High res images and press release from Machinima's Transformers: Combiner Wars Animated Series
Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 11:52AM CDT
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Panel featuring Hasbro Chief Content Officer Stephen Davis and Machinima Chief Executive Officer Chad Gutstein unveiled first-look images and plot details from the forthcoming digital series
Included among the reveals will be the announcement of a TRANSFORMERS: COMBINER WARS Prelude Series launching on June 28
Los Angeles CA, JUNE 23, 2016 -Hasbro Inc. and Machinima co-hosted a panel during the Cannes Lions Festival offering Transformers fans a first glimpse of TRANSFORMERS: COMBINER WARS, a new animated series debuting August 2nd on social entertainment platform go90™ in the US, AMC Networks International Iberia in Spain and Portugal and in other territories to be announced at a later date. TRANSFORMERS: COMBINER WARS, developed and produced by Machinima, marks the first time the iconic franchise has launched a digital-first series.
Moderated by OMD CEO Monica Karo, the fireside chat with Hasbro Chief Content Officer Stephen Davis and Machinima CEO Chad Gutstein unveiled plot details and never-before seen images (link below) from the highly-anticipated series. The discussion covered the 30-plus year legacy of the Transformers franchise and the new creative partnership between Hasbro and Machinima. The pair shared details on the development process behind TRANSFORMERS: COMBINER WARS, as well as insights into how the two companies’ combined forces to reimagine the iconic Transformers IP for today’s social-first, content-driven landscape.
Additionally, Davis and Gutstein announced that a prelude series to TRANSFORMERS: COMBINER WARS will launch on June 28 on YouTube, Facebook and go90. The four-episode PRELUDE TO THE COMBINER WARS will help prepare fans for the full series by revealing the current state of Cybertron from the distinctive points-of-view of four characters.
"Machinima is known as a leader of the digital content space and has tremendous creative talent within their network. We are excited to partner with them to tell a new kind of Transformers story for the digital generation," said Stephen Davis, Chief Content Officer of Hasbro. "The writers, artists and voice actors working on this series are all true fans of the franchise, and their love for these characters really shines through in COMBINER WARS."
"Transformers is one of the most beloved franchises in the world and Machinima is thrilled to work with Hasbro to bring Transformers: Combiner Wars to today’s social video platforms," said Chad Gutstein, CEO of Machinima. "Our audience loves these characters and COMBINER WARS has been a true ‘for the fans, by the fans’ effort. We can’t wait to give fans a preview of the series during Cannes."
FIRST LOOK IMAGES!!!
Note from Seibertron.com: these images are the same as the ones shown earlier, but are unwatermarked for your viewing pleasure. The images are high res, which you can view by clicking on the image to view the full size image.
Machinima Transformers Combiner Wars Menasor
Machinima Transformers Combiner Wars Original Character Maxima
Machinima Transformers Combiner Wars Windblade 1
Machinima Transformers Combiner Wars Windblade 2
Machinima Transformers Combiner Wars Windblade 3
Machinima Trasformers Combiner Wars Starscream
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Posted 3 days agoPosted by Allenspurs on June 23rd, 2016 @ 11:53am CDT
Seibertron wrote:So many negative comments ... yet these stills look awesome! That shot of Windblade and Starscream are fantastic. This looks just how I was hoping the art style would look. It looks fantastic. Kudos to Machinima and Hasbro. I'm looking forward to seeing more ... and hopefully getting some toys of characters who have a new like such as Starscream. Can't wait!
I really like the artwork style, I am super excited for this
Posted by karyuudo on June 23rd, 2016 @ 12:48pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on June 23rd, 2016 @ 12:54pm CDT
Sure, what's another 28 minutes on top of 56? 84 minutes still ain't that much to shake a stick at. It's not even a full hour and a half.
Posted by o.supreme on June 23rd, 2016 @ 12:57pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:So, a series of eight 7-minute episodes is gonna be getting a prelude of four more episodes to lead up to it.
Sure, what's another 28 minutes on top of 56? 84 minutes still ain't that much to shake a stick at. It's not even a full hour and a half.
But if they are smart, and edit it all together for a single film experience for a DVD/BRD release like GI Joe Resolute, it could be amazing.
Posted by Sabrblade on June 23rd, 2016 @ 1:01pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:Sabrblade wrote:So, a series of eight 7-minute episodes is gonna be getting a prelude of four more episodes to lead up to it.
Sure, what's another 28 minutes on top of 56? 84 minutes still ain't that much to shake a stick at. It's not even a full hour and a half.
But if they are smart, and edit it all together for a single film experience for a DVD/BRD release like GI Joe Resolute, it could be amazing.
o.supreme wrote:GI Joe Resolute
o.supreme wrote:amazing.
Posted by Emerje on June 23rd, 2016 @ 1:01pm CDT
Emerje
Posted by o.supreme on June 23rd, 2016 @ 1:10pm CDT
It has great animation, top notch voice acting, Enough IP recognition to keep fans of the 80's series happy, but definitely for adults, which is a plus.
Posted by Emerje on June 23rd, 2016 @ 1:21pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:top notch voice acting
I liked Resolute, and the acting wan't bad by any means, but the thing only had four voice actors for some 20-or-so characters which pulled me out of the show too much.
Emerje
Posted by o.supreme on June 23rd, 2016 @ 1:26pm CDT
I wouldn't be surprised if Kristy Wu reprised the role of Windblade...I have no idea for the others.
Posted by Kurona on June 23rd, 2016 @ 1:38pm CDT
Posted by karyuudo on June 23rd, 2016 @ 1:38pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:Sabrblade wrote:So, a series of eight 7-minute episodes is gonna be getting a prelude of four more episodes to lead up to it.
Sure, what's another 28 minutes on top of 56? 84 minutes still ain't that much to shake a stick at. It's not even a full hour and a half.
But if they are smart, and edit it all together for a single film experience for a DVD/BRD release like GI Joe Resolute, it could be amazing.
Agreed! GI JOE Resolute should have continued. It was awesome. Characters getting killed off. Real world terror. Hands down it was the way GI JOE should have been from day 1.
Posted by Cobotron on June 23rd, 2016 @ 2:59pm CDT
Posted by OptimalOptimus2 on June 23rd, 2016 @ 4:31pm CDT
Posted by fenrir72 on June 23rd, 2016 @ 6:43pm CDT
Posted by Zeedust on June 23rd, 2016 @ 8:49pm CDT
Emerje wrote:I'm not crazy about Maxima just being a Windblade pallet swap with a new head, but I guess she looks alright, I'd buy her figure.
Her shoulder pads look to me like they're changed too, plus the shot doesn't offer a great look at her wings and her lower body is out of frame, so there might be more new than her head.
Posted by Emerje on June 23rd, 2016 @ 9:22pm CDT
Zeedust wrote:Emerje wrote:I'm not crazy about Maxima just being a Windblade pallet swap with a new head, but I guess she looks alright, I'd buy her figure.
Her shoulder pads look to me like they're changed too, plus the shot doesn't offer a great look at her wings and her lower body is out of frame, so there might be more new than her head.
Judging from what we can see of the jet mode I wouldn't expect much more to be different. The wings are definitely the same.
Emerje
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on June 24th, 2016 @ 12:15am CDT
Looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8
Posted by King Kuuga on June 24th, 2016 @ 12:22am CDT
Maxima looks neat.
I agree with whoever said it looks like Windblade in the dark in the pic with Menasor rather than being Maxima's alt mode but we'll see.
I like the art style overall.
Sabrblade wrote:So, a series of eight 7-minute episodes is gonna be getting a prelude of four more episodes to lead up to it.
Sure, what's another 28 minutes on top of 56? 84 minutes still ain't that much to shake a stick at. It's not even a full hour and a half.
nobody said the previews would be 7 minutes each, or at the quality of the full show. They could be like the RWBY off-week episodes, Ken burns pan and zoom "animation" with lots of narration.
Posted by Emerje on June 24th, 2016 @ 2:26am CDT
That Bot wrote:I agree with whoever said it looks like Windblade in the dark in the pic with Menasor rather than being Maxima's alt mode but we'll see.
Even if we pretend the colors aren't a perfect 1:1 match to Maxima in that shot, the lights should give it away. Windblade's blue lights wouldn't look like Maxima's purple lights in the dark, that's not how lights work. It's definitely Maxima in that shot.
Emerje
Posted by Windsweeper on June 24th, 2016 @ 3:51am CDT
Posted by o.supreme on June 24th, 2016 @ 9:33am CDT
Decepticon Stryker wrote:Look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8
Hyperspace travel has been seen in several TF series, as well as other science fiction series, pretty sure they did not copy the cheese of 70's Dr. Who
Posted by Sabrblade on June 24th, 2016 @ 9:39am CDT
Yeah, even Challenge of the GoBots did hyperspace, and did it so often like it was going out of style.o.supreme wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:Look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8
Hyperspace travel has been seen in several TF series, as well as other science fiction series, pretty sure they did not copy the cheese of 70's Dr. Who
Posted by o.supreme on June 24th, 2016 @ 10:20am CDT
Windsweeper wrote:I hope they give Starscream a better voice than he had in the Devestation game
Yeah I was hoping we'd get some cast announcements, but likely well just have to watch the credits if the voices aren't immediately recognizable.
As for Starscream, its entirely possible they get someone new for the voice. Past (living) Starscreams include:
Michael Dobson (Unicron Trilogy)
Charlie Adler (Bayverse films)
Tom Kenny (Animated)
Steve Blum (Prime)
There are a few others, but these are the ones that actually have talented VA's. Oddly enough, even though I enjoy all these actors, and believe they are all tremendously talented (I've actually met Blum & Dobson in person...) I don't know if any of their Starscreams are really "great" IMHO. Some are passable, but none are really great.
Anyone know what happened to Doug Parker (BW terrorsaur), as he voiced Starscream in the single episode "Possesion" . Looks like he hasn't been active as even a director in some time.
Posted by Evil Eye on June 24th, 2016 @ 11:25am CDT
Posted by Kurona on June 24th, 2016 @ 3:39pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:Look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8
Hyperspace travel has been seen in several TF series, as well as other science fiction series, pretty sure they did not copy the cheese of 70's Dr. Who
Why wouldn't you want the cheese of 70s Doctor Who?
Posted by Sabrblade on June 24th, 2016 @ 3:41pm CDT
You ever try eating cheese that was bought in the 70's today?Kurona wrote:o.supreme wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:Look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8
Hyperspace travel has been seen in several TF series, as well as other science fiction series, pretty sure they did not copy the cheese of 70's Dr. Who
Why wouldn't you want the cheese of 70s Doctor Who?
Posted by Kurona on June 24th, 2016 @ 3:54pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:You ever try eating cheese that was bought in the 70's today?Kurona wrote:o.supreme wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:Look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8
Hyperspace travel has been seen in several TF series, as well as other science fiction series, pretty sure they did not copy the cheese of 70's Dr. Who
Why wouldn't you want the cheese of 70s Doctor Who?
It's stupid, and it's not good for me in the slightest; but it's fun in a very weird way while it lasts and I can look back on it with laughter.
The metaphor gets harder to substantiate when the actual cheese puts me in hospital mind
Posted by Sabrblade on June 24th, 2016 @ 3:58pm CDT
40-year-old cheese will do that.Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:You ever try eating cheese that was bought in the 70's today?Kurona wrote:o.supreme wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:Look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8
Hyperspace travel has been seen in several TF series, as well as other science fiction series, pretty sure they did not copy the cheese of 70's Dr. Who
Why wouldn't you want the cheese of 70s Doctor Who?
It's stupid, and it's not good for me in the slightest; but it's fun in a very weird way while it lasts and I can look back on it with laughter.
The metaphor gets harder to substantiate when the actual cheese puts me in hospital mind
Posted by King Kuuga on June 25th, 2016 @ 12:27am CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 26th, 2016 @ 3:23pm CDT
Posted by Stuartmaximus on June 26th, 2016 @ 3:55pm CDT
Posted by o.supreme on June 27th, 2016 @ 9:28am CDT
Posted by Kurona on June 27th, 2016 @ 10:54am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on June 27th, 2016 @ 10:55am CDT
One could say the same about Captain America: Civil War.Kurona wrote:Maybe it isn't about promoting toys, but it does beg the question that if that's not true; why in all of IDW's recent history would they choose the one storyline that most readers would agree was kind of terrible?
Posted by Sigma Magnus on June 27th, 2016 @ 10:56am CDT
Kurona wrote:Maybe it isn't about promoting toys, but it does beg the question that if that's not true; why in all of IDW's recent history would they choose the one storyline that most readers would agree was kind of terrible?
To make it not terrible?
Posted by ZeroWolf on June 27th, 2016 @ 2:20pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on June 28th, 2016 @ 9:09am CDT
His name is Optimus Prime, and he was a leader, once. Now The Transformers: Combiner Wars demand his return.
If the video links above do not work, please visit the Transformers Facebook page directly.
Posted by Kurona on June 28th, 2016 @ 9:55am CDT
Posted by Cobotron on June 28th, 2016 @ 9:56am CDT
Posted by Sigma Magnus on June 28th, 2016 @ 9:57am CDT
Posted by Va'al on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:16am CDT
I tried tinkering with the post, but can't do much else at this stage..
Posted by Seibertron on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:17am CDT
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:22am CDT
Kurona wrote:For some reason it's not letting me see the video despite being logged into FB. Is it restricted to North America?
I'm thinking yes. I'm in Malaysia on a business and it won't open for me either. FB says the link has expired or that I'm not in the target audience.
Posted by o.supreme on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:24am CDT
Posted by Sigma Magnus on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:24am CDT
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Kurona wrote:For some reason it's not letting me see the video despite being logged into FB. Is it restricted to North America?
I'm thinking yes. I'm in Malaysia on a business and it won't open for me either. FB says the link has expired or that I'm not in the target audience.
Nope, I'm in New York and it's not working.
Posted by Seibertron on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:30am CDT
The correct video link is https://www.facebook.com/transformers/videos/1072564262813767/
If the direct video link doesn't work, please visit the Transformers Facebook page directly: https://www.facebook.com/transformers/
Posted by karyuudo on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:35am CDT
I really hope this is not representative of the final product.
Posted by Fireback on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:44am CDT
But the BIG PROBLEM IS - Its Tuesday the 28th,,,, thus WHERE's THE PROLOGUE ??????
The Machinima Dickheads Twitter acct., YouTube page, & Website DOESN'T MENTION ONE THING ABOUT
"Combiner Wars" anywhere........ WHY Not ???
Ya know,,,, WtF. Right. IMO that's what ya call TERRIBLE, unforgiveable [Machinima] Marketing..
Posted by Deadput on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:49am CDT
Fireback wrote:Looks good to me.
But the BIG PROBLEM IS - Its Tuesday the 28th,,,, thus WHERE's THE PROLOGUE ??????
The Machinima Dickheads Twitter acct., YouTube page, & Website DOESN'T MENTION ONE THING ABOUT
"Combiner Wars" anywhere........ WHY Not ???
Ya know,,,, WtF. Right. IMO that's what ya call TERRIBLE, unforgiveable [Machinima] Marketing..
You do know this is the prologue right?
This is all we are getting until August it literally says so in the video.
Posted by Deadput on June 28th, 2016 @ 10:52am CDT
karyuudo wrote::-(
I really hope this is not representative of the final product.
The stop motion part seems to only be for the preview according to those screen shots from a few weeks ago which looks like normal animation.