Couple of weeks ago Hasbro and Machinima unveiled the first poster and plot details of the upcoming Transformers: Combiner Wars series during the 2016 MIPTV Conference.
During the Digital Fronts speech of the same conference, Machinima CEO Chad Gutstein had given a sneak peek of the show. Unfortunately it’s not a video. Also revealed is the name of the series director. Kenji Nakamura the Japanese director who directed the critically acclaimed anime series Mononoke is behind the project along with brilliant minds of Eric Calderon, FJ Desanto, and George Krstic.
Mr. Gutstein told the crowd:
“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).
Next, meet the heroine Windblade, who has the power to talk to the Titans.”
Check out the images, after the jump. The series will debut this July. Stick with TFW2005 for more info.
Murasame
There is nothing to be said if there is no news.
Blazatron
Everyone start hitting @ericcalderon @GeorgeKrstic and @FJDesanto up on twitter and attempt to get a 30 second spot before the end of the month!!! You would think with a new Transformers series coming out directed at adults it would have more interest than 5 pages.
jamarmiller
exactly, only took me about 10 minutes to do.
Onslaught24
The animations are all official. It's a mix of Combiner Wars commercials and the Earth Wars trailer/promo with the G1 theme dubbed over the original battle sounds and whatnot. The video itself of course is fanmade.
Monari
Holy hell, that's not an official promo??
Goddamn, that's probably better than what the Machinima series will actually be.
Blazatron
This is driving me crazy this series is due for release in July but we hear nothing about it!!! off the back of Netflix releasing Voltron I would have put out a promo
jamarmiller
Nothing official in any way shape or form, but what the hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE5r6-ZC0wQ
im looking forward to this series but July is only a couple of weeks away. Bet it gets postponed/delayed
Novaburnhilde
The visuals look pretty nice from these images. I'm still gonna give this series a fair shot, because it could turn out to be pretty good for what it is. I also hope maybe this will open the door for more shows with a similar aim of being for an older audience. I'm still annoyed that once again, Windblade is thrust into the spotlight. Eventually their gonna learn the hard way that the harder they try to push this character onto people, the more their gonna hate her. I don't truly "dislike" any character, but the way they've been utilizing her is all wrong.
Her being the result of a "fan poll" is no excuse, either. By that logic, any character that resulted from a poll like that, could never be criticized or done badly. She's done nothing to earn all this attention she's receiving.
Nis Randers
July – But I can't wait for that long :C
I. Need. More. Informations.
Autovolt 127
I really hope we get actual voice acting. I don't want Cyber Missions tier level of voice acting. I want it as good as most cartoons and games.
I'd like it if it was done in Vancouver but I'll take LA even if it the only place cartoons are really done anymore.
agreed. We need something, test footage or a cast announcement list or something.
griffn29
The first part of episode 1 of Mononoke has some sort of experimental directing. Will this show be like that?
Hound89
Jazz isnt a super specail new character from a super specail place with a super specail ability that every one happens to like and keeps getting thrust into the center of attention
Drift was just as bad till roberts started empithizing his flaws.
Rid actualy makes windblade intresting by making her a parody of a mary sue
Mechafire
Keep it clean, please.
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/tfw2005-tech-support/631403-tfw2005-rules.html
Rodimus Prime
Never watched RID15, but the comics version sort of comes across as a Mary Sue. I wouldn't say she was a definite one, because some of the Sue traits (namely doing horrible things and getting away with it) is given to Chromia instead. Also, there's more than one Sue sub-type, nor is it limited to non-canon characters. In fact, it could be argued that Windblade in the comics is more of a Hood Ornament, rather than a Sue.
spiritprime
I'm looking forward to having a female character as the main protagonist instead of Bumblebee, Optimus Prime or anything else. Plus I really like Windblade, comic book or cartoon. I hope they release a trailer for the series soon. Hopefully SDCC might shed some light on it.
And if no one has read the comics and only watched RID2015, they need to know that Windblade isn't as mary sue as you think. And, if you know fandom correctly in terms of fanfics, Mary Sue refers to a fan created character who is overpowered and the centre of attention. And, from what I read in the comics, Windblade is NONE of those. She's naive, too trustworthy and easily manipulated. She makes mistakes like any character would and isn't much for a warrior rather her job is to communicate with the legendary Titans, aka Metrotitans like Metroplex, a term referred to on her home planet of Caminus called Cityspeaker. She's a barely average fighter, so to speak.
I still don't see how that makes her a "Mary Sue", that title refers to fan made characters and Windblade is not fan made, but rather canon that was voted BY fans, nothing more.
Rodimus Prime
40 years removed makes me think it's set in G1 continuity, not IDW.
DOTM Bumblebee
Now that's an intriguing premise. I'm thinking this triumvirate will consist of Bumblebee (or maybe Rodimus), Metalhawk, and Starscream, 'cause IDW. I'm interested to see what they do with this 40 years after the war premise. They also really seem to be pushing Windblade on us. I honestly don't know much about her in the comics (since the Windblade series is unavailable to me), but I did like her in RID2015, so I'll probably like her well enough here. I'll just have to wait and see.