Cartoon Network’s Youtube channel has uploaded a clip of the upcoming Transformers Cyberverse show. This clip shows off Windblade, Bumblebee, and Thundercracker, and gives a decent feel of what the show is going to be like. Some noteworthy points are:
- This seems to be from episode one.
- The animation is very fluid and stylish. It’s a different look to Robots in Disguise and arguably works quite well.
- Bumblebee “talks” in radio clips, kind of like the 2007 movie / the new movie.
- Bumblebee seems very fun-loving and not serious. He’s also got serious total memory loss, not even knowing who Thundercracker or Windblade are.
- Windblade plays the serious role.
- The Allspark is involved somehow – it may be they need Bumblebee’s memories to uncover its location before Megatron gets it.
- Thundercracker doesn’t talk. At all. He does grunt angrily. Hopefully he gets some actual dialogue in the show, and this isn’t showing us that most of those 90 characters will go unvoiced.
- The setting of this clip is a desert somewhere. Here’s hoping the final show mixes up the settings a bit and doesn’t have the whole thing take place in Nevada.
Check out the clip below and 50 HD screencaps after the jump!
Venixion
Bumble-Beedrill?
Inanimate Carbon Rodimus
I don’t mind BB talking through the radio in this – it seems like almost an after-thought, with Bee just saying what he’d say anyway, just with various accents and not moving his mouth. Compare that to the Pokémon speak of Prime and the movies.
The problem is that this version of Bee is a complete idiot. Even with radio speak, the character could be given more depth, realizing what he’s lost and working with Windblade to restore it. Maybe that will change in later episodes, but these clips make me worried that the whole show is going to be “Windblade and her Derp Sidekick Bumblebee”.
Venixion
I showed my daughter this clip the other day. She thought it was funny and looked interesting.
Miclops
Well, it's still too little to judge properly.
The animation is serviceable, though it still wouldn't have been my first choice. But I guess that's the trend these days.
For a moment I thought they'd forgot to animate Bumblebee's mouth, before I realized what they were doing.
I actually quite like the idea of Thundercracker not begin particularly chatty (at least when it comes to Autobots), in that he considers it beneath him to even trash talk them. They're the enemy, and that's all there is too it.
Kind of fits in with his G1 bio in away, where his heart isn't really into the cause. It would be nice if they played up that aspect of the character, as unlikely as they might be. Either way I'll definitely be unchaining my wallet for the toy.
Still, whether or not this ends up nauseating me the same way TFA did, remains to be seen. Unlike a number of people it seems, I actually ended up loathing the show far more then I was initially expecting too. And I most certainly have no desire to see anything in the vein of it ever again, or have a truckload of clumsily inserted fanwank and references repeatedly shoved in my face thank you very much.
But so far nothing outright offends me, and it seems a bit more ambitious then RID if we take the Megatron speech into consideration. So I'm not going to play the overreactionary nostalgiatard clamoring for 'ye olde days' card, and wait a bit longer.
Shockwave9227
That scene bored me to death but maybe the actual show will be okay? I'm tired of mute Bumblebee. By the way that transformation sound is almost at the top of my hearing range, fuck me haha.
theestampede
windblade's face is terrifying, like a mask being worn over her actual face
Scoff
I don't think they should bother trying. Continuity when it comes to the Aligned universe should always be in quotes at this point.
Beastwarsfan95
Cartoon Network long ago lost it's bite. Remember shows like Courage, Samurai Jack and Ed Edd n Eddy? Now all their shows are just obnoxious (TTG) or sickeningly sweet (Summer Camp Island).
Cute use of those emotes lol.
G1Prowl
First off, I thought Aligned was dead in the water. I mean, the concept of Aligned. I thought they threw that out with Archer.
Second, thank you for enabling my Alison Pill crush every day I'm on here.
TLP
I'm still not sure if they're going to tie this into the Aligned continuity…
It got a lot better after Season 1. Trust me.
Lord Megatron 7
There are a lot of really long replies here, robots in disguise 2015. Was my least favorite show and I cannot even find a place to watch combinerForce.
I cannot wait for the aligned continuity to end. It had such a strong start I hope this idea is ended shortly. The movements the speaking I don’t know if it’s just me but it all looks out of whack. There was some hunt for the Decepticons animation that I liked better.
I will give the show a chance but
I would rather them bring back the people who made energon English dub.
Lord Megatron 7
There are a lot of really long replies here, robots in disguise 2015. Was my least favorite show and I cannot even find a place to watch combinerForce.
I cannot wait for the aligned continuity to end. It had such a strong start I hope this idea is ended shortly. The movements the speaking I don’t know if it’s just me but it all looks out of whack. There was some hunt for the Decepticons animation that I liked better.
I will give the show a chance but
I would rather them bring back the people who made energon English dub.
Venixion
Quite.
ScientistMan
Marvel earned that vitriol. Avengers Assemble season 1 was a crime.
Norm West
Looks decent, but it doesn't give me a great taste.
Kids need quality shows too.
TLP
I haven't seen this much hate for a cartoon since…well, anything Marvel Animation has put out in the last 6 years. Although, I don't mind those shows personally.
But that's the Internet I guess. Hate bandwagons and all.
I'm still giving Cyberverse a chance.
RodimusZero
I am overwhelmed by the underwhelming blandness of this show…
If it wasn't official, and I just saw this without context, I'd assume it was some half-ass'd Chinese knock-off Transformers series. The toys being essentially Happy Meal toys you have to pay for is also just more salt in the wound. I feel bad for kids these days mostly, we had things so good in our day, it's not fair to them to be honest.
And yeah, the Bumblebee-talking-through-his-radio thing is so so so old, it's painful to watch at this point.
I can almost visualize tumbleweeds rolling through Hasbro's creative department–this is just pathetic when it comes to originality.
WishfulThinking
That's not a very good approach from a retailer position, though — and why Voltron is off store shelves now. For what it's worth, Cyberverse is doing it right. Get a variety of toys on the shelves and then let the show build toward them, not the other way around. Beast Wars did the same thing — we had Tigatron and Blackarachnia on the shelves far sooner than they appeared on the television show.
megatroptimus
Here, both the toys and the show look like an afterthought…
Deadend
Uh. Right. Um. You do realize that was kind of the whole basis for a lot of the side lion armory stuff and other Voltron armaments. Including some of the early robeast gimmicks. And why season 8 is likely to go more new robeast types heavy. And season 6's additions. And season 7's additions. The toys aren't as much of an 'afterthought' as you may think. More it's a different issue of production cycle for show being too far ahead of the toys. A lot of the show is built on trying to feed stuff to toys. But because of the nature of it being a netflix show, the toys can slow build to it, whereas the show can introduce the material faster for the toys to do later. But the show is definitely made with toys in mind, and material introduced for toys. And occasionally full concepts built around the toys too.
And the slow build of characters introduced and world building is what this is looking into doing. It's why we're pretty much starting off with Windblade and Bumblebee, with of course Prime referenced too. Others will be slow additions. That's actively what they did with Animated too. The story device to do so is through Bumblebee's memories. And many beast wars storylines were forced in from toys needing to be in the show. Rampage, Silverbolt, Tigerhawk, and many others were storylines created around the toys. Same to TM2 forms, and Optimal, and Dragon Megs.
Animated was the first transformers series where designs and show came first, and toys were designed around it. This is the second series to have that approach.