I’m a Transformers fan, I have been since the late 80’s when G1 when was huge, the toys were amazing, the cartoons were badass and the comics even had cameos from G.I Joe and Spider-Man. I drifted in and out of love with the cartoons, but there is no doubting my knowledge, I’ve seen Scramble City, I’ve watched the Japanese Headmasters series and most of the series since. Some of them were ok like Cybertron but to be honest as much as it pains me to say some just plain sucked!
That is why when the news of Transformers: Combiner Wars came out my interest was piqued, tbh what toy does a fan like most? Easy the combiners, yes the figures may have been small but when put together you get one badass bot, capable of squishing even Optimus Prime or Megatron.
Then my heart sank, how could they ruin my beloved combiners? I don’t want to see Predaking, Superion or even the mighty Devastator turned into fun kiddy loving characters. How about a show for us the old school fans? I mean the fans that made the first series a success.
The this video droppped online.
Despite some clunky animation, I was optimistic Peter Cullen was back for the role of Optimus and they even quoted and used scenes from the first movie. No not the one with Shia LaBeouf, the proper original cartoon movie. The one that was the perfect fusion of 80’s heavy metal and cartoons in one. Let’s have a quick reflection on one of the most badass and scarring movie scenes from the film. I doubt that some of the later series would have this kinda graphic hardcoreness.
DAMN! Every time, I get goosebumps watching that, but that’s enough reflection, back to the article at hand.
*Goes and watches Transformers The Movie*
OOPS!! Ok now back to the job hand *Sings YOU GOT THE TOUCH, YOU GOT THE POWER YEAH* That just goes to show how awesome the movie is, I watch one clip and get sucked in, that’s why I’m so passionate about the show.
Then it was all quiet for a while, then another clip drops online.
Fans of G1 will again note that despite the new character again hints were dropped that were related to the original movie, most notably the scene where Unicron transforms Megatron into Galvatron. What I did find interesting though it there’s a female character and she looks quite frankly pure badass, less Arcee more Blackarachnia.
Ok so what do we have so far? Prime and Megatron in their G1 forms, a new female character I’m semi psyched.
Then this happens.
HOLY MOLY it’s G1 Starscream despite some wierd choice of music that sounds like a Marks & Spencers food advert, to quote WWE superstar Daniel Bryan.
With all we’ve seen so far Transformers: Combiner Wars looks like a show us fans, the older fans, the G1 fans can get into.
Transformers: Combiner Wars comes out on August 2 2016, I for one can’t wait!
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