French website Gulli have just updated a new section for Transformers: Cyberverse cartoon, including some new images and art.
As we had reported previously, the new Transformers: Cyberverse cartoon will be aired in France by children’s network Gulli. They have shared a nice set of full-body images of the main characters: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Windblade, Blurr, Wheeljack, Megatron, Starscream and Thundercracker. Special mention to some new images showing the alt mode of Optimus, Grimlock and Thundercracker.
We have mirrored all the images after the jump for your convenience. Don’t forget to share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
Dranoel
Looks ok… but the toys…are absolutely horrible.
combinerlover
So G1 , lol..Hilarious …Look at how they did starscream , which is I guess ok , but then look at Thundercracker , In the likes of G1 they would have to have similarities , hell Thundercracker looks like what Starscream should , I might understand Thunderscracker looking like Starscream ? but no …lol.. just no ..and the last series had bumble bee as a leader , not a mute kid ..C`mon ..I wonder if Children will notice that , cause I would have …Idk …. I`ll just have to watch it to get a true feel of it before I cement my opinion …. … This is just my current opinion though and G1 is one of my babies …So yeah , past The appearance of Megatron and Optimus being in the likes of G1 , this thing is nothing like it…GD look at Wheeljacks goatee ect… Look at Grimlocks “ MOUTH “ … * Face palm * …N e way , I hope this rallies in new fans as do I hope the rest of you enjoy it ?
Shizuka
Not really, lots of kids shows are 2D. 3D objects can be rendered to look 2D. Even Rescue Bots is 2D.
DarkEyes
The designs are awesome! So G1!
Digger
My apologies.
Deadend
Evergreen is going to stick around for a bit, probably a decade if it keeps moving as it has been. Cyberverse still uses large chunks of aligned and it's built as a multi-year toon, with divergent aspects that'll grow out of it for later. I think Evergreen might also contribute to some other expansions over time too as it creates new possibilities through engineering and molds it creates.
The toys need a minor overhaul on the warrior class. But otherwise they're pretty fun. Line does need more Warrior class like Shockwave, and a little less like Starscream. But much of that I think is because of needing production filler to round out the first year. I'm really kind of digging the scouts personally though. Having official gerwalk modes is really kind of awesome.
The fiction itself I'm rather fine with. Cyberverse hasn't really shown itself one way or another, and like Animated and really all animation, may be more than what we see on the surface. In many ways, it feels like a concept that could be a tangent path from WFC/FOC and the novels. That megatron clip with the rally feels a lot like something you'd see in the buildup before the first novel did the quick transition to the Autobot/decepticon war.
The media varies, but I think they do take it all seriously. Some humor isn't unwelcome either though, and playing to characteristics and aspects of the story is expected. Like bumblebee acting "annoying" and "childish" seems intentional. He's coming across as essentially a kid in an adults body which fits the concept of his memory loss in the confines of what that means for a sentient technological being. Memories and experience are what make us who we are, so without that, he is kind of like a walking talking newborn which is different than human amnesia.
I wouldn't count Hasbro "out" for adult oriented either. Though the comments on "prime" toys is rather interesting because of how Beast hunters went back to first edition engineering and relatively didn't hold in the market too well, and RID after first edition was simplified.
Though I would like to see these designs done in a more "animated" approach or even NuRID warrior class approach. Simple isn't bad, and finding that right balance of good figure and design to then a character specific action feature would be a good idea. But I think some of that may come later as the line evolves.
Personally, I think the problem is more on some fans taking it too seriously. The shows need an element of fun and light-heartedness to counter balance all the grim dark other areas to it.
At the end of the day, it's a good idea to keep in mind that Cyberverse is coming from some of the same internal areas of Hasbro that did bring us Animated, WFC/FOC, Prime, NuRID, Rescue bots, Aligned, and Prime Wars as well as the upcoming WFC generations line trilogy. So I have faith that it'll be up to par. That upswing Hasbro has been going through since the TF2007 movie is still being driven by the same areas that are looking to push Hasbro success ever forward and onward.
ToaDraco
I completely agree, I absolutely loved the Aligned continuity, it felt like Transformers had entered a new renaissance but then they stopped making the Cybertron games and ended Transformers Prime, 2 of the greatest things to come out of the franchise in decades imho. Instead of building on the successes of brand cohesion like so many other companies and properties, they chose to take a step backward and return to a messier, impulsive system that makes it difficult for anyone on the outside to tell if they even have a long term plan or if they're just winging it. It's honestly frustrating and more than a little puzzling that this is the direction they've been going in when other properties like Marvel have demonstrated the power of brand cohesion with movies, games, comics, cartoons, toys, and more. At the very least Hasbro has been better about this with things like the generations line with 3 year arks encompassing consistent themes and they seem to be starting to have at least some consistency by establishing evergreen designs. The new show follows pretty closely to those designs while still making them its own. Hopefully they will build upon the evergreen foundation further and don't abandon it in a couple years.
Deadend
I didn't mean to pick on yours. xD
Closest person that said it for the quote.
I like windblade's design personally though.
Deadend
Beast Wars/Beast Machines is what got the idea rolling on possibilities for them being added. Though they were predominately there only in beast modes(technically speaking, TM/TM2 modes the bot mode was the beast mode with how the transwarp waved turned them inside out a lot of BW/BM was built on that aspect of building to tecnhorganic and removing the robot from it). So they don't exactly count. Depends on the series choices really. Like for G1, it humanizes them too much when you need that mixed aspect of their backstory too. Though G1 also has them the technically behind the colored glass with how the internals had the optics designed as we saw with Unicron, and other X-ray shots of bots. Thinking of it from a design standpoint, for how the pupil works to light emiting to notice it is the biggest issue. Because the eye coverings are essentially a form of "sunglasses" so to speak. Or like a camera lense, but using that kind similar to two way mirrors.
That's why animated worked with the entire lighting aspect for it, which gave us the white circles/lighter colored circles. This is going more for the G1 aspect though of the opaque colored glass style.
Treadshot 2.0
I I would love to see those designs realized more realistically though. Like, a video game or something. Maybe have somebody really good who understands the franchise do a script and then have an upper tier Japanese or Korean Animation Studio execute it? I feel like with that franchise they only take their media seriously every 3 or 4 years. If you look at the Aligned era, they were actually really killing it. The Prime show was great and won Emmys if I remember right, Rescue Bots was such a hit with the kids that it's still on to this day, war for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron established the property as something you could legitimately build a quality game around and also appealed to the fan bases of multiple iterations of the franchise, and of course you had the IDW comics. on the toy front, they had stuff for every demographic, took a leap in engineering and design and fully realizing the show model with the actual toy, and deployed the different toy lines logically according to the Target audiences of the corresponding media. So Rescue Bots toys were for little kids, and the video game toys were the generations line. For Prime, which was targeted to older audience but was their main line cartoon, they wisely chose to skew somewhat older with the toys, which is why they're still highly sought after.
Treadshot 2.0
Wow, Starscream and Thundercracker are really quite different! I like it! As far as the art style, it's not my cup of tea, but the last time my feelings about the art style with this negative the show ended up being Transformers Animated which was amazing. So I will Reserve judgement until I actually see it.
Robbot
With Grimlock I like how his T-Rex mode combines both modern ideas and classic ones about how They probably looked
Soundwaver
I think that it was to making them more alien. They can't act or look too human.
smf2045
I hate, hate, hate the hands with three fingers and a thumb. That just bugs the $#!& out of me for no good reason other than it seems like the characters/ animators were just taking shortcuts and didn't wanna draw five-fingered hands. It's an unwelcome callback to some of the lamest cartoons of the past, IMHO. I'll still at least try to watch a few episodes to give it a chance, but I'm not holding out much hope.
Soundwaver
Well keep him away from the kids then and Wheelie included ( if Wheelie exist in this continuity).
Also love Grims dinomode.
Spontificus
The character art looks good. I think I got too used to how Prime Wheeljack looked without his mask on to get on board immediately with the mustache look, but I am sure I'll get used to it.
ToaDraco
Damn those look awesome. They definitely used them as a starting point for the show designs. I am confused yet intrigued by Wheeljack's asymmetry. I'm guessing he's had to replace some parts after some of his experiments go horribly wrong. I'm getting used to the idea of him and Grimlock(also love his design though the tail is a bit wonky in dino mode) having faces underneath the battlemasks though I do hope they still use the masks frequently as they just look so much better with them. Most of us see it as blasphemy but when you step back and really think about it, does it really make sense for Optimus to be the only one to flip down his battlemask from time to time? That said, I'd be horrified if they ever chose to show Soundwave's face…
Scoff
Grimlock's dino mode looks pretty rad!
Hang on, he looks kind of different from the toy version of him. The colors are different in some places.
Bakuformer00
The designs are pretty good. Still wonder if we can see more alt-modes, though.
jaws
Wheeljack's face looks like Rodimus Unicron, creepy actually. Grimlock's face is a fail too.