We are proud to be able to pass on the first details of Transformers Cyberverse, the new Transformers show coming our way in 2018.
Comicbook.com have posted the first image of the new show, and some details about what the series will involve.
First up: noses are back! After ten years of Transformers lacking noses in Transformers Animated, Transformers Prime and Transformers Robots in Disguise, these facial features that giant alien machines from space have no real need for are back!
Kidding aside, the artwork gives us our first look at the Transformers Cyberverse versions of the main cast. Bumblebee appears as a synthesis of his Generation 1 and IDW ongoing design, with the classic chest detail but the front of the car and door wings on the shoulders. Black stripes on the chest suggest the vehicle mode will be taking cues from Movie or possibly Transformers Prime Bumblebee.
Next to Bumblebee is Windblade, whose design seems to most closely mirror the character’s look from the Combiner Wars show, using the coloration of the Windblade toy that was released for Robots in Disguise last year.
Optimus Prime is shown in the background. We cannot see as much of Optimus, other than that he’s once again sporting a full face, implying the faceplate will only come out in battle. The squared look of the head is a more Generation 1 derived design than the typically longer and more angular movie derived designs also featured in Transformers Prime.
As far as details of the show go, Comicbook’s report includes the official synopsis for the show, which we’ve reproduced below:
Bumblebee is on a critical mission where lives are at stake! Only, he can’t remember what it is? It’s a good thing his best friend Windblade has found him to help repair his damaged memory chips. With each recovered memory, Bumblebee rediscovers his past adventures on Cybertron before coming to Earth. He relives fun moments when he played Cybertronian sports with his friends, and even tragic ones that would change his life. His past will shape him into becoming the hero we know today.
As each memory is repaired, another clue comes to light that will lead them both to complete their shared mission to save their friends and Earth… however, the Decepticons are hot on their heels and time is running out.
The synopsis of the show puts Bumblebee front-and-center once again, continuing the recent tradition of focusing on him as the main character that started in Robots in Disguise. It is interesting that Windblade is now being described as Bumblebee’s best friend; but it is a new continuity of stories. The story focus on Bumblebee recovering his memories is interesting, and will surely lead to some interesting plot developments (including, we’d expect, a twist or two about how Bumblebee and Windblade met, not to mention the mission). We’re expecting this to lead to a largely episodic structure early on – Bumblebee and Windblade facing some challenge with their other friends / human sidekick, with Bumblebee regaining a memory that helps with their current situation. Ongoing story arc elements are a given, and will probably develop slowly as bits of Bumblebee’s fragmented memories come to the surface.
We’re also expecting this whole premise will be given a resolution by the end of the first season, and a major moment may come when there is a full scale confrontation between Bumblebee’s band of allies and the pursuing Decepticons.
Comicbook’s report suggests that other Autobots will appear in the flashbacks, which is a given, but we’re sure they will also find their way into the plot in the modern day. Optimus Prime is naturally a given, though if Peter Cullen returns to voice the Autobot leader, we may see him in a guest role rather than a recurring one, in line with the sparing use of his talents on Robots in Disguise.
We’re excited to see where this all leads – as the length of this analysis of one image and two paragraphs of text shows – and we look forward to seeing more from the show.
Transformers Cyberverse is being developed by Boulder Media in association with Hasbro Studios, and is due to air in 2018.
Shockwave81
victorion fangirl
what the hell?
Wubglitch
Please, don't get me wrong. That was just one of the reasons that brings me to TF. The others are similar to all of us. A piece of Pizza is completed without ketchup, am I right?
Nightrain
Transformers should just be smooth floating orbs that morph into things.
WishfulThinking
They don't need mouths either. Or legs. Or arms. They can just be hovering torso bots with guns like this guy:
And thank the heavens they aren't. The one thing I like is when Transformers stay close to their Diaclone roots. They look bizarre, to me, when they stray too far (like the movies).
Windsweeper II
So many things are right about this comment.
(Wait that's not really proper english is it?)
This comment is so right in so many ways.
(except for rule 34 perhaps? I have nooo idea)
einhazard
You just don't spend enough time on the wrong parts of the internet.
Purple Heart
Hey now I like Kiss Players because of it’s absurdity.
Guess I’m not really in a postion to judge.
ProtectronPrime
Arise, Kiss Players: Prime.
Purple Heart
Don’t even joke about it. Please. He is clearly into Transformers for a different reason.
Seth Sunthay
There isn't enough Rule34 from TFP.
SPLIT LIP
Why do they have mouths? Why do they have two eyes and not a simpler, more advanced sensor array? Why have hands with five fingers? Two arms and two legs? Human-shaped bodies period? They're not humans, after all, why would they need to have our body design?
Also, who says the noses are for breathing? Robots aren't allowed to smell? Smell is an important sense to take for granted.
Aesthetically speaking, a face just isn't complete without a nose. Two eyes, a nose, a mouth, it just completes the likeness. It adds more options for variation, and stops them from looking too silly. Even TFA, with it's hyper style, typically left them with some kind of detail approximating a nose on the face so it wasn't just an empty space. It's why the Prime design faces look so terrible to me. You have these super detailed bodies, and the equivelant of doodles for faces. Totally flat surfaces with a slit for a mouth and two simplistic, round eyes. Almost never any deffinition to the face, just a big blank spot with a primitive mouth and eyes.
im sorry what
Sammael
Rule 34 TFP? Who would have thunk it.
Purple Heart
Seriously. It took me back a few times while reading it.
Cha Chi
Welcome to the future. Mongrels sleeping with mongrels… I kid… Peace and love people. Carry on.
Magnum Dongus
So many things were wrong with this comment
Wubglitch
Oh, I'm a bit late for party. Nice to see the new show. I like the new aesthetics. BB and WB looks fine but I don't really like Optimus's face. He looks too young to be him.
Oh hey, about the nose.
Why the nose? Why do they have nose? They have it in the old series and I'd say I don't like it. They're robots. Robots don't need to breathe. Unless they were some kind of heat vents.
The nose only looks good in MTMTE.
I have a hope for this series. Hasbro has been doing really great with TF shows lately. RID is going really great. I love that show.
TFP is kinda bullshit.
Yes, it's bullshit. Most of the episodes are kinda meaningless. I prefer episodic storytelling like RID.
Only good things from TFP is rule 34.
TFP Megatron looks cool I admitted. But I kinda agree that he's one of the worst Megs yet.
ANYWAY, I prefer any shows over Unicron Trilogy and other Japanese TF shows.
einhazard
I'm just happy that those robots all have noses again.
Autobot Burnout
Prime Megatron.
Seriously, he spent all three seasons essentially going "I WANT MORE ARMY" and wasting every single advantage that came his way.
Hell, a dude pledged loyalty to him on the condition his own kind would be left under his control and Megatron got so scared he ordered all of those guys killed immediately. Any Megatron worth a damn doesn't have that kind of insecurity over his grip on his forces when they say they'll do what he wants.
Indeed.
Nightrain
Megatron was the least of the Bay movies problems.