Check out TFW2005’s live coverage of San Diego Comic Con 2012 IDW and Hasbro panel!
Join senior editor John Barber (Transformers: Robots in Disguise), editor Carlos Guzman, and Hasbro’s director of global publishing Michael Kelly reveal secrets and upcoming plans for Transformers, G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and more. A new Transformers series will be announced-as well as a new license. Panelists include Larry Hama (G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero), Chris Metzen (Transformers: Autocracy), Flint Dille (Transformers: Autocracy), Livio Ramondelli (Transformers: Autocracy), Andrew Griffith (Transformers: Robots in Disguise), Brendan Cahill (Transformers: Robots in Disguise), Mike Costa (G.I. Joe: Cobra), plus surprise guests!This is the first panel of the week for us, make sure to check back for the Hasbro Transformers panel and Larry King Interview of Peter Cullen later in the week!
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YoungPrime
For me anything less the new testament (MTMTE/RID) and the Old Testament (Regeneration) is utter sacrilege….
Pondered it once though… but then begged God-formers for forgiveness and was forced to say 40 Hail Megatron's.
Praise the Allspark!
YoungPrime
……….who was that?
Oh well.
ZacWilliam
Sounds like a no to me.
-ZacWilliam, just hoping it's not a "no, they die."
Stardust262
Technically, no, they weren't. When someone asked about them appearing in the show, they said to "not necessarily, read the comic to understand". Not a confirmation, yet not a ruling out
Sideswipe80
They've been confirmed for season 3.
Sideswipe80
Can't wait till Season 3. Prime got a lot more interesting now. Good to see the Dinobots get so much love.
Ironhide1706
Shockwave > Dinobots. I'm looking forward to Shockwave more than them, even though Grimlock is one of my favourite characters.
TFW10
The Dinobots can stay in the comics but not in the cartoon.
CodeXCDM
Guess all the hurrah over Dinobots in FoC pretty much convinced Hasbro to find some way of featuring them in Prime.
Then again… "Aligned" continuity and all… not saying both should be the same universe (they shouldn't) but… well, ask Hasbro about that hubub… *smh*
Mechafire
I honestly forgot TFP Tailgate even existed. In fact, after reading a bunch of MTMTE issues something clicked and I was like "Wait, wasn't there someone else in recent TF fiction who was named Tailgate?
…
Oh yeah, the non-character from Prime!"
Don't ever change, dude.
shroobmaster
What would you say if we told you that the big announcement was the My Little Pony comic?
bossprime
wait wasn't there supposed to be some big announcement or something?
The Diggs
I for one think it'd be entirely possible to work the Dinobots into the Prime show proper–for one serviceable example, check out this DeviantArt piece:http://my.deviantart.com/messages/#/d51ltv6 (no, I did not write it, I'm merely citing it as an example)
It's less than perfect—the writer tries to shoehorn in a few too many characters than I'm sure the show's character model 'budget' could realistically allow, but the overall concept of the Dinobot characters matches up decently with their portrayal in other recent media (FoC, IDW) and still gels with the feel of the show.
I'm just sayin'…it's possible. Likely, maybe not…we're lucky we got the LSC in the new game at all….
Gilgamesh
You should ask him about Animated and Beast Wars!
shroobmaster
That is how they all die by the way. They arrive on Earth, try to swing on vines like George of the Jungle and bash against a guava tree.
shroobmaster
Trees.
SPLIT LIP
I think that's what makes it so funny. Horribly funny.
Sinnertwin
This is actually brutally honest
kaijuguy19
I doubt it. The Dinobots are major characters in the game and in the algined countinutiy and the worst case is that they get stuck on Cybertron for a while then later they get to Earth on the show. And that the writers said that while they may not appear on the show yet they also didn't say they won't be like Ironhide.
SPLIT LIP
I love this guy.