New Transformers Prime Beast Hunters "Rebellion" Teaser Image

I'm calling for the phrase "Jump the Shark" to be officially changed to "Kill the Optimus."

OF COURSE HE'S NOT DEAD!

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how is this a spoiler? The toys have been out for months & we all know prime will never be killed off again. And if he is killed off it will only be for about 30 minutes or 1-2 episodes. Stupid fraking whiny kids crying that prime died, same goes for gijoe & Duke.

El Duque wrote:The official Transformers facebook page has shared another new teaser image from tomorrow's new episode of Transformers Prime Beast Hunters, "Rebellion". Be sure to tune into the Hub tomorrow evening at 7:30 PM ET. Image mirrored below:

[quote]Megatron is watching...and we will be, too! Check out this exclusive image from tomorrow's new episode of Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters, tomorrow at 7:30 pm ET on The Hub TV Network!

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I am marginally sure that is Maggy's ship, maybe the Jackhammer, but wouldn't that be an excellent time to reveal Prime can fly?

Yea, thats great and all that he comes back, I don't really care either way, but it's pretty lame that the last 2 episodes suggested that Smokescreen was going to be some sort of prime, next in line. Let's see how they make it happen, but, for some reason, season 3 isn't cutting it for me. Everything is happening so perfectly for the Autobots to catch a break... boring.

Megatron Wolf wrote:how is this a spoiler? The toys have been out for months & we all know prime will never be killed off again. And if he is killed off it will only be for about 30 minutes or 1-2 episodes. Stupid fraking whiny kids crying that prime died, same goes for gijoe & Duke.

It's a spoiler because up until we weren't sure Prime would appear this way in the show. Up until now all it's been all about the toys, and as we know just because a toy gets produced doesn't mean in will make it to the show. I highly doubt the rest of the cast will get their Beast Hunter upgrades in the show.

Sabrblade wrote:

roBROmanceFTW wrote:

Xephon0930 wrote:Wow,Prime really has beefed up for the new season. Can't wait to see him back in action.

Only because someone had the bright idea of recycling Soundwave's CGI model as Optimus Prime, while using Optimus' pre-season 3 CGI model as Ultra Magnus. All for the sake of keeping costs at a minimum...Wow. Just. Wow...

Um... where do you see Soundwave in that picture?

I think he means shockwave....if you stare at it long enough yull provably see it too

El Duque wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:how is this a spoiler? The toys have been out for months & we all know prime will never be killed off again. And if he is killed off it will only be for about 30 minutes or 1-2 episodes. Stupid fraking whiny kids crying that prime died, same goes for gijoe & Duke.

It's a spoiler because up until we weren't sure Prime would appear this way in the show. Up until now all it's been all about the toys, and as we know just because a toy gets produced doesn't mean in will make it to the show. I highly doubt the rest of the cast will get their Beast Hunter upgrades in the show.

Well, we saw a rendering on Prime's packaging, and we saw basically this image on the Hub's invitation to the red carpet premiere.

Not to mention, Optimus's new design has been more consistent between the toys. The Commander one looks like the Voyager one looks like the Kre-O one, while pretty much everybody else has a different design for each subline. And they went to the effort of making a completely new mold, while everybody else who's not getting a new body in-show is just a retool of their RID toy. I think it was a foregone conclusion that Optimus would actually look like this in the show.

Those shoulder pads look like Smokescreen's. Could this guy actually be smokescreen and not Optimus? Or did the two somehow merge into a new character? Only a few hours left to see what really happens.

Optimus Prime can never die, only the toy models that portray him. Oh yeah!

poor Smoketimus Prime. We hardly knew ye

Ultra Magnus "couldn't deal with Wrecker-style back on Cybertron."

Oh, those clever bastards.

Oh man, I didn't even catch that. You magnificent sons of bitches, you writers you.

They not only had the gall to do that (twice in one sentence, even), but they used it as a means to spite canon.

Well damn.....I was hoping for Smokescreen to take over but oh well.

Also, DAMN THE NEW PRIME IS MASSIVE. Just to keep scale we'll need Dragon Blaster Prime and Platinum Ultra Magnus.

As a Transformers Prime episode, I thought it was a fantastic episode that continued the general pace from season 2.

However, as a "Beast Hunters" episode, I thought it was another flawed episode that doesn't seem to be lining up with the Beast Hunters marketing and toyline. With each passing episode, it's becoming more and more obvious that the Beast Hunters theme is just a marketing ploy / gimmick for the toyline than it is about a true universal theme for the cartoon. Predaking seemed really forced in this episode and was easily defeated. Shockwave, on the other hand, was far more "badass" that Predaking.

Hopefully the IDW Beast Hunters comics will fill in the gaps to make it seem much more like Beast Hunters to match the toyline than the cartoon is doing.

I think when everything is all said and done, I'll be really happy that the cartoon stuck to its guns and stayed true to the general format from the past couple of years. I think it will feel much more like Transformers Prime Season 3 than Beast Hunters season 1 (yes, I know it's TFP Season 3, but hopefully you know what I mean or am feeling).

Sabrblade wrote:They not only had the gall to do that (twice in one sentence, even), but they used it as a means to spite canon.

Chill out, it was a nice nod to a line that most of us don't find obnoxious.

That Bot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:They not only had the gall to do that (twice in one sentence, even), but they used it as a means to spite canon.

Chill out, it was a nice nod to a line that most of us don't find obnoxious.

"I couldn't deal with 'Wrecker-style' on Cybertron," says the Wreckers commander.

Believe it or not, that did not go over my head. But there are several possible explanations for it, not the least of which is that it was a damn joke the writers threw in. You sweat the small stuff way too much.

That Bot wrote:Believe it or not, that did not go over my head. But there are several possible explanations for it, not the least of which is that it was a damn joke the writers threw in. You sweat the small stuff way too much.

Has it been established that Ultra Magnus is the leader of the Wreckers in this continuity?