Transformers: Rescue Bots Jeff Bennett Receives Emmy for Best Performer in Animated Program

Sweet! That makes three TF cartoons to be Emmy award winners!

Stuartmaximus wrote:Well you've just contradicted yourself there! coz your just by saying that you knew of him appearing in TFA! & TFA was a North American show for kids

First of all I don't recognize his name I only knew who Grandus was by the only time he was in the spotlight and he was not even called by name it's not contradiction at all.


But Grandus wasn't even important in the show neither was he made into a toy he was just a generic background character and that show was brimming with references to past shows and toylines anyways do you really think most kids or Transformers fans would give a darn about Grandus even if we knew he existed?

Absolutely not and there will never be a chance for Grandus to be in Rescue bots hell if a giant bot was going to be in the show it would be likely be Omega Supreme, Metroplex, Fortress Maximus or a new guy made for the show.

Lets not forget Kyle Katarn in Jedi Knight and Brooklyn in gargoyles along with so many other memorable characters. But anyway its nice to finally see all these great voice actors winning awards, Jeff Bennett is another of the all time best VAs and definitely deserves it.

I like him as Chase in Rescue Bots. He was great in Gargoyles as Brooklyn and Owen Burnett

Windsweeper wrote:I like him as Chase in Rescue Bots. He was great in Gargoyles as Brooklyn and Owen Burnett

Chase is voiced by D.C. Douglas, though.

Deadput wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Well you've just contradicted yourself there! coz your just by saying that you knew of him appearing in TFA! & TFA was a North American show for kids

First of all I don't recognize his name I only knew who Grandus was by the only time he was in the spotlight and he was not even called by name it's not contradiction at all.


But Grandus wasn't even important in the show neither was he made into a toy he was just a generic background character and that show was brimming with references to past shows and toylines anyways do you really think most kids or Transformers fans would give a darn about Grandus even if we knew he existed?

Absolutely not and there will never be a chance for Grandus to be in Rescue bots hell if a giant bot was going to be in the show it would be likely be Omega Supreme, Metroplex, Fortress Maximus or a new guy made for the show.

the structure doesn't look anything like Omega or Fort Max! so hopefully a new guy then

Thanks to the usual reference site for this sort of thing - Zap2it - we have the synopsis for episode 9 of season 4 of Transformers: Rescue Bots, titled Mayor May Not! You can find the rest of the listings plus engaging discussion in our Rescue Bots thread in the Energon Pub, too, just follow the link.

S04, E09 Mayor May Not

The town of Griffin Rock gets more than it bargained for, when Chase is elected as the new mayor.
6/11/2016

This should be fun...

Anyone found episode 6 yet?

Stuartmaximus wrote:Anyone found episode 6 yet?

Already watched it.

The official Transformers YouTube channel has uploaded a new video - a trailer for Season 4 of Transformers: Rescue Bots! Find out what new mission Optimus Prime has for the gang of Griffin Rock, in the clip embedded below, and let us know what you expect from the new season in the Energon Pub (other than the known episodes, of course).

A trailer advertising an April 23rd premiere posted on May 26th?

That makes no sense!

Anyone found episode 7 yet?

Watched it last night on Kisscartoon.

Just watched episode 6, aye it was a guid wan, loved how they played the original War Of The Worlds(George Pal) alien war machine death ray sound effect when Cody was listening to the radio play on his device, also loved the car scenes with Quickshadow(of whom btw has more gadgets than a James Bond car).

Stuartmaximus wrote:also loved the car scenes with Quickshadow(of whom btw has more gadgets than a James Bond car).

Yyyyou do know that she is supposed to be a James Bond Car type of car, right? That's kinda the point of her altmode's gadgets.

Guys...


Guys...


Rescue

Bots

Lord

CHUMLEY!!!!!!

Sabrblade wrote:Guys...


Guys...


Rescue

Bots

Lord

CHUMLEY!!!!!!

"Heatwave is that you?"

"what? your expecting Starscream?"

weird how he mentions that since there's no Decepticons in this

Stuartmaximus wrote:"Heatwave is that you?"

"what? your expecting Starscream?"

weird how he mentions that since there's no Decepticons in this

Decepticons exist in this show's world (it's the same world as TF: Prime). They just don't appear in the show.

Also, did you seriously miss the "Steve Blum voices both Heatwave and Starscream" joke in that exchange?

Latest episode is basically Honey I Blew Up The Kid

Watched latest episode, loved the Taxi reference....the music + the Danny DeVito style character.

Watched newest episode....& even though it's part one of a two parter, it was an ok episode

& regardless of what people say....i still think that the training centre is Grandus! coz it certainly doesn't look either like Metroplex, Fort Max or Omega(+ they've already got an Omega style bot with High Tide).

although i doubt we'll see the training centre to robot full transform til near the end of the season.

oh....& for the people that wish to challenge the identity of whom the training centre is?(if indeed it DOES transform into a city sized robot) & give justifiable reasons as to why they think it's NOT likely to be Grandus, then like me......they ALSO don't know the true identity of the training centre for sure!(unless they have privileged information to the contrary), & also like me....have to wait til near the end of the season to find out the identity.

Stuartmaximus wrote:coz it certainly doesn't look either like Metroplex, Fort Max or Omega

Because it's a brand new design not meant to resemble anybody.

And we've already seen it transform, going from a normal looking Army hangar to a Cybertronian building. Having it change into a giant robot of any kind would go against the very point of the training center being a training center.

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:coz it certainly doesn't look either like Metroplex, Fort Max or Omega

Because it's a brand new design not meant to resemble anybody.

And we've already seen it transform, going from a normal looking Army hangar to a Cybertronian building. Having it change into a giant robot of any kind would go against the very point of the training center being a training center.

No the army hangar opens up.....and it comes up from within

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:coz it certainly doesn't look either like Metroplex, Fort Max or Omega

Because it's a brand new design not meant to resemble anybody.

And we've already seen it transform, going from a normal looking Army hangar to a Cybertronian building. Having it change into a giant robot of any kind would go against the very point of the training center being a training center.

No the army hangar opens up.....and it comes up from within

That's part of the transformation. The whole hangar was integrated into the entire complex.

Fellow Seibertronians and Rescue Bot's fans alike, Shout Factory is set to release a new dvd titled: 'Transformers: Rescue Bots: Bots' Battle For Justice' DVD From Shout Factory. It can be pre-ordered here, and is listed as being 110 minutes long and priced at $13.93. It is to include the episodes:

1) Transformers Rescue Bots: Rescue Dog

2) Transformers Rescue Bots: The Griffin Rock Express

3) Transformers Rescue Bots: Double Villainy

4) Transformers Rescue Bots: Bugs In The System

5) Transformers Rescue Bots: Pirates Ahoy

The synopsis and dvd cover art have been mirrored below, so check them out, and let us know if you will be pre-ordering this in the comments below.

Synopsis:

The Rescue Bots are kept very busy protecting Griffin Rock. Join them in five exciting adventures as they work together to keep the peace. Cody and the Bots rescue a stray dog, a mysterious superhero watches over Griffith Rock, the team must defeat an evil villain with plans of destroying the island and more as the Bots' Battle For Justice!

Okay, who thought it was a good idea to put Part 1 of the two-part Season 2 finale on this DVD without Part 2? And in the middle of other random episodes?

Probably the same person who insists on packaging single disc releases of random episodes and not proper season sets. Its official, my son told me the other day he is no longer interested in Rescue Bots. He still likes other Transformers, but he has "aged out". I don't blame him, I know things change, but whereas before I would have purchased full season sets for him, now I have basically no reason to.

o.supreme wrote:Probably the same person who insists on packaging single disc releases of random episodes and not proper season sets. Its official, my son told me the other day he is no longer interested in Rescue Bots. He still likes other Transformers, but he has "aged out". I don't blame him, I know things change, but whereas before I would have purchased full season sets for him, now I have basically no reason to.

That's too bad. The show just had its season 4 mid-season climax with episodes 90 and 91 featuring the long-awaited completion of the Rescue Bot Training Center on the mainland.

He asked to see the S4 premiere episode, so I showed it to him online, his reaction was lukewarm, but I have a feeling when they eventually add them to Netflix he will finish the series.

Watched latest ep....Uninvited Guest.....and it's a good one
Bee got his voice back, oh....and there's a big alien slug....Energon Eater...on the loose

For those of us who don't have Discovery Family, since Kisscartoon is taking forever to get this episode uploaded, our old friend Fanoftransformers123 put it on YouTube so watch while you can.

Sabrblade wrote:For those of us who don't have Discovery Family, since Kisscartoon is taking forever to get this episode uploaded, our old friend Fanoftransformers123 put it on YouTube so watch while you can.

Btw i didn't even realize that it was Drift's(RID) ship that Bee turns up in, nice catch

so! Blades was..............Almost Human.......in this latest episode

Looks like Ryan/Seibertron finally got his wish in today's episode with there being an enemy Cybertronian in this one (albeit, a Mini-Con rather than a Decepticon).

And it was another crossover with RID as the Mini-Con was a Cyclone and Sideswipe guest-starred.

Sabrblade wrote:Looks like Ryan/Seibertron finally got his wish in today's episode with there being an enemy Cybertronian in this one (albeit, a Mini-Con rather than a Decepticon).

And it was another crossover with RID as the Mini-Con was a Cyclone and Sideswipe guest-starred.

Does this mean that we'll be getting Sideswipe & minicon RB toys now

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Looks like Ryan/Seibertron finally got his wish in today's episode with there being an enemy Cybertronian in this one (albeit, a Mini-Con rather than a Decepticon).

And it was another crossover with RID as the Mini-Con was a Cyclone and Sideswipe guest-starred.

Does this mean that we'll be getting Sideswipe & minicon RB toys now

Sideswipe is getting a RB toy, yes. And there are RB Mini-Con toys, but not like Bounce. IF he gets a toy, it'll more likely be in the RID line since he was drawn in the episode in the same exact design as Ransack an Backtrack, but with a different deco. The RB Mini-Con toys are instead little helper animals that turn into rescue tools, like Servo.

ok...so after watching the new episode of RiD...my son then decided he wanted to watch the new Rescue Bots..cause I told him I saw on this forum Sideswipe was in it...We watched it...I usually don't catch obscure references but in the beginning when Blurr was racing on the track, and Heatwave said something about "You want to be as fast as Override?"-- I thought that as odd because that was a reference to TF:Cybertron...but I did some research...turns out in the Exiles Novel, they introduced Velocitron etc...Seems like the Aligned Continuity is coming more and more close to the IDW G1 continuity, trying to integrate transformers from all different series...

I've seen the Gameplay of WFC & FoC, and watched all of Prime/RiD15, and *some* of Rescue Bots. I wasn't sure how integral the Novels Exodus/Exiles/Retribution were to the Aligned continuity. Perhaps I should give them a read.

o.supreme wrote:ok...so after watching the new episode of RiD...my son then decided he wanted to watch the new Rescue Bots..cause I told him I saw on this forum Sideswipe was in it...We watched it...I usually don't catch obscure references but in the beginning when Blurr was racing on the track, and Heatwave said something about "You want to be as fast as Override?"-- I thought that as odd because that was a reference to TF:Cybertron...but I did some research...turns out in the Exiles Novel, they introduced Velocitron etc...Seems like the Aligned Continuity is coming more and more close to the IDW G1 continuity, trying to integrate transformers from all different series...

Though, the novels did the colony worlds thing of TF: Cybertron before IDW started doing it.

o.supreme wrote:I've seen the Gameplay of WFC & FoC, and watched all of Prime/RiD15, and *some* of Rescue Bots. I wasn't sure how integral the Novels Exodus/Exiles/Retribution were to the Aligned continuity. Perhaps I should give them a read.

Forewarning: The novels (especially Exiles) are not well written at all (though, I will argue the Retribution was the most-readable of the three), but do provide a LOT of backstory and lore information not found in any other Aligned media (save for the Covenant of Primus book).

Sabrblade wrote:Forewarning: The novels (especially Exiles) are not well written at all (though, I will argue the Retribution was the most-readable of the three), but do provide a LOT of backstory and lore information not found in any other Aligned media (save for the Covenant of Primus book).

Thanks. Just for comparisons sake...how do you think these novels stack up against the Hardwired/Annihilation/Fusion trilogy? I know most fans didn't care for those. But I kind of liked them...at least I seem to recall having mostly positive memories...except the ending. I only read them once over a decade ago. They still sit on my bookshelf with other novels from various series.

Also...I keep wishing they would release the covenant without the whole Autobot symbol/toy thing.

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Forewarning: The novels (especially Exiles) are not well written at all (though, I will argue the Retribution was the most-readable of the three), but do provide a LOT of backstory and lore information not found in any other Aligned media (save for the Covenant of Primus book).

Thanks. Just for comparisons sake...how do you think these novels stack up against the Hardwired/Annihilation/Fusion trilogy? I know most fans didn't care for those. But I kind of liked them...at least I seem to recall having mostly positive memories...except the ending. I only read them once over a decade ago. They still sit on my bookshelf with other novels from various series.

Also...I keep wishing they would release the covenant without the whole Autobot symbol/toy thing.

As one of the few people who read that Keepers trilogy and didn't hate it with a passion... at least there's no human gore or Earth product placement in the Aligned novels? I dunno. Neither trilogy is great by any measure. They're both boring at worst and so-so at best. If I really had to pick a preferred trilogy between the two, I guess I'd go with the Aligned novels since I did genuinely like the dynamic between Orion Pax/Optimus Prime and Megatron in those books (even if the books' attempt to portray Megatron in a sympathetic light still came off as him sounding objectively villain-grade evil more often than not).

Erm.... no episode this weekend?

Stuartmaximus wrote:Erm.... no episode this weekend?

Nope.

Latest episode....A Brush With Danger...was a very James Bond style one

just wish they would hurry up n get to the final ep this season...with Doctor Morocco in it.

Stuartmaximus wrote:Latest episode....A Brush With Danger...was a very James Bond style one

That episode, #100, was from two weeks ago.

If you're going by iTunes's episode releases, iTunes messed up their release order and put out episodes 101 and 102 before episode 100, and put both 101 and 102 out two whole weeks ahead of each's TV airing date.

Something must have gone really wrong there. The order in which all three episodes aired on Discovery Family is like so:
#100: "A Brush With Danger" - October 1, 2016
#101: "To Infinity...And Back" - October 8, 2016
#102: "Family Business" - October 15, 2016 (yesterday)

Though, I must admit that I actually prefer the mistaken order that iTunes released each episode in because that mistake allowed "To Infinite...And Back" to get released first as the 100th episode instead of "A Brush With Danger". The reason I prefer "To Infinite...And Back" to come first as the 100th episode is because it feels more like a 100th episode than "A Brush With Danger" does, what with Dani's test piloting mission in that episode being her 100th mission, and the overall scope of the episode being so grand and epic and wondrous. It just feels more like a celebration episode than much more mundane "A Brush With Danger" does.

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Latest episode....A Brush With Danger...was a very James Bond style one

That episode, #100, was from two weeks ago.

If you're going by iTunes's episode releases, iTunes messed up their release order and put out episodes 101 and 102 before episode 100, and put both 101 and 102 out two whole weeks ahead of each's TV airing date.

Something must have gone really wrong there. The order in which all three episodes aired on Discovery Family is like so:
#100: "A Brush With Danger" - October 1, 2016
#101: "To Infinity...And Back" - October 8, 2016
#102: "Family Business" - October 15, 2016 (yesterday)

Though, I must admit that I actually prefer the mistaken order that iTunes released each episode in because that mistake allowed "To Infinite...And Back" to get released first as the 100th episode instead of "A Brush With Danger". The reason I prefer "To Infinite...And Back" to come first as the 100th episode is because it feels more like a 100th episode than "A Brush With Danger" does, what with Dani's test piloting mission in that episode being her 100th mission, and the overall scope of the episode being so grand and epic and wondrous. It just feels more like a celebration episode than much more mundane "A Brush With Danger" does.

I guess that must be it! coz Family Business i saw last week, and that Infinity one the week before, i've just read that the 2 part Morocco story is next! just hope they don't show those in the wrong order! otherwise we'll have the outcome before the set up.

Just watched the first part of the two part Morocco story & it was great
since Morocco has invaded the Training Centre's computer systems i wonder if he'll transform it to robot mode(of whom i still think is Grandus) coz it would be a bit like Megatron taking over Omega Supreme in TFA

Stuartmaximus wrote:Just watched the first part of the two part Morocco story & it was great
since Morocco has invaded the Training Centre's computer systems i wonder if he'll transform it to robot mode(of whom i still think is Grandus) coz it would be a bit like Megatron taking over Omega Supreme in TFA

Well come on, man! Dont hold out on us! Where did you find it?

Flashwave wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Just watched the first part of the two part Morocco story & it was great
since Morocco has invaded the Training Centre's computer systems i wonder if he'll transform it to robot mode(of whom i still think is Grandus) coz it would be a bit like Megatron taking over Omega Supreme in TFA

Well come on, man! Dont hold out on us! Where did you find it?

Looks like iTunes dun goofed again and released it last Saturday. Stu probably watched it on Kisscartoon as it's up on there now.

Sabrblade wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Just watched the first part of the two part Morocco story & it was great
since Morocco has invaded the Training Centre's computer systems i wonder if he'll transform it to robot mode(of whom i still think is Grandus) coz it would be a bit like Megatron taking over Omega Supreme in TFA

Well come on, man! Dont hold out on us! Where did you find it?

Looks like iTunes dun goofed again and released it last Saturday. Stu probably watched it on Kisscartoon as it's up on there now.

Yeah a sort of similar style site of the same idea, but like Sabr said...you'll find it on Kisscartoon too