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And Bulkhead retains an Animated-size chin!

Here are some screen shots of the Transformers Prime section on HubWorld.com







Here are some additional images of the Transformers Prime characters shown on HubWorld.com

Arcee



Bulkhead



Bumblebee



Ratchet


Soundwave


Cliffjumper


Eradicon


Megatron


Optimus Prime


Starscream

I'm getting excited for this!

I think Ratchet and Bulkhead look pretty solid, but all of the others are just subpar. I might warm up to Megatron once I see more of him though.

Are we getting toys for this line at some point?

Also, Eradicon and cliffjumper's vehicle modes look nice.

Bumblebee's voice was damaged on Cybertron and he communicates through beeps and boops

My absolute least favorite part of the live action movies. Grrrr. It's Bumblebee, not R2-Freakin-D2!!!

bulkhead looks pretty good

Hoo boy.

The toys better be good, or the fan outrage will be immense. I can see it now... "Even Bayhem's robot's looked like something. I mean look at...OMG WHY IS SOUNDWAVE A BAT AND STARSCREAM A STICK WITH WINGS??"

And so on, and so on.

I like Bulkhead, a lot. Ratchet's not bad. Megatron, I can't remember, but I love the vehicle mode in that pic.

Autobot032 wrote:Hoo boy.

The toys better be good, or the fan outrage will be immense. I can see it now... "Even Bayhem's robot's looked like something. I mean look at...OMG WHY IS SOUNDWAVE A BAT AND STARSCREAM A STICK WITH WINGS??"

And so on, and so on.

I like Bulkhead, a lot. Ratchet's not bad. Megatron, I can't remember, but I love the vehicle mode in that pic.

And then a year later everyone will love it.

I really can`t see any good toys coming in the future.. i mean, these things are just so... complicated.

Not impressed with any of the Decepticon designs. Not impressed at all. And I would kill Bulkead just to get a real Ironhide in here.

Some of the Autobots look pretty good but overall I don't know if I am really impressed with the Bayverse/Animated mashup.

What the heck is up with Soundwave? He looks pretty cool but not for being soundwave, He looks like a bat, looks more like he could be mindwipe or something. Bulkhead is looking pretty cool though.

lbullock7 wrote:What the heck is up with Soundwave? He looks pretty cool but not for being soundwave, He looks like a bat, looks more like he could be mindwipe or something. Bulkhead is looking pretty cool though.

Beast Wars Mutant Soundwave was a bat and a crocodile. Bats and "soundwaves" go hand-in-hand. I'm thinking this was their train of thought.

I love it!

I think we got something really special here.

Hey guys...

What toys?

What toys do you think will go along with this? They aren't going to make a whole new line and just spring it on us. It takes a year + in production and development to pump out a toy line.

As we speak, somewhere they are finishing the designs on the Movie 3 toys. We're going to go from PCC and Generations right into the Movie toys next year. There's literally no room for these things to make it to shelves.

Prime will be a prep-work and hype show leading up to the film. It may not be related to the movie, but all the visual clues are there, all of them going towards legitimizing what kids see on screen.

Bet it.

I love some of these designs, and I was really looking forward to this cartoon. I thought it might be like Animated - good new ideas, mature, and faithful to previous designs...

...but Soundwave? Urgh. I'm a bit of a Soundwave fan, and I have to say, after the awesome designs for Animated, ROTF and WFC, this one is just a huge kick in the balls. His bio doesn't help things:

Blurrz wrote:
Soundwave
A stealth drone and the Decepticons' spy master, Soundwave has no face and doesn't say much.

Turnoffs don't get much bigger than that.The fact that he's just a drone, doesn't say much and "has no face" really pisses me off.

On the lighter side, I still think Optimus' design looks great, and the truck is very cool. I also think they got Bulkhead, Ratchet, Megatron and Cliffjumper right. Starscream is a bit spindly, but I suppose it kind of matches his character. Arcee looks alright too.

I reckon toys of these guys would be good, and they're probably possible, considering the kind of things we've seen in ROTF and HFTD. Obviously if these toys are planned, they won't come out until after TF3, and that's only Prime is still running by that point.

--B-- wrote:Bumblebee's voice was damaged on Cybertron and he communicates through beeps and boops

I thought you were joking when you wrote that ... until I read it on the site.

It looks like the live action movies(s) animated.

Sure these guys look funky, but don't worry! Next year we'll be getting 1516718191908336545367289384762789 new Bumblebee toys!

The designs are freking awesome! But the bios are just stealing from freking everything else! I mean damn! Bumblebee's voice is damaged again Why Bumblebee,Why!? And Bulkhead is sensitive but strong, and gets pushed into breking stuff from little bastard humans. Is it so hard to come up with anything new? I like Soundwave's bio though, and his design! Thats how I would look and act if I was a TF. A Decepticon spy with no face and blows stuff up. Awesome.

For all of you who are ticked that soundwave is a drone relax, they are talking about a drone plane like a predator drone, not that Soundwave was one.

I'm pretty underwhelmed atm. Here's hoping....

All the autobots look good, as dose starscream. I cant tell if starscream has a collar or a stubby neck though.
Soundwave looks good but I am disappointed in his lack of resemblance to any previous incarnation, and the lack of resemblance of Megatron's alt mode to anything at all. I would have hoped if they wanted to use a movie alt mode they'd a least pick the tank over the spacebug.
...so cassettes will be called deployers now, I like it.

Counterpunch wrote:Hey guys...

What toys?

What toys do you think will go along with this? They aren't going to make a whole new line and just spring it on us. It takes a year + in production and development to pump out a toy line.

As we speak, somewhere they are finishing the designs on the Movie 3 toys. We're going to go from PCC and Generations right into the Movie toys next year. There's literally no room for these things to make it to shelves.

Prime will be a prep-work and hype show leading up to the film. It may not be related to the movie, but all the visual clues are there, all of them going towards legitimizing what kids see on screen.

Bet it.

Just an excerpt from the latest Toyfare magazines article about The Hub:

Toyfare speaking with Hasbro Studios President Stephen Davis.

Toyfare: "You mentioned doing a lot of the design work in-house. Are you working with Hasbro at all to make sure the designs can translate to toys, eventually?"

Davis: "It's a very close collaboration. We have something called the A-Team, where we really pair the various constituencies from Hasbro the toy company, from Hasbro the studio and from The Hub, and when we develop, we develop in a close collaboration to make sure that we are really meeting the needs of all the constituencies. Look, at the end of the day, we are all about making great television, and our belief is that if you make really great television then the whole licensing and merchandising piece will follow. You make a really terrific show, then viewers will come and they will sample all of what you have to offer them."

It sounds, more or less, that they are waiting to see if the show will be popular enough to warrant figures. But, I agree with CP...if figures were an eventuality, we'd probably have that information.

Time will tell I guess. Although, I can't see that Soundwave as a figure. The arms and fingers are really weird.

Also, what's the deal with them having human partners? Are they going to try a "Masters" style mashup here?

Ewww.....Hate it, hate, hate it. I was going to give this show a chance, especially after completely skipping Animated, but the decepticons just pure suck. It's like the autobots=gundams and the decepticons=neon genesis evangelion. The yuckness factor exceeds my expectations so beyond far it's not even funny.

I don't know what to think of these designs, I don't care much about the animated style, and I'm not that fond of Bay's Transformers as well. So this is the crossover version I guess. Bulkhead is like a fat bastard that needs a gastric bypass and Starscream is so fin, he actually even doesn't have a shadow of his own.

However, I do look forward to this cartoon, JUST BECAUSE the voice of OPTIMUS PRIME is performed by PETER CULLEN.

It makes that just more exciting and hearing him talk like Prime brings back my childhood sentiments.