More Previously Unseen Art from Generation 1 Transformers Cartoon

I love it! Besides the way dynamic compositions they kinda remind me of the doodles you'd see on me and my friends denim trapper keepers. And I love those big heads!

starfish wrote:Just putting it out there, but here’s my theory about the Bluestreak colour swap.

Bluestreak was originally supposed to be blue, hence the name

Naha

He was actually given the name from an old saying which was supposed to be a reference to talking with great speed and intensity hence the old term “talking a blue streak “

Va'al wrote:The images below show not only a colour test for Decepticon cassette Rumble (sic), but also two preliminary sketches for what will eventually become the Panini sticker album covers, too! Check it all out below.

I guess depending on how early in production this may have been that could be designs intended for frenzy not rumble, remember even the Bible for the transformer series had rumble listed as the red one

I have mentioned this before somewhere on these forums, but the image that was on the Transformers Panini sticker album cover was also the design for a wall poster that I saw in 1985. I remember it cause I wanted it so bad for my room but for one reason or other was not able to get it. Besides seeing it once in a Woolworth's, it was also in one of these book sale catalogs they used to have in elementary schools, at least in the schools I went to.
Anyways I love seeing concept art, I don't know why I just find it so cool.
I have always found it odd though that Bluestreak's colors were changed, not just because of the name, but the fact that those were the original Diaclone colors, but I guess Sunstreaker's colors were also changed (among others) so maybe it is not that odd. But he did appear in the catalog with the Diaclone colors, so it still makes it sorta strange they were changed.

The last time we heard from James Eatock / cerealgeek77 back here, he had some more concept art for the Generation 1 Transformers animated series - and we've been contacted yet again for another batch of art!

This time, the auctions up on eBay feature the likes of Hound, Brawn, Sunstreaker, Ironhide, Cliffjumper, the inside and outside of the Ark as it crashed on Earth, the oil rig from the first episode in the series, the Cybertron terminal, and a lovely cel print of Cybertron itself, in its lineart glory.

Not included in the auctions, as James will be keeping it for himself, is a concept piece for Cliffjumper, as explained below:

Here I present a never-before-seen concept illustration (circa 1983) of the Autobot CLIFFJUMPER by Marvel Productions! - Included in the huge batch of Marvel Productions' Transformers artwork I acquired were a bunch of concept illustrations which appear to be the EARLIEST renditions of certain characters - These illustrations were definitely created in-house at Marvel Productions, and were definitely based on the toys - HOWEVER, it would appear that the artist was taking HUGE liberties with their robot forms - Those I've shown these illustrations to agree that it's quite possible that they relate to the shelved pilot-script that Jeffry Scott wrote titled "A Robot's Best Friend Is His Dog"

I've always wondered how those were streetlamps... Now I know. And knowing is half the battle.