First Look Transformers Cyberworld Cartoon Models Including Megatron as a Bull

This appears to be a mockup of what I'm guessing is the Toy Fair booth so I guess we'll see these displayed in March. (Apparently Toy Fair goes back to being in February next year.)

Emerje

So - Prime is still a truck. Bumblebee is still a car. But Megatron is a... 'bull'.

Sigh.

Just when you think Hasbro can't act any more bewildered and clueless about what Megatron's alt mode should be, they crank it down yet another notch.

The designs for the show look promising. Very curious about the premise.

DeathReviews wrote:Just when you think Hasbro can't act any more bewildered and clueless about what Megatron's alt mode should be, they crank it down yet another notch.

I definitely couldn't disagree more. I love new takes on characters. My all-time favorite Megatron appearance is his Armada look, which is wildly different from his evergreen design.

Honestly, my only complaint is that I wish Optimus and Bumblebee were a bit more unique.

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:The designs for the show look promising. Very curious about the premise.

DeathReviews wrote:Just when you think Hasbro can't act any more bewildered and clueless about what Megatron's alt mode should be, they crank it down yet another notch.

I definitely couldn't disagree more. I love new takes on characters. My all-time favorite Megatron appearance is his Armada look, which is wildly different from his evergreen design.

Honestly, my only complaint is that I wish Optimus and Bumblebee were a bit more unique.

Yeah, I agree. Let's get some originality and creativity in the franchise again. We need an Armada level departure from the norms as G1 has been driven into the ground.

LE0KING wrote:

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:The designs for the show look promising. Very curious about the premise.

DeathReviews wrote:Just when you think Hasbro can't act any more bewildered and clueless about what Megatron's alt mode should be, they crank it down yet another notch.

I definitely couldn't disagree more. I love new takes on characters. My all-time favorite Megatron appearance is his Armada look, which is wildly different from his evergreen design.

Honestly, my only complaint is that I wish Optimus and Bumblebee were a bit more unique.

Yeah, I agree. Let's get some originality and creativity in the franchise again. We need an Armada level departure from the norms as G1 has been driven into the ground.

Not if the 'new' stuff is trash (coughcoughcoughEarthsparkCyberverseRIDcoughcoughcough). They can do a lot better in terms of 'originality' than making Megatron a bull. Even that can be considered "G1" since Predacon Tantrum is a bull. Therefore it can be said this "Megabull" thing isn't original at all, they're just rehashing G1 Tantrum and shuffling the names around.

Transformers ONE's Quintesson was original, but it's the biggest shelf-warmer in that line. It does no good to make something original if it doesn't sell. Hasbro has been having a rough time lately (hark how many articles we get with verbiage like 'Hasbro is in trouble', and 'sales are down from ____ quarter', and 'failed to meet expectations'. Doing something wholly original means taking a huge risk. And they've taken enough hits lately that risk-taking isn't something they're going to do without assurance of good ROI.

It's Horri-Bull.

DeathReviews wrote:Not if the 'new' stuff is trash (coughcoughcoughEarthsparkCyberverseRIDcoughcoughcough).

Two out of three of those use very G1-inspired designs in their own art style.

Also, nobody has seen this yet. So we don't know one way or the other whether it will be trash or good, and therefore that has no bearing on the design yet. Beast Wars and Animated were both initially trashed for using new/different designs, but ended up quickly becoming fan favorites.

I honestly don’t care what the designs are (love Megatron tho), as long as the episodes aren’t 10-minutes and the writing is good. The other Cyber show started out a little meh but by season 3 was a true staple of the franchise, both in its excellent visual design and expanded storytelling to other characters and concepts.
Though anyone saying Earthspark sucks is crazy. Say what you will regarding quality post-season 1, but there will always be something special there in regards to original characterization.

In the Cyberworld toyline thread, user William-james88 posted some text from a Hasbro funding page related to the reveal of the the Cyberworld toyline.

I'm not going to post the whole thing here (you can check out that thread if you want to see it), but I want to draw attention to a very relevant detail here:

Travel to the Nuremberg Toy Fair in Germany during the last week of January and produce an exciting, high-energy reveal video – potentially with an animation component – to help build anticipation for Hasbro’s new Transformers: CYBERWORLD toy line and its accompanying YouTube Series.

It seems that Cyberworld will be a YouTube series, not a full animated series. This has effectively killed most of my optimism for the series.

The Transformers Cyberworld series comes to Youtube in a month and a half. Below is the trailer and description from Hasbro.

Welcome to CYBERWORLD the Brand New Series Launching July 12th on Transformers Official!

Join Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Elita-1, Megatron, Grimlock, and more as they’re hurled into the hostile and unknown landscapes of CYBERWORLD. Stranded, disoriented and with no memory of how they got there, they must face a gauntlet of extreme, game-like challenges designed to test their strength, skill and level up as they are pushed to their limit.

Subscribe to the Transformers Channel: https://bit.ly/37mNTUz

I didn't expect Cyberworld to be such a literal title. Feels like Transformers X Reboot.

Emerje

That makes it sound bad. Like so many other TV shows and movies
. Reboot - sure sounds like it!

Cheetron wrote:That makes it sound bad. Like so many other TV shows and movies
. Reboot - sure sounds like it!

No no. Not "Reboot"...

"ReBoot"

Yo, where my Digimon at in this? Feels like a missed opportunity.

Silver Wind wrote:Yo, where my Digimon at in this?

Owned by Hasbro and Takara's competitor: Bandai.

Sabrblade wrote:

Cheetron wrote:That makes it sound bad. Like so many other TV shows and movies
. Reboot - sure sounds like it!

No no. Not "Reboot"...

"ReBoot"

That's what i meant. Except for season 3. Adult Enzo was like a train wreck. The saga of 2 Bob's? Ugh. Autocorrect messed the previous post up.

Sabrblade wrote:

Silver Wind wrote:Yo, where my Digimon at in this?

Owned by Hasbro and Takara's competitor: Bandai.

whoooooosh

(also cutting half my post unnecessarily, not cool)

The Transformers Youtube page is releasing shorts showing character models and stats for the new Transformers Cyberworld show. They started off with Optimus, of course, who looks very much like a toy. It's interesting that both Hasbro and Takara are having their current media be 5 minute youtube shows with extremely toyetic character models. We will post more as they come out.

Sneak peek clip:

And here comes Episodes 1 and 2, combined into a single video:

I watched it and it's good, really good. I like the newer take on Optimus Prime and the Squid Gamesesq story. Now to see if this gets a tie in mobile or Switch game.

We thank Sabrblade for letting us know that the first two episodes of Cyberworld are out, as one video. This will only air on Youtube.

Let us know what you think. It seems to be far more of a toy commercial than any Transformers show from the past decade, with character models being almost exactly like the toys, ball joints and all.

Sabrblade wrote:And here comes Episodes 1 and 2, combined into a single video:

william-james88 wrote:It seems to be far more of a toy commercial than any Transformers show from the past decade, with character models being almost exactly like the toys, ball joints and all.

Wild King: "Am I a joke to you?"

Did anybody catch when Optimus's side view mirrors popped out, and they had cybertronian writing on them? I'll bet you dollars to Donuts it said objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Did anybody catch when Optimus's side view mirrors popped out, and they had cybertronian writing on them? I'll bet you dollars to Donuts it said objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are.

Well, one could always just translate it to find out.



To say nothing of the obvious Jurassic Park reference, on top of other references in these episodes to such things as Super Smash Bros and Dragon Ball Z.

Not that impressed with it. The Family Guy and Yamcha poses are amusing, and so is the design for Megatron, but the polished AI animation vibes (with possible AI theme song), the 2D VFX sticking out more, and the Joss Whedon-esque writing quality makes me think "I'll probably skip the rest".

With this and Wild King basically being scaled back filler media, and there being prior shows and films I could always revisit, I think I won't need to revisit either show (though a very small part of me wants Wild King Prime and Megs for their shared shrine in my TF collection.

Seeing 'bull' Megatron in action wasn't any better than seeing the reveals for the toy. Ugh. If the only reason they did that was so they could have that one scene where Megatron uses his horns and hooves to smash targets? Vs. Bumblebee shooting just one and winning the 'game'? Fine, they showed it. We all had a good laugh, tee hee hee. But the joke's over now -make him a tank again.

Yeah definitely more toy commercial. The animation was at least decent. Prime seems more like a version of Peter Parker than himself though.

Not bad. Definitely seen better, though.

It reminded me of the tonal misfire of TF1's trailer - far too focused on trying to make it comedic. Trying to turn every line of dialog into an MCU punchline made this very tiresome very quickly. I made it through about 3 minutes.

Good luck with it.

Episodes 1 and 2 have been uploaded separately as individual videos:





Note that the descriptions written the titles of these videos are not necessarily the actual titles of the episodes, as Episode 1's video went through three different descriptions since its initial upload. First it was "Rumble in the Jungle", then "Jungle Face-Off", and now it's "Jungle Escape". Episode 2's "Bumblebee and Megatron Team Up in Target Challenge" description may also change later on.

EDIT: I didn't see before that the Episode 2 video also includes Episode 1 at the end of it. Ugh.

Episode 2 finally got uploaded as individual episode:




And here's Episode 3 ...with Episode 2 slapped onto the back end of it. Oy vey. They really don't want us to watch these individually at first, do they?

Episode 3 uploaded by itself:

Episode 4 (with Episode 3 slapped on afterward):

They finally uploaded episode 4 by itself:

Episode 5, "Smoke & Mirrors" (plus Episode 4 attached to the back half of the video):

It seems like they're playing fast and loose with the factions.