Transformers Robots In Disguise Season 3 to air in January 2017

PLEASE, please let this be the last season! I want a good show with good Deluxe, Voyager and Leader toys!

Why did they have to kill TFA?! It was so perfect...

PLEASE, please let this be the last season! I want a good show with good Deluxe, Voyager and Leader toys!

Why did they have to kill TFA?! It was so perfect...

Um... because... *checks TFwiki* Well, I think because of a bad timeslot, but TFwiki is being mean, so I'm uncertain.

And I honestly think RiD is lots of fun, almost to TF:A levels of such. Does it have the overarching storylines like TF:A had? Eeehhhhhh... not as well, but it still captures some of the heart of that series, IMO. But, as I keep telling my little brother about Rogue One, everyone's intitled to an opinion.

Right, I'm sure RID is perfect for a lot of people, especially younger viewers. I just feel like RID is a little too kiddy, just like how Prime was a little bit too edgy. I'm all about balance when it comes to stories. Still, that's just my opinion.

Right, I'm sure RID is perfect for a lot of people, especially younger viewers. I just feel like RID is a little too kiddy, just like how Prime was a little bit too edgy. I'm all about balance when it comes to stories. Still, that's just my opinion.

Nexus Knight wrote:Um... because... *checks TFwiki* Well, I think because of a bad timeslot, but TFwiki is being mean, so I'm uncertain.

Being mean where?

From what I recall, Animated was a co-production between Cartoon Network and Hasbro, and when Hasbro partnered with Discovery to create their own channel (The Hub) they chose to end their relations with CN so as to further the switch over to The Hub. Plus, while Hasbro liked Animated, it wasn't what they (as in the previous Transformers team) wanted to continue focusing on since they had created the Binder of Revelation and the Aligned continuity, and wanted to give all their attention to that more than they wanted to continue Animated.

Bombilation wrote:Right, I'm sure RID is perfect for a lot of people, especially younger viewers. I just feel like RID is a little too kiddy, just like how Prime was a little bit too edgy. I'm all about balance when it comes to stories. Still, that's just my opinion.

It's no more kiddie that Animated was. It's even no more kiddie than G1 was.

Besides, was that last story arc really all that kiddie? With the visit to the old base from Prime, to the visiting of Mount St. Hilary, to the three-part final showdown against Starscream?

Being mean was simply a joke. I was simply having trouble pinpointing where I'd read it on the site.

I have to agree, though. They manage to get some very serious moments in both TF:A (RIP Prowl ) and RiD. TF:A did handle the more serious storylines better, IMO, but RiD has managed to do better in keeping their villains just dark enough to be interesting, but light enough for a children's show. Megatronus (hope I'm spelling that right) was an awesome villain who died too quickly.

Bombilation wrote:Right, I'm sure RID is perfect for a lot of people, especially younger viewers. I just feel like RID is a little too kiddy, just like how Prime was a little bit too edgy. I'm all about balance when it comes to stories. Still, that's just my opinion.

I can't comment on TF:P's faults much. It got me back in the franchise by being just plain awesome. I have nothing bad to say for that series and I was disappointed that it was so rushed at the end.

With the animated series Transformers: Robots in Disguise having reached its last episode of the season, we have some news from online retailer Amazon.com, about a new activity book for the smaller bots in your lives! The book will be released in April 2017, currently priced at £4.99/$6 USD approx, and can be found here to pre-order. It has an awesome wristband.

It's time to rev up and roll out with Bumblebee and his fearless team with Transformers Robots in Disguise Autobot Activities. Find out which Autobot you are most like, invent new equipment, crack Optimus Prime's secret code and so much more with this awesome activity book! This cool activity book comes with over 40 activities and an awesome wristband.

Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Parragon Book Service Ltd (11 April 2017)
ISBN-10: 1474868142
ISBN-13: 978-1474868143
Product Dimensions: 20 x 0.7 x 27.6 cm

FFS post a direct link

Galactic Prime wrote:FFS post a direct link

Are you talking about the Amazon book, or something else?

Sabrblade wrote:From what I recall, Animated was a co-production between Cartoon Network and Hasbro, and when Hasbro partnered with Discovery to create their own channel (The Hub) they chose to end their relations with CN so as to further the switch over to The Hub. Plus, while Hasbro liked Animated, it wasn't what they (as in the previous Transformers team) wanted to continue focusing on since they had created the Binder of Revelation and the Aligned continuity, and wanted to give all their attention to that more than they wanted to continue Animated?

Most countries showed Prime on CN.

Only America (I think) had it on The Hub. (Which is a US channel)

BattleConvoy wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:From what I recall, Animated was a co-production between Cartoon Network and Hasbro, and when Hasbro partnered with Discovery to create their own channel (The Hub) they chose to end their relations with CN so as to further the switch over to The Hub. Plus, while Hasbro liked Animated, it wasn't what they (as in the previous Transformers team) wanted to continue focusing on since they had created the Binder of Revelation and the Aligned continuity, and wanted to give all their attention to that more than they wanted to continue Animated?

Most countries showed Prime on CN.

Only America (I think) had it on The Hub. (Which is a US channel)

That means nothing in regards to why Animated was discontinued after its third season, as it was the American CN who who co-produced it with Hasbro.

That means nothing in regards to why Animated was discontinued after its third season, as it was the American CN who who co-produced it with Hasbro.

Wasn't this already explained few times. New Hasbro cycle is like:

Old Animated Series --> LA Movie --> New Animated series

So it appears that RID 2015 will end in this year, after season 3.

TurboMMaster wrote:

That means nothing in regards to why Animated was discontinued after its third season, as it was the American CN who who co-produced it with Hasbro.

Wasn't this already explained few times. New Hasbro cycle is like:

Old Animated Series --> LA Movie --> New Animated series

So it appears that RID 2015 will end in this year, after season 3.

That's not how it always goes, though. DOTM came out while TF: Prime was still airing its first season on TV, so Prime came first but ended long after DOTM.

Thanks to StuartMaximus we have some very interesting and exciting news to bring to you. A bus has been photographed in Hong Kong from a member of the Transformers Chile Facebook group that has a pair of new 4-bot combiners on it: Team Bee and Menasor! Menasor looks to be a new take on his Combiner Wars design in Robots in Disguise style and a very thin waist. He also appears to only be composed of 4 Stunticons, as the side of the bus implies. The Team Bee Combiner (Ultra Bee?) has Bumblebee as the torso, Strongarm as the right Strongarm, Sideswipe as the left arm, and Grimlock forming both legs (Oh no: Dinobot in a Combiner!!). "Ultra Bee" was also sighted at a UK asda store, so it seems we are getting some Combiners really soon!

So, are you ready for some combining to take place in Robots in Disguise? Ready for Team Bee to take the ultimate Team Building exercise? Ready for some Stunticons in a new show? Let us know what you think in the comments section below!

Well, sh*t. There we go, then.

I really want a good toy of both those combiners. Damn they look awesome.

And they had better name him Ultra Bee

Weird how they're both four-bot combiners when the season 3 press release said the Decepticon combiner was five bots.

And Drift gets left out of the Autobot one from some reason.

Sabrblade wrote:Weird how they're both four-bot combiners when the season 3 press release said the Decepticon combiner was five bots.

And Drift gets left out of the Autobot one from some reason.

It is weird. But hey, maybe him, optimus, Ratchet, and Windblade will form a whole other combiner!

Also, let's couple this combiner news to the fact that we are getting 3 new aerialbot toys. Possible RiD Superion?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Weird how they're both four-bot combiners when the season 3 press release said the Decepticon combiner was five bots.

And Drift gets left out of the Autobot one from some reason.

It is weird. But hey, maybe him, optimus, Ratchet, and Windblade will form a whole other combiner!

Him and three others who aren't in the show anymore?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, let's couple this combiner news to the fact that we are getting 3 new aerialbot toys. Possible RiD Superion?

Did you know Stormshot's on-package bio calls him an "aerialbot"?

Sabrblade wrote:Weird how they're both four-bot combiners when the season 3 press release said the Decepticon combiner was five bots.

And Drift gets left out of the Autobot one from some reason.

It's possible one of them could be a smaller toy that's an optional attachment, ala the Legends figures in CW.

Does this seem really experimental to anyone else? Like, after they finally figured out how to do Combiners well, they're now aiming simpler and in a main line to see if it's possible for them to A) Do a full combiner in a main line, and B) be able to go back to doing Combiners without having the line dominated by them, like how they were in the G1 toyline and - dare I say it - Energon and FoC?

Sabrblade wrote:Weird how they're both four-bot combiners when the season 3 press release said the Decepticon combiner was five bots.

And Drift gets left out of the Autobot one from some reason.

There could be more then one Con Combiner just like we got 3 Aerialbot so far with probably a 4th and maybe a 5th (Stormshot, Skysledge and Stormhammer the latter 2 who combine into Skyhammer just like how Bee and Sidewipe combine into a two bot combiner)

I think that maybe we get Combaticons who combine into Bruticus and if it had to be a 4 bot combiner they would probably leave out Blastoff which could be explained through this.




Yeah yeah the games and comics are not exactly connected perfectly but I think that it could be a reason if they go through a 4 bot Bruticus like a line from Swindle or Vortex saying "Yeah we lost one of our own in the great war just like how the Stunticons lost Breakdown here on Earth" plus it's not like Blastoff's fate after the games is going to be revealed or anything with High Moon gone.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, let's couple this combiner news to the fact that we are getting 3 new aerialbot toys. Possible RiD Superion?

Did you know Stormshot's on-package bio calls him an "aerialbot"?

I did not no. I saw his alpine drift wavemate at TRU today, so I mustve just missed him, otherwise I would've see the toy at least.

But, i'm looking forward to season 3. All this combining stuff actually seems really cool

Of course, as established in previous Aligned media (WFC and Exodus in particular), the terms "Aerialbot" and "Seeker" refer to all flying jet-moded Transformers in general, with the book further establishing that they were all once Seekers in the pre-war factionless days, and when the factions rose up, the whole Seeker subgroup joined the Decepticons while any defectors who sided with the Autobots renamed themselves as "Aerialbots" (save for Jetfire, who considered himself still a Seeker but an Autobot one).

Of course, this all was only executed in Aligned fiction, so it's neat to see the "Aerialbot = jetformer Autobot" label carried over further into RID 2015.

Oh, yeah, that's right. Breakdown pushed up lugnuts in Prime. That's why there's only four Stunticons. I forgot about that, considering Breakdown's model in the show was a little bit too busty to share size with the likes of Dead End or Dragstrip. His G1 connection to the Stunticons has been suppressed from my memory for eons thanks to Prime.

Interesting thought: Bee, Sides, and Strong are all about the same size, and Grim is much larger than them. As a result, Grim forms the pants down, while the other 3 make up the chest and arms.

What if... They use Breakdown (screw being dead) or one of the other Stunticons uses his body type, and that one forms the pants like Grim and the other 3 make the rest?

Menasor doesn't look bad, but do we need another one so soon? I know we've ditched the metal furries in favor of more G1 rehashes, but I can't help but wonder if other options (aside from Bruticus, which we had one of even more recently than Menasor) were ever seriously considered.

The Bee Team combiner, on the other hand, delights me. For some reason I just love combiners with mixed alt modes. Three cars and a dinosaur? Sounds fun.

Not that I'd get my hopes up for either of these with movie toys on the way, mind you. History could all too easily repeat.

Sabrblade wrote:And Drift gets left out of the Autobot one from some reason.

He's always struck me as not being close to the rest of the team the way the first five members of the Bee Team are to each other.

As for the combiners we've been dealt, I wonder if they'll go the Tobots route and make each component only go from vehicle to combined modes. I for one wouldn't mind since we already have at least six different molds of each of those Autobots already that go from robot to vehicle. It would also be interesting to see how Hasbro would handle something like that since they pretty much mastered highly articulated combiners without compromising any of the three modes too much at a normal price point. You'd think it would be an easier thing to do but who knows.

kind of excited to see this in action

well...scrap,

The Team Bee combiner doesn't look half bad. I'll need a better look at Menasor before forming an opinion on him, though.

Some potentially mixed news for these combiners. I got sent a pic from a TRU (Canadian) buddy that shows their listing in the system. There's a listing for a Combiner Team that's only $50. For reference, Crash Combiners are listed as $20. This seems likely to indicate the team will comprise of simplified Transformers. I'm sure a simple version was inevitable, and I guess this doesn't erase the possibility of Warrior class combiners or anything. That said he told me he tried all sorts of other searches and couldn't find anything else that we don't know of (say a Grimlock of a larger size to become proper pants). Though, I suppose at the end of the day, even if the individual bots are simplified, it isn't like we don't have other versions of them available, so if the combined mode is at least somewhat properly articulated then I'd probably be fine with it.

Thanks!where is the SKN # written?

william-james88 wrote:Thanks!where is the SKN # written?

Towards the top left. 308746.

ooooooooo....

if these quad-combiners are half as cool as the art
and 5/6 as good as Combo Wars
i am all over these dudes!

Also
they better have individual robot modes!
orelse ders gonner be issues...
ISSUES I TELLS YA!

Right.....so what happened to the new season airing in Germany this month? 'Cause we're kind of running out of January here.

PrymeStriker wrote:Right.....so what happened to the new season airing in Germany this month? 'Cause we're kind of running out of January here.

Haven't heard a thing about the new season since that. Dunno where it is

Seibertronian Scottyp has let us know that Amazon.com has uploaded a new listing for a Robots in Disguise DVD. The new DVD, titled 'Overloaded and Decepticon Island,' is up for pre-order and will be available May 30 of this year. The DVD's run time is 88 minutes, which means that the 2 part 'Overloaded' and the 2 part 'Decepticon Island' will be the only 4 episodes available. Check out the listing by following the above link, and check out the cover below!

Well, that's a strange pair of two-parters. The Season 2 premiere and the Season 2 finale, bookends without the books that connect the two.

Really wish they'd just dump the full seasons out on Blu-Ray instead of doing things like this first. Oh well. It'll be like my Energon DVD collection one of these days where I've got half the series on singles and a box set of the full thing to fill in the gaps

ScottyP wrote:Really wish they'd just dump the full seasons out on Blu-Ray instead of doing things like this first. Oh well. It'll be like my Energon DVD collection one of these days where I've got half the series on singles and a box set of the full thing to fill in the gaps

Why not just wait till they release the whole thing?

william-james88 wrote:Why not just wait till they release the whole thing?

Exactly. S!F pattern of releasing single/impulse purchase DVD's first is frustrating to be sure, but waiting until they release the whole season is always a pretty safe bet (unless its Rescue Bots...). Even then, why are you hanging on to single-disc releases of Energon? why not sell them if you have the box set?

I mean the last series I bought single DVD's of was Spectacular Spider-Man because in 2009-2010 there was no sign of full season sets, until 2014 when the whole 26 episodes were released on BRD and DVD. Then I purchased that set and dumped the singles. Since then I've just learned to wait (as with RiD15) or just live without (as in the case of Rescue Bots, and pretty much all of Disney/Marvels animated series since they are not available in any physical media form)

Combienr Force Bruticus Revealed!

william-james88 wrote:Combienr Force Bruticus Revealed!

Looks awesome, but because this is in the animated series thread, has it been confirmed he will appear in the series, and not just as a toy?

Interesting. He looks like a classic five-piece Combiner, compared to Ultra Bee's four.

o.supreme wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Combienr Force Bruticus Revealed!

Looks awesome, but because this is in the animated series thread, has it been confirmed he will appear in the series, and not just as a toy?

I put it here because he is more likely to appear in the animated series than as a toy. All toys so far have appeared in the animated series but only half or less of characters made it to toys. And Bruticus was not part of the latst app update for toys.

If you have not gotten around to watching season 2 it is now available on Netflix.com for your viewing pleasure. There is also a 6 part mini series under the season 3 category. The highlight of this season is the return of some fan favorite characters from Transformers: Prime. But don't worry, we won't spoil a thing. Enjoy!

If RiD does not suit your fancy, we suggest checking out an upcoming documentary on some nostalgic 80's toys!

Linking this news story cause it covers some important stuff for us here: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... air/37399/

So, the new title sequence has Dragbreak, or whatever that guys name is, and the combiner force logo. So, we are getting season 3 people, and we are certainly getting combiners!

The Menasor and Ultrabee round shots look cool, and if you look, Drift actually forms the sword for Ultra bee!

Still only the first 13 episodes of season 1 on UK Netflix.

FINALLY!!! Know what I'm doing- binge watching RiD w/ my brothers.