Transformers Cyberverse Second Clip Now Online!

I keep hoping this new show's best foot simply isn't being put forward for whatever reason.

Still need to catch up on RID S3, but even knowing Cyberverse is starting next month isn't making that seem all too urgent anymore.

Burn wrote:FYI, that video has geoblocking.

Probably I'm not missing much given the first clip released, still this pisses me off a lot.

mentre83 wrote:

Burn wrote:FYI, that video has geoblocking.

Probably I'm not missing much given the first clip released, still this pisses me off a lot.

You're missing a low effort, low quality animation show.

Fingers crossed after this show gets axed they go back to putting the time into making something worth watching and re-watching.

While not entirely possible how it is shown here (I think), I do actually appreciate the wings sliding back. It would make sense for a mechanical species with large parts in the back that spread to develop a way to allow said parts to retract some way, as it would make some basic things (i.e. walking, running, going to doorways, etc.) easier. How it is done here... makes little sense. Maybe I am not seeing how it is done proper, but anyways! Nice to see this addressed, even if it may just be a way for animators to save a buck.

Kyleor wrote:You're missing a low effort, low quality animation show.

Fingers crossed after this show gets axed they go back to putting the time into making something worth watching and re-watching.

Animation withstanding (looks like something out of a video game), what else is low quality? The writing seems at least decent and the voice acting is alright.

Kyleor wrote:

mentre83 wrote:

Burn wrote:FYI, that video has geoblocking.

Probably I'm not missing much given the first clip released, still this pisses me off a lot.

You're missing a low effort, low quality animation show.

Fingers crossed after this show gets axed they go back to putting the time into making something worth watching and re-watching.

Actually I'm expecting this to be a hit with the "target" audience. Enough of a hit for a couple of seasons at least.

What we need is either someone brave enough to try a new direction or the whole market to shift away from this style. As a business in can't blame hasbro for chasing after money, it's their purpose after all.

Analogy: Armada's cartoon started off rather poorly with unfinished/error-ridden animation, badly-translated scripts, and rushed acting, and yet it was a rousing successful hit with its target audience of children.

Randomhero wrote:Wanna throw a fit about bumblee not talking in a cartoon? Okay go ahead but it’s been a characteristic of his for over a decade now and it’s something that’s been cemented in a modern bumblebee. He was in one cartoon 25 years ago for 2 seasons and had only a handful episodes that he starred in and was forgotten for almost 20 years until he was revived in 2006 with a new classics toy.

His cobbled-together radio speak is an effective homage to Bay-Bee, but in the two clips we've seen, I just didn't think it was executed all that well. That Spit-Cup thing in 'Kaujudo: ______ of the Duel Masters' that spoke in internet memes had a slightly more amusing vocal pattern than Bee has exhibited here. Maybe it's just that conveying character beats through this speech pattern takes too long for two short clips, but amnesiac-Bee's just alternating between lame and bland so far.

I do genuinely like the animation style for being different, but there's also a certain blandness to it. Hopefully kids will find this show memorable, but what I've seen so far just reminds me of Michael Moorcock's theory that the end goal of all art is to achieve 'The Condition of Muzak'. To keep things fresh, the next leg of the franchise may need to take the risk of a Beast-Wars-level sharp turn.

Or this show might get interesting...but the theme of a major character questing to regain lost memories kind of implies retreading familiar territory.

KVO Prime wrote:They've really gotten down to bare bones here. Remember when G1 started out and there were tons of characters? Slowly they whittled the cast down until their last two beloved stars: Bumblebee and Windblade. I love the Takara Legends Windblade headmaster toy.. such a great design. Why make her look stupid? And Bumblebee omg... they're really playing the amnesia trope? and making him look like a stubborn obstinate child is not helping, is it? I just can't figure out the audience for this show other than extremely young kids...

I miss you Transformers: Prime...
I miss you Beast Wars...

He’s the introduction character. He’s learning about himself as you’re learning about him and the transformers. That’s why we get humans in the cartoons. We got spike and the transformers told him(us) about them and what they are. Same with every cartoon we’ve gotten, you have to have that character that needs to be there to introduce the transformers to. For what we’ve seen so far bumblebee is going to be that character in this show and giving him amnesia is a way to introduce the transformers to the audience.

I feared this bullsh*t ever since it was announced.

YoungPrime wrote:Wow....so lazy and predictable!

They might as well call Bee, "Bumble-Angelo"!

Mikey was a radio-speaking vocal impressionist?