SDCC 2015 Coverage: Transformers Combiner Wars Animated Series Via Machinima Coming Soon
Thursday, July 9th, 2015 1:00pm CDT
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The Transformers are coming to Machinima.
Hasbro, the toy company-now-play brand, has partnered with the online gamer and video platform to produce a new animated series based on its Transformers: Combiner Wars line.
Combiner Wars is a storyline that has been playing out across Hasbro’s toys and IDW comic books for the past year and the upcoming Activision video game Transformers: Devastation.
Insiders say it’s the first time these many synergistic elements have been combined by Hasbro to tell an overall story.
Additionally, Habsro is giving something a segment of its large Transformers audience has been demanding for years, namely an animated series aimed at an older audience.
“Our audiences are huge fans of the toy, comics, movies and video games, and for us to continue the legend with the Combiner War is a unique story-telling opportunity,” said CCA Daniel Tibbets.
Said Hasbro’s senior vp of the Transformers franchise, Tom Warner: “(Machinima is) the perfect partner to help launch a totally new kind of Transformers animation—one that, for the first time ever, is specifically designed for the teen and adult fans who’ve grown up loving the Transformers brand.”
Without going to deep into the complexities of the Transformers universe, Combiner Wars saw groups of Transformers be able to combine into one giant robot, known as a Combiner. Superion and Menasor were among the new robots that held the fate of the Transformers’ homeworld Cybertron in their hands.
Credit(s): The Hollywood Reporter
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Posted by PrymeStriker on July 9th, 2015 @ 1:05pm CDT
Those of us clamoring for an animated series based on the popular Combiner Wars series, rejoice: it's happening! Via The Hollywood Reporter, we have received word that Combiner Wars will receive an animated series from Machinima, who are well known for creating content within the video gaming community, including works from the popular Halo series.
..................Ugh.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 9th, 2015 @ 1:06pm CDT
Mindmaster wrote:Those of us clamoring for an animated series based on the popular Combiner Wars series, rejoice: it's happening! Via The Hollywood Reporter, we have received word that Combiner Wars will receive an animated series from Machinima, who are well known for creating content within the video gaming community, including works from the popular Halo series. Read about the collaboration below!
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 9th, 2015 @ 1:06pm CDT
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Posted by Deadput on July 9th, 2015 @ 3:17pm CDT
peaces wrote:the first tf cartoon that won't suck.
Are you serious?
This could easily turn out to be the worst Transformers show.
Also are you saying all the other ones suck?
Does that include G1 as well or what?
Posted by Deadput on July 9th, 2015 @ 3:19pm CDT
SlyTF1 wrote:OOOOOH! This **** is gonna be crazy! I hope it's an actual series and not some You Tube click bait BS, like almost everything else on You Tube.
The hell are you talking about?
I don't think you understand what click bait even means.
Posted by peaces on July 9th, 2015 @ 3:22pm CDT
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Posted by Flashwave on July 9th, 2015 @ 3:46pm CDT
u No, he's completely right. The "Big" channels on Youtube actually earn cents per view. If 35000 people view your page a day, that's $350. And thts on the low end of some channels viewership. Putting a big splash page up with TRANSFORMERS on it is gonna get people to come to Machinima's page. Its either gonna be genuinely good or its gonna be like having a famous actor to sell garbage. I trust Machinima, they have done some good eps. And Combiner Wars deserves a more fledged out meduum than it got in IDW. I hope it dispenses with the Combinatoric mcguffin, but even if it handles the same plot better, it cant be any more rushed than IDW felt.mirageandjazz1197 wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:OOOOOH! This **** is gonna be crazy! I hope it's an actual series and not some You Tube click bait BS, like almost everything else on You Tube.
The hell are you talking about?
I don't think you understand what click bait even means.
Posted by padfoo on July 9th, 2015 @ 4:09pm CDT
Flashwave wrote:u No, he's completely right. The "Big" channels on Youtube actually earn cents per view. If 35000 people view your page a day, that's $350. And thts on the low end of some channels viewership. Putting a big splash page up with TRANSFORMERS on it is gonna get people to come to Machinima's page. Its either gonna be genuinely good or its gonna be like having a famous actor to sell garbage. I trust Machinima, they have done some good eps. And Combiner Wars deserves a more fledged out meduum than it got in IDW. I hope it dispenses with the Combinatoric mcguffin, but even if it handles the same plot better, it cant be any more rushed than IDW felt.mirageandjazz1197 wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:OOOOOH! This **** is gonna be crazy! I hope it's an actual series and not some You Tube click bait BS, like almost everything else on You Tube.
The hell are you talking about?
I don't think you understand what click bait even means.
I'm not familiar with Machinima at all. I have seen the logo from time to time but I am not really sure what they do. The whole thing sounds really interesting, although combiner wars seems like such a large project to undertake. Secondly if its based on the comics, that was a mixed bag that left me personally wanting for more in terms of resolution and overall story.
Posted by o.supreme on July 9th, 2015 @ 4:17pm CDT
padfoo wrote:I'm not familiar with Machinima at all. I have seen the logo from time to time but I am not really sure what they do. The whole thing sounds really interesting, although combiner wars seems like such a large project to undertake. Secondly if its based on the comics, that was a mixed bag that left me personally wanting for more in terms of resolution and overall story.
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Posted by RodimusRex on July 9th, 2015 @ 8:34pm CDT
Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime. This is basically the second coming of G1, literally the first new American G1 series in 25 years.
The downside is that it MAY be a reboot to a loosely pre-movie style G1 and I have a fear that it may give us ANOTHER Devastator origin. Or maybe that's an upside for you. I'd rather it take place in a loosely post-Rebirth continuity that just is set present day and ignores that earth isn't that futuristic yet.
You could do something kind cool with Galvatronus though if you started off with Megs shedding his Galvatron programming and weaponizing it as a new kind of combiner. Just handwave a few resurrections and have snarky comments like, "Don't make me kill you again, Starscream." You don't really explain how he came back. You just pretend like things kept going and got more classic post-Rebirth. They'd never do that, I guess, but I know I'd eat that up.
But what we're probably in for here is another G1 reboot.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 9th, 2015 @ 8:37pm CDT
If this is an American production, why would it be an anime?RodimusRex wrote:Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime.
Posted by RodimusRex on July 9th, 2015 @ 8:53pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:If this is an American production, why would it be an anime?RodimusRex wrote:Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime.
Because Americans have been marketing their stuff done in anime or manga styles as anime and manga for 20 years and, unlike champagne only coming from Champagne, France due to agricultural regulations, it's been probably ten years at least since there was still meaningful resistance left to labeling non-Japanese work as anime or manga?
It certainly doesn't stop, for example, Marvel from using the anime term gratuitously.
Also, because the animation may be Japanese produced in an anime studio for all we know but the scripts are probably the part produced stateside.
And by the time you started having meaningful co-productions like Big O -- and because entertainment is pretty much multinational -- I'm not sure national origin quibbling makes sense.
And although it might or might not have qualified at the time, I think the definition has shifted enough for anime that G1 counts NOW even if it didn't THEN. The definitions for words aren't exactly something that can stay fixed. That's part of why new dictionaries come out every year.
And, well, dictionaries now define anime as being based on a Japanese style rather than originating in Japan. The word's changed. Maybe through abuse but abusing language is a valid way to change it.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 9th, 2015 @ 9:10pm CDT
Yet, no official venue has called it an anime, nor has there been any footage or imagery of it released to show us what kind of style it will have, so your referring to it as such is still awkward.RodimusRex wrote:Sabrblade wrote:If this is an American production, why would it be an anime?RodimusRex wrote:Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime.
Because Americans have been marketing their stuff done in anime or manga styles as anime and manga for 20 years and, unlike champagne only coming from Champagne, France due to agricultural regulations, it's been probably ten years at least since there was still meaningful resistance left to labeling non-Japanese work as anime or manga?
It certainly doesn't stop, for example, Marvel from using the anime term gratuitously.
Also, because the animation may be Japanese produced in an anime studio for all we know but the scripts are probably the part produced stateside.
And by the time you started having meaningful co-productions like Big O -- and because entertainment is pretty much multinational -- I'm not sure national origin quibbling makes sense.
And although it might or might not have qualified at the time, I think the definition has shifted enough for anime that G1 counts NOW even if it didn't THEN. The definitions for words aren't exactly something that can stay fixed. That's part of why new dictionaries come out every year.
And, well, dictionaries now define anime as being based on a Japanese style rather than originating in Japan. The word's changed. Maybe through abuse but abusing language is a valid way to change it.