We have with us a small document from Hasbro, highlighting their near future (2015/2016) Entertainment Plans including Transformers. While there is nothing new that we do not already know about, it’s great to hear some confirmations officially.
Transformers: Rescue Bots Season 4 was confirmed by Discovery Family Channel few months ago. Hasbro also highlights the fact that it does.
Planned for 2016 is Transformers: Robots In Disguise Season 2. Rest assured, it’s not canceled as some rumors say.
Finally we have Transformers: Combiner Wars; the upcoming Machinima series. The images on Hasbro’s document is comprised of Package Art from Optimus Maximus, Legends Thundercracker and Bombshell. So, it doesn’t give away how the show will actually look like.
Other than that, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is hitting its 6th Season and a new show [?] Equestria Girls: Legend Of Everfree. The next MLP movie is also mentioned. Trademark reveals that it might be called “Guardians Of Harmony”.
Speaking of movies, following tidbits regarding Hasbro’s upcoming movies in the work was also mentioned in another document highlighting the company overview:
“On the film side, the studio has developed and produced a number of features based on Hasbro’s brands. In addition to partnering with leading studios, the Company intends to make movies based on new and existing Hasbro brands for audiences globally through its Allspark Pictures film label. Films in development or planned for release, include TRANSFORMERS 5 (Paramount), G.I. JOE 3 (Paramount), JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS (Universal & Allspark Pictures), OUIJA 2 (Universal & Allspark Pictures), MAGIC: THE GATHERING (21st Century Fox), PLAY-DOH (21st Century Fox) and an animated feature based on MY LITTLE PONY (Allspark Pictures).”
You can checkout some extracts from the document, after the jump. We will hear some more news soon… so keep your eyes on TFW2005.
Autovolt 127
Yeah if TF5 was done by Blomkamp and had a toyline like ROTF. I'd pass on it completely.
Raiyuki
Glad to hear RID's continuing (I wanna see what it's like for Bee and Optimus to be leading side by side).
Also Magic the Gathering? Wonder what that'll be like.
Exinferis
RiD2015 continuing = fantastic! Love this show. Agree with DOTM Bumblebee above; would love to see some Prime characters show up. I especially want to know what happened to Airachnid after her Dark Energon Zombification!
More Rescue Bots? Love it! I know it's meant for little kids but it's still a great show. Look forward to seeing how coming out to the humans of Griffin Rock turns out!
TF5. Not a fan of the movies, so not bothered. Only liked TF4 because of the Dinobots!
CW Cartoon. Not sure if I like the idea or not. Will wait and see.
When I saw Jem and the Holograms I thought we were in for an epic CGI outrageous extravaganza. Then I saw it was live action.
Poo. Interest went from 100% to 0% in half a second. *Sigh*
Season 6 of MLP:FiM, not unexpected and I'm happy it's still going strong as it's one of my favourite shows. More Derpy and Dr Whooves please Hasbro!
Equestria Girls series? Hmmm. I've watched both movies and they're OK. But to me MLP stands for My Little Pony, what's with this dollification? Don't like. Mind you, I've never been one for dolls; Sindy was my limit as a kid!
MLP movie sounds good though. Not sure what a previous poster meant by a Brony film? You do realise MLP is meant for girls, right? I know there's a big Brony fan-base and that's fine, but this movie will no doubt be aimed squarely at little girls, with maybe a nod to the older fans and Bronies. As an older fan I look forward to it!
How does one make a movie out of Play-Doh? Will it be Claymation?! Play-Doh-mation?! The Lego Movie was great fun, but can't see this appealing to anyone over 2 years old.
User_136440
The funny thing is, Hasbro's reasoning behind splitting the line into the simplified kids' lines and having the older collectors solely targeted with Generations was that they believed they had been 'trying to please everybody but succeeding is pleasing no-one' so make of that what you will. I still remember that being said from when they revealed the up scaled BH legends figures.
Anyone else find it ironic that TF5 is among the movies not being made by Allspark Pictures?
DOTM Bumblebee
It's good to know that RID2015 will be getting a Season 2. I'm hoping for some more TF: Prime Autobots, Decepticons, and Predacons to show up. Not all at once, of course. Maybe just scattered throughout the season. I've been dying to know Starscream's and Shockwave's fates and what Megatron's been doing for the past two years now, so I'm really hoping those questions will be answered next season.
I've never been a follower of Rescue Bots, but I feel it's a good show from the handful of episodes that I've seen, so I'm glad to know it's being continued.
Transformers 5, like any Transformers movie (in my opinion), could be a good or bad experience, especially with Michael Bay directing. Since it does mean more Movie-verse toys, then no matter what the movie's like, I have something to look forward to.
This Combiner War series intrigues me. Obviously, it will feature characters from the Combiner Wars line, so the Aerialbots, Stunticons, Constructicons, Combaticons, and Protectobots. I wouldn't be surprised if Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Prowl, Sunstreaker, Mirage, Rodimus, Sky Lynx, Wreck Gar, Hound, Trailbreaker, Wheeljack, Smokescreen, Ultra Magnus, Megatron, Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp showed up as well. As it's a more adult-oriented show, and he isn't in the toyline (so far), it may very well be the first show in a while that won't feature Bumblebee. If this is true, it could be good news for those who are sick of the little guy.
AOEGalvatronRox
RID is continuing? That's kind of unfortunate. Oh well. I will say that I'm ready for the the CW Bruticus that comes out in early 2016. Assuming if my area is long to be able to get the figures that are coming out in the near future (Ultra Magnus and Starscream). I honestly think the distribution and stocking of the Transformers figures was seriously lacking this summer season.
vrba79
G.I. JOE 3 better have Snowjob screaming at kids to get off his ice, damn it!
Ravage101
Please be wrong, please be so wrong!
Ravage101
AOE was dark…Oh please…
Neill Blomkamp's film 'Chappie" was brilliant action film making, completely free of formulaic cheesy standards of Bays work: "lets make sure we have the hot chick scene here first and then place the flag here. Now have the slow kiss scene and after that enter the dorky guy who walks in. Now we need an explosion with the male walking very very very slowly."
When I saw Chappie my first thought was; "Why isn't this guy doing Tranformers?" The action sequences were so well done.
Neill, knows effects, he knows robots and technology. He created a great personality for the Chappie robot. Neill is great at building a compelling narrative through the technology his stories are about.
Veritas Prime
Good to hear that RID hasn't been cancelled and I hope there is more news for the CW series soon.
kaijuguy19
^^We don't even know if the next TF movie would be that dark right now. I mean yeah AOE was dark but that was because of the kind of story they were going for so for all we know TF5 would lighten up a bit.
Autobot Burnout
I honestly don't know if giving TF5 to Blomkamp will result in one of the following or not:
– Movie is actually much more urban in appearance and carries a powerful story that makes it the strongest film of the series yet, even though it's set in the slums of a South African nation like the last few of his films when not in the slums of China (because let's be honest, TF5 no matter what will pander HARD to the Chinese market again)
– The film actually has promise but Blomkamp screws it up with a few mind-boggingly bad casting choices. Seriously, Chappie could have been so good had he not put in those idiot rappers just because he was a fan of their music and treating the titular robot like a brain-dead Jar-Jar Binks.
– Regardless of the film's quality, it becomes the subject of controversial discussion over how it's semi-transparently commentary on modern world politics or something (I.E. Elysium all over again)
Honestly, I don't think Blomkamp is the right director for a TF film – we need to move away from all the grimdark serious bullshit. It's a film about transforming space robots that turn into human vehicles or should be mainly about said robots instead of goddamn human inserts that throw themselves into situations that sane people would run away from really, really fast. The films need to stop taking the entire premise AND themselves so seriously in order to be good – a good comparison would be the style of the Ant-Man film where it's obvious the film never does forget to point out that even the film itself does not take the concept of Ant-Man seriously. And it works.
Also, ROTF isn't that great an idea to revisit, either – you want a toyline full of ROTF Mixmaster voyagers?
Driskull98
I don't expect much from the CW Machinima. It's probably going to be on the same quality level as the old Universe Flash cartoons. Here's hoping it's Mortal Kombat Legacy-levels of good.
Play-Doh The Movie? Lego Movie was bad, I expect no less from this.
Ouija 2 is completely unnecessary. The last one sucked, what more is there to tell with this stupid thing.
Ravage101
Agreed!
Looking forward to seeing how this will be. I hope this opens the gateway for Hasbro and IDW to build a longer (15 year) agreement to which they will be following the same formula that DC, in the past and Marvel, in the present, have used.
kaijuguy19
^^Well the fact that Hasbro's bothering to give us a series for the more older fans is a good indication of Hasbro aiming to please both kids and adults so I'd say at this point it's a win-win depending if the CW series ends up being awesome or not.
Ravage101
Oh here we go again…
I will never understand this. Why is it the second I or anyone else asks Hasbro to put full support for IDW story lines and other tightly G1 inspired content through toys and cartoons, it instantly means; "Ohhhhh you say/believe toys are not meant for kids". Or, my personal favorite; "toys are meant for kids not adults".
Why do we get this reaction [from other members] when it is suggested to have great stories written by IDW be put in animated form? Why do we get this reaction when when we ask Hasbro to put 100% support in generations toy lines? How does this translate into going against the wants and needs of kids? This may actually be a shock but kids actually love the the original story lines. Kids like complex story telling and well done character development. Kids like good transformer figures! I've been to collector shows where kids inquire about what the cannon stories were about. Kids read the IDW comic books.
If you are thinking about the needs of younger kids, that's what Robot Heroes is for
Yes, Hasbro can please the collectors while at the same time keep kids engaged. Hasbro's been treating this move like a an experiment for a while now and IMO I feel they need to go full steam a head and commit to making toys and animation both collectors and kids will enjoy. It is just my opinion.
WishfulThinking
As soon as I heard one of the Transformers design team members was moved to GIJoe, I KNEW it had to be for GIJoe 3. And people scoffed at me… BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!
Slingshot
So Hasbro shouldn't be targeting their toys towards Kids?
You're right. Toys aren't for kids, they are for us! The fans are always more important!
There are a lot of RID fans out there. Don't wish for something to die just because you don't like it.
kaijuguy19