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News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:14 pm

They're here on Earth, they're robots, and they're the characters we've loved for over 25 years. The Transformers tradition continues with the latest Cartoon series, Transformers: Prime. Courtesy of IGN, we get the first footage of Transformers: Prime. From this video, you can see that this cartoon will likely be set on Earth in the future, and will be very similar to CGI of Transformers Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Check out Bumbleebee, and a couple of Decepticons in the video embed below or at IGN! Transformers: Prime is set for television in the Fall on the Hub!

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News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:25 pm

Now THAT i'm liking!

by **CybertronHotShot** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:30 pm

Nice animation. I wonder if Bumblebee will speaking .

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:32 pm

That is looking pretty awesome!

News Credits: 2 · by **sabrigami** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:48 pm

It looked alright. The animation did look a little stiff though. But with the clip being so short, it's a bit hard to say for sure. Can't wait to see more :KREMZEEK:

by **griftimus prime** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:48 pm

not impressed. hopefully the next trailer will make it look better. or at least i hope we get a nice toy line out of it.

plus half the video was nothing.

News Credits: 7 · by **Stixx** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:52 pm

The "Drone" Bots are very WFCish, while BB is most Movie. I guess they threw in WFC, G1, Movie and Animated in a blender and took what was off the top for each character. I am not sure how this will all flow, the designs are all very different and abstract in a continuity and from the other designs in there.

Stixx

News Credits: 1 · by **Galvatron X** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:56 pm

It's a really short clip and it's hard to make a final decision, but I'm liking what I'm seeing thus far. I'm so glad they went with CGI.

Oh, and they're using the original "transformation noise". That's a HUGE plus in my book.

News Credits: 10 · by **Trikeboy** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:02 pm

Remember this is a very roughly made clip. So far I am liking what I am seeing. They need to speed up the transformation sound. The designs from Comic Con look amazing. Optimus Prime and Megatron look badass, Arcee is a nice looking blue motorcycle, Ratchet looks cool but the best thing is, Cliffjumper is not a Bumblebee repaint. He is more of a 70's style muscle car with bullhorns on the front in vehicle mode.

News Credits: 3 · by **Midnight_Fox** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:28 pm

sabrigami wrote:It looked alright. The animation did look a little stiff though. But with the clip being so short, it's a bit hard to say for sure. Can't wait to see more

It says WIP at the beginning, so I doubt this is what it'll look like when broadcast.

BB's design looks much better as CGI than the 2d preview we got. Let's hope the same is true of the Prime look we've seen.

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:30 pm

I'm impressed, really. I thought it looked and sounded great, and it's just a rough cut.

I like the look and feel of it. It's flashy, it has style, and it's colorful.

However, I think the fact that it's stylized will be a problem for some folks. I'm just waiting for the complaints to start rolling in.

I'm starting to see that not only can't you please everyone, it's not worth it to try. Put in a good effort and if it's not enough for them, screw it.

News Credits: 1 · by **Jesterhead** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:31 pm

Midnight_Fox wrote:
BB's design looks much better as CGI than the 2d preview we got. Let's hope the same is true of the Prime look we've seen.

http://www.tfw2005.com/comic-con/Transf ... 040675.jpg

It is true!!

I'm really feeling this mix of styles! I'm hoping for a toyline now!

News Credits: 3 · by **MYoung23** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:35 pm

The character designs blow Animated out of the water.

News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:52 pm

not really fan of movie designs, but this looks like it has potential

then again i didn't watch animated till the last episode of season 2 and ended up loving it.

I'll hold out and give it a fair chance

by why's there gotta be humans in it

by **Zetatron** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:21 pm

Looks more like a proof of concept than a trailer, but it's more than we've gotten since they first announced they were doing a new series. Between this and the character sketches they released it looks like it should be pretty good.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:24 pm

O_O

Better than Animated, Beast Wars, the Movies, and the Unicron Trilogy COMBINED!!!! :BOOM:

News Credits: 1 · by **ChrisRiss** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:02 pm

I'm really excited for this after seeing the character designs, but the fact that they are coming out with another series, and they still haven't released season three of animated on dvd yet makes me sad.
Either way I will watch this as soon as it comes out, it looks really good.

News Credits: 7 · by **shortround** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:33 pm

It will be interesting to see what happens with this whole thing I'm not sure right now but who knows were it will go.

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:06 pm

That was freking awesome!!! I expected this show to look like utter crap! Cant wait!

by **Great Atlas** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:13 pm

I'm liking what I see so far! I'm sure this series will be pretty cool

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:36 pm

Blurrz wrote:From this video, you can see that this cartoon will likely be set on Earth in the future...

Yes, because bridges are very futuristic.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:22 am

God Magnus wrote:
Blurrz wrote:From this video, you can see that this cartoon will likely be set on Earth in the future...

Yes, because bridges are very futuristic.

I mean by season chronology.. they might start off at CYBERTRON and end up at EARTH.

News Credits: 18 · by **leokearon** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:43 am

I hope it would be a bit longer, and some dialogue would have been nice

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:48 am

Looks pretty awesome for a WIP.

Me like.

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:51 am

Blurrz wrote:
God Magnus wrote:
Blurrz wrote:From this video, you can see that this cartoon will likely be set on Earth in the future...

Yes, because bridges are very futuristic.

I mean by season chronology.. they might start off at CYBERTRON and end up at EARTH.

Just having some fun with semantics.