Logo For New Transformers Cartoon Revealed

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:33 am

TV industry magazine Broadcast has revealed the logo for the new 'Transformers Animated' series.

Quite snazzy!

Original story courtesy of http://mysite.orange.co.uk/siabsfilms/home.html

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:51 pm

I've heard rumors about there being a Bayformers TV show, and this scares me. Note "Animated". This shows that it is based on a well known non-animated TF media. I just hope they don't follow through, alongside the fact that it won't be successful(Read below).

One thing bugs me: Who is the Bayformers movie aimed at? Transformers has always been kid oriented in the mainstream lines. G1, BW, RID, and especially the Unicron trilogy. The designs, aside being decent or cool looking, have also been kid-friendly(excluding Transmetals and BM). The general non-fanboy Transformers audience is around 12 and younger. If you look at Bayformers, we have robo-gore, skeletal monsters with fangs and/or mandibles, vampirism, extreme cursing, US Army glorification, Shia Labeouf spraying Axe down his pants, and a borderline R rating, yet most movie merchandice is peddled at 5-8 year olds in the form of "Cyber slammers", "Cyber stompers", "Robo-vision helmets", "Cyber stomping" boots, coloring books, or something else with "Cyber" or "Robo" somewhere in the title. The toys are marketed towards kids who in most cases can't see the movie because of parents who do their homework before driving to the theatere. The people who will go see this movie are 16-25 year olds who wouldn't even dare to buy a toy unless it was from a store with scantily-clad maniquens in the front window. In short, the movie and the accompanying toy line are working against each other. Any thoughts or tidbits on this matter?

Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:22 pm

Like most big action movies they are probably trying to two-stream it. It can be done successfully, see Terminator, Robocop and Aliens for examples. Take a very adult movie, give it an edited viewing at 9pm on a big TV network, add in some more youth-friendly media such as a comic or cartoon and you have a new avenue for selling stuff.

They know with surgical precision what they are doing here IMO. The movie is targeted at the general slipknot wearing, drummer-wannabe, death-metal eating McDonalds employee who wants to see lots of stuff blow up [forgive my horrendous stereotyping, if anything my expectations of this movie are so low I might actually enjoy it when it's available]. The merchandise is targeted at existing collectors and fanbase (note how they look a bit more regular TF'ish in toy form than they do in the screen caps so far?). The other toys will be targeted at sprogs.

Surgical precision. Like this whole business with Cullen- they got him on board to bring the fans in but trod a very fine line by then getting a more recognised name to perform Megatron.

I've touched on a couple of hot-potato topics there, but most of them don't mean anything to me. They can get whatever voices they like if they can do the job effectively, and can design the TF's how they like as long as I'm going to be able to recognise them without too much squinting and I stand half a chance of being able to sympathise with them and emote with them as characters. Similarly they can include whatever US military softcore porn they like as long as the plot holds together and actually takes us somewhere.

Sadly I think I'm in for a disappointment on most of those counts. Bah.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:01 pm

The words "Transformers Animated" remind me of titles such as "Batman The Animated Series" or likewise, Superman TAS, JL, JLU, Teen Titans...

Now if only the new show was as good as those were, that'd be my dream come true.

Wouldn't it be nice if they could get Paul Dini and his team to do the new TF cartoon... they are famous for reworking classic comic characters and stories for cartoons, getting rid of the campy elements and adding an edge to the stories... I'm sure there are a lot of TFs stories from the Marvel days that'd stand their ground today too, as animated stories.