RID Cartoon screenshots & episode details (season 1)

[griffin]

I hope all those creatively designed, beast-themed Decepticons exist because Hasbro has planned toys for them.
Some sound really interesting, if done well - like the combiner of five spiders (Chop Shop). But seeing the simplicity of the toys so far, and most being gimmick or non-Transforming toys, I don't have my hopes too high.

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Something we already knew was that the cartoon would show up on Cartoon Network in America and here, but now a press-release from Hasbro makes it official, and notes that it is for any country with a Cartoon Network channel.

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Posting up the English episode titles for the first 13 episodes, to go with the plot descriptions that were posted up here earlier.

101 – Pilot (Part 1)
102 – Pilot (Part 2)
103 – Trust Exercises
104 – More Than Meets the Eye
105 – W.W.O.D.?
106 – As the Kospego Commands!
107 – Collect ‘m All
108 – True Colors
109 – Rumble in the Jungle
110 – Can You Dig it?
111 – Adventures in Bumblebee-sitting!
112 – Hunting Season
113 – Out of Focus

Episode 1
An image of Optimus Prime instructs Bumblebee, Sideswipe and Strongarm to head to earth. Fixit's Prisonship has crashed landed on earth and inmates scattered all over the planet. Denny and Russell are father and son living in Crown City whose hobby is collecting old vehicles and running a scrapyard.

Episode 2
Bumblebee and his team befriends an escaped Decepticon prisoner; Dinobot Grimlock. Underbite and Tusk terrorize Crown City and Denny and Russell uses an old aluminum car as a bait to lure them away into a trap. At a critical moment Optimus Prime appears. Optimus and Bumblebee now leads the team into battle.

Episode 3
A hammerhead shark has attacked a Crown City Oil Tanker. Paranoia grips the entire planet. The shark turns out to be Decepticon Hammerstrike. Bumblebee and Grimlock teams up to defeat him. However, Strongarm doesn't trust Grimlock entirely and Grimlock leaves.

Episode 4
A Decepticon prisoner named Butcher steals appliances to build a spacecraft to leave earth. Bumblebee and his team heads to arrest him with the help from Fix-it.

Episode 5
Decepticon Prisoner Pod was discovered in Crown City Natural History Museum. Denny and Russell disguise themselves as archeologists to investigate. A bison-shaped Deception attacks pedestrians and Bumblebee and his team must stop him.

Episode 6
Thunderhoof is disguised as a mythological deer monster and commands humans to collect materials to build a Spacebridge to go back to Cybertron. An accident traps Bumblebee and Sideswipe in the portal. Thunderhoof is transported to somewhere else and meets Grimlock

Episode 7
Pickpocket; a bird-shaped Decepticon is stealing from pedestrians. It’s up to Bumblebee and his team to capture him. Strongarm realizes that her partners are more important than rules and regulations.

Episode 8
One of Steeljaw's minions; a lice-shaped Decepticon attaches himself to Grimloack and gains control of his mind. Bumblebee and Spideswipe must find a way to detach him from Grimlock. Steeljaw and Tusk escapes.

Episode 9
Strongarm is on patrol alone for the first time trying to track a frog-shaped Decepticon who still thinks that he’s in Cybertron trying to find The Lost City. Bumblebee is secretly following Strongarm to help her if needed.

Episode 10
Autobot Jazz arrives to investigate an earthworm-like Decepticon burrowing tunnels on earth to collect Energon. Bumblebee and his team use Energon crystals as bait to capture the Decepticon.

Episode 11
Bumblebee is poisoned during a fight and acts like a child. A herd of Elephants in the Zoo is released by the Decepticon. Bumblebee and Grimlock rides the elephants to bring them back to the Zoo.

Episode 12
Two Cybertronian spacecrafts landed on the west side of the Crown forest. Autobots are hunting Fracture. Drift saves Bumblebee and his team and Bumblebee thanks him after the battle. However, Fracture manages to escape.

Episode 13
A crab-like Decepticon named Clampdown appears in Crown City's flood control channel and is rallying other Decepticons to hunt for hidden treasure. Steeljaw requests Clampdown to join with him.

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So episode 14 aired in Singapore a few weeks ago (which matched the description that was listed for episode 13 in Australia, causing confusion when Optimus wasn't in the episode), and now there are episodes listed in Canada for 15 & 16.
So even though some countries are having a mid-season break after episode 13, North America looks like it could be playing the full 26 episodes at once, as they are still only at episode 8 (yesterday), which gives them another 7 weeks to start showing the second half.

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PROBABLY SPOILERS



One of the upcoming episodes must have the introduction of Megatronus, as screenshots have been posted of him fighting Optimus... who I thought was a ghost... so is either a flashback or a return of him in the world of the living.

[UltimateGalvatron]

AWESOME!

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From a French website comes episode details for 16-18... with each appearing to focus on a different Autobot character.

#16: Sideswipe perd la tête (Sideswipe Loses His Head)
"When the last team training leaves Sideswipe without strength, the young Autobot realizes that he can not always rely on his physical strength."
#17: L'honneur avant tout (The Honor Above All)
"Drift returns to Earth in pursuit of a fugitive Jetstorm. At the same time Team Bumblebee faces Springload and Quillfire who escaped."
#18: La blessure de Grimlock (The Injury to Grimlock)
"Unaware that Grimlock hides a serious injury, Bumblebee and the team make their way to the ocean in pursuit of an escaped Decepticon."

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Three more episode descriptions from France... and still no sign of Optimus Vs Megatronus.
We do get a new Decepticon (I think) called Groundpounder, which is probably yet another Decepticon that doesn't get a toy.

#19: Le Champion (The Champion)
Groundpounder, former gladiator now Decepticon, escapes and takes part in a televised fight. He will face Grimlock.
#20: Dysfonctionnement (Dysfunction)
Fixit becomes increasingly buggy. Denny tries to repair him, but it wakes his guard program. Armed with an arsenal, he tries to attack the others.
#21: Etat de siège (State of Siege)
Steeljaw and his band manage to get into the scrap yard to release cryogenically Decepticons and Autobots to maintain remotely using a sonic wave field. Our hero will have to show cunning to thwart their plan and regain control of the premises.

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The next three episodes for France, as they seem to be showing three episodes at a time once a week.

#22: Amis jurés (Sworn Friends)
Dinobot Grimlock discovers an escaped prisoner with whom he sympathizes. He helps them flee, but it does not take long to destroy everything and terrorize humans. Our hero will have to join forces to stop it. Denny redecorates a motorhome for Russell who is afraid that his father makes too cheesy decor.
#23: La reine des abeilles (The Queen Bee)
Autobot Sideswipe meets a loner missioned by Primus. The newcomer agrees to team up with the little band of Bumblebee to face a Decepticon that looks very much like a queen bee ...
#24 Fantômes et imposteurs (Ghosts and Imposters)
Bumblebee decides to show his team the beauty of planet Earth. He takes them to a ghost town in the Far West. But a Decepticon able to take any form awaits them...

Only two more episodes until the end of Season One, which we should know about next weekend... and then in two weeks time we should hopefully hear about Season Two at BotCon.

[griffin]

Details of the final two episodes have been found....







SPOILERS







You were warned...

#25: Le retour d'Optimus (The Return of Optimus)
The threat to the Earth becomes clearer and the Primes decide to send Optimus, although his training is not yet complete. Meanwhile Steeljaw's gang allows a particularly formidable opponent to arrive on Earth: Megatronus.
#26: La vengeance de Megatronus (The Revenge of Megatronus)
Megatronus is preparing to reduce the Earth dust, but Bumblebee's strategic skills, courage and loyalty of his team, assisted by a particularly powerful Optimus, will get the better of him!