Transformers Animated (toyline)

2008-06-08T18:24:48Z

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[[Image:TFAnimated_Voyager_EarthOptimusPrime_toy.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Putting the "cool" in "[[Playskool]]".]]
The '''Transformers Animated''' toy line merges the more expressive design style of the [[Transformers Animated|cartoon]] with extremely poseable robot forms (to a degree which seemed pleasantly surprising even to [[Hasbro]]). Unlike the [[franchise]]s immediately before it, there is no overarching, line-wide [[gimmick]] (such as [[Mini-Con]]s or [[Cyber Planet Key]]s). Rather, transforming ''is'' the gimmick, and the toys have other special features unique and appropriate to the character (such as [[Blitzwing (Animated)|triple-changing]] or [[Ratchet (Animated)|interchangeable tools]]). While the designs originated with Hasbro and the [[Cartoon Network]] team, [[TakaraTomy]] stepped up to the plate to engineer the toys. The line debuted on July 1, 2007, at Hasbro's Future Products panel at [[BotCon 2007|BotCon]].

Hasbro has, citing the strength of the [[Transformers (2007)|movie]] toyline, [[Ruined FOREVER|postponed]] the release of the Animated toyline to June 22, 2008 in the US. Canada, however, saw a mass realease in early May 2008.

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==Toys==
The core toys of this franchise will be available at most of the traditional [[size class]]es. They are listed here with examples from each.

===Deluxe===

* [[Optimus Prime (Animated)#Toys|Cybertron Mode Optimus Prime]] (Wave 1)
* [[Bumblebee (Animated)#Toys|Bumblebee]] (Wave 1)
* [[Lockdown #Toys|Lockdown]] (Wave 1)
* [[Prowl (Animated)#Toys|Prowl]] (Wave 1)
* [[Blackarachnia (Animated)#Toys|Blackarachnia]] (Wave 2)
* [[Ratchet (Animated)#Toys|Ratchet]] (Wave 2)
* [[Jazz (Animated)#Toys|Jazz]] (Wave 3)
* [[Oil Slick (Animated)#Toys|Oil Slick]] (Wave 3)
* [[Snarl (Animated)#Toys|Snarl]] (Wave 3)
* [[Soundwave (Animated)#Toys|Soundwave]] (Wave 3)
* [[Swoop (Animated)#Toys|Swoop]] (Wave 3)
* [[Bumblebee (Animated)#Toys|Elite Guard Bumblebee]] (Wave 3)

===Voyager===

* [[Blitzwing (Animated)#Toys|Blitzwing]] (Wave 3)
* [[Bulkhead (Animated)#Toys|Bulkhead]] (Wave 1)
* [[Grimlock (Animated)#Toys|Grimlock]] (Wave 2)
* [[Lugnut#Toys|Lugnut]] (Wave 2)
* [[Megatron (Animated)#Toys|Cybertron Mode Megatron]] (Wave 1)
* [[Optimus Prime (Animated) #Optimus Prime (Voyager, 2008)|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (Wave 2)
* [[Skywarp (Animated)#Toys|Skywarp]] (Wave 3)
* [[Starscream (Animated)#Toys|Starscream]] (Wave 1)
* [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)#Toys|Wreck-Gar]] (Wave 3)
* [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)#Toys|Sentinel Prime]] (Wave 3)

===Leader===

* [[Bulkhead (Animated) #Bulkhead (Leader)|Bulkhead]] (Wave 2)
* [[Megatron (Animated) #Megatron (Leader, 2008)|Earth Mode Megatron]] (Wave 2)
* [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)#Toys|Ultra Magnus]] (Wave 3)

===Supreme===

*[[Optimus Prime (Animated) #Roll-Out Command Optimus Prime (Supreme, 2008)|Roll-Out Command Optimus Prime]] (Wave 2)

===Multipacks===
* [[Optimus Prime (Animated)#Toys|Optimus Prime vs. Megatron: The Battle Begins]] (Wave 1)

===Activators===

The Activators subcategory consists of chunkier, simpler, Scout-class-sized toys with one-touch, spring-loaded transformations.
* [[Bulkhead (Animated) #Bulkhead (Activator, 2008)|Bulkhead]]
* [[Bumblebee (Animated) #Bumblebee (Activator, 2008)|Bumblebee]]
* [[Lockdown #Lockdown (Activators, 2008)| Lockdown]]
* [[Optimus Prime (Animated) #Optimus Prime (Activators, 2008)|Optimus Prime]]
* [[Bumblebee (Animated) #Patrol Bumblebee (Activators, 2008)|Patrol Bumblebee]]
* [[Ratchet (Animated) #Ratchet (Activators, 2008)|Ratchet]]
* [[Starscream (Animated) #Starscream (Activators, 2008)|Starscream]]

===Bumper Battlers===

An expansion on the [[Cyber Slammers]] subline from the 2007 live-action movie toys, Bumper Battlers feature "bump-and-transform" action. Hitting the front bumper causes the toy to change into robot mode, and pressing the toy's sigil activates sound effects and speech gimmicks.
* [[Bumblebee (Animated) #Bumper Battlers OBumblebee (Bumper Battlers, 2008)|Bumblebee]]
* [[Optimus Prime (Animated) #Bumper Battlers Optimus Prime (Bumper Battlers, 2008)|Optimus Prime]]
* [[Ratchet (Animated) #Bumper Battlers Ratchet (Bumper Battlers, 2008)|Ratchet]]
* [[Jazz (Animated) #Bumper Battlers Jazz (Bumper Battlers, 2008)|Jazz]]

==Others==

[[Bumblebee (Animated) #toys|Bumblebee]] will be available in a non-transforming "Animated Power Bots" version, in the style of the [[Movie (toyline) #Cyber Stompin' Robots|Cyber Stompin']] Bumblebee and Optimus from the 2007 live-action movie.

Also there will be McDonald's Happy Meal toys of [[Megatron (Animated) #Megatron (McDonald's Happy Meal Toys, 2008)|Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (Animated) #Optimus Prime (McDonald's Happy Meal Toys, 2008)|Optimus Prime]], which are, of course simplified representations of those characters.
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Slo-Mo

2008-06-01T18:17:56Z

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[[Image:Slomo.jpg |thumb|200px|In terms of fashion, this is the Yin to [[Prometheus Black|Prometheus Black's]] Yang]]
:''Slo-Mo is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''
Working a nine-to-five job as a wage slave sure sucks. Which means that when you discover a fragment of an [[AllSpark (Animated)|ancient life-giving alien artifact]], it's time to clock out for the last time and launch a career as a super-villain! No? Well, '''Slo-Mo''' seems to think so.

This dishy dame's timepiece has the power to slow down machines, even stop 'em cold. In their tracks. Company halt. It even works on those annoying [[Autobot]]s!

Amusingly enough, she seems to have a mutual attraction with the speedster [[Nanosec]].

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tara Strong]] (English)
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[[Image:Clock hideout.jpg|left|thumb|250px|"He did worse than that! He made me '''late!'''"]]Slo-Mo first appeared on the scene as a mysterious benefactor who helped out [[Angry Archer|several]] [[Professor Princess|of Detroit's]] [[Nanosec|B-List Villains]], saving them from capture by the Autobots with an Allspark-empowered timepiece. Gathering these three 'also-rans' at her former place of employment she introduced herself. Formerly a production line worker, she one day discovered what would prove to be an AllSpark fragment mixed into the quartz crystals she fitted into clocks. When installed in a clock-like housing she found it slowed down all electronic and mechanical systems, from automobiles to automatons to Autobots. She realized this was a chance to make it big she set out on a career in crime, but had the sense to recognize she was an amateur at the game, and proposed that the gathered crooks could restyle themselves as a crime syndicate. She also revealed that it was her AllSpark-powered timepiece that had undone Nino Sexton's premature aging, and this favor seemed to kindle a potential relationship between the two.

The as yet unnamed syndicate's first bust quickly went south on them however when they became cornered not only by the Autobot [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (who was quickly defeated by Slo-Mo's timepiece) but also by the flesh-and-blood officers of the DPD. Fortunately, an anonymous caller on her watch-phone quickly offered them the services of a nearby [[Swindle (Animated)|Sports Utility Vehicle]] as a getaway car, complete with 4-wheel-drive, inbuilt weaponry, and comfortable seating for four (complete with a booster-seat for Professor Princess). Speeding away, she was nonetheless unimpressed by their patron's attempting to undermine her authority, and didn't feel indebted to him for just a truck. After finding out that it was a truck ''with a ridiculously large turret'' she was far more tractable. {{storylink|SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy}}

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==Trivia==
* Slo-Mo's name and appearance are based on [[Samantha Lomow]], [[Hasbro]] Vice-President of Marketing.
* Slo-Mo's dialogue is based on that of various fast-talking dames from '30s screwball comedies.

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