We have received a Press Release from Cartoon Network Australia and it features Season 3 of Transformers: Robots In Disguise.
According to the press blurb, Season 3 (or Season 2.5 as named in Canada) will run every Saturday from 5th November to 10th December indicating a short “Season” with 6 Episodes.
This info clearly falls in line with the previously confirmed info from Hasbro where a proposed 45 Episodes indicated.
- Season 1 – 26 Episodes
- Season 2 – 13 Episodes
- Season 2.5/3 – 6 Episodes
However, RID Fans should be happy to note that dubbing still continues indicating possible future episodes or seasons. We are expected to hear an official announcement somewhere around mid-October.
Based on several info revealed through one of Hasbro’s Investor Calls, Hasbro is planning for a Special TV Event this Fall in United States.
Check out the Press Release info, after the jump.
Transformers: Robots In Disguise
Brand New Season (Season 3)
Saturdays at 8.30am, Saturday 5th November to Saturday 10th December.
Get ready for some spectacular Saturdays as the Decepticons and Autobots crash back onto your screen, with the launch of Season 3 of Transformers: Robots in Disguise. Team up with Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Windblade for awesome robot-powered action every Saturday morning, to ramp up for the rest of your weekend!
lordmegatron64
Story is EVERYTHING. If they wanted to make a Season 4 of Animated in the art style of Transformers Armada. I'd fucking love it!
soundwaverulls
I'm not certain it's ending. There has been word on a fourth season. While CN seemingly splitting season 2 into two separate seasons does come off as an attempt to draw things out, that doesn't mean another season isn't coming. They did the same to Steven Universe's 2nd season, but it still had/is getting another season (which is also being split in two).
Something else to remember is that TF series have always had short runs. It's been that way long before the movies came around. It's been said that TFP was always meant to end on season 3. A 4th was something they talked about, but it was never guaranteed. I honestly don't think TFP's ending is as bad as people make it out to be, and it certainly wasn't as bad as Animated's. Plus, I'm fairly certain they had been planning a follow-up as soon as they started wrapping the show up. One that we're getting in the form of RID15, whether people like it, or not.
As much as I'd love to see Animated return, that ship has sailed. Besides, I don't really understand the confusion over what RID15 is. People talk about how dumb it is to create a more kiddy show, after Prime pushed what was acceptable, but none of us fans truly know how well the show did, or how well it sold toys. So many adult fans judge the success of the show off of their own tastes, or the few kids they're closely related too, while having little to no clue what the majority of kids throughout the world truly thought. While TFP did seem to do well, it evidently under-preformed, compared to Hasbro's expectations. After-all, Hasbro has to aim shows at an increasingly young audience to combat kids' dying interest in toys, with the era of rapidly growing electronic entertainment we live in. Sure, we already have RB, but that's still aimed at a slightly younger demographic, having very little combat featured in it.
Wubglitch
Hasbro has already out of budget? Or did they have already realized that this show suck so much or something? I'm really feared that Hasbro might gone bankrupt in a few month from now (If TF5 didn't goes well. ). There're some evidence we should take a look here.
1) Hasbro once has stated that plastic price is getting higher lately. So the toys must got reduces paint apps to keep the pricepoint at the same amount. (You don't want a 30$ deluxe class, don't you?)
* They still spent tons of plastic Kre-o TF and One step changers. Which you know, almost no one are going to buy them.
2) They keep redeco toys as much as they can recently to save the budget on moulds. (CW was a big problem since its engineerings are really difficult to design a new one. because a deluxe class must have the same height either leg or arm mode. So, hiring a designer to make a new mold would be too pricy and ineffective marketing.)
3) Fans keep complaining on tons of redeco, retools and lack of paint apps.
4) Fans don't buy official toys.
5) 3rd party superior. Hasbro inferior.
6) Somehow Hasbro might figured it out on how sucks are their own TF toy series.
7) IMO, Hasbro has only these choices on NuRID :
– Quickly Shutdown the current TV show (NuRID) and reboot cuz it sucks.
– Quickly shutdown the current TV show (NuRID) cuz they're out of budget toys doesn't sold well.
– New TF movie is coming out. Let\'s pause the show (NuRID) for a while. Fans won't notice this B/
That\'s what I'm thinking.
Shizuka
Exactly. I really don't know who this show is aimed for because with Prime it seemed like they weren't underestimating what they could show kids but with this show they seemed to think that Prime was too dark and serious. Now we have RiD and Rescue Bots which to me both seem like kiddy shows and Combiner Wars ended up not interesting me. I wish we had a better show I could watch but I guess ultimately that's not what Hasbro are interested in since they want kids to buy their toys.
jamarmiller
I hope we never see the art style of animated EVER again. Story, fine , art style, no thank you.
lordmegatron64
or…you know….They could just drop this whole thing and give us a Season 4 of Animated..The show that was 100x better than this show. I mean this is supposed to be a sequel to Prime and they slapped Prime fans in the face with this crap.
TCJJ
I'm so ridiculously confused at this point. I haven't even touched season 2 yet but I will eventually (and not via Cartoon Network, because it's an absolute clusterfuck – they must be re-airing RID for almost the 10th time now over here).
From my understanding at this point, it seems like we're only really getting the whole two seasons and a movie thing, as we found out we would be getting instead of what the initial reveal told us: that it'd be three 26-episode seasons.
So I guess RID really is done after all, but they just drew it out.
I have a feeling that they're just trying to tie it up before the new movie comes out. This seems to be a trend. It happened with Animated and Prime as well. When the movies come out, the cartoons basically go away and/or end completely (and usually aren't wrapped up as well as they could be). Honestly, at this point, I'm more upset about the movies because of their effect on the cartoons than the movies themselves (which aren't even worth being upset about, to be honest). I realise that we can (theoretically) get better cartoons because of the movies, but I honestly think they're just having a detrimental effect at this point if they are going to help kill off a cartoon before it gets a good run.
It doesn't help that RID has been an absolute clusterfuck in terms of marketing and merchandise, not to mention Cartoon Network's sheer incompetence (which isn't so much surprising as it is extremely disappointing) – though, of course, Cartoon Network never really give a damn about properties they don't own anyway.
I know we've had this discussion before, but I think it's high time that Hasbro moved Transformers to a service such as Netflix.
Wild Eevee
Six episode seasons sound kind of ridiculous to me,but maybe they'll get enough complaints about this that they'll change their minds if we get lucky. Of course season four of G1 was just three episodes.
IceMagnus
In Saturday detention pissing people off.
YoungPrime
Never seen a full minute of this show besides a couple crappy trailers in the beginning. They basically have Bumblebee playing the fack Rodimus role which only begs the question "Where's Rodimus?"
TwitchingFool0
I\'m so confused with what CN is doing right now. This feels like how Nickelodeon has been acting with some of their shows as of late.
TwitchingFool0
I\'m so confused with what CN is doing right now. This feels like how Nickelodeon has been acting with some of their shows as of late.
Gayformers
Why make 6 episodes and call it a season when they could've made a 120 minute movie about the same thing? Honestly, Season 3 looks like it was made solely to sell the Weaponizer toys and nothing else lmao
then they threw Starscream in to please the audience so people wouldn't be so mad at the show
User_136440
Ah ok, I just knew it wasn't here lol
Lovecraft
No that's Canada.
User_136440
Isn't season 2.5/3.0 what's showing now in the us? Halfway through already!
SilverOptimus
LOL. I wrote that. And I got the info from a friend who visited a Hasbro Booth at a Conference last year. Links are on the front page article.
IceMagnus
Let's hope so. Cause this show has actually gotten me out of some pretty nasty moods and it's one of my favorite Transformers series.
SeanTF1967
RID's airing of episodes is really confusing me. Six episodes? They are really splitting season 2 up. Which reminds me, does anyone remember that old report that said Season 2 would have 19 episodes? 13+6=19.
SilverOptimus
No. Since Dubbing continues and we heard the artists say "Season 4", it is possible that we'll see 6 Episode Seasons. That is the new trend on Cartoon Network.
45 Episodes were the original plan and that's what I heard. I stand by what I heard and 45 Episodes now makes sense. BUT given new info, I do believe Hasbro continued on with short seasons.