Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far?

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Fellow robot-lovers, the day has nearly come. Tomorrow, on the go90 video streaming platform (in the US at least), Machinima's Titans Return animated series - the follow-up to last year's Combiner Wars - will make its debut for all to see. If you're just now hearing about this series, or have forgotten some of the details, here's a brief timeline of the major news leading from its announcement nearly a year ago, all the way up the the show's debut:

- Nov 29, 2016: Machinima announces two sequel series to Combiner Wars - Titans Return and Power of the Primes;

- Jul 18, 2017: New cast for the Titans Return series is announced, featuring Peter Cullen, Judd Nelson, Wil Wheaton, and more (including internet personalities like MatPat and returning cast members such as Jason Marnocha and Abby Trott);

- Sep 10, 2017: Machinima announces that the series will have 11 episodes, and will feature both Trypticon and Overlord (betcha forgot about that tidbit, didn't you?);

- Sep 11, 2017: First official poster for the series, and a few screenshots proving that the visual style will remain similar to Combiner Wars;

- Oct 18, 2017: Behind-the-scenes video listing many of the major roles, and showing our first preview of the show in motion (much the same as its predecessor);

- Nov 5, 7, and 12, 2017: Preview clip of the show, full-fledged trailer, and a meet-the-cast video leading up to the final release date...

...Which brings us fully up-to-date, with less than 24 hours to go until the premiere of this definitely-anticipated series! Check out the latest two bits of promotional material from Machinima's Facebook page below, and chime in with your thoughts in the Energon Pub. Come tomorrow, don't forget to catch the Titans Return series on go90 in the US, and of course stay tuned to Seibertron.com for our very own coverage of the series too!

The first two episodes of Transformers: Titans Return are available TOMORROW on go90.

Perceptor makes a startling discovery in the very first episode of Transformers: Titans Return. Watch tomorrow on go90.

Credit(s): Machinima

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Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921496)
Posted by Albatross250 on November 13th, 2017 @ 8:39pm CST

Perceptor must use his tank form in this series,
I'LL be damned if he's gonna transform to Tank mode :lol:

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921534)
Posted by Deadput on November 13th, 2017 @ 11:13pm CST

Huh I actually did not know Overlord was going to be in this, that's actually kinda cool.

At the very least I already like this series more for the more variety in cast compared to the few last time (Optimus, Megatron, Windblade, Starscream, Rodimus, Mistress of flame, the Combiners and Metroplex's arm)

This time around we have most of them combined with Overlord, Perceptor, Fortress Maximus and Emissary, the full appearance of Metroplex, Trypticon, the Seekers Thundercracker, Skywarp, Sunstorm and someone else that was colored like a G1 Slipstream.

Honestly I'm surprised that neither Bumblebee or Soundwave are not in the show at all but besides that I'm presently surprised there are so many characters that don't get much appearances in Transformers cartoons such as Perceptor I mean when's the last time he's been a main character in a Transformers show?

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921540)
Posted by Burn on November 13th, 2017 @ 11:42pm CST

The best thing about Combiner Wars is thanks to all the various time zones across the world, each episode was released over night for me.

Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

An apt place to watch it as it turns out.

I will be doing the same for Titans Return. Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921546)
Posted by Sabrblade on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:24am CST

Episodes 1 AND 2 are both now on go90:

https://www.go90.com/videos/2NhyXKyeaJh

https://www.go90.com/videos/8Ebc1KREnea

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921560)
Posted by Bronzewolf on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:36am CST

It seems the time has come! With the arrival of November 14th, the first two episodes Machinima's Transformers Titans Return series have been released!
Following the previous Machinima-produced Go90 series, Combiner Wars, Titans Return picks up roughly where the Combined Wars series ended. It includes reoccurring characters like Optimus Prime (This time around voiced by Peter Cullen), Megatron, Windblade, and Hot Rod (This time voiced by Judd Nelson, returning to his classic role.)
To catch up on what details you've missed on this series, check out the recent piece by Seibertronian news crew member Qwan, who does a great job running through all the announcements and specifics we've gotten since the announcement of the series.
You can then find the first two episodes over on Go90's website, or through their app if you prefer mobile, and share your thoughts in the forum boards below.
Even then our coverage of the premier doesn't end, as you can expect our official review of the two episodes out in the coming hours.
Stay tuned to Seibertron.com for those reviews, and to partake in the discussion surrounding this new series!

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921563)
Posted by Stuartmaximus on November 14th, 2017 @ 2:13am CST

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well...*sigh*

looks like I'll have to wait til someone posts them on YouTube! + it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with? coz Machinima has their own channel on there, but YES!!! I'm sure it'll happen, give enough time

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921564)
Posted by Burn on November 14th, 2017 @ 2:21am CST

Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921565)
Posted by Regimus Prime on November 14th, 2017 @ 2:49am CST

Those two episodes were worth it. I wish they would do a full length movie with a G1 script. Wishful thinking.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921566)
Posted by Stuartmaximus on November 14th, 2017 @ 3:05am CST

Burn wrote:Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

thanks for that mental image, whilst I'm eating my breakfast >:oP

Burn wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Why does it not surprise me in your response in the fact that Machinima decided to broadcast this series on a website that limits its audience due to region restrictions! and I'm sure that other countries that cannot!!! view this series due to aforementioned restrictions would agree with you, and tell me.... where did Machinima broadcast Combiner Wars again? that's riiight! on their YouTube channel

and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921567)
Posted by Bounti76 on November 14th, 2017 @ 3:14am CST

Wow.....while the voice talent is better.....and the animation is ok....that's about it. It's not as awful as the Combiner Wars cartoon, but there are still plot holes galore and cringe-worthy dialogue. It doesn't bode well for the rest of the series.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921569)
Posted by Omegatron. on November 14th, 2017 @ 3:47am CST

So... any option for the 7ish billion people who don't live in the US?

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921570)
Posted by Qwan on November 14th, 2017 @ 3:51am CST

Omegatron. wrote:So... any option for the 7ish billion people who don't live in the US?

Not yet AFAIK. If it's done the same way as the CW series was (and all signs point to this being the case) then we'll just have to chill out until Machinima decides to put it out on their Youtube channel.

But hey, bright side, we get to enjoy a few more suffering-free hours than the US viewers do! :-P

(Okay I should really stop bashing this series until I've given it an honest-to-goodness try, shouldn't I.)

Stuartmaximus wrote:and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

If I may step in with my trying-super-hard-to-sound-knowledgeable tuppence: branding deals or whatever. As best I understand it, Machinima/Hasbro/whoever is getting a pretty penny directly from go90 in return for their service being the exclusive carrier of the show within the US (and I'm sure, if go90 could have been bothered in the last nearly YEAR AND A HALF to expand their service beyond the US, it'd be exclusive to them in those countries too).

That's also why when the CW episodes went up on Machinima's Youtube channel (originally at least), they were region-locked so viewers in the US couldn't watch them - hence they have to use go90, exclusive distributor, more money for the folks behind the series, it all comes back around to that extra money. It may not seem to make sense for us, the viewers, but it sure as shootin' makes sense for the people deciding how the series will be distributed.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921573)
Posted by Stuartmaximus on November 14th, 2017 @ 4:43am CST

Qwan wrote:we'll just have to chill out until Machinima decides to put it out on their Youtube channel.

or someone else? coz it doesn't HAVE to be Machinima that puts in on YouTube, no doubt others will post it there too!(& YES I know that if they do that, they run the risk of it getting taken down! but that's the kinda world that we live in today).

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921574)
Posted by Burn on November 14th, 2017 @ 5:49am CST

Stuartmaximus wrote:
Burn wrote:Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

thanks for that mental image, whilst I'm eating my breakfast

Burn wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Why does it not surprise me in your response in the fact that Machinima decided to broadcast this series on a website that limits its audience due to region restrictions! and I'm sure that other countries that cannot!!! view this series due to aforementioned restrictions would agree with you, and tell me.... where did Machinima broadcast Combiner Wars again? that's riiight! on their YouTube channel

and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

Just in case you've forgotten, you're ignoring me remember. :wink:

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921577)
Posted by Randomhero on November 14th, 2017 @ 6:15am CST

Stuartmaximus wrote:
Burn wrote:Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

thanks for that mental image, whilst I'm eating my breakfast

Burn wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Why does it not surprise me in your response in the fact that Machinima decided to broadcast this series on a website that limits its audience due to region restrictions! and I'm sure that other countries that cannot!!! view this series due to aforementioned restrictions would agree with you, and tell me.... where did Machinima broadcast Combiner Wars again? that's riiight! on their YouTube channel

and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

It’s called contracts dude. Go90 probably helped finance the series so they have exclusive distribution of it for now. If you wanna throw a fit and say YouTube remember they have their own exclusive service too, YouTube Red which you have to pay for so if YouTube was contracted like go90 than guess what? It’d be on youtubered and you’d be throwing a fit you have to pay to watch

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921578)
Posted by Sigma Magnus on November 14th, 2017 @ 6:17am CST

Watching the episodes, I was pleasantly surprised. Sure, nothing amazing, but so far things aren't that bad.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921580)
Posted by MadProject on November 14th, 2017 @ 6:41am CST

do you think that using a proxy would bypass the region lock?

I'd like to see the episodes, but hey, I'm one of the rest-of-the-world people who doesn't live in the US.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921582)
Posted by King Kuuga on November 14th, 2017 @ 7:35am CST

Y'know what? It was okay. It's not going to win any awards but the longer runtime allows for just a bit more character interaction than CW did. The acting is stiff and someone needs to tell the voice mixer that, if a character is interrupted, the other character should be SPEAKING right away. Awkward pauses abound. Buuuuuuuuut. It didn't suck.
Also apparently they still haven't made any more character models for the combiner components except those 3 Constructicons, so they're just going to stand around being giant all day as if they're permanently fused.
I won't say I'm looking forward to it but I'm not dreading it either. It's going to be an okay use of 20ish minutes each week.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921583)
Posted by Sabrblade on November 14th, 2017 @ 7:38am CST

So far, the worst I can say about is that the Mistress of Flame still have some pretty terrible acting to the point that it almost feels like a parody of old bad English anime dubs. Lots of random pauses in her dialogue and bizarre emphasis on certain syllables in her words here and there.

Other than that, everyone else either sounds just okay at best (Windblade, Optimus) or bored at worst (Rodimus/Hot Rod, Metroplex, Perceptor). Megatron's just a cameo in the first episode and doesn't get any lines, so that's a shame so far. Windblade, at least, is no longer determined to kill everyone, so there's that.

The animation looks unchanged though the framerate, while still pretty poor, admittedly does not look quite as horrendous (for the most part) as it did in Combiner Wars.

As far as what little there is of the story, things so far just seem to be happening for the sake of happening. Little is really explained (which was par for the course for Combiner Wars) and the most bonkers thing of Starscream coming back in Trypticon's body was already spoiled by a trailer,
so there's less of a surprise to that here.

As of now, it doesn't seem to be quite as poor a first impression as Combiner Wars' beginning, but nothing too special yet either. Mostly just mild mediocrity at this point. We'll see how things play out in the weeks to come.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921585)
Posted by steve2275 on November 14th, 2017 @ 7:45am CST

Sabrblade wrote:Episodes 1 AND 2 are both now on go90:

https://www.go90.com/videos/2NhyXKyeaJh

https://www.go90.com/videos/8Ebc1KREnea

i appreciate the links
thank you

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921587)
Posted by Sabrblade on November 14th, 2017 @ 7:51am CST

Yo, non-U.S. viewers! Until we get an official venue for watching outside the U.S., YouTuber Angelina Pax has put the episodes up broken down into chunk form. Here's a playlist with all the parts for episodes 1 and 2:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtelJ6KGnO-wOGwFf3sMt_H5kRU4RQ9O

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921594)
Posted by Stuartmaximus on November 14th, 2017 @ 9:05am CST

Burn wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
Burn wrote:Which means I was able to get up in the morning and watch them whilst sitting on the toilet.

Bring on the morning bowel movements Titans!

thanks for that mental image, whilst I'm eating my breakfast

Burn wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Why does it not surprise me in your response in the fact that Machinima decided to broadcast this series on a website that limits its audience due to region restrictions! and I'm sure that other countries that cannot!!! view this series due to aforementioned restrictions would agree with you, and tell me.... where did Machinima broadcast Combiner Wars again? that's riiight! on their YouTube channel

and where will this current series eventually end up anyway? that's riiight! Youtube! so why not put it there in the first place

Just in case you've forgotten, you're ignoring me remember.

aren't you? >:oP

Burn wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:it's daft that they're not on YouTube to begin with

No, it's not.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921597)
Posted by o.supreme on November 14th, 2017 @ 9:45am CST

ok so just before I went to sleep last night I went on go90 and figured I'd try, as I am on the west coast, and surprisingly they were there!. I'm just posting this morning because obviously, was too tired to post my thoughts. But I will say moving forward...I think I'll just wait until Tuesday Mornings, no need for these episodes to dominate my thoughts, and rob me of sleep on Monday Nights heh..

ok initial thoughts...well its definitely better than CW, but then so is a dumpster fire. Pretty cool they got Victor Caroli to return as the narrator, I wasn't expecting that, though the first 2 minuets recapping CW was as good waste of time.

I thought some of the dialogue was cringe worthy. In some parts it was ok, but then I think at some point whoever wrote the script realized, the script they wrote was the same amount they wrote for CW, and didn't understand they were going to have twice the animation length, so they had to pad it out. Some of the lapses between lines make Bill Shatner sound like Shakespeare. Mistress of Flame would fit right in with the sandy Frank dub of Gamera vs Guiron.

Some pluses- It was nice to see the individual Combiner components actually exist in this world as independent personalities. Also Perceptor, the *new* character for this series was probably the most decent fleshed out character thus far.

As for the story, I'm not sure what the motivation was for 'the gods" as Starscream refers to them, to transfer his spark to Trypticon. Also I'm getting this whole Mothra vs Godzilla vibe when looking at the impending battle between Metroplex & Trypticon (In the original 1964 film, Mathra was portrayed as older and weak, which is why the Twin fairies knew she would not survive her encounter with Godzilla)

The main characters are basically all split up, looks like It's up to Windblade to "Get the band back together"...whch I assume will take up a good portion of this shows story. Also...one wonders how the council got formed anyway...Starscream was corrupt, The Mistress of Flame is incompetent and doesn't know anything about anybody it seems, and Rodimus doesn't want to be a leader obviously...

There are two entries currently on Wikipedia that were not revealed in previews, and were not on TF wiki as of yesterday, for obvious reasons. I always take Wiki with a grain of salt because...well anyone can enter information into it. But there's:

Tay Zonday as the Chorus of the Primes (I can only guess this was who Rodimus was speaking to when he abdicated the Matrix)

&

Robin Atkin Downes as Overlord. This intrigues me a bit. But we have not seen his name in the credits (as far as I know), and nothing has been hinted at toward his appearing in this series. I mean it would be cool to see a few more characters show up, there are still eight episodes left. I'm just not sure with the limited budget it we will get any more surprises.

Since recently obtaining TLK Blu Ray Target exclusive with CW edited together as a movie, I was thinking to myself, when its all said and done TR will be between 100-110 minuets, pretty much a full movie. Watching Justice League Action has taught me, you can do quite a bit in 10 minuets to make a good and fun action packed story with only a few characters. Now I understand TR has probably 10% or less the budget of a cable network TV animated series, but if the pace does not even out a little, we could have the opposite problem we had with CW. Instead of not enough time, there could be in fact too much time, and this could feel like it drags on. I hope things pick up a bit, I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921621)
Posted by Sabrblade on November 14th, 2017 @ 11:49am CST

Tay Zonday is the Chorus of the Primes, yes.

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tay_Zonday

As for the Overlord voice credit, that strikes me as another of Wikipedia's typical unfounded claims.

Are you sure about that narrator credit, though?

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921622)
Posted by leokearon on November 14th, 2017 @ 11:49am CST

Sabrblade wrote:Yo, non-U.S. viewers! Until we get an official venue for watching outside the U.S., YouTuber Angelina Pax has put the episodes up broken down into chunk form. Here's a playlist with all the parts for episodes 1 and 2:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtelJ6KGnO-wOGwFf3sMt_H5kRU4RQ9O

I'll wait until an official non-us channel appears. Watching it in bits defeats the point of having 10 minute episode

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921628)
Posted by Seibertron on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:13pm CST

Anyone else having trouble understanding what Hot Rod said during his scene with the Matrix and Vector Sigma (?), or whatever he was talking to? I could not understand anything he was saying nor could I understand the "Quintesson"/"Vok" sounding voice to whom he was speaking. I picked up a few words, but most of what they were saying was inaudible.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921631)
Posted by Sabrblade on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:15pm CST

Seibertron wrote:Anyone else having trouble understanding what Hot Rod said during his scene with the Matrix and Vector Sigma (?), or whatever he was talking to? I could not understand anything he was saying nor could I understand the "Quintesson"/"Vok" sounding voice to whom he was speaking. I picked up a few words, but most of what they were saying was inaudible.

Yeah, the audio quality in that scene was pretty bad, especially for the Chorus of the Primes.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921633)
Posted by Stuartmaximus on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:17pm CST

leokearon wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Yo, non-U.S. viewers! Until we get an official venue for watching outside the U.S., YouTuber Angelina Pax has put the episodes up broken down into chunk form. Here's a playlist with all the parts for episodes 1 and 2:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtelJ6KGnO-wOGwFf3sMt_H5kRU4RQ9O

I'll wait until an official non-us channel appears. Watching it in bits defeats the point of having 10 minute episode

Me too pal ;)^

I'm not watching the bloody thing in icky little bits, a thing btw that's around about 10 mins long each(yes! the runtime may vary for each episode)

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921634)
Posted by o.supreme on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:17pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:Are you sure about that narrator credit, though?

I have nothing to go on other than my ears at this point since there is nothing on any site that I have found. I checked to make sure Victor Caroli was still alive (he doesn't have a page on wiki, but does on voicechasers). If its not him...it's the best impersonation I've ever heard. I hope something definitive comes out soon confirming it.

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921636)
Posted by Seibertron on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:22pm CST

Do you guys want screen captures from these episodes in the meantime?

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921637)
Posted by Seibertron on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:24pm CST

While I'd love Perceptor's voice to sound more like his G1 self, I actually don't mind this version of his voice.

Hey Hasbro ... any chance of us getting a Mistress of Flame toy, or a head variant of Hot Rod with the face shield. That looked oddly cool!

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921639)
Posted by Seibertron on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:25pm CST

Ugh, it seems like the audio levels for Hot Rod are all off.

Animation looks great, but the poor directing of the voice actors still stands.

Yay! Familiar looking Seekers in episode 2!

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921641)
Posted by leokearon on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:30pm CST

Seibertron wrote:While I'd love Perceptor's voice to sound more like his G1 self, I actually don't mind this version of his voice.

Hey Hasbro ... any chance of us getting a Mistress of Flame toy, or a head variant of Hot Rod with the face shield. That looked oddly cool!

I want to see Face shield Hot Rod

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921644)
Posted by Randomhero on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:34pm CST

Seibertron wrote:Anyone else having trouble understanding what Hot Rod said during his scene with the Matrix and Vector Sigma (?), or whatever he was talking to? I could not understand anything he was saying nor could I understand the "Quintesson"/"Vok" sounding voice to whom he was speaking. I picked up a few words, but most of what they were saying was inaudible.

Oh god I thought that was my phone. Is that really the audio in the scene?

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921647)
Posted by Stuartmaximus on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:41pm CST

unless it's a spoiler or plot point that gets resolved in a later episode, which'll have the scene replayed but with clearer audio

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921650)
Posted by Sabrblade on November 14th, 2017 @ 12:56pm CST

o.supreme wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Are you sure about that narrator credit, though?

I have nothing to go on other than my ears at this point since there is nothing on any site that I have found. I checked to make sure Victor Caroli was still alive (he doesn't have a page on wiki, but does on voicechasers). If its not him...it's the best impersonation I've ever heard. I hope something definitive comes out soon confirming it.

I dunno, I feel like something like getting Victor Caroli back would be something that this show would want to be up front about like how they got Peter Cullen and Judd Nelson. The narrator didn't sound that much like Caroli to me, as when Jon Bailey got Caroli to narrate one of his BotCon filmfest videos a few years ago, Caroli sounded pretty much exactly the same in that video as he sounded back in the G1 cartoon. This narrator, not so much to me.

Seibertron wrote:Yay! Familiar looking Seekers in episode 2!

I spied Thundercracker, Skywarp, Sunstorm, and Hotlink (the purple one).

Re: Machinima Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Premieres Tomorrow - What's Happened so Far? (1921652)
Posted by Seibertron on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:05pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Are you sure about that narrator credit, though?

I have nothing to go on other than my ears at this point since there is nothing on any site that I have found. I checked to make sure Victor Caroli was still alive (he doesn't have a page on wiki, but does on voicechasers). If its not him...it's the best impersonation I've ever heard. I hope something definitive comes out soon confirming it.
I dunno, I feel like something like getting Victor Caroli back would be something that this show would want to be up front about like how they got Peter Cullen and Judd Nelson. The narrator didn't sound that much like Caroli to me, as when Jon Bailey got Caroli to narrate one of his BotCon filmfest videos a few years ago, Caroli sounded pretty much exactly the same in that video as he sounded back in the G1 cartoon. This narrator, not so much to me.

Seibertron wrote:Yay! Familiar looking Seekers in episode 2!
I spied Thundercracker, Skywarp, Sunstorm, and Hotlink (the purple one).

At first, I thought it sounded like Victor Caroli, but then I heard some Peter Cullen in there. Might it be Peter Cullen doing a Victor Caroli impersonation?

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Posted by Madeus Prime on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:09pm CST

Well, it's better than Combiner Wars. The new voice talents flesh out the feel, and the writing feels slightly better, particularly with Perceptor (thank god Wheaton knows how to bring life to static dialogue). Yeah, the animation is meh, but it is WAY less choppy than CW was. For first impressions, I'd rate it 6/10.

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Posted by Sabrblade on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:10pm CST

Seibertron wrote:At first, I thought it sounded like Victor Caroli, but then I heard some Peter Cullen in there. Might it be Peter Cullen doing a Victor Caroli impersonation?

That... does sound plausible, now that you mention it.

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Posted by galvatron00 on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:26pm CST

Why did they fill Rodimus with self-doubt?! Drat! He hasn't been that way since G1, they should've left it there.

That said, Hot Rod seems cool again ;)^

And yeah Seibs, totally horrible audio.

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Posted by Sabrblade on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:27pm CST

Anyone else a little weirded out by Cybertron having mountainous rocky terrain?

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Posted by galvatron00 on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:29pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else a little weirded out by Cybertron having mountainous rocky terrain?

It did, didn't it? Yeah, unless it's after the "reformat" and it hasn't been fully mechaformed. Maybe like Unicron is in most current media?

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Posted by o.supreme on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:34pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:
Seibertron wrote:At first, I thought it sounded like Victor Caroli, but then I heard some Peter Cullen in there. Might it be Peter Cullen doing a Victor Caroli impersonation?
That... does sound plausible, now that you mention it.

I don't know...it sounds dead on to me. Even if you listen to someone like Peter Cullen, or James Earl Jones, their voice obviously changes a little over time.

I've listened to it several times. I agree it's odd that nothing was promoted, but if that narrator is not Victor Caroli , that IS the single best impression I've ever heard. I mean I've heard a ton of impersonations of original series voice actors, and a they are all just enough *off* to tell it's not them (Jon Bailey is a good Prime, but you could never fool me into thinking he was Peter Cullen...) .

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Posted by o.supreme on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:36pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else a little weirded out by Cybertron having mountainous rocky terrain?

It's seems to be orbiting a star as well since we have different sky lighting, even some almost daylight scenes. I just chalk it up to series writers not knowing there stuff, or being influenced by BM

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Posted by Bronzewolf on November 14th, 2017 @ 1:49pm CST

Official review postponed due to some technical issues. It's done, it just won't be coming out right now.

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Posted by Stuartmaximus on November 14th, 2017 @ 2:48pm CST

For all the non US citizens, here's both episodes to watch

(& not broken into little bits)
https://m.vk.com/wall-56732771_14557

OK...just watched both episodes, cool, but just as I feared...Trypticon is just gonna stomp around in only his dinosaurer mode, whether we'll get to see his other modes is doubtful, but not impossible seeing as it's only 2 episodes in! Rodimus reverts back to his Hot Rod form just to go boy racing around, He'll no doubt revert back to Rodimus for Power Of The Primes, I know it's only 2 episodes in...but being Titans Return I didn't yet see any Titan Masters, cool that the Combiners have been given the task of finding Fort Max, although it's early to say if there'll be a Fort/Plex team up to take on Trypticon, one scene had Metroplex slowly making his way to Trypticon! didn't he(Plex) move quicker in the trailers :-?

I'm sure at one point he started running

& did anyone catch Windblade saying the word Optimal, maybe a nod of things to come(POTP) :-?

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Posted by Nexus Knight on November 14th, 2017 @ 3:42pm CST

These two episodes were... refreshingly not bad. Way better than CW's first ones. While not an advocate for "more is better", I think the long episode length helps improve the series. I do fear this series will run into Energon's issue of running out plot before running out of runtime. But we have a little while to go and this was a glimmer of hope. Especially when it feels like it's setting of PotP without throwing it in our faces.

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Posted by Burn on November 14th, 2017 @ 4:55pm CST

Seibertron wrote:While I'd love Perceptor's voice to sound more like his G1 self, I actually don't mind this version of his voice.

I was pleasantly surprised by Wil Wheatons voice! I think he did a great job.

Writing has definitely improved.
Animation has definitely improved.
Not a big fan of the blink-and-you-miss-it transformations.

Overall, it's definitely a movement in the right direction.

Speaking of movements, and because I know StuartMaximus has been wanting to know, yes, my morning bowel movement was a good one this morning. ;)^

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Posted by DeadCaL on November 14th, 2017 @ 4:57pm CST

Well, the direction's alot better, and it's alot more enjoyable than Combiner Wars by quite a margin. But that framerate... and some of those voices, eesh.

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Posted by Stuartmaximus on November 14th, 2017 @ 5:08pm CST