After Beast Hunters - what should be next?

[Jinto]

What would you like to see as the next mainline TV series and toyline from Hasbro, since BH is apparently the end of the Prime saga?

My far-fetched wish is for a re-do of Beast Machines. Just strike it from the canon and start again.
Keep some of the same elements; ie: Megatron got to Cybertron first & took over. The Spark situation. But change all the things many people seemed to dislike.
-Weak and inconsistent character development.
-Overzealous spirituality/preaching.
-The 'morphing' Maximals.
-The flat, drab animation.
-Do something about Nightscream.
-Make figurines that actually look like the characters they're meant to portray.
-Most importantly, completely change the ending so that G1 can never be continued.

Failing that, proceed with Transtech to at least wash the Beast Machines taste out of our G1 mouths.
Bring G1 back as something that can be built on rather than rebooted every 5 years.

[GoktimusPrime]

^I like this idea. Especially the last point about not deadending the G1 continuity family. Not sure if Hasbro will want to run with this considering that Beast Wars is like a "cold case" for them. I'd like to see them actually try and CONTINUE with TF Prime... I'm sick of reboots.

[Deonasis]

I haven't worked out what i would like to see but i think it will be something to do with tie ins.

Either something that can tie into the upcoming online games. But I have heard the Transformers MMO has been scaled back to a PvP I think that is what i heard anyway.

OR.. a (way) back story that can lead into and eventually hype the next movies.


Set in S P A C E yes, time to leave Earth and humans again.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Very Simple. They already have the toyline up and running, all we need now is the cartoon to extend it:

Bots and Girls, coming to the small screen next year


TRANSFORMERS: GENERATIONS



Gives Hasbro the chance to promote all the G1 characters they are still selling 30 years later as well as bringing in a slew of characters from all other Transformers genre's. Chuck in Botanica from Beast Machines, Slipstream from Animated, Depth Charge from Beast Wars, half a dozen characters from The Unicron Wars etc.

The fans would love it! The world would love it! I would love it!

[Shirokaze]

What would you like to see as the next mainline TV series and toyline from Hasbro, since BH is apparently the end of the Prime saga?

My far-fetched wish is for a re-do of Beast Machines. Just strike it from the canon and start again.
Keep some of the same elements; ie: Megatron got to Cybertron first & took over. The Spark situation. But change all the things many people seemed to dislike.
-Weak and inconsistent character development.
-Overzealous spirituality/preaching.
-The 'morphing' Maximals.
-The flat, drab animation.
-Do something about Nightscream.
-Make figurines that actually look like the characters they're meant to portray.
-Most importantly, completely change the ending so that G1 can never be continued.

Failing that, proceed with Transtech to at least wash the Beast Machines taste out of our G1 mouths.
Bring G1 back as something that can be built on rather than rebooted every 5 years.

I agree with everything you just said

[Deceptic_Optic]

put on the wreckers! IDW stlye!

[GoktimusPrime]

I reckon if they're gonna do Transformers Generations, then set it after the events of Generation 2... so basically in the same spirit as ReGeneration One --- it's been 20 years since G2 ended, and the G1 Transformers now look like Classicsverse... new story, new show, new comics -- boom. If they're clever they can also start seeding things that will connect with Beast Wars (helping to 'bridge' the continuity gap between G2 and BW). Like maybe have an episode where Classicsverse Megatron finds the Voyager II and embeds his message on the Sounds of Earth disc (after all in BW we only really see the reflection of his head, which pretty much looks like Classics Megs ). Have an episode where Deluxe sized Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Prowl, Trailcutter, Hound and Warpath volunteer to become Perceptor's first test subject to have their bodies reformatted to a smaller but more fuel-efficient form (i.e. their Legends Class toys)... a process he calls the "Maximal Upgrade." This technology could then be stolen by the Predacons, who then apply it to Megatron and Starscream. The technology still has its drawbacks, so maybe after an episode or so they all return to their regular Deluxe and Voyager sized bodies -- but at least the Legends toys still get a plug, and the story lays seeds for the future Maximal and Predacon upgrades that we see in Beast Wars (and further explains why the Maximals and Predacons are so much smaller than Autobots and Decepticons). Instead of humans and M.E.C.H., they could have a sub story about the Matrix-purified-Swarm evolving into the Vok... and how/why they decide to go back in time and do all that funky stuff to prehistoric Earth.

[Jinto]

Oh crap, just noticed my last dot point says G1 shouldn't continue. That's not what I meant at all. I think BM should be changed so that G1 can proceed onwards from there, rather than dead- ending with 'everything is made of plants now'.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I reckon if they're gonna do Transformers Generations, then set it after the events of Generation 2... so basically in the same spirit as ReGeneration One --- it's been 20 years since G2 ended, and the G1 Transformers now look like Classicsverse... new story, new show, new comics -- boom. If they're clever they can also start seeding things that will connect with Beast Wars (helping to 'bridge' the continuity gap between G2 and BW). Like maybe have an episode where Classicsverse Megatron finds the Voyager II and embeds his message on the Sounds of Earth disc (after all in BW we only really see the reflection of his head, which pretty much looks like Classics Megs ). Have an episode where Deluxe sized Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Prowl, Trailcutter, Hound and Warpath volunteer to become Perceptor's first test subject to have their bodies reformatted to a smaller but more fuel-efficient form (i.e. their Legends Class toys)... a process he calls the "Maximal Upgrade." This technology could then be stolen by the Predacons, who then apply it to Megatron and Starscream. The technology still has its drawbacks, so maybe after an episode or so they all return to their regular Deluxe and Voyager sized bodies -- but at least the Legends toys still get a plug, and the story lays seeds for the future Maximal and Predacon upgrades that we see in Beast Wars (and further explains why the Maximals and Predacons are so much smaller than Autobots and Decepticons). Instead of humans and M.E.C.H., they could have a sub story about the Matrix-purified-Swarm evolving into the Vok... and how/why they decide to go back in time and do all that funky stuff to prehistoric Earth.

If you can sell Hasbro on making that, send the idea off in an email and if they make it I'll be the first to park myself in front of the TV and watch it with rapt attention. Would probably be a bit too convoluted for new fans though.

I'm thinking more a Generations TV show could be like say the IDW comics. Not remaking G1 but maybe a parellel universe that shares a ton of similarities, but not constrained to stay 100% faithful to what came before.

I always thought it would have been good to see a continuation of the American G1 cartoon, but using all the characters that never made it into the show (the original cast can make cameo's). Show battles off on planets where big ugly creatures roam so you get the Monsterbots and Decepticon small headmasters roaming about, or water worlds where the Seacons are oppressing a people (where was it Seaspray liberated again?). But since we will never see this cartoon, I'm going to stick with my Generations idea


Or if you don't like my Generations idea, we could try these:

*Two Broke Autobots

*The Photon Cannon Bang Theory

*Couch time with Dr Rung

*Two Autobots, a Decepticon & an Energon Bar

*Hi, my name is Drift

*Fastlane & Cloudraker - The Clone Wars

*True Energon

*Megatron, Gods of the Arena

*Seacon Rescue

*Star Sabre Trek

*Arcee: Warrior Princess

*The W(reckers)-Team

*The War Boat

*Dinobots Island

*COPS - Robots Only

*Thundertrons

*The Real ConBusters

*The Late Show with Autobot Swerve

*Mindwipe - The Brave & the Bold

*Samurai Pizza Bludgeon

*Mighty Morphin Power Gestalts

*The (Iacon) Office

*Law & Order: Special Bots Unit

*Question Time: Live from Iacon

*McAddams

*Perfect Strangebots

*Cyberrama

.... I could go on and on (and if I get bored again I probably will )

[Megatron]

*Two Autobots, a Decepticon & an Energon Bar

Ooh I could watch this!