Ngl that bulkhead repaint looks really amazing,the fact that animated is one of the most unique and genius toylines after the unicron trilogy/micron trilogy and rid 2001/car robots,make it more funnier
Technically RTS Perceptor could be seen as a G1-ified version of Animated Perceptor with very similar features and gimmicks. Similar to the Legacy Bulkhead design philosophy, but 10 years earlier.
This is just depressing. Poor Animated deserves so much more love. I know that it's pretty much impossible to get Season 4 now, but the least they could do is release these cancelled toys.
If they would just expand the concept series past the movies, then that would solve everything. That’s all has needs to do. And maybe using the surviving gray prototypes as reference points.
Animated line is one of my FAVORITE ever. An amazing cartoon to toy iteration. Still blows me away. I look at that animated tf almanac and just wish and pray and imagine them making all of them. The list is too big to name
I never meant to watch Animated. Instead I got hooked from the first episode, and ended up getting pretty much all the toys. Except Lugnut. Something about him just didn't look right....... . Probably my favourite TF series ever. And I really wanted an Animated Omega Supreme figure, though the Titan Ark was clearly inspired by him. They're probably never going to revisit the Animated aesthetic, but I wouldn't mind seeing more of the Animated characters make a comeback as CHUG figures.
If there was ever a time 3rd party desperately needs to pick up the slack, it's with Powermaster Prime and the triple-changer Megatron from Animated. These need to happen, and if Hasbro ain't doing it, Fansproject or others like them need to.
@@Convoy_Prime "garbage" is a pretty big overreaction. The robot mode was great, with a solid design and good articulation. Ship mode also worked well too. Only the jet mode kinda sucked, but triple changers nearly always have one mode which doesn't work. I think we can cut TR Broadside some slack for one semi-bad mode when the others are solid.
No slack to be picked. Despite being loved by many, the designs are still very divisive and past 3rd party Animated toys showed the existing fans are not willing to pay 3rd party prices for them.
I know for a fact that Peaugh and someone called GenZhao did a review of a Transformers Animated Thundercracker (the voyager) back in 2009. They are, thus far, the only persons I am aware of that own/owned it and that Thundercracker probably saw a really limited release just like Movie Reverb, Gunbarrel and Backtrack
Just learnt that the voyager thunder cracker did actually release. There are some reviews, specifically one from peaugh. I can’t believe it is actually out there. Makes me want to track one down even if it’s near impossible. Perhaps a worthy white wale
God, every time i see Marauder Megatron, part of my soul just dies. Also when I remember the concepts of an OP with the Star convoy chest star and Bayverse flames, who can then become a huge power master. We were robbed of what easily could have been the best TF toys.
I remember in Toys R Us buying Animated Ironhide and being interested in Vortex Blurr and Mercenary Swindle, but not finding them anywhere in the store. I akso remember videos on RU-vid of Powermaster Optimus Prime and Blackout and all like "Why can't we have those here?" And the realization that was over a decade ago makes me feel 100 Years Old.
What makes this cancelation worse is that they were ready for a fourth season, which could've incorporated many of these new designs into it. Man, the missed oportunities.
The Show definitely deserved at least 1 more Season. In all seriousness, all 7 or 9 Seasons would be cool, another reboot was inevitable, considering Hasbro's trends with TF. But I DO think this particular property deserved to go up till Autumn 2009-or Spring 2010. To at least wrap up the saga, and get this last batch of toys put out. Realistically, it would be wise to after TFA Season 4 do TF Prime and all that, but doesn't change this poor property deserved to have it's run more complete.
@@nmr7203 Explain to me why The Thomas fanbase is able to make amazing stories out of passion. Yet most Animated fans just whine and ruin the show for everyone else instead of using that passion.
This and what I want for a #masterpieceanimatedtoyline is sadly just a pipe dream. You know I'd really want myself to have a masterpiece style blackout from animated in my hands in a masterpiece style of the other animated characters.
Hot shot and Megatron would be fantastic if they ever returned to Animated. Of course, they'd have to be willing to make things that don't have to slide into a G1 collection. Prime Arcee and Bulkhead... just doesn't satisfy.
7:58 couldn’t agree more. I always loved these redecos that make the character feel like they are on some sort of covert mission or something of that nature. The last time we got a genuine true to form version of that kind of toy was in Cyberverse with Stealth Force Hot Rod and even then it was just a warrior class not a redeco of the deluxe or anything else :(
I feel like Hasbro has this obsession with 3. So many series ended up having 3 seasons much to the dismay of fans, and even now they are straight out doing trilogies with the toy lines. Animated was one of the best series they did and It's too bad they didn't continue it. I would even take continuing it today tbh. Beast wars should have gotten a fourth season instead of going into that monstrosity that was beast machines.
Lmao I had a ko of animated voyager Thundercracker So in a way it was released, even if it was unofficially Also what they did with Bumblebee reminds me of Siege Shockwave
i would have loved a nemesis color scheme for the jet twins aka safeguard. oooh that would have been so amazing. they were my favorite toys of the line.
I'll be that guy for the sake of anyone confused and point out that the Activator Ratchet he showed was not actually an Activator. It was a Bumper Battler. The Activators were typically like the Soundwave he showed at the end, with full robot modes.
To add some clarification on the Wingblade armor. The Idea of the Wingblade Armor being cross compatible with the voyager figure was scrapped when Takara revived the concept for release in Japan. The final armor on their Wingblade Armor will only work on the Voyager Optimus Prime.
Speaking of making money with generations selects, imagine if they rereleased Swindle with the clear plastic replaced with opaque plastic, they’d make a pretty penny.
Gotta love how I’m being barraged with commercials for Roombas while watching this. There was even one with this little command center-looking overdone dock.
Out of all the shows that I feel saddest about not getting finished animated is definitely at the top spot I loved that show when I was in middle school it was really good and I liked alot of the designs and characters I was really hoping that they would bring it back on paramount plus or quibi or something but since tragically derrick j wyatt passed away we can't get it back and see it's story conclude I miss that show and I wish we would have gotten some of the characters that never got toys in America and everywhere else they never got them and figures of the characters that never got toys
There were even plans to make an Optimus figure that could actually become a full-on firetruck. The “trailer” would have become Powermaster-inspired armor for his robot mode.
Just a heads up, everything in the Allspark Almanac isn't true. Marty said himself that stuff like the character profiles was pretty much written to be like published fanfiction. The episode lists were all just pitches and something like 90% of that would've been changed.
Every story gets edited and changed in production, this isn’t really news. The line and series shouldn’t have been cancelled as it was a great line that drew in new and old fans, what replaced it wasn’t all that great. I’d have paid to see the show get a 4th season
I'm surprised that they decided to give the budget to Ironhide to give him a new head instead of Wasp. Wasp was way more prominent in the show and a more important character than Ironhide, who was essentially just a military version of a school bully.
This line was cancelled for a rushed Prime line and I never really got to heavy in to prime. Some were good but animated reinvigorated the toy line, prime dragged us back. Such a shame
11:00 there's something I don't get sunstorm, skywarp, and Starscream came out in the Voyager line but not Thundercracker that sucks, but I've seen someone take a Voyager Starscream and repaint it into the blue and purple color scheme.
I’ve seen that Soundwave redeco on eBay and the TFW marketplace a handful of times. I like to pretend that one day I might own one but yeah that’s not happening. Meanwhile the fact that we never got that Hot Shot will always make me sad. Animated had so much going for it and I can’t believe we got robbed of so many great toys and redecos of already great toys.
12:50 wonder if it gonna be own the rebuild es Blur gonna look. PD: it's confirmed that he survive his encounter with Shockwave, but he end compressed in a cube like a scraped car, completely immovilized
I'm relatively new to Animated toys: I'm interested in what are everyone's favorites? I have Oil Slick, Lugnut, Jazz, Sentinel Prime, Bumblebee, Blitzwing , Lockdown and voyager Bulkhead on the way- I'm blown away by these toys! what are the Best?
Honestly, you pretty much can't go wrong with any of them! But if I had to pick a few favourites outside of what you've already picked up... I would definitely recommend picking up a version of Prowl - if you can get Samurai Prowl for a reasonable price, do it!! But the regular Deluxe is also extremely good. Soundwave and Swindle are both really fun and characterful toys. Blurr is incredibly slick in both modes, he's one of the real marvels of engineering in the line imo. Ultra Magnus is hefty and chunky and absolutely loaded with gimmicks... I could probably recommend every single toy for some reason or another, but I'll try and cap it there, lmao
Definitely blurr and rhodimus, they look fantastic (especially next to optimus which I recently got). If anything maybe don’t get the seekers? They’re kinda 50/50 depending who you ask. The dinobots are a lot of fun though, especially grimlock. As well as jetfire and jetstorm. And if you were ever to go full on out check the botcon exclusives or the takara exclusive paint jobs, like shiny prowl, wing blade optimus or dark colored rhodimus or even the elite guard version of some of them. P.S. while not released with animated, there is a slipstream toy out there but it’s a retool of windblade
There are already many reuses of molds and repaints that already exist but at least they are of actual characters (prowl/bluestreak down to Titan Masters Hardhead/Quake). It's upsetting enough without the Batman-stlye rainbow variants. TFA Samurai Prowl was great because it was 1) canon and 2) a cool toy with extra pieces.
where is the 3rd party love for animated, im so surprised there is none. i mean damn apc toys is making perfected versions of a lot of the prime stuff, we need the perfected versions of these epic animated toys man.
I hope they do a Hasbro pulse new mold for animated cybertronian megatron or animated megatron or starscream my favorite versions of the characters and the best versions of those characters in my opinion
2:53 what do you mean one of the few characters that aren't G1, Blackout had a G1 toy. Unless you mean by his design then yes it is not based on his G1 counterpart
Animated was one of the first series were the character were designed for the animation before design the toys(and not the way around), but the show runners made the design and transformation sequence in a way they could be easy turn in a toy, how they do it is in the All Spark Almanac. PD: there are previous examples for this but most of them are for only a small portion of the characters and lack coordination between the animators and the toy Maker, make them more inaccurate in consecuence.
