series was palatable, only hope Cyberverse can bring better things


dunno what happened to Bruticus! but...it's in the hands of Cyberverse now

[PrymeStriker]

As a note, it looks like the loading dock that Team Prime 2.0 is located in during "Freedom Fighters" reminded me of the one where Optimus and Bulkhead fought Dreadwing in "Loose Cannons".

As for the finale as a whole.........eh, it was okay. I was put off by the hamfisted-ness of Cyclonus's "tie up loose ends in 15 seconds" speech, Bumblebee's "everything we've learned in working as a team has come down to this" which added no weight to the combiner force crap although it was probably meant to, and the third f*cking time where the Bumblebee did this sh*t to his team:

Bumblebee: Well, here's an opportunity to go back to Cybertron.
Bee Team Member: Nah, we like Earth.
Bumblebee: Really?!
Bee Team Member: Yes, we went through this the finale before, and the finale before...
Bumblebee: But Denny and Russel, do you guys want us to stay?
Humans: Yes, you ****, we've gone through this the finale before, and the finale before...
Bumblebee: REV UP AND ROLL OUT.
*sunset*

I also didn't like how Cyclonus and his team of characters whose names were made up during a lunch break absolutely had to be Decepticons, as if giving the smallest notion that the Autobots might have some corrupt ideas that led to the friction between Autobots and Decepticons might be "too much" for kids to handle, or that might interfere with toy sales. But f*ck telling a good story, amirite?

However, I did like the action going on between Optimus' team, as well as the implementation of there being a Decepticon pacifist in Cyberwarp. Reminded me of a discount Dreadwing, honestly. I think this whole finale, and really the whole season that I've only read the plot of and not actually watched considering all its many flaws, would've been ten times better had they not had to deal with this Combiner Wars crap. Really, though, I'm getting sick of Hasbro, in the third seasons of the past two shows, deciding "hey, here's a gimmick, please f*ck up your entire story in order to sell these cheap sh*ts of plastic that won't make us any more money than what we were doing last year". But, again, Hasbro's a toy company...so...


....Yeah, RiD was an overall forgettable and mediocre show. It would've been just a "good" show had the third season not been the worst thing since Cybertron, but whatever. I don't care anymore.

[Sabrblade]

Full cameo gallery from "Enemy of My Enemy"

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Full cameo gallery from "Enemy of My Enemy"

The fact that this happened is pretty cool. I think the final 4 to 5 episodes of the season were better. If only the majority of this season was actually better, like more combiner teams and some more stuff on Cybertron

[bluecatcinema]

I thought the finale wasn't too bad. As noted above, it was disappointing that they went with the whole "council were disguised Decepticons" route (especially considering we've seen corrupt Autobots in this series before), but it did bring with it an excellent clash between Galvatronus and Ultra Bee. And even though the series is over, they still left some elements open for future developments (possibly in comics, or movies).

[Avensis-Mahiya]

RiD2015 was pretty forgettable, and in all honesty wasn't that good of a sequel series. You'd think with so many loose threads hanging with the end of TFP there'd be plenty to go off of, but nah. When Ratchet said that there was political unrest going on Cybertron with the new High Council, I threw my hands up. That alone could've been an amazing basis for the sequel series instead of piddling around on Earth with Bee and his crew. There are so many ways that RID2015 could've gone, and many of them would've been better than what we got.

[Stuartmaximus]

Ugh.. it'll feel weird not having a new episode to watch this weekend or any weekends after that as a matter of fact

YES I know that the Machinima stuff's coming up! but I'm talking about a syndicated show

[Sabrblade]

Ugh.. it'll feel weird not having a new episode to watch this weekend or any weekends after that as a matter of fact

YES I know that the Machinima stuff's coming up! but I'm talking about a syndicated show

But RID isn't syndicated.

[Stuartmaximus]

Ugh.. it'll feel weird not having a new episode to watch this weekend or any weekends after that as a matter of fact

YES I know that the Machinima stuff's coming up! but I'm talking about a syndicated show

But RID isn't syndicated.

[Burn]

Well, I'm happy it's finished. This last season was bad, so many plots which suddenly ended, then a two-parter finale which in the space of five minutes explained all those plots that had to suddenly end.

The whole season was disjointed and rushed and just plain ... meh. And it really soured me on the whole series.

Oh well, what's done is done. At least I got to see Ratchet again.

[PrymeStriker]

Oh well, what's done is done. At least I got to see Ratchet again.

Him and Starscream for me, but Soundwave would be among them if it were not for the fact that this season even managed to ruin "Portals" to a degree.

[Ig89ninja]

Oh well, what's done is done. At least I got to see Ratchet again.

Him and Starscream for me, but Soundwave would be among them if it were not for the fact that this season even managed to ruin "Portals" to a degree.

full agreement, what was hasbro thinking, they just should have let soundwave go with some dignity , oh well, at least his design was nice

[Whifflefire]

I liked RID, my brother and I have been getting up on Saturday mornings to watch that day's episode for the last two and a half years. It's weird that its over, it still feels like not that long ago when it was announced.
Despite my reservations about its apparent disregard for continuity at first, it did come to fit its way into the timeline, and solidified Rescue Bots' place in the aligned universe.
It had, I think, at least, many good stories, and brought in interesting, fleshed out new characters, something we don't see too often anymore.
If Cyberverse can adhere to RID's standards than I belive it will make for a decent series. I would like to see a stronger connection to its predecessor than RID had to Prime, however.

[PrymeStriker]

If Cyberverse can adhere to RID's standards than I belive it will make for a decent series. I would like to see a stronger connection to its predecessor than RID had to Prime, however.

Well from the looks of things, I'm pretty sure Cyberverse will be its own continuity. I don't think there's been any confirmation, but it just looks like it's gonna swing that way with the given premise.

[Tyrannacon]

With the Transformers: Robots in Disguise series coming to a close after 3 seasons, some of the artists that worked on the series are showcasing some of their artwork they did for the series. That means there’s a lot of character designs to be shared here with the fandom. Of note, artists Walter Gatus and Jose Lopez on their respective portfolio sites. Lopez also includes some of the work he did for Transformers: Prime, the previous series before Transformers: Robots in Disguise. We're mirrored some of the images below for your viewing pleasure, you can click any of them to be forwarded over directly to their gallery and browse the others in it.

Jose Lopez's Work:







Walter Gatus' Work:

[Sabrblade]

Oh man, Spoiler's altmode looks amazing. It almost makes me wish we'd gotten him and his design instead of the Sideswipe that evolved into.

And I still wish we'd gotten a toy of that Power Surge Starscream.

[Albatross250]

Soundwave's design is LIT
its almost the same as his WFC/FOC Design

[Deadput]

I saw this concept art page a little longer then week ago while browsing the net, I did not report it at the time because I wasn't too interested in Transformers as a whole anymore I was just looking for the designs from the Autobot blacklist (I found his site after going into Tuneup's page and looking for the guy in the trivia section) http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tuneup so this isn't necessarily "new" it just hasn't been shared around until now.

Has anyone else tried to look for other artist's both concept and animator sites? They would be in the show credits wouldn't they?

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Laying eyes upon Scowl once more, I really wish they had given him a toy. I love dinobots