The news story we are about to break to you was in development for quite a while now. Last year, negotiations were on for a crossover between Transformers and one of the most famous (if not THE most famous) mythologies in China; The Monkey King. However, it seems as though an agreement has finally being made, but not with the aforementioned character but rather with another character from the same story line.
According to CCTV.com, Hasbro and CCTV Animation are working on an animated project called “Nezha and Transformers”. The two companies have reached consensus on production specifications, IP ownership, legal affairs, etc… No release date or other details are presently ready at the moment. For those unfamiliar with Nezha, he flies around swiftly on his “Wind Fire Wheels”. He is also regarded as the tutelary god of many professional drivers, like truck, taxi, or sightseeing bus drivers. They tend to place a small statue of Nezha in the vehicles for a safe drive.
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Hanzkaz
Oh boy, this is definitely a case of be very careful what you ask for.
opoptimus
Ask and you shall receive.
Hanzkaz
I'd be interested if they made a Sun Wukong Transformers toy. On the other hand, a Sun Wukong Transformers Cyberverse toy………..does he have knees?
Tekmen
Online, couldn't remember if it was Weibo or some chat group.
AzT
@Tekmen — store / source?
Deadend
Depending on how it develops, probably will use evergreen designs like Cyberverse does. And follow the same other show patterns of being loosely tied to the same currently running shows like Rescue Bots and Cyberverse, with potentially cameos back and forth when felt prudent.
That tends to be the current intent behind toons to make all shows feel included into the same currently running things. Like how previous years stuff was connected to TF: Prime or RID. Since Cyberverse is the currently airing main toon, everything will be stemming from it like how those worked. It's also a way to show other areas how serious Hasbro is about inclusion of them to the property by having them included in the main running media.
Originally, iirc, that was the intent. So that areas don't feel like they are abandoned and isolated to their own media, but that the media includes them so they are part of the show family tree per whatever main thing is running at the time but also still having the freedom to tell the stories they want to tell with access to iconic recognizable characters kids are familiar with.
Essentially the same thing Marvel does with their toons now too.
jaws
DON'T CARE!
Tekmen
An update guys:
No one would have guessed it, this crossover possibly happens within the Cyberverse show.
I saw this last week (forgot where), shocked, thought someone would've posted it here… well, seems still a news?
MrNiceGuy
wat
Requiem Prime
Interesting. I wonder if this is going to feature more beast and monsterformers over vehicles to fit the character's mythology.
primalxconvoy
I am sure that whatever is made for the Chinese market will be copied by said Chinese and sold as KO\'s later on. Nothing to worry about.
ShadowninjaXD
Will that kid transform into a skateboard?
GizmoTron
I wouldn't be so concerned. Region exclusives when in Asian markets involving the Transformers brand, especially those that are crossover based, have been mainly made up of forgettable fiction and toys no one cares about. I really don't think this is going to turn out to be any different.
Deadend
Weirder things have happened. And left shark is still a pretty common celebrated meme. So I really wouldn't count anything out.
Novaburnhilde
Very interested to see more of this, just out of curiosity.
snoopcow
Pinkfong babyshark x trans formers
tabtiurf
It's a cool style. I wish we'd see more of it. I'm always down for more variety in animation.
Animation styles aside, whatever this is, it looks like a really refreshing break from yet another bumblebee pals around with generic pre-teens show. Bring on the fansubs!
Deadend
True, but your complaints aren't what I was meaning. That's entirely different, but also in the age of sub availability worldwide, and internet toy sales, those aren't as much of an issue as say region locks on consoles. Which that I agree about is bull. But for media, that's market things that can't be helped, but the secondary markets makes that a non-concern. Same as those markets have to deal with from us.
And depending on how well it does, it may not stay a China exclusive either. Lots of culturally pertinent shows have gone global that weren't initially intended as such. Like Pucca for example from South Korea. Or H2O in Australia that became a worldwide phenom that's now several series deep in spin-offs.
IgnikaMarcus
My primary issue is that it's mostly going to be region exclusive.
When it comes to companies with an international presence such as Hasbro or Lego, region exclusives are bullshit.
Just like region locking for consoles.