Over the past week, 2005 Boards member S250 has been revealing, a little at a time, parts of one of the design sketches from a potential third series of Transformers Animated on his homepage. Now, thanks to the many astute members of our boards and especially The Mod Hatter for pulling the whole thing together, we can now reveal the animation design for Transformers Animated Beachcomber! Beachcomber is just one of the additions to the cast for the third series which also includes Strika, a female Red Alert and Hot Shot!
Update: Thanks to The Mod Hatter’s sister, boobooskidoo, we are proud to share this higher-res version of the concept art!
Fort Max
Good design but not one I'm excited about, is there another on the way?
Trailbreaker77
I think he looks better in blue instead of G2 green. Just my opinion.
Draco Prime
Honestly, Beachcomber looks like a sickly little kid that fogot to take off his swim goggles.
Silent_Magnus
As cool as would be to have Kasem, he left Transformers after "Thief in the Night" because he was offended by some stereotypical characters in it.
Not sure if he'd come back.
Moonscream
Ya know, Shaggy is voiced by Casey Casem…would keep with their policy of using the old VAs…
–Moony
openchallenge
then comb all the beeches you want. thats cool. everyone comes out of botcon and just want to show off thier exclusives. i didnt hear that.
Silent_Magnus
Jetfire was confirmed way back at Botcon.
openchallenge
i would be fine with this if there were a few more sports cars happening in the autobots. if they skip characters like smokescreen, mirage, wheeljack, tracks, and especially jetfire to spend time making beechcomber thats a little too random for me. the more rumors i hear about season three the more i think i might already have all the tfa i want. i hope they just let that slip out because there is no toy attached. random and scary close to silly if they arent doing characters with a little more oomph.
ironium_prime
he looks like he turns into a hovercraft.
Rhinox555
He has a goatee,awesome!
He is a double-homage as his shoulders and feet are copied off energon Beachcomber,also awesome!
omegagoalie
Love it. Hope he still sounds like a hippie beatnik.
Silent_Magnus
How about having Beachcomber be a semi-original character with aspects of his G1 self?
Nachtsider
I actually wanted something like Jeff Bridges in full Big Lebowski mode. But Shaggy is fine, too.
TriBlurr
*cough*
Silent_Magnus
I don't think any 'bot that had an episode dedicated to them in G1 is all that random.
Although the fact that a character has had a toy recently helps.
girafeswordsman
Highbrow is WAY more random than Beachcomber. I dont think Beachcomber is random at all.
BHB
Beachcomber seems like a really random G1 bot to include in animated.
Silent_Magnus
G1 Beachcomber was a geologist.
spica
He looks like… "Dude, that was deep"
I hope he will still be an ecologist
AutobotJazz4
I saw the scetch of Beachcomber… and I just had to have a go at it. So after a small 15 minutes… this is what I came up with.