I think they should play meltdown next or it might mess up the build up in the story arc saying that I want to see lockdown dang it

If the Title of the thread says "spoilers, spoilers, spoilers" then why black out what people post. Its really annoying. I'm glad they introduced the Dinobots so early on. This was such a great episode! I was literally jumping up and down when Grimlock transformed at the end.

"Muscle car of mystery" eh? Looks like I'll get to see my favorite animated Decepticon hook some Autobots.

Yeah no sh!t. People this isn't the movie lets get over it. Stop using spoiler tags.anyword if the other two are to make it into the series? More Dinobot collecting is always fun.

Yup. Prowl in this episode seemed to be more helpful in this episode and showed a better attitude toward the other bots.

I wanted Grimlock to refer to himself as King

I also liked how Bulkhead and Prowl seem to be forming a friendship, despite being opposites.

have you noticed how all the autobots are analogous to Gargoyles characters?

Prime: Goliath
Ratchet: Hudson
Prowl: Brooklyn
Bulkhead: Broadway
Bumblebee: Lexington
Sari: Bronx

ok I may be looking a little too much into this.

SPOILER'D BECAUSE OF FUTURE EPISODE:

As long as they show it before BA teams up with him, we should be good.

And also, with the Dinobots being introduced in this episode, it throws the Arcee = Blackarachnia theory up in the air (since the clip w/Arcee included the Dinobots as well).

Win

They were in the same clip, but those were two completely different shots taken from different episodes. It doesn't impact the theory at all.

You know, I really hope that BA doesn't turn out to be Arcee. Bad enough that BA is practically the same version from the Wreckers comics, but it would really suck if they made her Arcee so they wouldn't have to add another female character to the TF cast. Honestly, are female TF's so unpopular that they can't risk making original characters and they also have to make them all the same character so they only have one fembot in the cartoon at any one time?

If Blackarachnia is Arcee, it's not about putting a restriction on female cast member numbers, it's about telling a story that follows a former good character during her time as evil, and exploring her potential redemption, which mirrors Blackarachnia's arc from BW and makes for a perfect reason to bring the character into a new franchise.

Optimus: Good idea Bulkhead.
Bulkhead: He said good idea.
Bumblebee:...and Bulkhead.

I loved that bit. It was amusing. Bumblebee seems to be a bit of a smarta$$ some of the time. I like it. I like the way the characters are devoloping as well. Prime reminds me of Primal in many ways, but mostly he's the commander of a non-fighting unit that's thrust into a situation where there's no choice BUT to fight and has to learn very quickly how to command the team. Ratchet's just a crotchety old bot. Bulkhead is the mildly stupid but lovable one. Prowl's the quiet one who's mostly solitary but warms up.

Reminds me a lot of BW in many ways.
Again going back to the characters, they seem to go the following route:
Prime=Primal
Ratchet=Rhinox
Prowl=Dinobot
Bulkhead and Bumblebee both seem to be mixes of Cheetor and Rattrap to me.

I like the story in Animated, but the animation still gets on my Powerglideing nerves.

Here's a thought:

I assume if this show gets a second season, they'll be looking for ways to incorporate new forms for the characters. Because the series has such a small cast, I imagine that would probably mean that we'd see a combination on non-show repaints, upgraded forms for a few characters each season, new characters, etc.

Seeing as how Megatron helped design the Dinobots, I'd really enjoy it if Megatron either takes over Grimlock's body in S2 (for at least an episode) or gets his own T-Rex body. Obvious repaint potential and a BW homage. Just Grimlock with a new head.

I'd also like to see Cliffjumper pop up. Maybe he's Bumblebee's estranged assembly line "brother" back home, a bit more edgy and dangerous. Or maybe BB could get CJ as an evil twin. (Wouldn't object to him as a Decepticon, at least at first.)

Beyond that, I'm looking forward to Blurr and Arcee's appearance on the show and hoping that story includes Springer, Ultra Magnus and Rodimus.

The great thing with this Autobot Acedemy stuff as multiple Primes is that you could have Rodimus as another Prime... and make him an inexperienced and impulsive leader. Without getting rid of Optimus.

Heck, since Optimus is pretty much treated like a reject back on Cybertron, maybe Rodimus could be brought in as a hotheaded rebel who disobeys orders and helps Optimus out for an episode or two.

I can just imagine Optimus sending a distress signal back to Cybertron.
Blaster: Sir. We're getting a distress signal from a planet called Earth. It's Optimus Prime, sir.
Ultra Magnus: I can't deal with that right now!
Rodimus Prime: Put it through. I'm taking command here.

Rodimus could be a new cadet who idolizes Optimus' career at the academy or something.

I'm jumping into this discussion a little late... but, is Cartoon Network already skipping episodes or did I miss one or two and not realize it?
For one thing... I don't remember "Transform and Roll out" ever airing. Possible I missed I guess but I didn't catch the ads for it or anything. The first one my DVR recorded was Episode 1... the one with that retarded Robin Hood guy in the beginning (Home is Where the Spark is). Pretty sure that was last weekend's. This weekend skipped over 2 and went to Episode 3 with the Dinobots (Blast from the past).
Is it just me?

Transform and Roll Out is the combined 3 episode movie. Home is Where the Spark is, is episode 4.

So then the show actually started airing before "Where the Spark Is" and my DVR just missed them? Dernit!!!

I loved that too.

Prowl said something like "It's as if they have a... spark." So yes, they do have sparks, and yes, other Transformers can detect them. I think it is similar to how Prime detected Prowl inside the giant cockroach in Ep 2.

Anyone notice that Autobot insignia on Grimlock at the end of the episode? Wonder how that got there...



The episode is called "Thrill of the Hunt" and we know Lockdown is a muscle car and a bounty hunter. So yeah, obviously this is why he is in the first wave of decepticon toys.



You got "ME GRIMLOCK LEADER" - close enough, and definitely intentionally similar to "king".

I also loved "Car Robots Bad!"... at least a few of the toys were cool!

Also, I second the motion to stop using the spoiler tags in a spoiler thread... otherwise I can't read this thread on my iPhone.

Cars eat Dinobots!!!!!

"Car Robots Bad!"

I cannot believe nobody made the, in my eyes, rather inevitable link.

Car Robots, aka Robots in Disguise, was the only other show to carry a Grimlock besides G1. Only, RiD's Grimlock was a far cry from the original. A rather 'bad' copy. Atleast, that seems to be this Grimlock's opinion.

I don't think that was fanwank(I made the connection while I was watching it, as did greensight/whatever he calls himself right now), but a coincidence.

Until everyone here has cable and it shows in their country(For those that live outside the US) i'm gonna spoiler tag episodes that aren't at least three days old.

You know, I don't think that the Animated TF's have actual physical sparks like the characters from BW did. It's like when they say "Spark", they mean "Spark of life" rather than a physical object. It's more like a type of animating energy that courses throughout their entire bodies, rather than concentrated into a single orb. Then again, when Optimus was revived near the end of the pilot movie, we caught a brief glimpse of a glowing orb inside his chest, so maybe they do have sparks after all. I just assumed that the orb was concentrated Allspark energy.

Yeah.... I figured the animated's spark is more like the movie's spark... just a life giving energy.
I figured the glow in primes chest was the Matrix, but I guess that might be wrong since he's still pretty inexperiences and not the head honcho all the Autobots. Unless they come up with some variation of the original idea of the matrix and instead this one grows inside him or something... growing as he becomes a stronger more confident and skilled leader...

who knows....

Well Megatron, who designed the Dinobots via Sumdac, was pretending to be a friend of the Autobots, so maybe him having the 'Bot insignia included in the design was a way to reinforce his story in Sumdac's mind.

Or maybe Prowl slapped some on them after dropping them off in that crater.
Or maybe the all spark key put it on them.

I think it's a simple case of the animators copying the toy design too closely, and you know how retentive Hasbro is about brand recognition. Every TF toy must be branded with either an Autobot or a Decepticon symbol so that kids will recognize them as official TF toys.

OMFG! Animation Errors in a Transformers cartoon!

EVERYBODY PANIC!

You know, I'm a bit worried about Swoop and Slag. They didn't get any speaking roles in the episode. It makes me wonder if the Dinobots are going to be a similar situation to the Cybertron Minicons and not all of them will get voice actors due to budget limitations.

Hornet: STFU and take your Midol

Father Time: I also read that as a CarRobots reference, it amused me

re: sparks: hello, does anyone remember that we actually saw Prime's spark at the end of the first episode? It even looked all BW/BM spark-ish.

oh and Megahead leading an army of attack drones = Pete wood

I'm sure they'll all talk, slag and swoop were probably just in shock. They also didn't transform, so yah know.

wake me when paddles shows up

oh one more thing: I do not need my Grimlock to make any references to stuff he said in TF:TM since that was the beginning of his retardization.

I'll choose the All Spark for 500, Alex.Hahaha!

You can catch all that you missed on Youtube. Fanoftransformers has the new eps up the same day as they air usually.

And yes, and ep was skipped. They pushed the Dinobots ep up one and pulled 'Meltdown'.

Not that he was a rocket scientist before.

Clearly not... but he was exclusively played for laughs from TF:TM onward IMO

It's that hit he took from Devestator that did it.

There is no order in the universe. Someone should do something about that. This is 'Nam... there are RULES!!!

Cool episode! Great way to introduce the dinos. Grim rocks!

I think also Sari is robot or cyborg. To many hints leaning that way IMO.

I am guessing they may have an open possibilty of Sari making the ark into Omega.

lol, you know the true culprit



THINK ABOUT IT.[/conspiracy brother]

edit: P.S. I suppose Sari could be a robot, but I don't see any big story benefit to be gained from it.

I didn't really get that impression, but I was wondering where her mom was and if her "father" looked to be about 10-15 when he found Megatron's head then 50 years later would put him at about his 60's. Kind of old to have a daughter that young... at least to some people. That would certainly back your theory up if only a little. But why does she need a robot to teach her quadratic equations? If she's a cyborg can't she just upload that sort of stuff?

She doesnt know she's a robot.
and neither does anyone else - the question then becomes why doesnt Megatron know??

All this talk of Sari being a robot is way out left field IMO. Where does this speculation come from and why would this be important to the overall story?

Well... we already know that the unmarried Dr.Sumdac got all his current technology from megatron.
AND Sari shows mysterious Robo powers.. i don think its as left feild as you claim.

*Playing Devil's Advocate again*

It could be huge. If she's a robot, then she's got tech in her descended, or quite possibly taken from Cybertronian technology. Hell, with the All-Spark Key, she could transform, possibly(If it altered her, of course).

It would also explain why she was even able interfaced with the Allspark, as well.

As for what I think... I don't see any hints for this. I see a whole lot more hinting towards other things... >.>

And Sari... swap around the letters... ArSi.... Arcee? Meh... maybe a little left field. Although it might be something they have opened a possibility for in case the show gets too kiddish and annoying "cute and cuddly".... just rip off her skin and TADA!!! she's a Transformer... or better yet... the skin rips and sluffs off as she transforms for the first time, leaving heeping, bloody piles of flesh... sweet.

Seriously, if Sari's a robot, the story potential benefit is huge. You get to examine what it means to be "alive" and you get to play off the notion that, even though she's the Autobot's best friend, she's developed from Megatron's tech. And, if Megs is able to exploit her origins and gain control of her and that key...the story options are nigh infinite!

Or, at least, numbering in the dozens.