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Ultra Markus wrote:here's a leak of what the show will look like

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What the French Toast? (Shout out to the Godfather Kevin Samuels)

No.

No.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!

I hope this is a joke, this looks like Star Trek Lower Decks, Teen Titans Go. This looks like Transformers Animated (2007 or something) only 5 times worse.

Well, Generations is doing epic and will go on for a long long time. I hope Netflix ups it's game, so far the visual style and animation are very good. But the story, pacing and 0 humor is making it an extremely dull series.

This is a joke right?

I really enjoyed Cyberverse, they could just continue that after the 2 planned animated movies.

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

noctorro wrote:Give us 2D cell animation, that actually has soul.

No one uses cels anymore. It's all digital nowadays.

He probably meant digital cells such as in The Simpsons. Yes the Occasional Gundam series as well as Young Justice are great examples of why 2D animation still looks great. Unfortunately we now live in this odd world where CG is actually less expensive to produce than 2D animation for some reason (although- yes- it's all done on computers)

Also yes, it appears the era of the 80's and 90's of having a good action show that appeals to both kids and adults no longer exists. Prior to the Pandemic, the movie industry made billions off riding the PG-13 rating, making films appeal to as many different demo's at once as possible. In animation however it seems to be only G/PG and R (not saying that Netflix WFC is R rated, but at DC you have Harley Quinn and pretty much all their animated films of the last 5-6 years are needlessly violent). They look amazing, but I'm not interested in gore/sex/violence just because "it can be done".

Even great CG shows such as Transformers Prime and The Clone Wars seem just not to exist anymore.

Yes, I know there's a lot of digital stuff like digital coloring in todays cell animation. I mean the 2d stuff like Gundam. I miss Gundam, such epic shows.

I think the west is looking toward Japan more and more, also with the rot in western comics (leftist politics).

Here's me sitting here still hoping for a 45 episode season of Transformers in the animation style of Gundam Wing and the seriousness of that as well. (never gonna happen)

noctorro wrote:This is a joke right?

Well, considering that it's three-year-old fanart from 2018 meant to parody ThunderCats Roar...

noctorro wrote:Yes, I know there's a lot of digital stuff like digital coloring in todays cell animation. I mean the 2d stuff like Gundam. I miss Gundam, such epic shows.

I think the west is looking toward Japan more and more, also with the rot in western comics (leftist politics).

Here's me sitting here still hoping for a 45 episode season of Transformers in the animation style of Gundam Wing and the seriousness of that as well. (never gonna happen)

Gundam still exists... in Japan, and has long since hopped on the CGI train as well.

Gundam Wing looks dated as all get out, nowadays, and I say that as one who still loves Gundam Wing. But I hold no delusions that it looks exactly like a 26-year-old thing from 1995, which is just what it is.

Sabrblade wrote:

noctorro wrote:This is a joke right?

Well, considering that it's three-year-old fanart from 2018 meant to parody ThunderCats Roar...

noctorro wrote:Yes, I know there's a lot of digital stuff like digital coloring in todays cell animation. I mean the 2d stuff like Gundam. I miss Gundam, such epic shows.

I think the west is looking toward Japan more and more, also with the rot in western comics (leftist politics).

Here's me sitting here still hoping for a 45 episode season of Transformers in the animation style of Gundam Wing and the seriousness of that as well. (never gonna happen)

Gundam still exists... in Japan, and has long since hopped on the CGI train as well.

Gundam Wing looks dated as all get out, nowadays, and I say that as one who still loves Gundam Wing. But I hold no delusions that it looks exactly like a 26-year-old thing from 1995, which is just what it is.

Gundam Wing is just dated period. I tried to watch it on Hulu and it's dull, boring, the characters suck, pretentious as hell and just painful to watch. The action is OK but nothing special.

Now I generally hate prequels more than sequels but Gundam Origin was a beautiful, moving, smart, and for the most part works extremely well and the same with Gundam Unicorn.

Transformers is now a little girls comedy.

Its name is Transformers: EarthSpark - https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1493706937577394178

Watch the teaser clip in the link.

There is also a few art pieces on Instagram:

We were supposed to have a new Transformers cartoon for kids this year but had heard very little from it since the initial announcement. Well, now we have our first look at the animation style and designs thanks to a short clip and some stills. We see the bots that are adopted by a human family, they appear to be new characters. We also see Bumblebee for a split second in the clip along with Optimus Prime and Elita 1. The designs are said to be new but that Optimus resembles the evergreen look he has had across different media for years.

We should be getting a toyline for kids to accompany this new show this year too. Lots of fun new stuff coming to the Transformers brand. I know my kid is excited, let us know if yours are as well.









Here is the clip: https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1493706937577394178

Looks interesting, i can dig it

This is the first time since Beast Machines that I'm immediately excited for a new CGI Transformers cartoon based solely on its art style.

This looks immensely fun!


All of the following people are also involved with this show:

https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/1493711577509502979
https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/1493714048243937283
https://twitter.com/americanninjax/status/1493708275908370432
https://twitter.com/EatherStar/status/1493708383722950656
https://twitter.com/marvinnator_/status/1493709226711011328
https://twitter.com/glytchbot/status/1493709658363547648
https://twitter.com/ayehdeluxe/status/1493710168990752768
https://twitter.com/jumblinjack/status/1493710817455271936
https://twitter.com/Steven_Avalos/status/1493711008271155209
https://twitter.com/greychen_/status/1493711391370330112
https://twitter.com/Cee_Willy/status/1493711768220143618
https://twitter.com/ChunksTheMighty/status/1493712522297286656
https://twitter.com/SalvadoRPG97/status/1493712942205833216
https://twitter.com/Dinolich/status/1493713642864332803
https://twitter.com/TheNazzaro/status/1493716846142394371
https://twitter.com/Duecenage/status/1493717050568495104

Nick Roche's involvement makes me even more excited for it

I think...this could actually be pretty cool. I am excited that they appear to be featuring at least a few new and original characters.

Elita One?Cool!

Since this cartoon is on Nickelodeon,I hope that some of staff from TMNT 2012 can work on this.

Day 778 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

-Optimus's face looks...off, he kinda looks like he was stung by a bee.
-Is that an Elita design with actual kibble? And they said it wasn't possible...
-OOH, a new bike character with a SIDECAR? Those are rare, literally the only one I can think of is Samurai Prowl, hopefully we get some good figures of these designs.

There's some interesting looking stuff here, curious to see how it turns out.

TFP & TMNT 2012 were the best toons from that time even for an old bloke like me to LOVE. Both still aged very well. They're well scripted, with spot-on voice acting, top notch animation and CG sets designs. Nothing on them say "cheap." There are precious few TV series that I'll rewatch, these 2? Oh yeah.

The TFP (and early Bayverse) years were the height of TF toys in terms of engineering complexity. Which is the single most important factor why I came back into TF collecting in my late 30's.

These OP & Elita-1 designs are not that great -- too Evergreen and angular. But the new characters looks much better. Still it's early days so designs might change. If this new 2022 show is anywhere near TFP in quality, I'm SUPER excited and willing to support it with my time & wallet.

My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

cloudballoon wrote:TFP & TMNT 2012 were the best toons from that time even for an old bloke like me to LOVE. Both still aged very well. They're well scripted, with spot-on voice acting, top notch animation and CG sets designs. Nothing on them say "cheap." There are precious few TV series that I'll rewatch, these 2? Oh yeah.

I would add MAX STEEL 2013 but not for the second season,Maybe THUNDERBIRDS 2015.The more i think about all these shows,the less i like them.Oh and TMNT is very ugly and dumb to me.

This new one doesn't look highly original,i have no particular interest.

I like the black white and sky blue color scheme a lot.

ZeroWolf wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

And only after a small alien invasion by the Velgrox forced their hand, even.

The streak continues... (as in not making a great first impression). The last TF show I really was excited for at first glance was TF Prime. But I'm not going to hate on this new show. I'll just put this in the "Not for Me" category, which will probably be a regular thing moving forward.

Still, I'll give it a chance. I've had so many disappointments in the last few years. However the new CG MOTU show on Netflix was a shock in that I actually enjoyed it, so anything is possible.

nope

Looks pretty good so far. And it's nice to see Elita-1 will be getting more love.

Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

That new show looks also NEW and FRESH.
I'm looking forward to it.

Not sure if it's just the shots or whatever but that Optimus Prime looks very...low quality, compared to the other designs anyways, it looks flat and detailess.

Hope the show is entertaining at least.

It looks decent enough, the designs of the Earthsparks (that's what I'm going to call them until we know what their proper name will be) are cool, and the "Wow, you're a Transformer!" line in the teaser suggests that humans in this show already know what Transformers are and they're perhaps publically known, which is a nice idea. Optimus does look a bit out of place among the other designs, like he came in from a completely different show, but I'm guessing this is intentional to hammer in that the Earthsparks are their own unique breed of Transformer by making them look radically different from Cybertronians. Still, it's a shame the show seems to be using the Evergreen designs again instead of something more unique.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Yes.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

The lack of humans in Cyberverse was due to budget constraints. Hasbro gave them such a small budget that gradually got bigger over time, but the makers had to fight tooth and nail just to get a few seconds of screentime for a single human child seen that one season 1 episode with the roadside billboard.