Josh Keaton recently posted on his Facebook wall an image from the recording studio of Transformers Prime, showing the talented Steve Blum with legendary Transformers voice actor Peter Cullen and legendary TV animation voice actor Frank Welker. Josh added a comment to the picture that was a particular tease:
Darren Norris is off to the side as well as another great VA who will be playing a new (to the show) autobot I can’t name yet o_0So as well as more confirmed Knockout for future episodes, we’ve got confirmation that a new Autobot character will be joining the cast! Who will be voicing them though? Could this be David Kaye’s character, or someone else entirely? Join in the speculation on our 2005 Boards!
BenjaminXavier
I dont know their budget. See my most recent thread in the "prime" forum for my speculation.
Maximo Prime
oh you know their budget? please, by all means… share!
Chris McFeely
This right here.
sonicwing
Bring on Jetfire!!!
Stepper
Will welcome a few new character if there is ever a Season 3,now waiting for Silas to appear
BenjaminXavier
Well, this season's halfway over, so it would make sense to bring in someone new as part of whatever multi-episode arc finishes out the season.
But as an aside: have they introduced any new characters this season who weren't re-uses from last season (a-la dreadwing)? Is it really *just* the insecticon? That would lead me to believe there's a lot of unused money in the budget for new characters in this season, so where are they?
Stepper
PRIME series does not need another Leader,hence i don't think Ultra Magnus will comes into the picture
Cast
Ultra Magnus, come even if it means retiring prime for a while… cos that would so work in a show called transformers prime!
Prowl1
Prowl please!
Stepper
All of us are just anticipating,that's all
Autovolt 127
Holy Crap? How is this thread not locked….unless we actually got the new Autobot confirmed……
TK458
DUDE SideswipeSideswipeSideswipe!
Mirage or Jazz could work too
ngnikolaos
Calling it now: Ironhide.
LogicalLuke
I've seen three or four myself hoping for a new Decepticon looking over the whole "Transformers Prime Gets a New AUTOBOT" thing. Dat readin.
Starscream NZ
The VA mentioned in the news article was the VA for Seaspray. True to the character, there was no lines recorded for the character.
Spin-Out
I'm hoping Jazz.
Thalack
Hopefully someone cool. I would love a Hot Rod voiced by Nathan Fillion
Cause Bruticus is autobot all the way.
Stygian360
I agree with your observations regarding how new characters make their way into the show. The producers seem loathe to allow the cast to grow too large for fear of JLA syndrome; where the cast gets so large and unwieldy that you could never properly do them all justice (pardon the pun). I'd say they're in zero danger of that though since the cast is so mercifully small at this point.
Anyway, I think it will be more towards the end of this season if/when we will see another Autobot. Already Wheeljack has peeled off to explore, just to maintain the image of the Aubobots as on the ropes, so imagine if they brought him back full time. He'd perhaps tip the balance and make the Autobots seem too capable. I can't even imagine bringing in yet another Autobot at this point. Good lord the Autobots might actually appear to *GASP* have a chance at winning this weird war.
Girl Pants
Seems TF Prime gets new cast members in one of three ways:
Guest stars that rarely appear. (Wheeljack)
Characters who show up to die. (Skyquake, Makeshift)
New full-time characters that basically replace* old characters (Dreadwing)
*I'm aware Breakdown and Dreadwing co-existed for a time, but it feels like a swap-out of one big blue guy for another.
I'm torn on which I would prefer. I seem to recall a synopsis that implied Bulkhead was in danger – I could see them "swapping" him out for Ironhide. I think having ANOTHER rogue Autobot would be weird, and I don't want him to just show up for one arc and then die.
Of couse, I would love it if we could get an actual 6th member to Team Prime and keep them all. Also, I think the Decepticons need more troops, so maybe he'll be one of them.
Stepper
A lot of the Jazz fan will be hoping that this character will appear in this season but so far they are still sticking on to the same old character that are showing currently now