Machinima POTP series announced & voice actors

[griffin]

The final episode of their Titans Return series was out earlier this week, and they have just announced the voice cast (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/01/10/machinima-transformers-power-primes-cartoon-full-voice-cast-listed-356560) for the final part of the Prime Wars trilogy... with a couple of new big names.


NEW TALENT FOR POWER OF THE PRIMES


Ron Perlman (OPTIMUS PRIMAL) – Star of the original Hellboy franchise, Sons of Anarchy, Hand of God, and Adventure Time.
Jaime King (SOLUS PRIME) – Star of Hart of Dixie and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Gregg Berger (GRIMLOCK/VOLCANICUS) – The original voice of Grimlock from the 1986 film The Transformers: The Movie.
Nuufolau Joel Seanoa (Samoa Joe) (PREDAKING) – Professional wrestler currently signed to WWE.
Mikey Way (SNARL) – Musician best known as the bassist from the rock band My Chemical Romance.

RETURNING TALENT:


Mark Hamill (MEGATRONUS) – Star of the Star Wars franchise. Also known for his work as the The Joker in various animated Batman projects.
Wil Wheaton (PERCEPTOR) – Star of The Big Bang Theory and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Judd Nelson (RODIMUS) – Star of The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire and the original voice of Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime from the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie.
Kari Wahlgren (VICTORION) – Well known voice over actress with credits including Rick and Morty, The Fairly Odd Parents, and Phineas and Ferb.
Jason Marnocha (MEGATRON) – Actor from Bat In the Sun’s popular YouTube series Super Power Beat Down. Previously voiced the character of Megatron in COMBINER WARS and TITANS RETURN.
Abby Trott (WINDBLADE) – Voice over actress with credits including video games Halo Wars 2 and Killer Instinct. Previously voiced the character of Windblade in COMBINER WARS and TITANS RETURN.
Patrick Seitz (OVERLORD) – Voice over actor with credits including Call of Duty: WWII and World of Warcraft: Legion. Previously voiced the character of Devastator in COMBINER WARS and Overlord in TITANS RETURN.
Rob Dyke (DEVASTATOR) – YouTube creator best known for his Seriously Strange series. Previously voiced the character of Devastator in TITANS RETURN.
DashieGames (MENASOR) – Popular YouTube gamer with more than 6 million subscribers. Previously voiced the character of Menasor in COMBINER WARS and TITANS RETURN.
MatPat (SWOOP) – YouTube influencer and creator of the web series Game Theorist, Film Theorist, GT Live and MatPat’s Game Lab. Previously voiced the character of Computron in TITANS RETURN.
Frank Todaro (SLUDGE) – Voice over actor who previously voiced Starscream and Trypticon in COMBINER WARS and TITANS RETURN. Other credits include the video game franchise LittleBigPlanet.



(it seems odd that they would bother with such well known, expensive names, for a short-lived, cartoon that doesn't get too much attention because it is advertising toys that came out 1-2 years ago)

[ChlorHex]

It's the storyline that counts... a good storyline.
To me, the CW and TR series just lacked soul.
Great to have big names doing the voices but if the plot is weak.........

[griffin]

The POTP cartoon comes out next month, and a full trailer has been released by Machinima on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nU1rL4u_iQ)... giving us a sneak peak of Predaking, the new Dinobots and Optimus Primal.

They've also been releasing parts of a large promo poster (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/04/23/upcoming-machinimas-power-primes-teaser-poster-362864), but I think one piece is still missing.

[griffin]

There was actually more than one piece still missing from the promo poster, as there were twelve parts released... and yesterday the final part was released, allowing people and websites to merge the parts into the full image (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/04/30/mahcinimas-power-primes-poster-completed-363152).

And a day later (today), the first episode was released on the American Go90 website, called The Swamp (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/05/01/machinimas-power-primes-episode-1-now-online-363188). For those of us who can't yet see it but don't care about spoilers, you can read up on the early opinions of fans on the American fansites.

[reillyd]

Can anyone identify the character in the top left corner? I don't recognise it from Combiner Wars or Titan Returns, and I thought I knew all the upcoming PoTp toys in the schedule

[Jazzman]

Yeah, not bad...

[griffin]

Machinima have released a six minute catchup video (https://www.facebook.com/machinima/videos/10151101113099987/) on Facebook, covering the events of the two previous series, narrated by Victor Caroli... who narrated the original 80s cartoon and Movie, and narrated the Titans Return series.
(it is also supposed to be on their tumblr page (https://transformersprimewars.tumblr.com/), along with episode 1, but I couldn't get the episode to play, so maybe it is region blocked... or just glitchy at the moment)


Can anyone identify the character in the top left corner? I don't recognise it from Combiner Wars or Titan Returns, and I thought I knew all the upcoming PoTp toys in the schedule

Solus Prime perhaps?
There are two Original Primes listed on the cast (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Power_of_the_Primes_(cartoon)), and it is opposite Megatronus on the poster, who is the other Original Prime.

[Jazzman]

It's great to hear Victor Caroli's voice acting again. It's interesting that his vocal range hasn't changed all that much since the 80's, like so many other voice acting talents of that period - Peter Cullen included (his voice has really moved into that deep baritone range).

[griffin]

Week two sees episode two released in America (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/05/08/machinimas-power-of-the-primes-episode-2-now-online-363477), called "Volcanicus".

[bowspearer]

Episode 3 (https://www.go90.com/videos/5A26YMl97NX) ("without Warning") is up.

[bowspearer]

Episode 5 (https://www.go90.com/videos/6AWPDaHLTK5) "Athenaeum Sactorum" is up.

[griffin]

Episode 4 (last week) was called Primal - link here if you can access the geo-blocked site (https://www.go90.com/videos/60XcRm15gxQ).

[griffin]

Episode six is titled Countdown (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/06/05/machinimas-power-of-the-primes-episode-6-now-online-364854) (spoilers in the description).

[BigTransformerTrev]

Note: If you have an account you can watch the episodes on Tumblr HERE (https://transformersprimewars.tumblr.com/) and it doesn't matter what country you are in :)

And if you are looking for other fun stuff, you can follow this guy (https://bigangrytrev.tumblr.com/) too ;)

[BigTransformerTrev]

Episode 7 is up to watch now (https://www.tumblr.com/search/transformers+power+of+the+primes)


Very Minor Spoiler: If you thought that other episodes pacing were slooowww..... :rolleyes:

[bowspearer]

Not to mention that it massively retcons a major part of TF lore to a Pagan religious trope.

[griffin]

Episode 8 is called Collision Course (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/06/19/machinimas-power-of-the-primes-episode-8-now-online-365924).




Note: If you have an account you can watch the episodes on Tumblr HERE (https://transformersprimewars.tumblr.com/) and it doesn't matter what country you are in :)


The episodes are indeed all posted up there, but for some reason, I can't get any of the POTP episodes to play. Are they region blocked, or only viewable if you are signed in as a member of tumblr?

[griffin]

Episode 9 is called called Megatronus Unleashed (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/06/26/machinimas-power-of-the-primes-episode-9-now-online-366194).

[BigTransformerTrev]

The episodes are indeed all posted up there, but for some reason, I can't get any of the POTP episodes to play. Are they region blocked, or only viewable if you are signed in as a member of tumblr?

You need to be a member

[griffin]

A surprise announcement (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/06/28/verizon-shutting-down-video-streaming-app-go90-366280) by the owner of the Go90 app (Verizon), will have the app shut down soon (July 30th)... which is only a couple of weeks after the POTP cartoon has its last episode posted.

At least there will still be the tumblr option for people to watch later, but you have to register first to view the videos.

[griffin]

Episode 10 was released this week, and it was titled - Saga's End.


For some reason I thought there were 12 episodes... but there is only 10, and that is the last one of the Prime Wars Trilogy.


For those who want to read through the entire mini-series (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Power_of_the_Primes_(cartoon)), if they can't see it, or don't yet want to.

[Jazzman]

Feels like the series has a little bit of an Evangelion influence to it... at least with some of the visuals in the finale.

[bowspearer]

It's proved OKish, but I can't say I'll miss it that much. It honestly felt more like an amateurish fan series in some parts than an official series. Hopefully whatever gets released for WFC will be a vast improvement.

[griffin]

For those who aren't registered to Tumblr, or haven't yet seen the POTP series, al ten episodes are now on youtube on Machinima's channel here (https://www.youtube.com/user/machinima/videos).

[griffin]

Here's something unusual (http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/21/machinima-sets-entire-youtube-channel-to-private-including-prime-wars-trilogy-381202)... without any official announcement, Machinima have blocked access to their cartoons (including the Transformers Prime Wars Trilogy), on both Youtube and Tumblr.
For those who don't have the Combiner Wars cartoon on that special edition of the TF5 Movie, or saved a copy of the episodes while they were up, it might actually require you now to view pirated copies (like the old days when we traded video tapes of episodes that were not yet available legally).
Maybe their license to distribute had expired, or they are going out of business (it would explain why they have blocked access to all of their works).
(realistically though, their view counts were never anything spectacular, so wouldn't have been deemed a successful expense on Hasbro's part... nor will it be missed by many, as the very few fans who liked it, probably saved a copy - and after all of this time, those still intending to see it would have been very small).


(but just to echo the words of the news poster on TFW - this is why we should still have the cartoons released on some form of physical medium, be it DVD, BR or USB stick... because if it only has a digital release and it can't be legally copied, we lose it to the black market when the official copies are no longer available)

[Gehirn]

I believe I read a company bought Machinima and they've delisted all their videos while they work out the copyrights for everything.

Or something along those lines...

[UltraMarginal]

I'm frustrated, still yet to see the third part of the trilogy, and from all I've heard it was the only one worth my time. I was planning to squeeze it into lunch times over the next couple months. (when I remembered to)

I'll probably just forget about it now. . .

[Sinnertwin]

Im sure someone would have saved it on to a hard drive or something. It'd definitely be out there

[KELPIE]

I won't be able to check from work, however I wonder if their tumblr streams are still active?

That's how I used to watch them since the youtube channel started out geoblocked.

[griffin]

I'm frustrated, still yet to see the third part of the trilogy, and from all I've heard it was the only one worth my time. I was planning to squeeze it into lunch times over the next couple months. (when I remembered to)

I'll probably just forget about it now. . .


I still have the last two series on my computer as mp4 files (I deleted Combiner Wars when I got the official release on the TF5 DVD), so the next time we cross paths (probably me in Sydney), I can put POTP on a usb for you.

[UltraMarginal]

I still have the last two series on my computer as mp4 files (I deleted Combiner Wars when I got the official release on the TF5 DVD), so the next time we cross paths (probably me in Sydney), I can put POTP on a usb for you.

Thanks but Bowspearer sorted me out with the entire set.

[griffin]

The Prime War cartoon has reappeared on another site (owned by the same people who owned Machinima), called Roosters Teeth (https://roosterteeth.com/series/transformers)... for anyone else who is yet to watch it.

[KELPIE]

The Prime War cartoon has reappeared on another site (owned by the same people who owned Machinima), called Roosters Teeth (https://roosterteeth.com/series/transformers)... for anyone else who is yet to watch it.

Roosters Teeth are working on the new Netflix show aren't they?