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Amazon has listed the release date for the Transformers Prime: Season 3 DVD and Blu-ray sets as December 3rd. Minimal details at the moment, just the aforementioned release date and prices, which is $13.95 for DVD and $17.48 for Blu-ray.

Transformers Prime: Season 3

Product Details
Format: Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
DVD Release Date: December 3, 2013

Transformers Prime: Season 3 [Blu-ray]

Product Details
Format: Widescreen
Language: English
Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
DVD Release Date: December 3, 2013

That seems like a good price for a short season. If you cannot wait and have Netflix though...the complete season 3 has been on Netflix for at least a week as I have rewatched the entire thing! How Netflix got the episodes before the DVD is to be released is beyond me.

Excellent! Can't wait to finally have the whole set. Cheap too, I'm guessing Blu-Ray will be around $20-25 then, not bad.

really cheap even for how short the season is. i dont expect any features. the other seasons had jack too. going to get that art book though.

The Blu Ray pre-order is up too for $17.48...again not bad for a short season
http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Prim ... +3+blu+ray

If they make a complete series set with a whole bunch of new extras that weren't included in the season sets, I will erupt with anger.

I must admit I'm confused. Doesn't Predacons Rising take place after season 3? Yet it's coming out on Blu-ray before this is. Or am I completely wrong?

Bleak5170 wrote:I must admit I'm confused. Doesn't Predacons Rising take place after season 3? Yet it's coming out on Blu-ray before this is. Or am I completely wrong?

Yep, it takes place post-season 3. It's coming out first, though, because people are gonna wanna get their hands on it as soon as possible since it hasn't aired yet.

It's faster and less expensive to produce a one or two disc DVD set for a mere movie than it is to produce a big multi-disc season box set, so the movie's able to get released quicker.

Sabrblade wrote:

Bleak5170 wrote:I must admit I'm confused. Doesn't Predacons Rising take place after season 3? Yet it's coming out on Blu-ray before this is. Or am I completely wrong?

Yep, it takes place post-season 3. It's coming out first, though, because people are gonna wanna get their hands on it as soon as possible since it hasn't aired yet.

It's faster and less expensive to produce a one or two disc DVD set for a mere movie than it is to produce a big multi-disc season box set, so the movie's able to get released quicker.

Ah okay. Thanks for the clarification. I'm one of those people who doesn't watch shows when their air - I always buy the Blu-ray when it comes out. I haven't even seen season 3 yet.

Do you know if Ratchet will be in Predacons Rising? I only ask because I know he stays behind in the last episode of season 3.

Bleak5170 wrote:Do you know if Ratchet will be in Predacons Rising? I only ask because I know he stays behind in the last episode of season 3.

We know nothing outside of what's been shown in trailers or mentioned in Hasbro's press release synopsis for it.

:O

I must buy this, now!

Can't wait to get this! No UK release date so I'm going to import.

Amazon has revealed the cover for Transformers Prime on DVD and Blu-Ray. The cover features Optimus Prime in his new Beast Hunters body, Megatron and Predaking in his beast mode. The release date remains December 3.

Format: Widescreen
Language: English
Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
DVD Release Date: December 3, 2013

That sure is some barren wasteland they're all standing on.

That cover looks so much better than the Predacons rising one and the first 3 episodes cover.
Not a bad cover.
I'll definitely be picking this up. Maybe then my computer's storage would go down.

TBH these covers suck. They scream kids show with their simple character shots on a simple background, like it's some 3D demo reel. Look at your video game covers, and some movie covers, which are so much more creative in trying to psych you out to watch the show. Maybe if they had some intense battle scene that is paused mid fight, or a ripped up looking cover with close ups of megatron, prime, and predaking just peeking through. Just a cover, but just my opinion.

OP with the Star Saber :O

MINDVVIPE wrote:TBH these covers suck. They scream kids show with their simple character shots on a simple background,

Well it kinda is a kids show.

like it's some 3D demo reel. Look at your video game covers, and some movie covers, which are so much more creative in trying to psych you out to watch the show.

I for one play 30+ new games a year and have never been psyched for that game by the cover.

MINDVVIPE wrote:Maybe if they had some intense battle scene that is paused mid fight, or a ripped up looking cover with close ups of megatron, prime, and predaking just peeking through. Just a cover, but just my opinion.

I feel that that would be too easy for them to do, I could go right now and get a screen shot of any episode, any scene in that episode assuming you could describe it correctly and I could post it here in 5 minutes or less. Anyway I honestly think this is the best cover they have come up with for Prime, much better then the Season 1 box art IMO.

MINDVVIPE wrote:TBH these covers suck. They scream kids show with their simple character shots on a simple background, like it's some 3D demo reel.

A) This is a kids show, and B) name one Transformers cartoon DVD set cover that doesn't do the same thing (excluding those that just have the show title logo over a near-featureless background).

MINDVVIPE wrote:Look at your video game covers, and some movie covers, which are so much more creative in trying to psych you out to watch the show. Maybe if they had some intense battle scene that is paused mid fight, or a ripped up looking cover with close ups of megatron, prime, and predaking just peeking through. Just a cover, but just my opinion.

The audiences of movies, video games, and children's cartoons are not all completely mutually exclusive.

No **** it's a kid show (Sabrblade, you know I know that. Why would you suggest I didn't?) Doesn't mean it has to be dull as a stump.

Still Transformers, yet way more kickass, as there's a supposed action scene. Obviously I didn't want a simple screen shot of a battle scene taken right from the show, that would be stupid. I just said that its boring, and could be much more awesome with some creativity, rather than essentially taking the cg models, posing them in neutral poses, and putting them on a regular random background that doesn't even look to have any of the environments from the show visible in them.

Look at that, some actual art that isn't just a CG shot of the game.

Another great example. That's the end fight scene, but its framed to capture the excitement of watching it.
Obviously you don't get all psyched about something from the cover alone (or maybe at all), but it's definitely a sign of work and effort when I look through my collection of whatever, and see a nice preview of the action packed craziness (or at least some level of effort beyond what you get when you pop the disc in). Anyway, it barely matters at all, and is just my opinion. If it satisfies you, great.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

That's still a bunch of generic action-posed marketing stills grouped together like all the Prime DVD covers are ()this one even has the art of the season 1 and season 2 volume 1 covers repeated in the background instead of using something more original and creative to fill out the background behind Soundwave/Ravage/Blaster).

MINDVVIPE wrote:I just said that its boring, and could be much more awesome with some creativity, rather than essentially taking the cg models, posing them in neutral poses, and putting them on a regular random background that doesn't even look to have any of the environments from the show visible in them.

Now that I can agree with. Not to mention the overall gloomy atmosphere evoked by this cover, which is similarly off-putting.

I find it funny that Optimus never once touched the Star Saber throughout the entirety of season 3, and yet the only official image of his new body shows him holding it

NovaSentinel wrote:I find it funny that Optimus never once touched the Star Saber throughout the entirety of season 3, and yet the only official image of his new body shows him holding it

And it's tiny.

Speaking of the Star Saber, I'm going to like break 2 BH Voyager Optimus' is he doesn't use it in Preds Rising.

NovaSentinel wrote:I find it funny that Optimus never once touched the Star Saber throughout the entirety of season 3, and yet the only official image of his new body shows him holding it

Yeah, I'm not sure if Hasbro does this one purpose or not now, they also had that image around 'Rebellion' that showed BH Optimus with the Star Saber.

and now we wait for the inevitable news of a complete series collection....