Derrick J. Wyatt, character designer for Transformers Animated, has updated his “A Delightful Tedium” blog with a preview of upcoming new characters from the Transformers Animated cartoon. The preview image features images of a part of nine different robots and was shown at the cartoon panels at BotCon 2008.
The image can be seen to the left. The characters shown are: Row 1: Swindle, Jetstorm, Wreck-Gar, Row 2: Skywarp, Shockwave, Mixmaster, Row 3: Blurr, Jetfire, Thundercracker.
Zaraxion1021
Finally!! More Autobots and Decepticons in the series!!! I hope they add giants as well like Metroplex and Trypticon
AniProwl
I'm assuming this
Jetstorm= A/E Jetfire
Jetfire= G1/IDW Skyfire
Either I'll be getting them over the Universe jetbots especially over Big Orange Nipple Powerglide.
If the design of them is awesome, I might have to sell Classics Jetfire to get them.
I hope their designs are shown at SDCC, so someone can post pics of them online. Therefore, I can make my final judgement.
Laser_Optimus
Yeah, me too… a shame what they did to half the characters in the sequel series (and what the heck happened to Scavanger?!).
It'd be nice if one of these two act like cocky Jetfire. Of course, if Jetstorm acts like his BM namesake he will pretty much be acting like cocky Jetfire from Armada…
Also, like I said… I actually like the cocky Jetfire persona, because G1 'Jetfire' will always be based on the toy bio and G1 'Skyfire' will always be based on the cartoon version of the character for me. I'd say G1 Jetfire's persona (and the difference between him and nerdy Skyfire) can be found by reading the IDW comics. My opinion of course…
Fort Max
If he's the only Autobot capable of flight then he's got a pretty good reason to be cocky imo.
nkelsch
I liked Armada Jetfire. I actually liked a majority of the character archtypes from Armada but they become horribly corrupted in Energon/cybertron.
shroobmaster
I'll laugh if NOTHING LIKE JETFIRE ends up acting just like Jetfire, and his brudda from anotha mudda Jetstorm acts like cocky Jetfire!
Laser_Optimus
Well, they could always do Skyfire as a seperate character later on.
Though, personally, I'm rather fond of the cocky flyboy Jetfire (but I also consider Jetfire/Skyfire two different characters).
Whipdash
…So basically we're getting AWESOME G1-ish versions of so many favorite characters… And then Skyfire/Jetfire gets turned into some wacked-out, unrecognizable new character that will probably end up most like that cocky jerk Jetfire from armada? Lovely.
Hope someone got that info messed up, or it gets changed before his in-show appearance, or I'll just have to stick with the comics to get any decent rendition of ol' Skyfire/Jetfire. >/
AND I'll be stuck cringing every time this guy crops up on a show I ACTUALLY like watching. Bummers.
I'm all for new interpretations of old characters (Blitzwing is a PERFECT example of a hilarious success at that, yet notice he still bares SOME similarities to the old G1 character,) but considering the theme so far, where they have been sticking with at least somewhat similar looks and personalities for characters with the same names as G1 guys… come on now. Give us a good Skyfire-like Jetfire, plz? :< DO NOT WANT cocky flyboy Jetfire again.
SPLIT LIP
Maybe that's how Bulkhead get's his big guns.(If he ever does)
Caterwaul
Hmm. Thrust and Ramjet always did seem to stand funny. Imagine the fun if they recolored them?
Still, to many BAD 'Symmetrical docking!' jokes here.
shroobmaster
Well that explains everything! The pic looks damned weird because CN dude painted backgrounds black and Shockwave's head is black!
Fort Max
Could Swindle be the source of future upgrades for some of the cast…
Type-R
And Thrust, Brawl, Onslaught, Swindle, Blast Off, Divebomb, Razorclaw, Tantrum, Headstrong, Rampage, Wildrider, Dead End among various other G1 Decepticons that did not have red eyes.
General Tekno
Shockwave wasn't the only one.
Pretty sure Laserbeak had yellow eyes too.
I could be mistaken though.
KA
Torque
i thought soundwave also had yellow-and check his cassettes
CrypticIllusionist
Swindle is looking very G1, which is cool. Shockwave looks like he's going to be quite a bit different.
Slightly off-topic; only now have I realized that Shockwave is the only Decepticon in the G1 cartoon that didn't have red eyes. It may have just been a single dot, but it was still implied as his eye and it was yellow…but it also glowed whenever he talked…so maybe it was his mouth…
Torque
so one jet has a visor, the other goggles? awesome!
Beastbot X
Not really, they're mounted on the sides of his face like Armada Megatron's, it's just that Shockwave's face, from the front, was all black in the drawing except for his optic.
Omnius
Looking forward to seeing Swindle & Shockwave make a return to a Transformers cartoon.
Oh, and Mixmaster's 'builders cleavage' = rofl.