I can't see it because I don't have cable.

But has anyone else seen it here in Canada?

*waits paaaaatiently for YouTube & Torrent*

I feel your pain man, I can't wait myself.

Apparently, Youtube's been uploaded.

But...well, I think my position on Youtube should be clear by this point.

Wow, FanTransformer's appeal just went in the toilet. sigh, guess I'll go torrent

theversion on youtube is missing the first few minutes and is a camera in front of tv job.

Great episode. The Constructicons were hilarious.

I'm sure it will be a great episode. The Youtube vids were pretty bad though. It's just too distracting trying to watch them. I'll have to wait till next saturday I guess.

JerseyBots

I really didnt like it I thought it blew

This episodes was a let down. Honestly, right from the title. There was already an episode called "Rise of the Dinobots" having another "Rise of" title is stricktly G1. The story was particularly hackney, and the ending was dreck. The only highlight was "Oh look you have a pet" in reference to Sari.

And Blitzwing's "I'll pound you into sheet metal!" *head-flip* "Wait, we already got sheet metal!"

To be fair, there is no episode called "Rise of the Dinobots" in Animated. Acftually, the Transformers Wikia shows no sign of there ever being an episode called such. Not that I feel it matters, because one should look at the episode itself within the greater construct of the series, not the whole franchise, especially if that franchise spans over two decades.

What I do notice is a trend in the introduction of these new transformers: They appear, meet the Autobots, meet the Decepticons, climax, disappear. Only exception so far is Blurr, but then again, his plotline seems to be a straight copy from Speed Racer's Racer X.

Damn, those guys are big. Feels like the whole toyline should be made out of Voyagers.

Anyway, another set of newly Allspark powered Transformers that are simplistic characters. Dinobots, Wreck-Gar, Constructicons and You-Know-Who. It's becoming predictable. No wait, I already predicted all this.

Average episode. Good thing to know the Constructicons will be back. Love their vehicle modes. Quite different than I expected.

I liked that they turned them into the Super Mario Brothers.

Also, Megatron having his own private brew =

The constructicons whistling at the car=priceless

The G1 fanwank at the beginning was awesome. I expected the green construction vehicles to be the actual constructicons, though.

I'm guessing what's gonna happen with these all these new characters is that they're all going to reappear, big battles will happen and sides will be chosen.

This episode's kinda sad, you know, having to forcefully break up your friendship after your friends have made wrong choices is one of the hardest things to do in life, despite all the good ol' times together back then.

And beside that, I disliked this episode's exaggerated facial expressions of the bots.

nice ep, really like the constructicons

Decent at the beginning, but it deflated faster than an air balloon towards the end.

I totally loved the Constructicons... like, everything about them. But the ending, like the very end... was oddly ghey.

You mean when the Bots looking at the sunshine like typical anime ending?

The only All Spark fragment in the episode with Blurr was in the remote control. With the animated machines (Wreck-gar, Constructicons), they have Allspark fragments imbedded in them. The Dinobots are a special case because they were upgraded into full Cybertronians by Sari's key.

Since Blurr DOESN'T have a fragment in him, it would appear that he's FROM Cybertron. The one episode we saw him in, he was enslaved by the remote.

Matter of fact, I predict that's something we'll see three or four times once the Allspark-created TFs gets old: There are a handful of other Autobots and/or Decepticons on earth, staying in disguise for their own reasons.

- My projection is that Arcee and Blurr came to earth looking for the Allspark in the years when Megatron was offline. Arcee was badly damaged and Sumdac created a new container for her spark: Sari. Blurr, ashamed, has been in hiding ever since, running from his failure.

it said that blurr came from cybertron by the order of sentinel and he wanted back-up but he said no that they needed all the worriers they can on cybertron.


i liked when lugnut fell into the mine shaft and went im okay! and anyone who wants it in high quality it is on youtube in the high quality not like the other camera one.

With You-Know-Who I did not mean Blurr. You-Know-Who is a bit bigger than that.

Anyway, I do agree that there are two catagories. The Dinobots and Soundwave (which I forgot to mention earlier) each were build by Megatron to be updated into full Transformers by the key. Wreck-Gar and the Constructicons are powered purely by the fragments.

But since the key is 'imbued' by the Allspark it all comes down to roughly the same thing anyway, just a different way of delivering the juice. The only key thing seems to be the amount needed. Lots of consecutive uses or a superpowered use of the key is enough. A big enough Allspark fragment also does the trick. You-Know-Who already got several shots of the key, and I'm guessing he'll get a few fragments added too.

Fact is that ALL these Transformers have showed a less-then-proper combination of intelligence and reasoning in some way. Which is completely understandable of course. The upcoming episodes show evidence of the same theory being applied some more.

loved the constructicons and I loved the story

If by You-Know-Who you mean Omega Supreme, I don't think he's created by the Allspark on Earth. We've been led to believe that the ship has been him the whole time.

And I agree with Lord Madhammer. The Constructicons were total win, but the end of the story was a little weak.

I have to agree the sudden memory lose was weak I think their could have been more in it if they simply stuck with the idea the constucticons were just joining the side that gave them the best offer

I would not care for Blitzwing if it were not for his crazy face. Overall a funny episode.

I liked the ending, but I thought the rest of the episode was fairly ordinary. It was good to see them spotlighting Bulkhead more, who definitely needed some more character development - I liked how the plot revolved around his moral dilemma.

The Constructicons... umm... yeah... as Optimus Prime pointed out, they're a few rounds short of a full magazine. (-_-) It was funny in some ways but really annoying in others.

My favourite moment was when Lugnut fell down the mine and called out, "I'm okay!" - so Austin Powers!

This was an ok episode. Though I'm going to bet it's going to piss off a whole lot of fan-boys with it's depiction of the constructicon characters. Which in an odd way, for me, makes me enjoy it all that much more.
But yeah, ok episode. I don't want to call it a filler, but actually rather more of a "setup" episode; because it basically shows who is going to be building Megatron's space bridge.


Best bits of this episode were probably the scenes of Megatron with the Contructicons, displaying his impeccable skills of deception. Whcih, I don't know about you, but I found absolutely delicious. (Kind of a creepy way of putting it I suppose, but really the best description I can think of how I felt about it.)
The other one that was interesting was the character development of Bulkhead; which actually kind of spilt over a bit from last weeks episode Velocity. we're starting to see that there's something more to this character rather then just being big loveable clumsy Bulkhead. In fact he's shown now in this episode that he has a rather mean streak if you're to cross him.

Worse bit was probably the memory loss thing, really made no sense, and didn't really lend anything to the overall story. Other then, I guess, it's to explain away why the Constructicons wouldn't just head back to Megatron and tell him where he can find the autobot base, and inturn the Allspark; which I think Optimus hints at in the episode that the Decepticons don't know where they are. (Autobot base/Allspark.)

On a side note: did anyone else get a Sideburn (RID) vib from the scene where the Construcicons were oogling that "red" car?

TOTALLY! Dude, they keep teasing us with the original green/purple color scheme...remember the construction vehicles that started out the episode 'Nature Calls'? If they're gonna have so many instances of the green/purple colored construction vehicles, not sure why they won't make these constructicons? Probably just to F*@$ with us!

I was so happy when I found out the Constructicons would not be green and purple. And would not combine.

And now that I've seen them actually acting like construction workers, I realize Animated accomplished what I thought could not be accomplished - making me care at all about anything called a "Constructicon" again.

Not really. Speedbreaker (RiD Sideburn) was actually more like he kept getting crushes on red sports cars - pretty goofy but relatively more harmless. The Animated Constructicons I found more despicable because they were just so much more openly and blatantly chauvinistic. I personally found that really uncomfortable, but on the other hand it does show a real mean streak to the Constructicons, showcasing their darker side and setting up their potential as unlikeable bad guys. I just hope that kids can look at their behaviour and recognise it as unacceptable. (-_-) Another thing I don't like is how it stereotypes construction workers as being womanising chauvinistic pigs - and I'm not pretending that there aren't construction workers out there who are like that; a former housemate of mine who is reasonably attractive used to often complain to me about how construction workers would wolf-whistle and call out terribly inappropriate comments, similar to what these Constructicons were saying (and worse). But I would like to hope that many construction workers do actually respect women and would find such stereotypes offensive.

Or am I just being optimistically naive about construction workers?

^ You're taking things far too seriously, I suppose.

I don't. It was supposed to be tragic and shot.

Could have been executed better, but it wasn't ghey. More like meh.

He also turned into a red sports car later on, which introduced a disturbingly Freudian aspect to the whole thing.



Uh.... it's an easily recognised stereotype for the kiddies to pick up on. Much like them working for whoever gives them the best oil. It helps give them instant characterisation that they can't do in a half hour episode.



Uh....................　I think that most construction workers that watch are probably just glad that they aren't being represented by a father and son Village People tribute group.

I don't know...I like the color scheme but the purple and green wouldn't bother me either. I do kinda wish that they combined. Maybe later on in the series. If they add the rest of the constructicons, and they are deluxe figures, imagine how big that figure would be!

The one thing that I hated in this episode is the fact that Megatron was suddenly the same height as the other Decepticons. In fact in the one scene Lugnut was taller. I went, WTF!? That was so out of place.

Another thing that bothered me was that Prime was all, "Oh new bots. Meh." Shouldn't he have sat them down to brief them on all things Transformer and ensured they didn't fall under Meg's control? They just acted like they it was normal to just run into some new jerk Transformers on Earth.

Yeah, I found the episode to be pretty disappointing. Not a total failure; I liked the Constructicons designs a lot more than I thought I would. But the plot seemed kinda lazy and done-already. I think we need more Transformers from Cybertron if they want to introduce more characters, especially Decepticons. Or, alternatively, just give us some more with the characters we have...

I didn't hate the episode, but it wasn't a favorite either.

FYI, having worked with real construction workers.....


yeah job sites aren't exactly a bastion of PC thinking

I wasn't really a fan of how similar Mix's voice was to Fenzone. They probably should have had someone else doing that voice.

I do have a desire to buy these two are repaint them as Mario and Luigi, though...

...or hiring someone else to do that...

I was referring to more of a slight homage to Sideburn, (Speedbreaker.) not a literal translation. As if like the writers got the idea from watching RID.
But then I should have known better, I know nerds like to take everything as a literal reference; so I suppose that was my bad.

Same with me.

The writers of the show may or may not have known about RiD, but clearly the fact that they were whistling at (their version of) a hot chick would have been part of the construction worker stereotype they were going for.

Oh, don't get me wrong...I'm not 'devastated' that they changed the color scheme, despite how happy it makes some people. Just pointing out the obvious multiple nods to the G1 Constructicons (at least for those of us who've been watching this since '84). I too was hoping for some combining action, but they'd definitely need a few more for that...and he WOULD be HUGE! They won't do that...and I don't really expect them to...this is a different series.

I do like how the Constructicons are embiggened.



Yes!

Perhaps Wreck-gar will become a Constructicon? Just a thought...

At this point (Grimlock, Snarl, Swoop, Blackarachnia, Lockdown, Soundwave, Wreck-Gar, even Blitzwing, Lugnut and Starscream) every new bot they encountered on Earth was more or less a threat, no? After a while, you'd think they would see a pattern here, yes? Can't blame them for assuming these new Transformers pose a risk, no? And, see, they turn out to be a threat after all! ( Shall we add a 'yes' to keep the Death's Head speech pattern, yes?)

Didn't see the episode but I can't wait for it, i mean I loved the G1 Constrcticons and I hope the animated constructions are just as good.

P.S: The episode is 22 not 122. Just lettin you know