Sooooooo… what do you think?
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November 9th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
What the hell was that?!?!! I’m definitly not the target audience.
November 9th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
I am starting to think that Avatar is the only good animation show on television, this look terrible
November 9th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I saw a much longer and less chopped-up iteration of the video above several months ago. It was very well done; the video above does not reflect this.
I fully agree that the look is very Teen Titans. The “beats” on the intro song are all “wrong/off” as well. It’s unfamiliar, but I’m much more likely to give it a chance than, say yet another “Transformers: Good Graphics, Pokemon Plotline” like we’ve been handed on prior years.
November 9th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I give it a solid “meh.”
November 9th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I hate this type of cartooning. The exaggerated shapes annoy me to no end.
What’s with a robot that transforms into a car doing with balloon-like rectangular parts? Those will not fit together!
November 9th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Boy, that animation looks … crappy.
November 9th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
They didn’t even look robotic.
November 9th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Man, I hate it when people take things that were around when I was a kid and update them for a modern audience. I especially hate it when it’s a cartoon based on a toy line, because that’s friggin’ sacrosacnt.
November 9th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I think I know why emo kids want to slit their wrists. It also explains why emo kids are stupid and cut across and not the corret way down
November 9th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Blows.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
That’s horrid.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
It’s the first American-made Transformer’s series since Beast Wars. The toys look EXACTLY like the cartoon and that’s incredible. All information looks like this show is going to be “a bunch of space firemen/cops and civilians vs. Space Hitler and his Space Nazis.” and that sound cool to me.
I’m looking forward to this.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Paraphrasing Stuart Moore: If the people behind this series made it for the people reading this thread, they’d have done it wrong.
This is obviously meant for kids. Good, I say! A new generation deserves their own take on the Transformer mythos. At least it’s not Transformers: Pokemon or whatever the hell “Armada” was.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
i think i just threw up a little in the back of my mouth…
November 10th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
A prediction:
If all kids watch on TV is anime and fanime (fake-anime) then you cannot be surprised if in 20 years, there is little interest in anything that isn’t in that style.
I wonder if that will have an effect on other areas…like perhaps comic books.
Nah. I doubt it.
AE.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Why can’t they just re-run the old cartoon…thank God writers are striking…aww, dammit–how many of these stinkers are in the can?
If kids like it–that’s all that matters really–if it were my kid–I’d force him to watch old Go Nagai stuff with toothpicks holding his eyes open before I let him watch this…
November 11th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Martin gets my vote for the Kurt Busiek Wins nominee on this one. How many people who have issued a nay on this actually has a kid to watch this with? I do. And my eight-year old said he wants to watch it after seeing this preview (choppy as it is…)
November 11th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I’m a huge fan(atic) of G1 and while I’ll always love my 1984, I’m actually looking forward to seeing this one. It’s a totally new cartoon and the way I see it, has nothing to do with the original, but. If it’s as funny, wacky, and has as many humanist touches as the first show, I’ll be happy. I just wish they kept Optimus’s mask. And Starscream’s chin-ugh. That thing is a deadly weapon.
November 11th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Just as an aside, when watching the clips of the old G1 cartoon as part of the “Transformers” DVD bonus features, I was really struck by how crappy that animation was too.
People’s memories like to paint things far rosier than they really were, but you have to face the fact that a lot of the original G1 series was just “shite,” as they say.
It reminds me of fanboys screaming about the changes made to Optimus, when any true TF fan knows that Optimus (and Megatron) have been through more iterations than Microsoft Windows.
November 15th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
“It’s the first American-made Transformer’s series since Beast Wars. The toys look EXACTLY like the cartoon and that’s incredible. All information looks like this show is going to be “a bunch of space firemen/cops and civilians vs. Space Hitler and his Space Nazis.” and that sound cool to me.
I’m looking forward to this. ”
Uhm, Beast Wars was actually produced in CANADA!!!
And this does not look nearly as good as G-1/G-1/Beasties/Beast Machines….
November 20th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
No la he visto todavia la nueva pelicula de transformers animated pero la veré en el año 2008 espero que sea chida (Exelente)me parece que a los otros venezolanos le encantaran ¡¡¡adioooooooooooooooos!!!
November 20th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
hey todavia no es hora de que diga adios es de otra forma que tengo que decir adios pero tengo que decirles una cosa si apareciera ironhide y jazz y no estuviera bulkhead bueno si puede estar optimus prime y bumblebee pero si estuviera jazz y ironhide y no bulkhead seria como la peli de transformers 2007 bueno eso es todo ya llego la hora de mi despedida ¡¡¡chao pescao!!!
November 24th, 2007 at 1:35 am
this looks brutal,ps beast war was made in canada. in vancouver. by aliance.