Our own S250 has confirmed from his sources that Animated will end after season three, as a lot of plot connects to the planned season four have been deleted from episode scripts. This confirms our January report here that the series was rumored to end after season three, but doesn’t clarify the reasoning for the cancellation.
S250 also names the character that will die during the course of the season, that was mentioned on the season two DVD commentary of “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” but I won’t spoil that here on the front page. If you want to be spoiled, hit discuss below.
Sideswipe80
I'm tired of reboots and was hoping Animated would be the new mainline show for a while. At least give it 52 episodes. I wouldn't mind if they took the Justice League Unlimited route either, as long we get this cast back.
Rodimus Knight
I'm tired Of Hasbro Deciding to dump toy lines based on the Movies. The original Classics line of toys, dumped for the first live movie. Oh and now look they remade them for the universe line.
Now we have animated dumped for the new movie line of toys. I hate to say it but I wasn't impressed with the first movie line, most of the figures weren't really playable for kids. Parts shifted and fell off too easily.
Animated is the best series since Beast Wars (note: NOT Beast Machines). Just like Beast Wars they have to scrap their ideas for their fourth season, and modify their third season, because of the canceling of their toyline and the creation of a likely lower quality show.
Okay I do blame Fox for how bad Beast MAchines was because of their rules for it, but still.
S1m0n_S1deways
Last eps of Seaon3. My prediction…..Magnus gets seriously injured, Prime Temps as leader. Prowl gives Prime words of inspiration in his dying breath with Prime giving his promise to lead the Autobots to victory in his Prowl's name. Sari and the Key somehow lead to the development of the Autobot Matrix with Primus' voice or Trion's voice telling him its his destiny(based on Alpha Trion' designs). Now with this in mind, i'm hoping that this epic ending of animated is cause for a spinnoff transformers series with no change in design or concept but giving way to new stories in like in G1 with intergalctic adventures and new characters. In other words Justice League to Justice League Unlimited. Transformers Animated to Transformers Universe maybe??(no connection to the Classic toylines). Someone did mention earlier on in this post that the seasons were short. I doubt they'll end the show so soon. Especially after fans of TF that hated it grew to love the show(me being one of them). Its got so much potential. I mean i'm getting tired of new TF series coming out every year. Not that i hate them but to keep changing shit up like that is not nessesary. This show seems like a show that can run for a long time especially one with stand alone episodes.
Sorry for the long post
Fort Max
They didn't say much at all by all accounts, meerly that animated toys will continue to be released throught the year, season 3 starts next month and they think it's good.
Yeah, thanks for that Hasbro reps.
Dom
Did we ever get confirmation that TFA has been canned from Hasbro? I know they said all will be revealed at Toy Fair, but still nothing?
TCJJ
I'm going to add more on this subject… If TFA ends, we'll get another show. They'll do it but I hope they don't. I want time to go back and collect the thousands of figures I don't have. I still don't have time to do that and unfortunately, they've got so many nice movie toys (there are still a lot I say suck but I will buy a lot) and unfortunately they've managed to improve the figures for this line so I'm stuck. At least with Animated and Universe ending, I can have more time to get figures. I still want them but… it kind of overloads me. Heck, I've still got 2 more years in High School… I might get a part-time job this year but even for people with full-time jobs… you can't just by every TF you want so it's good when it thins out. So as much as I hate to say it, I kind of want the movie line for ROTF to stay in for ages so I can collect what I want, get the Henkeis, Universe and Animated figures I still need to get, go back and collect a whole lot more old figures (I'm trying to START a Beast Wars collection and finish my RID one) and then start on a new line. If one line has to come back or stay, make it Universe, though. I'm looking forward to a lot of the movie toys but I do still feel the proportioning is all out. The Universe figures are realistic and (the majority) are still well proportioned. I think the movie team needs to learn a lesson from that line.
Anyway, I don't mind because as much as I am a huge TF fan, I'll still have plenty of Transformers stuff to buy, even if Transformers permanently ends one day. I hope that day won't come though. But hey, give us a new Unicron Trilogy after TF2 and a new Animated after TF3 and I'm happy. I hated the UT but it gives me time to collect old stuff. Enough said.
TRANSJAZZ
The Evil Archer was in the first Season one episode and it sounds like the "Evil Archer" will finish off Animated in the end!
Zaraxion1021
I see…Well, i'm spoiled I just can't w8 for season 3. I'll be real sad when it's over but it should be like 20+ episodes pls…..
overloaded
My poor nephew loves Prowl he is mad to get new Prowl with the sidecar . Well I hope it gives the character meaning and not just out of no where
AniProwl
I know that, shroob, but I'm just giving people some warning, that's all in cas they ask how in the world a new guy get 1500 posts when they see my new avatar and sig.
shroobmaster
You can't demand a change to your avatar you just do it yourself.
AniProwl
When Prowl dies, I demand a change to my avatar, name, and sig.
AniProwl
Well, maybe, because the avatar, signature, and name are dedicated to my favorite character from a current series. Maybe, the rank will go higher after Season 3.
Sso02V
For someone with an Animated-themed avatar, signature, and name, you sure rank it pretty low.
Ed Bailey
Good idea AniProwl. Here's mine:
1. BW
2. TF Comics
3. G1 Season 1-2
4. TFTM
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10. Galaxy Force
11. Beast Machines
12. RID
13. Animated
14. G1 Season 3
15. Armada (if they hadn't been so cheap on animation/first-bumps/names…)
16. Movie 07
17. Energon
I still really, really want to like Bayformers. Don't get me wrong, I hate it, but if I could get over poor direction, horrid writing, and blurry shots… I might be okay with it then. Here's hoping when the TF2 DVD comes out I can be a fanboy once again.
Ed Bailey
But how old are you? Would G1 or BW have worked so well if the good guys were pansies ALL THE TIME?
All little boys want their heroes to kick ass. Its why we dressed up as soldiers/cowboys/astronauts as kids. Really, how many kids do you know that dress up like hippies or identify solely with villains?
AniProwl
Here's where I rank Animated just to let people know
1. BW+BM together
]2. G1 comics (Marvel, DW, IDW)
3. Cybertron
4. Beast Wars
5. G1 cartoon
6. Beast Machines
7. Armada (comic)
8. RID
9. Animated
10. Armada (cartoon)
11. Movie 07
12. Energon (cartoon)
Nachtsider
I, for one, like the fact that it largely requires multiple Autobots to take down a single Decepticon.
Ed Bailey
Meh, I never got into the Animated show. I've watched both "seasons" with the 3 year-old in the house, but really, he was bored too. Batman TAS reruns, Ben 10, Phineas and Ferb… these shows keep kids entertained and glued to the TVs, not boring villains, weak heroes, and lame-ass plots.
Really, I think long-time fans should see a pattern here: series with arm-chair Megatrons are boring as hell (BM, RiD [sorta], Animated); weak protagonists = not fun for kids; and if Optimus Prime is not a robotic John Wayne, then who the hell cares?
Hasbro also needs to sit down and focus on a mission statement for the Transformers brand. Bayformers was skewed for Tween+, Animated was for 7 and under (and failed). Ah well, who cares? To be honest TF shows are more often miss than hit, the toys are awesome but annoying for parents/youngsters, and they won't develop the brand into the gaming giant that TFs should be. The whole concept should lend itself perfectly to gaming, but nope, let's go with the less-impressive Activision studios.
Honestly, the movie will make bank and the toys will sell and can be repacked/remolded/retooled/repainted for a lot cheaper than developing a new line focused on kids. Maybe someday they'll get an ex-McDonald's exec to come in and tell them to build focus groups based on the relative percentages of each demographic they want to target or at least currently cater to.
"Hey humans, I'm Optimistic Prime and I'm here to teach you about teamwork! Dinobots? No, no, no… we lock cool things away, like Omega Supreme! By the way, the only fights we don't scrape by on involve messed-up 5'8" humans, we couldn't possibly fight a Decepticon unless its 5 on 1."
Maximo Prime
I'm sure someone else has wondered that they may be ending this to do a BW–> BM thing?