Back in early October, we reported that eOne is planning for a brand new comedy series based on the Transformers franchise. Since then, we’ve received some interesting tidbits regarding this upcoming show.
As some of you guessed correctly, the comedy show is indeed focused on BotBots,
Once again, Hasbro’s in-house animation studio Boulder Media Limited will take the reins of this new project as well. In fact, part of the team who worked on Transformers: Cyberverse has moved on to Transformers: BotBots.
The tiny robots are animated in 2D but the backgrounds are in 3D.
Animation work has begun prior to September 2020.
Even though the show is originally planned to debut in 2021, the current COVID-19 climate may throw a wrench at the plans. Fans may hear an official announcement (and the show’s first look) on or before Q1 2021.
There D Hood
I'm excited for this show. All the weirdos gathering together should make for some fun interactions. I wonder if they'll rerelease the older Botbots because they can't possibly exclude that many characters who already have bios and only have new ones in the show. Kids need to be able to buy the older Botbots who appear too. Hoping this means Hasbro has faith in the line but will take measures to reduce shelfwarming and make collecting them less of a hassle.
As for some of the posts here…
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octobotimus
What’s funny is as someone who grew up with these as my Transformers, a lot of it wasn’t good… animated and prime were great, but everything since then I’ve hated. I grew up watching bayverse, but the best thing about them was the toys, while the movies are just pure garbage. Hasbro has yet to make me believe they know what they are doing in terms of making shows, and that’s from someone who couldn’t care less about g1 other than as a basis for designs.
People need to focus less on these supposedly grumpy geewuners, and a pay attention to the lack of quality we’ve been getting for a decade.
Michael Payton
I have some bad news for those of you inflicted with terminal dork rage that little kids aren't gobbling up the plastic representations of whichever generation of TF cartoon/movie you personally think is the bestest evah.
Kids don't care what grampa likes. They want their own stuff. Just like most of us did when we were five.
T-Hybrid
I mean they said that about Beast Wars.
…and Animated.
…and Prime.
…and the Bayverse.
…and Rescue Bots.
…and RiD 2015.
…and Cyberverse.
…and WfC.
At some point you just tune it out because those kinds of adults are the worst judge of what kids actually like. And ultimately, that's all that matters to the survival of a kids show and a toyline.
Venixion
If it's like TTG/TCR then I will agree with them. Those shows are dreadful.
ScientistMan
Tell it to the "You ruined my childhood crowd." They're gonna look at this and think "Teen Titans Go!/Thundercats Roar" all over again. A big name action IP forced into wacky comedy. I have no idea what this show will look or sound like (I'm not even sure the Botbots will talk), but the people who downvote this have already formed their opinions.
Just going from memory, they worked with CN on the first season and left after that. So they're like Wozniak I guess.
Venixion
That'd be fun. Like, I wasn't much for RB, but its a good show for the wee ones.
BB Shockwave
I will some day make a T-shirt that says "I survived the bleak decade of Transformers anime, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt".
NO THANKS. Never again. I do not want to see another 55 episode dragged out boring cliche-fest like RID, Armada, Energon and Cybertron was… and even before that there was Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory, BWII and Neo. Of all of these, I would only rate Masterforce and BWII as watchable. And I watch bad 80-90ies movies for entertainment, but sorry, I could never finish A-E-C. Seriously once you seen enough anime you will just see the same tropes repeat all over again endlessly.
Masterforce was unique for basically having humans be the Transformers in power-up form, and BWII was something no TF show was before (or since), a comedy with characters I find genuinely funny, especially the Seacon space pirates, the Jointrons and effeminate Starscream-sama and his big lug of a one-word brother BB.
I tell you, the A-E-C years were dark times for those of us in my country who grew up on the Marvel comics and G1 cartoon, and Animated was a breath of fresh air. I never liked Prime, but I will take that over these anime any day, at least it did not have episodes that were just another race, or arena fight, or cliche new planet of the week.
I wholeheartedly enjoy Danger Mouse, so much that I have a DM logo in my desk at work as a kind of inside joke (since my job is Data Manager, DM is also my job description LOL).
It also has a lot of hilarious british humor that I think are targeted at us grown-ups. And hell, it has Stephen Fry!!!
BB Shockwave
LOL this is nonsense.
This is Botbots, not Transformers. Nobody will downvote it because it will be a simple cutesy funny show. You ever seen the Rabbids shorts? Angry Birds? The new Mickey Mouse shorts, or 2020 Looney Tunes? I predict this will be a show like that.
Heck, there was actually a show about sushi food that comes to life and fights battles between tribes… I am not even kidding. The villain is one of those waving cat statues. It was called Kobushi.
Kobushi
If this thing got a whole season I don't see why Botbots cannot exist.
Waiiiiit, they made Gumball???
I thought that was CN's own product.
Well, color me even more impressed. Gumball is easily the best comedy cartoon of the last few years. I rewatch it even now, it is so funny. Heck that is the only reason I sometimes turn on the TV to check it in hungarian on CN out of curiosity how well they translated the jokes.
Flash IS the traditional 2D animation these days. Nobody uses CELs anymore. Who has the time (and money)? It's all digital.
What I meant is, it will likely not be cel-shaded 3D like Cyberverse or RID was.
Headmasters was better than The Prime Wars trilogy. It's not a big achievement.
That thing is so bottom of the barrel even the worst CN shows are better than that.
WFC is slowly making its way back to Prime Wars level though, even the animation got worse since the first series. At least they are not using youtubers for voice actors and the plot still sort of makes sense.
Get it through that thick head of yours, this is NOT MAINLINE TF. Is that so hard to understand???
Rescue Bots ran next to RID and Cyberverse for years and surprise, it did not change what sort of TF shows we got.
WFC is same as Prime Wars, a one time thing for fans, not a shape of things to come. Hasbro, in both cases, found some of the cheapest working studios in western media (Machinima and Rooster Teeth) and hired them to make super short movies that can be broken up into "episodes", using minimal voice talent (the current shows do not even have anyone with significant voice credit, and the biggest name the Prime Wars stuff had was Mark Hamill – and he works for surprisingly less than you'd imagine).
They are basically the cheapest way for Hasbro to give fans some "adult" shows. They only tried to not be cheap once, with GI Joe Resolute, and I guess it proved not to be worth it since it did not spark some huge GI Joe toyline…
Arale
I wonder if this is more like a type of Rescue Bots style show?
Venixion
Seth Rogen has you covered
Diamondback
What I'd do if I were Hasbro would be make these short enough to fit into ad slots, then buy ad time and run them as such.
Diamondback
Too little too late, I just got out of Target where the 5-packs are marked down 30% off after massive shelfwarming, and the stocker who looked them up in the system tells me they're flagged as Discontinued–which is curious because they don't have the "final markdown End of Life" last digit in their price, just a regular ends-in-9. Usually never-to-returns at Target end in a 4, 6 or 7 IIRC…
ScientistMan
What would be the best venue for this? If goes to CN there's a chance they'll just plop it right into RiD15/Cyberverse's early morning slot. If it goes to streaming it could drown in the vast sea of content. And Discovery Family is a dead end because hardly anyone has it.
Disney's pretty focused on their own IPs on their channel. Would Nick be interested in running this?
Venixion
Its coming to CN? Then it'll be dead in the water if that's the case.
prime roller
Maybe this show will be better than the Netflix WFC series — like even more dark and gritty. I’m hoping for lots of gore and nudity. Hawt Diggity without his bun anyone?
Beastwarsfan95
Hey, SpongeBob was good for it's first three seasons, the problem was Nickelodeon became too dependant on it, to the detriment of both the show and the network. Hillenburg wanted the show to end after the first move.
The problem with Cartoon Network is they skew towards a very young age bracket, and I hope this BotBots show isn't just another "lolsorandomz" internet humor that dominated western animation for the past decade. I could see the show working as something like a series of shorts between commercials, kinda like Mixels or those Wabbit shorts.
Vector Oracle
For me, it would depend on who the story editor is. If they have experience with comedic shows on their resume, I’ll be cautiously optimistic.
He11Toupe3
Spongebot Squareass here we come… *Cracks open bottle of Jack Daniels*
Bass X0
This is fine. Even if its on par with Thundercats Roar, its not the main Transformers brand. If they had turned the main Transformers line into a derogatory show like Lower Decks, then I'd take offence. If it fails, its on Boulder Media, not Hasbro right?