Transformers: Robots In Disguise: Constance Zimmer Potentially Confirms Season 3

I'm sure CN or someone could cancel the show before this makes it through finalization, but I still sincerely hope there's a season three. I really want them to explore that whole Cybertron council thing that Ratchet hinted at in the finale.

MrBlack wrote:I wouldn't mind seeing Jazz again, either.

That's a high possibility. Jazz answers directly to the council IIRC from "Can You Dig It?", so if they do expand it next season, we could be seeing him once again. Perhaps as part of the new "team" on Cybertron.

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm sure CN or someone could cancel the show before this makes it through finalization, but I still sincerely hope there's a season three. I really want them to explore that whole Cybertron council thing that Ratchet hinted at in the finale.

MrBlack wrote:I wouldn't mind seeing Jazz again, either.

That's a high possibility. Jazz answers directly to the council IIRC from "Can You Dig It?", so if they do expand it next season, we could be seeing him once again. Perhaps as part of the new "team" on Cybertron.

Did season 2 already end? Was Jazz in season 2 also? How many episodes were in season 2?

Seibertron wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm sure CN or someone could cancel the show before this makes it through finalization, but I still sincerely hope there's a season three. I really want them to explore that whole Cybertron council thing that Ratchet hinted at in the finale.

MrBlack wrote:I wouldn't mind seeing Jazz again, either.

That's a high possibility. Jazz answers directly to the council IIRC from "Can You Dig It?", so if they do expand it next season, we could be seeing him once again. Perhaps as part of the new "team" on Cybertron.

Did season 2 already end? Was Jazz in season 2 also? How many episodes were in season 2?

Season 2 ended in the UK, but Part 1 of its two-part finale will air on Cartoon Network in the U.S. tomorrow morning. Jazz was not in season 2 (but another familiar face is). Season 2 has only 13 episodes. Season 3 will air in the Fall according to an interview TFormers did with Hasbro at BotCon.

Though, with Ms. Zimmer posting about her recording new episodes, surely the episodes set to air this Fall must be done by now, right? Storyboarder Kirk Van Wormer previously Tweeted about working on "Season 4", so this recording session that Zimmer Tweet could very well be for the show's fourth season.

TV cartoons typically take 9-12 months to produce. When they're not ADR/post dubbed (ala Armada, Energon, Cybertron), the voice recording comes first (per Beast Wars, Beast Machines). If Zimmer is currently or recently recording Strongarm, the implication is that next year a new season (or other incarnation, e.g.: movie) would appear.

Deathsanras wrote:TV cartoons typically take 9-12 months to produce. When they're not ADR/post dubbed (ala Armada, Energon, Cybertron), the voice recording comes first (per Beast Wars, Beast Machines). If Zimmer is currently or recently recording Strongarm, the implication is that next year a new season (or other incarnation, e.g.: movie) would appear.

Yeah, so, the recordings for the Fall episodes should be done by now, so I guess Kirk Van Wormer was serious when he said that he was storyboarding for "Season 4".

In other words, WOOO, Season 4's coming, guys!

Sabrblade wrote:

Deathsanras wrote:TV cartoons typically take 9-12 months to produce. When they're not ADR/post dubbed (ala Armada, Energon, Cybertron), the voice recording comes first (per Beast Wars, Beast Machines). If Zimmer is currently or recently recording Strongarm, the implication is that next year a new season (or other incarnation, e.g.: movie) would appear.

Yeah, so, the recordings for the Fall episodes should be done by now, so I guess Kirk Van Wormer was serious when he said that he was storyboarding for "Season 4".

In other words, WOOO, Season 4's coming, guys!

Respectfully, I must reply to this deduction with a very modest

HELL YEAH!

Now that Season 3 has been confirmed for this Fall, will Bumblebee's voice actor, Will Friedle, finally get to voice a Decepticon for the new season?

psj333 wrote:Now that Season 3 has been confirmed for this Fall, will Bumblebee's voice actor, Will Friedle, finally get to voice a Decepticon for the new season?

What do you mean "finally"? He's already voiced a Decepticon. He voiced Chop Shop's component Righty.

Sabrblade wrote:What do you mean "finally"? He's already voiced a Decepticon. He voiced Chop Shop's component Righty.

Righty doesn't speak nor he has any dialogue for the role. Also, he is not a Decepticon, but a Minicon. Deal with it!.

psj333 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:What do you mean "finally"? He's already voiced a Decepticon. He voiced Chop Shop's component Righty.

Righty doesn't speak nor he has any dialogue for the role. Also, he is not a Decepticon, but a Minicon. Deal with it!.

Go watch the show again. He has a voice. He makes noises. Cackling noises. Those were done by Will Friedle. That counts as a voice role. Friedle's even credited for it in the show's end credits. YOU deal with it.

Also, Mini-Cons are faction-aligned. He's a Decepticon, and treated as one by this show.

Also also, what is your source for labeling him a Mini-Con? The show never did that.

Yeah, chop shop was a combiner decepticon. he was never labelled a minicon

I'm sure that most of you do already know that the Decepticons for this show have mostly animal robot modes and vehicle modes, while a few of them still do retained their original Beast Wars transformations, that is: humanoid robot modes and beast modes. Which brings me to say that should Hasbro decides to introduce a spy character (excluding Shifters) for Season 3, is it likely that they might possibly introduce a character that has two robot modes, and two alt modes, just like the one in Animated way back in 2008? We all do know that Shockwave or Longarm as he was called by the Autobots has two human robot modes and two vehicle modes. With that said, I was just wondering if they can use this same concept for Robots In Disguise in the near future, mostly likely in Season 3, or quite possibly even in Season 4. Only this time, however, they will most likely introduce a character that has either one human robot mode, one animal robot mode, and one vehicle mode, or even better, that is, two human robot modes, one beast mode, and one vehicle mode? I mean, how cool would that be for a spy character like that in Robots In Disguise for Season 3 and Season 4? What are your thoughts? Why and why not?

Are Vehicons the new Seekers? Maybe someday we'll get a bunch of those multicolored Vehicons as new figures... That'd be cool.

Was Grimlock's new disguise supposed to be a reference to the other RiD Grimlock? I know I certainly thought of that guy, even if it's not an exact match.

Optimum Supreme wrote:Are Vehicons the new Seekers? Maybe someday we'll get a bunch of those multicolored Vehicons as new figures... That'd be cool.

Was Grimlock's new disguise supposed to be a reference to the other RiD Grimlock? I know I certainly thought of that guy, even if it's not an exact match.

It was meant to be a reference, yeah. To be fair RiD Grimlock is also the only other Grimlock that's green and speaks in full sentences, so this was just completing the reference it seems.

If by 'new seekers' you mean cannon fodder that come out of nowhere just so the Autobots have something to punch... yeah, I guess so. I doubt we'll get those Vehicons tbh since they played so minor a role - and if they get a new non-redeco figure before friggin' Glowstrike and Saberhorn I just give up.

So I saw the first part of Decepticon Island.

Here's my big, GIANT problem with it:

The Autobots mention that they don't have time to call Cybertron and get a strike team there in time to help them. I've always hated the fact that they've completely ignored Unit E's space bridge, but this was the last straw. Optimus, Bumblebee, and Ratchet are all there and they've all used it! And it would literally do exactly what they just said couldn't be done! Ratchet's appearance gave them the perfect chance to explain what happened to it; they could have one-lined it away with a "too bad Unit E's space bridge was dismantled" or something, and they didn't do it.

Don't get me wrong, I like the show, but the only way I can watch it is as a sequel to events that happened similar to, but not exactly like, Prime, the same way you have to look at the Aligned books, comics, and games. Because otherwise, if you take RiD as a direct sequel to Prime, the way it's billed, Unicron could fit through the plot holes.

WiseMan wrote:So I saw the first part of Decepticon Island.

Here's my big, GIANT problem with it:

The Autobots mention that they don't have time to call Cybertron and get a strike team there in time to help them. I've always hated the fact that they've completely ignored Unit E's space bridge, but this was the last straw. Optimus, Bumblebee, and Ratchet are all there and they've all used it! And it would literally do exactly what they just said couldn't be done! Ratchet's appearance gave them the perfect chance to explain what happened to it; they could have one-lined it away with a "too bad Unit E's space bridge was dismantled" or something, and they didn't do it.

Don't get me wrong, I like the show, but the only way I can watch it is as a sequel to events that happened similar to, but not exactly like, Prime, the same way you have to look at the Aligned books, comics, and games. Because otherwise, if you take RiD as a direct sequel to Prime, the way it's billed, Unicron could fit through the plot holes.

We don't know how much time has passed on Earth between Prime and RiD. Both Bumblebee and Ratchet have considerably aged since the previous series, and there certainly had to be time for Cybertron to massively repopulate the way it did by the time of Pilot (Part 1), let-alone for Strongarm, Sideswipe, and the Minicons to be born and for a new council to be established. That stuff just doesn't happen overnight. Unit: E could be roof-deep in sand and Jack, Miko, and Raf could be long dead.

>when you want to read but your phone won't let you highlight the spoiler tag

I think it was stated 10 years had passed. If the question was about "why don't they just call unit:e/fowler/etc."... That's a bit of a problem I've had with the series as a whole. The criticism can be applied the momemt Bumblebee stepped on Earth in Pilot Part 1.

Kurona wrote:>when you want to read but your phone won't let you highlight the spoiler tag

I think it was stated 10 years had passed. If the question was about "why don't they just call unit:e/fowler/etc."... That's a bit of a problem I've had with the series as a whole. The criticism can be applied the momemt Bumblebee stepped on Earth in Pilot Part 1.

I'd like to see a source for that, honestly. Because every official announcement regarding the series I've ever seen has given a vague time period like "years after" or "set some time after the events of". The Unicron Trilogy set each of their shows 10 years after the last, but this isn't Energon.

Also, I'd honestly be shocked and disturbed that Strongarm is 10 years old, or younger.

PrymeStriker wrote:We don't know how much time has passed on Earth between Prime and RiD. Both Bumblebee and Ratchet have considerably aged since the previous series, and there certainly had to be time for Cybertron to massively repopulate the way it did by the time of Pilot (Part 1), let-alone for Strongarm, Sideswipe, and the Minicons to be born and for a new council to be established. That stuff just doesn't happen overnight. Unit: E could be roof-deep in sand and Jack, Miko, and Raf could be long dead.

Cybertron would have been repopulated seconds after the ending of Predacons Rising; otherwise all of those sparks would have just died. Though it would have take time to rebuild Cybertron.

And call me crazy, but if I had an artifact like the space bridge that was my only hope to save myself against an alien incursion like the one that just happened, I'd be pretty damn sure to make sure it doesn't get lost.

PrymeStriker wrote:Also, I'd honestly be shocked and disturbed that Strongarm is 10 years old, or younger.

I mean, that sort of thing happens all thr time in Transformers and no-one blinks an eye - probably because they're robots.
The dinobots, stunticons and quite a few others back in G1, Airazor was implied in Beast Wars; eveb as recent as Wreck-Gar and the Constructicons in Animated.
It's really nothing new. It sounds and feels weird sure, but likely because it's the first time you've really actually thought and stated to yourself "... Wait, that would make her ten years old."

In any case, I'm not actually sure if it is ten years, was just going by memory. I don't really think it was enough time for Raf to have lived his whole life though, and you'd think something on the subject would have been said by now.