There’s a web series running in Russia which we’ve been made aware of which is pretty cool, hence we wanted to share it with you. Called Transformers: Portal, this web series kicked off last September and is currently on its seventh episode. Taking the form of a “motion comic”, it features a crossover between the Robots in Disguise and Generations / Titans Return timelines, along with some sharp artwork. TFW2005 member Arvegtor explains more:
The creator is Marvelous Group marketing agency, which works with Hasbro on Transformers, Play-Doh, Nerf and other brands (but they’re, obviously, not limited to just Hasbro). It’s far from their first Transformers project, they started with Beast Hunters toyline (when nobody believed it was official, so they had to record a special video at Hasbro Russia’s office to persuade them), but it’s the first one with animated content. Usually, they just make a series of competitions with a very basic storyline (for example, Optimus Prime orders to collect all minicons and then transports them all into space to destroy them, because they’re too powerful to live – and that’s RID Optimus, not Bayformers one), but Age of Extinction one had a comic and stop-motion videos.
“Transformers: Portal” is so far their biggest and longest project (it started in early September and has at two more stages planned + several text stories to explore context), and according to what I know, Hasbro likes it enough to order the next project in a similar format. The project’s website is “transformers-portal.ru”, the official vkontakte page is also a part of the picture (most of the projects before only used the vk page and they can still be found there).
While there is a language barrier to non-Russian fans enjoying this series, we’d encourage you to check out one of the episodes (which we’ve embedded after the break) to get a flavor of what Transformers fans abroad are enjoying.
DeletedUser_119270
Cool!
Arvegtor
The final episode of this series was published several days ago. Strangely, no VK post for it so far.
The Primes decided revealing the Transformers to entire humanity was too dangerous, so they powered up Vector Prime, enabling him to turn time back to the moment when portals first appeared. Since they can only do it for their Universe, Aligned and Generations are now unsynchronized. The time is back to the beginning of season 2, with Micronus about to appear and ask Optimus to return their power, even without Optimus remembering the true reason.
DeletedUser_119270
Thx for the info.
Arvegtor
Don't expect anything new soon. The current competition is still in progress, the next and probably final episode is in early development stage.
AirjitzuRonin
Thank you very much.
DeletedUser_119270
Cool,any new ones up?Thx.
Arvegtor
Currently 12, but half of them are the Watcher/Spectator/Observer/whatever you like calling him in English (his working "name" was "Blogger") episodes designed to interact with kids and announce competitions. There are also 3 ways of numbering them (every episode, only episodes with animated content and production codes, which treat different videos as parts of the same episode, reducing their number to just 3), all of which are used.
Using the first (and the second) system, you'll get (as far as I remember, they still don't have official English titles, so this is one possible way of translating them):
1. (1) Bumblebee's Mysterious Message (Загадочное послание Бамблби).
2. An Encrypted Signal Was Intercepted (Перехвачен зашифрованный сигнал).
3. Searching for Artefacts (В поисках артефактов).
4. (2) The Secret of Protals is Nearly Solved (Тайна порталов близка к разгадке).
5. Watcher's Message #2 (Послание Наблюдателя #2).
6. (3) Enraged Titans! (Титаны в ярости!)
7. (4) The Cause of Portals is Revealed! (Причина возникновения порталов раскрыта!)
8. Watcher's Message #3 (Послание Наблюдателя #3).
9. (5) Is the Mission "Portal" Accomplished? (Миссия "Портал" выполнена?)
10. Watcher's Message #4 (Послание Наблюдателя #4).
11. (6) Is the Story Nearly Finished? (История близка к развязке?)
12. Watcher's Message #5 (Послание Наблюдателя #5).
AirjitzuRonin
How many episodes are there?
Can someone please list each episode title?
Arvegtor
Both Groundpounder's emblem and G1 Decepticons in RiD were fixed.
DeletedUser_119270
Okay,thanks.
Arvegtor
It's clearly a error, I'll tell the team.
@Awesomepow Since you're trying to list characters, here's the complete list by episode. I'm excluding the masked alien episodes for obvious reasons.
Episode 1:
Autobots: Bumblebee, Strongar, Sideswipe, Fixit.
Humans: Crown City residents, some polititians and military.
Episode 2 (4):
RiD Autobots: Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Strongarm, Fixit, Grimlock, Drift
Generations Autobots: Powermaster Optimus Prime, Rodimus, Ironhide, Jazz, Sideswipe, Blurr, Silverbolt, Slingshot, Wheeljack, Bumblebee, Wheelie, Blaster.
RiD Decepticons: Bisk, Filch.
Humans: Denny Clay, Crown City residents, Autobot allies.
Others: a random titan and titanmaster.
Episode 3 (6):
Genereations Autobots: Wheeljack, Wheelie, Blaster, Blurr, Cerebros, Silverbolt, Slingshot, Swoop, generic Autobot.
Others: random titan.
Episode 4 (7):
Generations Autobots: Defensor, Hot Spot, Groove, First Aid, Streetwise, Blades, Rook, Powermaster Optimus Prime, Blaster, Stripes, Wheeljack, Bumblebee, Ironhide.
Generations Decepticons: Mindwipe, Wolfwire, Skullsmasher.
RiD Autobots: Bumblebee, Grimlock, Strongarm, Sideswipe, Fixit.
RiD Decepticons: Kickback, Scorponok.
Humans: military, Autobot Allies, Denny Clay, Russel Clay.
Episode 5 (9):
Generations Autobots: Wheeljack, Powermaster Optimus Prime, Perceptor, Topspin.
RiD Autobots: Fixit, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Grimlock, Strongarm.
Generations Decepticons: Megatron, Shockwave, Shrapnel, Kickback, Flowspade.
Humans: military and allies.
Episode 6 (11):
RiD Autobots:Grimlock, Sideswipe, Strongarm, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Fixit.
Humans: military and allies.
RiD Decepticons: Groundpounder, Steeljaw, Clampdown, Glowstrike, Thunderhoof, Saberhorn, Overload. Generations Shrapnel and Flowspade are with them. I guess they there lucky to pass the portal before Wheeljack's device activated. Poor Kickback wasn't so lucky. But now the portals are closed, and they're on the wrong side.
Generations Autobots: Powermaster Optimus Prime.
Fun fact: in one shot Glowstrike was literally trying to kick Prime's ass.
DeletedUser_119270
Hahaha it's so hysterical watching it in Russian language.
@Arvegtor thanks for all the updates along the way and keep it up!
But what the heck,Groundbuster is an Autobot???
Screencaps too.(Random)
Autobots:
Powermaster Optimus Prime
Wheeljack
First Aid
Optimus Prime
Cerebros
Bumblebee
Strongarm
Perceptor
Sideswipe
Grimlock
Fixit
Topspin
Groundbuster
Decepticons:
Megatron
Skullsmasher
Mindwipe
Wolfwire
Kickback
Shockwave
Kickback
Scorponok
Clampdown
Steeljaw
Thunderhoof
Arvegtor
Only the final animated episode left.
Arvegtor
The new episode, where everyone finds out how the portals were created.
pokemonsdoom
hey guys episode 2 and 3 are out, and seems we are getting 5 in total,
Arvegtor
I've prepared English subtitles for episode 1 "Bumblebee's Mysterious Message".
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxgA2ZhJYOCgb0dGNHhWcE4yMmc
LeonSteamhawk
Russian-Optimus sounds like some ominous villain and I like it for some reason! :O
GWolfv2
I really like the art style in the latest ep. Also interesting to see how much it's changed since number 1
RKillian
What animation? The clip that I saw was all panning/zooming with the occasional flicker.
jaws
Comrades, my heads hurts after watching this abomination