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.
Darth Gonzo
So seeing as the main characters of the BotBots cartoon are going to be the Lost Bots, I think they are likely going to use the ones from series 1, so here a list of who is likely going to be the main characters of the show and what they turn into.
Burgertron (Cheeseburger) likely the Optimus Prime like character for the show cause he looks like him.
Bonz-Eye (Potted Bonsai Tree) likely the female character for the show
Clogstopper (Toilet Plunger) maybe the comedy relief for the show
Frostferatu (Cupcake) IDK
Dimlit (Flashlight) maybe the kid character of the show
Game Over (Gaming Controller) maybe the badass warrior for the show
Sinkeye Stapleton (Stapler) IDK
Darth Gonzo
Nemisis D'uhnut.
ThunderDestron
Imagine thinking you are opening a Nemisis Prime spoiler pack and it turns out just to have a transforming donut in it…
Darth Gonzo
I wonder if the spoiler packs will carry on into BotBots?
Ryan F
Yeah, exactly. Memory and nostalgia are huge. Old songs and shows can transport us back to simpler, more exciting times.
T-Hybrid
It's more that as we get older, we realize being adults is hard. Compare that to most of our childhoods and we draw joy from remembering things back when times were simpler.
Also, we weren't as discernible when we were younger. So you didn't pick up on flaws as much as you would if you watched it for the first time as an adult.
Ryan F
I think it’s actually the other way around – it’s not that kids can’t enjoy old stuff, but that grown-ups tend to be more stuck in their ways, and cling to ‘the good old days’ and tend to be less favourable to newer, more modern children’s entertainment. Hence the ‘Grampa’ comment, I guess.
I think it’s the same with musical tastes, too. You get a lot of people my age (early forties) who like stuff that was around in the 80s and 90s when they were young, maybe also some older stuff from earlier decades, too, but most of our generation would probably insist that chart music isn’t as good as it used to be nowadays.
It’s just some weird psychological thing that happens to us all when we grow old. Like how learning languages is much easier for kids than it is for adults – we lose our ability to adapt.
We can either sit here and complain about modern media (and prove all the tropes about grumpy geewunners correct!), or we can be a bit more mature, and say, well, this new stuff isn’t really for us, but if the kids enjoy it, hey, let them have their fun.
No-one’s taking away your old DVDs or comic books, we can all still enjoy the old stuff too!
ThunderDestron
So Cybertron, Armada, (energon), and Car Robots are suddenly THE DARK AGES?
BB Shockwave
I for one was super envious of my cousin, whose father kept and gave him all his old amazing Matchbox cars. My dad sadly, sold all of his so he can afford some real US made jeans (pretty rare stuff back at the time in communist ruled Hungary behind the iron curtain)…
And by your logic then none of us kids would have liked shows that were before our time. Like Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Popeye, Droopy… or animated movies like Bambi and Snow White, eh?
But maybe that's just me… and every other kid I knew when I was a kid, with whom we used to do Tom and Jerry marathons…
Same here! I was lucky that my dad was a huge sci-fi/fantasy fan, and I mostly inherited his book collection when he left… so I grew up reading everything from Lem and Asimov and Bradbury to the sequel to E.T., Conan and John Carter and such. Not to mention the P. Howard pulp fiction comedies I loaned from my grandpa (better known as Jenő Rejtő, while he mostly wrote in hungarian, many of his foreign legion comedies made it to the west too, some were even turned into movies). And his stuff was way before my times, since P. Howard died during WW2.
That's something I wondered about too. Lost Bots are mentioned in the show description, and they were only in the first 3 series. And we are now at series 6.
I am thinking maybe the pizza vehicle means we might get a re-release of some of S1 Greaser Gang characters, etc.
I think you are kinda a little bit harsh. Last 4-5? So you mean Animated, Prime, RID, Cyberverse? I frankly liked all of these except for Prime and even then I would not compare Prime to the Botbot "The Dookz"
If you mean the ones before Animated, aka the dark age of TF anime…then I agree wholeheartedly.
Diamondback
Which is ironic because IIRC Kre-o died first…
Venixion
Speak for yourself. Some of my older relatives had really cool shit to read, watch or play with. When we were all kids, we also got introduced to films, shows, books, and yes even toys. Yeah kids want their own shit, but that doesn't mean there's only disdain and zero appreciation for older shit.
SPLIT LIP
I like how people are acting like the negativity is just cranky old Geewunners who don’t like new things, and not the people who are pointing out how the last four/five TF series we’ve gotten have been utter dog crap.
The standard for Transformers is in the dirt, there’s no reason to believe future endeavours won’t be until we see evidence to the contrary.
spikebuster
No. The BotBot series will be on Netflix. The Nickelodeon series is completely different.
Diamondback
So TWO BB series PLUS WFC?
Smokeyoreo18
This is not the botbots series, that one is going on Netflix. This is an entirely different show.
SHIELD Agent 47
Is this BotBots series the one that is going to be on Nickelodeon, or is that project a separate one?
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.