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    The Canadian TFCon has a Transformers Voice Actor whom I don't think has been a guest at a Transformers convention yet - Colin Murdock, the voice of Beast Wars Quickstrike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
    The Canadian TFCon has a Transformers Voice Actor whom I don't think has been a guest at a Transformers convention yet - Colin Murdock, the voice of Beast Wars Quickstrike.
    My favourite BW character.

    Loved the toy, looking at how the show was going I thought he'd never make an appearance. Boom, when he popped out of the stasis pod I was so happy.

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    Another Beast Wars VA for TFCon, but this time for the US one in October - David Sobolov (Depth Charge)... who also voiced Shockwave in TFPrime, and Blitzwing in the Bumblebee Movie.

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    Meanwhile, over in the UK this weekend, the TFNation convention had a special treat for fans at the event, particularly those who are fans of the Animated cartoon series.
    The writer Marty Isenberg did up an "outline" based on the first three episodes of what would have been Season 4, and apparently managed to get the original voice actors who worked on the cartoon to record various their lines individually and edited it together.
    Details are limited, and it isn't known how much detail was actually put into this "outline", as it was noted that it wasn't a script, so I'm not sure how much was read by the Voice Actors, or how many of them did lines for this... because recording of this event was prohibited, so we might not ever see/hear it.
    But for now all we have are some bullet points from one of the people who attended it... and note that if Season 4 did get produced 7 years ago, these details may or may not have been part of it, as the writer had a fair bit of time to come up with new ideas to weave into what we already knew was planned for Season 4.

    • The Protoforms are handed over to the Cyber Ninjas and their new sensei, Dai Atlas.
    • Sari is not one of the protoforms. She’s something else.
    • A wake is held for Prowl.
    • Ultra Magnus dies and names Optimus Prime as his sucessor.
    • Sentinel Prime bribes Bumblebee with a spot on the Elite Guard to endorse him as Ultra Magnus’ successor. This drives a wedge between him and the rest of the team. He later reconciles by refusing to follow along with Sentinel’s bribery.
    • Ratchet and the other science bots build Sentinel Prime a “Powermaster” armor suit.
    • Ironhide and Jazz become members of Team Prime.
    • Omega Supreme has a hard time fitting in on Cybertron as people view him as a weapon of mass destruction. Omega decides to dedicate himself to saving lives.
    • The Decepticons attack the Energon farm Bulkhead came from. Obsidian leads the attack. A later raid sees Team Prime sans Bumblebee fight Strika’s Team Charr.
    • Sentinel gets played by Megatron, first leading the Elite Guard on a wild goose chase then distracting everyone with a public trial.
    • Rattrap (here named Rattletrap) is Megatron’s defence attorny. He gets Megatron off all charges.
    • Megatron launches Trypticon Prison into space.
    • Optimus (using the Powermaster armour) leads his team on Omega Supreme in pursuit. Bulkhead stays behind on Cybertron to fix the damage Trypticon launching caused.
    • Omega VS Trypticon leads to Omega being damaged and remaining in ship mode.
    • Optimus and crew (minus Ratchet) break into Trypticon prison and knock the rocket city’s power offline by overloading the power grid.
    • Megatron throws his soldiers into the city’s reactor in a desperate bid to keep the prison powered (Lugnut jumps in willingly)
    • After a showdown with Optimus Prime, Trypticon prison crashes to Earth – landing on top of Dinobot Island.

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    Some more info from the Animated event at the TFNation convention...

    • Powermaster Prime was a Hasbro request to allow Hasbro to release a larger size / priced character. Marty worked it into the premiere.
    • Hasbro also requested flames on Optimus, movie-style. This would have been a repaint on the toy. It popped up in the outline as signifier of a high honour awarded to Optimus.
    • Focus would have been on Mini-Cons, but the other Decepticons would have eventually come back.
    • Megatron was completely losing it at this point in the story. Described as “not quite Beast Machines genocidal, but on the way there”
    • Marauder Megatron was a Hasbro request, they wanted a triple changer design. Intended to make Megatron a huge threat to the point he didn’t need minions.
    • Writers never figured out exactly where Sari was going. But her journey was the story of Transformers Animated – idea was the finale would have been the end of her journey.
    • Beachcomber was intended for Season 3. He was supposed to catch Longarm turning into Shockwave. His reaction? “Dude, not cool”. Then Shockwave kills him. This was cut for time.
    • Beachcomber was then intended for a scene in Season 4. Blackout would have killed him.
    • If the Beachcomber scene hadn’t happened in Season 4, he’d have died in Season 5. Marty didn’t like Beachcomber.
    • Unicron considered “too big for Animated”
    • No plans to have had Megatron become Galvatron in Animated.
    • Shattered Glass episode was intended for Season 3. It got bumped when the Season 3 opener was made into a three party.
    • Marty doesn’t remember who would have been on Slipstream’s own team of Decepticons.
    • Optimus as a young leader was Marty’s idea. He likes writing underdogs and characters with something to prove rather than big heroes.
    • Blitzwing as a character was born from Marty wanting to write a character who turns into anything. Because that didn’t work as a toy, Derrick Wyatt suggested using a triple changer. Marty then came up with three personalities. Derrick was then inspired by He-Man’s Man-E-Faces. In-show origin would have involved Blackarachnia and been told in Season 4.
    • There was a running joke about having a transforming character called “Tractor”. He’d have been an Energon farmer.
    • Blurr was not intended to come back – he was “gone and dead” as far as Marty was concerned. But, the Botcon story where Blurr is revived “is canon. Sure. Why not?”
    • Team Charr were not specifically planned to be used (no stories built around them) but Marty thinks they would have “inevitably” been used.
    • Ratchet probably ran off with Omega Supreme as the Ark, and nobody else knew rather than him being intentionally given to Optimus.
    • Characters like Red Alert and Rodimus would have been recurring characters.
    • Marty thinks Obsidian in the treatment may have been a slip on his part, and could have been Strika in the final cut.
    • No plans for more flying Autobots.
    • Human villains were phased out – “fell by the wayside” – as the series progressed. Not a Hasbro pushback.
    • The timeslot for the Unicron Trilogy and Animated was based on a deal. The first run was on a decent timeslot but if the ratings were not good, it’d be moved to an earlier timeslot.
    • Cartoon Network wanted Marty and the crew to “age up” the show for season 3, to reflect the network’s other shows at the time (specifically the new Ben 10 and Clone Wars)
    • Bulkhead was the first character Derrick Wyatt designed.
    • Lockdown was based on wanting a version of Death’s Head that Hasbro could own.
    • Chances of actually seeing a new season “slim to none”. Comic a smaller investment, but up to IDW to decide if they want to do it. Marty would be happy to write it.
    • Marty says if you want to know more, get the Allspark Almanacs

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    And with the end of this year's UK TFNation convention comes the announcement of next years - August 14-16, 2020... once again at the Hilton Birmingham.

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    Voice Actor Michael McConnohie (Gen1 Tracks and Cosmos) will be a guest at next month's American TFCon convention.

    A nice line-up so far...

    Special guests include Dan Gilvezan the voices of G1 Bumblebee, Goldbug, Hot Spot, Outback, Rollbar, Scamper, Skids and Snapdragon as well as Paul Eiding the voices of Perceptor and Quintesson in Transformers Generation 1 in addition to David Sobolov the voice of Blitzwing in the Bumblebee Movie, Depth Charge in Beast Wars and Shockwave in Transformers Prime, Generation 1 writer Donald F. Glut, former Transformers Franchise designer Aaron Archer, former Transformers Creative Manager Rik Alvarez, plus Transformers comic book artists Alex Milne, Jack Lawrence, Casey Coller and more TBA.
    If the TFCon's weren't so heavily focussed on unauthorised toys, I'd be more tempted to go... and Hasbro would probably be a guest as well to show off or reveal some new items.

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    Another "Gen1" guest for the American TFCon - Vince Dicola.

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    Next year's TFNation convention has announced their first guest - Tania Gunadi (the voice of Miko from TFPrime).

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    The American TFCon has announced their 2020 location and date - The Hilton at the entrance of the Orlando Florida Universal Studios themepark, on the weekend of March 20-22.
    There's no mention of why it is in the first half of the year, unless they are planning to do two a year now, or they are swapping the seasons with their Canadian convention.
    What it does mean though, is people who are wanting to go, now have 7 months less to plan and save, compared to the usual October dates.

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