Transformers Prime voice actors Jeffrey Combs and Tony Todd are appearing at the El Paso Comic Con in Texas this weekend – and at a joint panel Jeffrey Combs has dropped a few bombshells regarding the future of the Transformers Prime series. By way of 2005 Boards member MiraiBaby who is at the convention we can relay this news to you:
- Season 3 will only last 16 episodes
- Combs just finished recording the last episode to season 3
- UPDATE Jeffrey Combs confirmed today 9/16/2012 that there will be a fourth season of Transformers Prime – the series will NOT end with season 3. Early cutoff rumor untrue.[/b]”
What this means for the recently revealed “Beast Hunters” and the leaked Hasbro document suggesting Transformers Prime is planned to continue through 2015 is unclear – more information will hopefully follow. Keep it TFW2005 and we will share more information as it reaches us.
bumblebeeprime2
cant wait for more of transformers prime! i hope this can be the logest running Transformers show! guys lets keep it going!!!!!!
An Army of Bees
It has already been confirmed that it is not the final season and that Beast Hunters will be a shorter season.
Exodus
Hope Prime lasts for a long time.
Vladius Prime
i personally dont think its true, especially with all these toys and the MMO coming out soon
Rogzilla
That's a bit of a leap, don't you think? Based on that logic, Bumblebee should have been the only Transformer in TRP because he was the first bot we saw during the early stages of promotion.
kaijuguy19
Actually we're now seeing that Prime's main story is indeed bringing back Cybertron which first stared with the Unicorn arc then in Orion Pax then later on we saw more hints to what project Iacon was really about which is to bring back Cybertron and now we're almost there to seeing if they suceed or not. So yeah that's actually it's main story.
Also Beast Wars didn't exactly have much characters either but it still came out good in the end despite that so why should'nt Prime do the same? And yes I understand the want for more characters but are they really the most important thing for a TF show that it's put above everything else in the show? I mean if done wrong you could have too many characters and not enough if not zero development which is the biggest complaint that people had with G1. Sometimes having a smaller cast makes development a lot better then just having a large one which was why Beast Wars was so sussceful.
Besides the 16 episodes for S3 will have them get enough money to make new character models for the show so if it helps that's the likely outcome.
Snarl_2289
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st.ranger
Prime already have more episodes then Animated, but there are only several characters. There is no main story line and Dinobots cant save this. Well, Im not a big fan of Bayformers and I see handwriting here. I understand, its not easy to create a lot of robots in CGI, but this is why Animated was much better.
shroobmaster
Some character from the 80s movie. I think he turned into a green helicopter or something.
Girl Pants
Honestly, I could see the dinobots working. Most of the battles in Prime do not actively occur around humans. While they use their disguises more than most shows have at this point into the show, they still don't need them for every mission. There's no reason they can't use the rest of team Prime for scouting and infiltration and call in the Dinobots later when the power is needed.
Snark
Who the hell is that?
twiztidRodimus
Well…..having to suffer through Miko, they can allow me to forgive them by bringing in…..the MAIN BOT….Rodimus
Charade
Maybe it's some gimmick to introduce the Dinobots into Prime.
Okay, I'll be honest. Even though I grew up with G1, I do not like the dinobots—as a concept.
In Prime, secrecy for the Autobots is paramount. How are they supposed to be "robots in disguise" if there are a bunch of giant, metal, supposedly-extinct reptiles running around Jasper?
Most Transformers fans love the Dinobots, and Hasbro no doubt wants to deliver since the toy sales etc. would be significant. However, to make it believable to the causal viewer or newcomer to the fandom, they are going to need a helluva hook. Enter "Beast Hunters."
TF: Prime—with Dinobots.
Just my two cents…
Autovolt 127
That or we are living in The Leader's Gamma World.
DarkEyes
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Nightrain
Cue gif of Wayun with falling sunglasses.
onionna
I'm with you. 16 episodes can be better than 26 if they aren't putting any filler in it or stuff that doesn't really have anything to do with the main storyline.
unicronic
I'd be happy with a 3rd and 4th season of 16 episodes each. I'm not too concerned about whether they introduce new characters or not. I'd rather they use less airtime to create more substance in each episode.
Maybe Season 5 will be Transformers Primal?
hellrasinbrasin
For all we know Season 3 is the last season Transformers Prime that will carry the subtitle "Prime" so it would make since that Series 3 will have a 32 episode run which would explain Transformers Prime having a 4 Season run as Season 4 would be the last 16 episodes of Series 3. Then Transformers Beast Hunters would be the follow up to Transformers Prime while Transfomers is back running at Theaters again.