Transformers: Robots In Disguise US English Airing and Titles Episodes 12-16

15. Even Robots Have Nightmares:
When Denny and the Bots are captured, Russell must keep his cool to protect the team from a Decepticon who gives life to the Autobots’ worst fears.

16. Some Body, Any Body
When the Team’s latest quarry leaves Sideswipe powerless, the young Autobot must learn that he can’t always rely on his physical prowess.

17. One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing
Drift returns to Earth in pursuit of disgruntled runaway Jetstorm – just as the Bee Team must contend with Springload and Quillfire flying the coop.

18. Deep Trouble
Description missing; Episode 17's description is repeated instead

19. The Champ
When a Decepticon Gladiator and his cheating Manager enter a human Demolition Derby, Grimlock, Denny and Fixit pose as competitors.

20. The Trouble With Fixit
An attempt to fix ailing Fixit goes horribly wrong, converting the Mini-Con into a fully weaponized and lethal prison guard who mistakes the Bee Team for Decepticon fugitives.

Sabrblade wrote:Episodes 15-20 are already on the Australian iTunes for purchasing and watching!

15. Even Robots Have Nightmares:
When Denny and the Bots are captured, Russell must keep his cool to protect the team from a Decepticon who gives life to the Autobots’ worst fears.

16. Some Body, Any Body
When the Team’s latest quarry leaves Sideswipe powerless, the young Autobot must learn that he can’t always rely on his physical prowess.

17. One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing
Drift returns to Earth in pursuit of disgruntled runaway Jetstorm – just as the Bee Team must contend with Springload and Quillfire flying the coop.

18. Deep Trouble
Description missing; Episode 17's description is repeated instead

19. The Champ
When a Decepticon Gladiator and his cheating Manager enter a human Demolition Derby, Grimlock, Denny and Fixit pose as competitors.

20. The Trouble With Fixit
An attempt to fix ailing Fixit goes horribly wrong, converting the Mini-Con into a fully weaponized and lethal prison guard who mistakes the Bee Team for Decepticon fugitives.

Sabrblade wrote:

psj333 wrote:In episode #19, a new Decepticon named, Groundpounder will challenge Grimlock in a televised match. Is Groundpounder also a Dinobot, like Grimlock is, or he is an entirely different large animal? If he is really a entirely different animal, I hope that he possess a vehicle mode, just like other Decepticons, excluding, Filch, Chop Shop, and formerly Grimlock.

We don't know.

MoonHelix-888 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

psj333 wrote:In episode #19, a new Decepticon named, Groundpounder will challenge Grimlock in a televised match. Is Groundpounder also a Dinobot, like Grimlock is, or he is an entirely different large animal? If he is really a entirely different animal, I hope that he possess a vehicle mode, just like other Decepticons, excluding, Filch, Chop Shop, and formerly Grimlock.

We don't know.

Yes we do, actually.

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Sabrblade wrote:

MoonHelix-888 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

psj333 wrote:In episode #19, a new Decepticon named, Groundpounder will challenge Grimlock in a televised match. Is Groundpounder also a Dinobot, like Grimlock is, or he is an entirely different large animal? If he is really a entirely different animal, I hope that he possess a vehicle mode, just like other Decepticons, excluding, Filch, Chop Shop, and formerly Grimlock.

We don't know.

Yes we do, actually.

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You're the first person to ever post that pic on this site. At the time my post was made, no one knew anything about the episodes to come.

MoonHelix-888 wrote:I got the picture from a Korean commercial for the show.

Sabrblade wrote:

MoonHelix-888 wrote:I got the picture from a Korean commercial for the show.

Said commercial hasn't been seen here.

MoonHelix-888 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

MoonHelix-888 wrote:I got the picture from a Korean commercial for the show.

Said commercial hasn't been seen here.

https://youtu.be/xcZQWQkcEPY
Here's the link to the commercial
Upload date: April 20.

Sabrblade wrote:

MoonHelix-888 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

MoonHelix-888 wrote:I got the picture from a Korean commercial for the show.

Said commercial hasn't been seen here.

https://youtu.be/xcZQWQkcEPY
Here's the link to the commercial
Upload date: April 20.

How strange that the music is "New Divide" by Linkin Park.

Va'al wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

MoonHelix-888 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

MoonHelix-888 wrote:I got the picture from a Korean commercial for the show.

Said commercial hasn't been seen here.

https://youtu.be/xcZQWQkcEPY
Here's the link to the commercial
Upload date: April 20.

How strange that the music is "New Divide" by Linkin Park.

And something I wasn't aware of: Korean subtitles on Japanese dub. Is this always the case? Or am I mishearing the Korean dub?

MagnusLabel wrote:

Va'al wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

MoonHelix-888 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

MoonHelix-888 wrote:I got the picture from a Korean commercial for the show.

Said commercial hasn't been seen here.

https://youtu.be/xcZQWQkcEPY
Here's the link to the commercial
Upload date: April 20.

How strange that the music is "New Divide" by Linkin Park.

And something I wasn't aware of: Korean subtitles on Japanese dub. Is this always the case? Or am I mishearing the Korean dub?

It's Korean at all.

Munkky wrote:While I haven't seen any of these new episodes, I've looked up some images of the new Decepticons, and the designs are pretty good. Vertebreak in particular reminds me a bit of Smaug from the Hobbit movies (it's probably the chin), while Nightstrike is nice and creepy-looking as a nightmare-inducing vampire bat should be

NuclearConvoy wrote:

Munkky wrote:While I haven't seen any of these new episodes, I've looked up some images of the new Decepticons, and the designs are pretty good. Vertebreak in particular reminds me a bit of Smaug from the Hobbit movies (it's probably the chin), while Nightstrike is nice and creepy-looking as a nightmare-inducing vampire bat should be

What site has the pictures up already?

psj333 wrote:On the TFWiki.net website, 4 new Decepticons have been introduced: Nightstrike, Vertebreak, Octopunch, and Groundpounder. Unfortunately for them however, TFWiki.net has listed the first three Decepticons as cartoon-only characters, whereas the last one doesn`t. Does that mean that Nightstrike, Vertabreak, and Octopunch won`t be getting an action figure, and that Groundpounder will?

PrymeStriker wrote:Holy crap that's a lot of episodes. Where did those come from?

PrymeStriker wrote:Holy crap that's a lot of episodes. Where did those come from?

Anyways, I don't have time to watch them all right now, so I just went with Episode 15, "Even Robots Have Nightmares," for now. It was your pretty average "fear" episode. I feel like I've seen a lot of the plot threads before. However, it wasn't a bad episode and definitely far from unenjoyable. I still liked it for its use of the human characters. Plus, my inner child chuckled at "Let's gas it up and blow it out!"

Flashwave wrote:I gotta admit, as cool as the Cons are, I'm starting to get tired of the Villan of the Day setyp. I really hope that as we get more info out of Prime and Fixit a-la this last episode, we start to adress what I think is the most important question of the series. One that even psj has missed (I think) and one that could be a complete gamechanger: Why did the Alchemor crash, in the first place? Was it "Instant Army, just add water" sabotge, or is it hust Earth's luck that starships rain down from the heavens?

Burn wrote:The Villain of the Day thing got old for me with the first few episodes. 20 episodes in and I'm left wondering "What's the point of this show?"

Aside from some "rising evil" which Bumblebee has to prepare for, it's usually just the same thing each episode with the Autobots having to capture a Decepticon or two, with some underlying message of team work and a member of the team learning a valuable lesson...oh and Bumblebee trying to come up with a catch phrase.

You get the same sort of thing with Rescue Bots only it's a case of "emergency of the week" and quite frankly, Rescue Bots is far more enjoyable.

Sabrblade wrote:Episode 15 - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2se71p
Episode 16 - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2se77p
Episode 17 - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sfm3u
Episode 18 - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sfmf2
Episode 19 - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sfmvm
Episode 20 - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sfn9g

Sabrblade wrote:we're brought back to Burn's original question of what the point of this show is. As far as can be told from this point, its point is currently the same as it's been from the start: To recapture the escaped Decepticon criminals, with possibly something else bigger to come later on that's being built up at an extremely gradual rate.

Burn wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:we're brought back to Burn's original question of what the point of this show is. As far as can be told from this point, its point is currently the same as it's been from the start: To recapture the escaped Decepticon criminals, with possibly something else bigger to come later on that's being built up at an extremely gradual rate.

Know what bugs me the most about recapturing escaped Decepticons?

The lack of backup from Cybertron.

Burn wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:we're brought back to Burn's original question of what the point of this show is. As far as can be told from this point, its point is currently the same as it's been from the start: To recapture the escaped Decepticon criminals, with possibly something else bigger to come later on that's being built up at an extremely gradual rate.

Know what bugs me the most about recapturing escaped Decepticons?

The lack of backup from Cybertron.

Sabrblade wrote:Well, up until Jazz came along, Cybertron didn't know about the Alchemor's crash-landing, and Bee bridged to Earth illegally and with no way of contacting Cybertron, so Cybertron is both unaware of the Decepticon fugitives on Earth and think's Bee's gone AWOL, so they wouldn't be sending help to someone they put a bounty on.

Burn wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Well, up until Jazz came along, Cybertron didn't know about the Alchemor's crash-landing, and Bee bridged to Earth illegally and with no way of contacting Cybertron, so Cybertron is both unaware of the Decepticon fugitives on Earth and think's Bee's gone AWOL, so they wouldn't be sending help to someone they put a bounty on.

I'm well aware of all of that.

But surely by now Jazz would have contacted Cybertron, heck, I thought Drift might have as well.

Or you know, a prison ship full of Decepticons missing ... surely THAT would warrant more looking into.

Guess Cybertronian hierarchy has gone down the crapper since Optimus died.

Burn wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Well, up until Jazz came along, Cybertron didn't know about the Alchemor's crash-landing, and Bee bridged to Earth illegally and with no way of contacting Cybertron, so Cybertron is both unaware of the Decepticon fugitives on Earth and think's Bee's gone AWOL, so they wouldn't be sending help to someone they put a bounty on.

I'm well aware of all of that.

But surely by now Jazz would have contacted Cybertron, heck, I thought Drift might have as well.

Or you know, a prison ship full of Decepticons missing ... surely THAT would warrant more looking into.

Guess Cybertronian hierarchy has gone down the crapper since Optimus died.

The producer and head writer for Cartoon Network’s “Robots in Disguise,” Beechen shared with SPINOFF how he’s working to open up Transformers to a younger audience while building on the stories that have come before. He also explained what it’s like to tap “Batman Beyond’s” Will Friedel as the voice of Bumblebee, teased the show’s long-term mysteries about the fate of Optimus Prime, and more.

Spinoff Online: Over the past few years, Hasbro has kept the continuity from all their various “Transformers” franchises unified in one way or another between TV and video games and comics. This show is a step forward in that idea since it takes the premise past the “Autobots and Decepticons crash-landed on Earth.” What’s it like to be writing what is the forefront of the canon in some respect?

Adam Beechen: I think that I had the benefit coming in of never having worked on the Transformers franchise before. I didn’t write for “Prime.” And so I wasn’t as emotionally tied to all of the continuity elements that a lot of the people who had worked on that show had been. And it’s great that they are because they’re a wonderful resource for me to find out background info I need. But my main goal coming into this series was, “Let’s make this a show for Bumblebee. Let’s give him the exposure he hasn’t really had in a brand new way.” And as part of that, we get to introduce a bunch of new characters for a new generation of viewers that they can get attached to. It’s still part of the larger Transformers universe, but you don’t have to know 30 years of history to enjoy them, appreciate them and just have fun.

And the show then can serve as a bridge tonally between “Rescue Bots” and “Transformers Prime.” The kids aging out of “Rescue Bots” can jump onto “Robots in Disguise” and still feel at home. But at the same time, they have a little bit more serious adventures with a little bit higher stakes. And then they can ease into all the giant continuity that the series have put together.

[...]

Is it liberating as a showrunner when you work with a company like Hasbro and you have a guaranteed order for a long run on the series?

It doesn’t so much change your approach, but you know how many episodes you have, so you pace out the story you’re telling accordingly. Typically what happens in a situation like this is that at the start of the season you sit down with the brand team and find out what their plans are in terms of the upcoming seasons – as in calendar seasons – for what toys they’re releasing when and what kind of story elements they’d like to see in the upcoming episodes. You have that meeting and plan out episodes according to that, but doing so in a way that tells the best possible stories. You’re not just cramming toys in there. You want to tell a cool story and help with what they’re doing as well. And it just runs from there.

It’s pretty rare that a brand will come back to you in the middle of your season and say, “By the way, we’ve come up with a new figure that will be on the shelves of the toy stores tomorrow. Get it into the next episode!” There’s not any time for things like that. So after that initial meeting, you’re well aware of what you want to do over the course of the season and how to make everyone happy. From there, you’re free to tell the coolest stories you can.

And what about the comics side of all this? Frequently, there will be a kid-friendly comic version that ties into the show in a way that fleshes out what we see on screen. Is that the case for July’s series from IDW?

We’re very aware of what’s happening with the comics, and we love what IDW has done with this world. That factors into our thinking, and we’ve had the good fortune of having one of the key comic book writers – Mairghread Scott, who you may or may not be familiar with – work with us. Mairghread was the script coordinator on our series, and she graduated quickly to being one of the key writers on the show. She is a living repository of all things Transformers, and so she knows what’s gone on across every single medium the characters have ever appeared in. As we were working, she’d say, “The comics have already been there. You may want to do something different with an episode.” Or she may say to the comic editors, “The show did this thing, so it would be kind of cool if you tied it in this way.” I can’t say for sure how all the comics will reflect the series, but we’re definitely aware of each other as we go forward

PrymeStriker wrote:I like how the article says "years after the events of the films and Transformers Prime" as if the movies are in the same continuity.

Optimum Supreme wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I like how the article says "years after the events of the films and Transformers Prime" as if the movies are in the same continuity.

" Over the past few years, Hasbro has kept the continuity from all their various “Transformers” franchises unified in one way or another between TV and video games and comics." is a good one, too. About the only place that's true is in how TFWIKI decides to smush certain versions of characters onto the same page, no matter how they don't actually belong together, like the WFC and Prime characters, just because Hasbro has made this inaccurate claim.

MoonHelix-888 wrote:

Optimum Supreme wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I like how the article says "years after the events of the films and Transformers Prime" as if the movies are in the same continuity.

" Over the past few years, Hasbro has kept the continuity from all their various “Transformers” franchises unified in one way or another between TV and video games and comics." is a good one, too. About the only place that's true is in how TFWIKI decides to smush certain versions of characters onto the same page, no matter how they don't actually belong together, like the WFC and Prime characters, just because Hasbro has made this inaccurate claim.

Yeah, someone should talk to TFWiki about this. It's a great site, but this is so far the main complaint I have about it.

psj333 wrote:Does Nightstrike really have a vehicle mode , or does he transform into a human, much like Filch, since that he hasn't transform yet in the series?

psj333 wrote:So basically, what you`re trying to tell me, NuclearConvoy, is that the circles attached to his wings are wheels, meaning that Nightstrike is very likely to have a vehicle mode.