Machinima Transformers Combiner Wars Animated Series Windblade and Update
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Posted by fenrir72 on April 4th, 2016 @ 9:52pm CDT
Now if the Masami Obari style is sprinkled in..............
Posted by Sabrblade on April 4th, 2016 @ 10:21pm CDT
Posted by RiddlerJ on April 4th, 2016 @ 10:34pm CDT
Posted by Rainmaker on April 5th, 2016 @ 12:42am CDT
Posted by King Kuuga on April 5th, 2016 @ 1:12am CDT
[BW] Rainmaker wrote:I don't understand, they feature Windblade when she isn't a toy? It's meant to advertise the toys! Not the comics!
To the best of our knowledge, it is an adaptation of the Combiner Wars arc in IDW, which very heavily featured Windblade since half of it was in her book. And I don't think it's meant to advertise the toys OR comics, just the brand, in the same way as DC's direct to video movie series.
Sabrblade wrote:How come her shoulder pads are red instead of black?
Creative license?
Posted by Microraptor on April 5th, 2016 @ 7:07am CDT
[BW] Rainmaker wrote:I don't understand, they feature Windblade when she isn't a toy? It's meant to advertise the toys! Not the comics!
She has at least three toys...
Posted by griftimus prime on April 5th, 2016 @ 7:28am CDT
Posted by DarkEnergon on April 5th, 2016 @ 7:35am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 5th, 2016 @ 9:30am CDT
They'll probably start out that way before going to DVD.DarkEnergon wrote:Are these going to be strictly online shorts?
Posted by o.supreme on April 5th, 2016 @ 9:38am CDT
[BW] Rainmaker wrote:I don't understand, they feature Windblade when she isn't a toy? It's meant to advertise the toys! Not the comics!
Believe it or not... (stay with me)...Transformers isn't always about advertising toys . DC and Marvel have produced animated films for well over a decade loosely based on events from various different comics intended to focus on the brand NOT a particular toy. It can be done. IN fact this is what I have been patiently waiting for...for a very long time.
Posted by Emerje on April 5th, 2016 @ 3:47pm CDT
Microraptor wrote:[BW] Rainmaker wrote:I don't understand, they feature Windblade when she isn't a toy? It's meant to advertise the toys! Not the comics!
She has at least three toys...
And two more this year: RID and SDCC 2016, the later being part of Titans Return, the sequel to Combiner Wars so why not keep promoting her?
Emerje
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 6th, 2016 @ 9:03am CDT
Taking place 40 years after the great war on Earth, Transformers: Combiner Wars introduces new lore and all-new characters that, combined with the characters fans have known for decades, will bring the Transformers storytelling in a new direction.
The Autobots and Decepticons have disbanded and returned to Cybertron. With the days of Optimus Prime and Megatron over, Cybertron is now ruled by a triumvirate. However, an ancient technology has enabled a new threat, the power for multiple Transformers to combine into one massive, dangerous form: Combiners. Who will stand-up to this threat to ensure that the fragile peace that was 4 million years in the making remains?
Posted by ZeroWolf on April 6th, 2016 @ 9:19am CDT
Also I'm happy to hear that optimus and megs have been retired though it will only be for a few eps as obviously they'll be putting ultra prime in there.
Posted by o.supreme on April 6th, 2016 @ 9:32am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 6th, 2016 @ 10:25am CDT
Posted by Sigma Magnus on April 6th, 2016 @ 10:31am CDT
Posted by o.supreme on April 6th, 2016 @ 10:33am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Wonder how many are gonna think "40 years after the Great War" means "40 years after the G1 cartoon".
I initially thought that may have been a possibility, until I read that part about combiner technology being "a new threat"...so that obviously didn't mesh. I honestly still think this should be treated like DC's animated films. Loosely based on an existing storyline, but ultimately, its own entity.
As far as future prospects,...it all really depends on how well this is received. Justice League Gods & Monsters got tons of rave reviews from fans, thus the reason more micro episodes are coming out this year.--For the past decade or so DC has treated fans to roughly 3 PG-13 animated films per year.
If Hasbro could give adult fans ONE film per year, or one micro-series event, based on various different existing continuities, I'd be happy with that.
Posted by Emerje on April 6th, 2016 @ 11:06am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Wonder how many are gonna think "40 years after the Great War" means "40 years after the G1 cartoon".
More like 40 years after TF: Prime what with Optimus and Megatron being gone (pretending RID didn't happen) and a new power structure on Cybertron.
Emerje
Posted by Cyberstrike on April 6th, 2016 @ 11:36am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:If this is an American production, why would it be an anime?RodimusRex wrote:Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime.
It depends on your definition of anime.
If you just mean an animated series where the physical animation is done in Japan there are plenty of American series that would technically classify as anime then: The Transformers, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Young Justice, Spider-Man, X-Men, Transformers: Prime and many many more.
There are some series and movies that are made by anime studios based on American/Western properties: X-Men, Blade, Iron Man, Wolverine, Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & The Punisher, Halo: Legends, Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, Dead Space, Dante's Inferno, The Animatrix, Batman: Gotham Knights just to name some.
Hell most of the recent DC Animated movies Justice League: War, Justice League: The Throne of Atlantis, Son of Batman, Batman vs. Robin, Batman: Bad Blood, and Batman: Assault on Arkham remind me more of anime action movies in how they staged their action set pieces.
Posted by Sabrblade on April 6th, 2016 @ 11:39am CDT
Why are you replying to such an old post that was made long before it was confirmed to be an anime-styled series?Cyberstrike wrote:Sabrblade wrote:If this is an American production, why would it be an anime?RodimusRex wrote:Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime.
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Posted by o.supreme on April 6th, 2016 @ 11:40am CDT
Posted by Cyberstrike on April 6th, 2016 @ 11:43am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Why are you replying to such an old post that was made long before it was confirmed to be an anime-styled series?Cyberstrike wrote:Sabrblade wrote:If this is an American production, why would it be an anime?RodimusRex wrote:Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime.
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Because I can and want to. If you got a problem with it, that is your problem, not mine.
Posted by Sabrblade on April 6th, 2016 @ 12:04pm CDT
But it's pointless by this point.Cyberstrike wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Why are you replying to such an old post that was made long before it was confirmed to be an anime-styled series?Cyberstrike wrote:Sabrblade wrote:If this is an American production, why would it be an anime?RodimusRex wrote:Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime.
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Because I can and want to. If you got a problem with it, that is your problem, not mine.
Posted by ZeroWolf on April 6th, 2016 @ 12:11pm CDT
Emerje wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Wonder how many are gonna think "40 years after the Great War" means "40 years after the G1 cartoon".
More like 40 years after TF: Prime what with Optimus and Megatron being gone (pretending RID didn't happen) and a new power structure on Cybertron.
Emerje
I doubt it, after all combiners already happened in that time line.
Sounds like they are making a brand new time line with elements from past universes
Posted by Emerje on April 6th, 2016 @ 1:53pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:Emerje wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Wonder how many are gonna think "40 years after the Great War" means "40 years after the G1 cartoon".
More like 40 years after TF: Prime what with Optimus and Megatron being gone (pretending RID didn't happen) and a new power structure on Cybertron.
Emerje
I doubt it, after all combiners already happened in that time line.
Sounds like they are making a brand new time line with elements from past universes
That's only if you believe the Aligned universe is real and not just the fan theory it is. Honestly I've had a lot of trouble buying into it. There are far too many inconsistencies to believe Prime is a sequel to the Cybertron games and are meant to be mashed together. Even Hasbro themselves want no part in trying to sort it out as a single continuity and even the TFWiki admits they made up the name. The way I feel about it is as two different stories that kinda mesh together based on their story telling being in close proximity to each other, but just like how the G1 cartoon didn't impact the G1 comic it's just two stories about the same characters being told without any real connection between the two. No, Aligned is a disaster and each individual component should be viewed as independent story lines within their own continuity (Cybertron games as one, the two animated series as another, and so on).
If you can't tell I really hate Aligned as a concept.
But my comment before was more of a joke. They seemed to be borrowing from Prime's ending more than the IDW comics they should be referencing. I don't actually believe the shorts are based on Prime.
Emerje
Posted by Sabrblade on April 6th, 2016 @ 2:04pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on April 6th, 2016 @ 2:24pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Why are people even mentioning Aligned with this anyway? This is obviously gonna be just another Primax universe and not Uniend.
I said why at the end of my post.
Emerje
Posted by YRQRM0 on April 6th, 2016 @ 4:04pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 6th, 2016 @ 7:55pm CDT
YRQRM0 wrote:Is there any release date info for this yet?
Only that it is this summer
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 6th, 2016 @ 8:14pm CDT
On the right side is Windblade's name in Chinese characters, sorta: 風刀 actually means "Wind Sword", while 風刃 means "Wind Blade". One stroke off guys.
And no, that's not her name in Chinese, that would be 风刃. Aren't Asian characters fun?
Posted by Xarmech on April 7th, 2016 @ 10:59am CDT
Posted by Cyberstrike on April 7th, 2016 @ 12:24pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:But it's pointless by this point.Cyberstrike wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Why are you replying to such an old post that was made long before it was confirmed to be an anime-styled series?Cyberstrike wrote:Sabrblade wrote:If this is an American production, why would it be an anime?RodimusRex wrote:Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime.
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Because I can and want to. If you got a problem with it, that is your problem, not mine.
I don't have to explain myself to you. Why don't you do something else with your time if you're not going to answer my original post, without being a snob about it and if you can't or won't then just shut up about it.
Posted by RodimusRex on April 8th, 2016 @ 7:57am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Wonder how many are gonna think "40 years after the Great War" means "40 years after the G1 cartoon".
Well... The editors of TFWiki might. The Great War is generally the Third War, which ends in the early 21st century not long after Rodimus Prime's era in most G1 toon continuities. That would peg the series as being 2035-2060 or so.
If you are interpreting it as after Optimus and Megatron left for earth, while they're in stasis, that makes characters like Starscream's involvement awkward. Even moreso than if this is a post-Rodimus series.
It's one thing to say he came back or never died. But him being suspended in the volcano is an important detail to almost all G1 continuities.
Posted by ZeroWolf on April 8th, 2016 @ 2:40pm CDT
RodimusRex wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Wonder how many are gonna think "40 years after the Great War" means "40 years after the G1 cartoon".
Well... The editors of TFWiki might. The Great War is generally the Third War, which ends in the early 21st century not long after Rodimus Prime's era in most G1 toon continuities. That would peg the series as being 2035-2060 or so.
If you are interpreting it as after Optimus and Megatron left for earth, while they're in stasis, that makes characters like Starscream's involvement awkward. Even moreso than if this is a post-Rodimus series.
It's one thing to say he came back or never died. But him being suspended in the volcano is an important detail to almost all G1 continuities.
I don't think this series will care about any of that though, it seems like it wants to be it own thing
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 20th, 2016 @ 1:31pm CDT
Lastly but not leastly is passion platform Transformers, which you undoubtedly recognise if you were ever a child. There’s 10bn views of Transformers content on YouTube, not to mention four theatrical films, which saw $3.7bn in global revenues.
Machinima’s contribution to the canon, Transformers Combiner Wars, is 40 years removed from previous events. It’s a time of peace. Cybertron is ruled by a triumvirate … but an ancient technology has emerged, enabling a new threat to take the stage. As in the case of Robocops, there is no trailer we can share for this, but it was worked on by “some of the world’s leading creative minds”: Eric Calderon, FJ Desanto, and George Krstic. It is directed by Kenji Nakamura. License partners are welcome.
Here is some glorious artwork. This is the planet Cybertron, in which you get a sense of the filmlike cinematography (“This is not a children’s cartoon!” exclaimed Gutstein).
Posted by o.supreme on April 20th, 2016 @ 1:45pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on April 20th, 2016 @ 2:04pm CDT
Purdy!
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 20th, 2016 @ 2:07pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 20th, 2016 @ 2:09pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on April 20th, 2016 @ 2:13pm CDT
I have good hopes for this show.
Edit: Never mind just realized that it's not PRINCESS Mononoke that I was thinking about but some other tv show over there.
Posted by Deadput on April 20th, 2016 @ 2:15pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Looks more like comic book artwork than animation artwork.
Concept art I would believe.
Posted by Va'al on April 20th, 2016 @ 2:16pm CDT
Deadput wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Looks more like comic book artwork than animation artwork.
Concept art I would believe.
Not necessarily! Could also be cutscenes or promotional material.
Posted by Deadput on April 20th, 2016 @ 2:17pm CDT
Dr Va'al wrote:
Not necessarily! Could also be cutscenes or promotional material.
That could very be the case as well!
Concept art was just the first thing that popped into my head thats all.
Posted by RodimusRex on April 20th, 2016 @ 2:46pm CDT
Deadput wrote:Dr Va'al wrote:
Not necessarily! Could also be cutscenes or promotional material.
That could very be the case as well!
Concept art was just the first thing that popped into my head thats all.
They may also be pulling the Batman: The Animated Series style trick of using fully painted characters with limited animation for some close-ups or special shots. It CAN be a budget saving move but it's stylistically one of those things I like as a gimmick in traditional animation.
It does sound like this will be set in a nebulous post-G2, pre-Beast Wars continuity (albeit one where combiners may be a new thing). All I can say is that this may encourage me to pick up some figures and G2 reprolabels for my G2 shelf.
Posted by RodimusRex on April 20th, 2016 @ 2:49pm CDT
Posted by BERSEKAEL on April 20th, 2016 @ 3:02pm CDT
Posted by Rainmaker on April 20th, 2016 @ 7:06pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 20th, 2016 @ 7:09pm CDT
The animation of either RiD cartoon does not look like that.[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Looks like RiD's animation, never really liked the animation in that show
Posted by Rainmaker on April 20th, 2016 @ 7:11pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:The animation of either RiD cartoon does not look like that.[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Looks like RiD's animation, never really liked the animation in that show
What, I swear it does.
Posted by Sabrblade on April 20th, 2016 @ 7:14pm CDT
It looks too grim and serious to be like the bright and cheery look of either of the RiD cartoons.[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Sabrblade wrote:The animation of either RiD cartoon does not look like that.[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Looks like RiD's animation, never really liked the animation in that show
What, I swear it does.