Transformers Animated (franchise)
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[[Imagehttp://www.transformersanimated.com/img/characters/blitzwing/blitzwing-preview.jpg blitzwing:]] Transformers Animated is the latest television-supported Transformers franchise, which began in January of 2008. The latest re-imagining of the Transformers brand brings a highly dynamic and stylized look to the toys and fiction.
The franchise consists of the following components:
"The cartoon began with a 3-episode mini-movie, first aired on Cartoon Network on December 26th 2007, that is being followed by a full 13-episode season, which started airing in January. The toyline, however, will not be hitting stores till summer of 2008, due to the ongoing popularity of the movie toys.
The series has adopted a new visual art style and form of storytelling which has not been used before in Transformers. The changes in design were created in an attempt to attract the modern youth viewer. The new art style incorporates a more "organic" feel to the Transformer characters. This style of art and character movement was introduced to emphasize dramatic movements and to allow the animator to express more emotion than in previous series.
Here is what the web site has to say about the serires
On their home planet of CYBERTRON, OPTIMUS PRIME and his crew AUTOBOTS are not heroes, they are loyal, dedicated, resourceful, hard-working, fun-loving 'regular bots.'
OPTIMUS PRIME dreams of excitement, adventure and somehow making a difference in the galaxy. Given his first command in an unremarkable sector of CYBERTRONIAN space over a ragtag crew of misfits including: BULKHEAD a lovable, gentle-giant 'strong-bot', BUMBLEBEE a wise-cracking, over-eager 'hyper-bot, PROWL an instinctual, intense 'Ninja-bot', and RATCHET a crusty, battle-hardened 'medi-bot.'
OPTIMUS PRIME gets more than he bargained for when the AUTOBOTS answer a routine distress call and suddenly find themselves in possession of CYBERTRON's most precious and powerful artifact, the ALLSPARK. The ALLSPARK is being pursued across the galaxy by the megalomaniacal MEGATRON and his army of ruthless DECEPTICONS, a brutal race of war-mongering robots who seek to use the ALLSPARK as their ultimate weapon of destruction.
It's a struggle for the plucky and unseasoned band of AUTOBOTS, but despite overwhelming odds, OPTIMUS PRIME and his crew manage to obliterate MEGATRON's ship and save the ALLSPARK, only to have their own battle-damaged ship crash land on a remote backwater planet known as Earth.
Responding to an industrial disaster, the AUTOBOTS 'blend-in' with their new surroundings by scanning and assuming the form of the local emergency vehicles. But it doesn't take long before they're changing back to robot mode and utilizing their unique individual powers: OPTIMUS PRIME's versatile gadgetry, BULKHEAD's strength, BUMBLEBEE's energy stingers, PROWL's stealth, and RATCHET's magnetism to save the day.
The AUTOBOTS unlikely guide through human society is a brash, energetic 8-year-old girl named Sari Sumdac, the adopted daughter of a robotics magnate. Setting the AUTOBOTS up with their headquarters in an old abandoned auto plant on the outskirts of town, Sari not only becomes an 'honorary AUTOBOT' by enlightening them on such mysteries of Earth life such as megamalls, holovision, hoverboards, junk food, and basic hanging out, but also becomes a vital component of the team in their adventures. For the ALLSPARK endows Sari with a very special power, one the DECEPTICONS would love to get their hands on, not to mention the ALLSPARK itself.
And before they know it, the AUTOBOTS are not just heroes in the eyes of the humans, they're superheroes! Sworn to protect the ALLSPARK and their newly adopted home, the AUTOBOTS now have a huge responsibility to CYBERTRON and a super reputation to live up to on Earth."
Voice Actors
Corey Burton (Megatron, Ratchet)
Jeff Bennett - (Prowl, Ultra Magnus)
David Kaye - (Optimus Prime, Lugnut, Grimlock)
Tom Kenny - (Starscream, Issac Sumdac)
Bumper Robinson - (Bumblebee)
Bill Fagerbakke - (Bulkhead)
Cree Summer - (Blackarachnia)
Lance Hendrikson - (Lockdown)
Tara Strong - (Sari Sumdac)
Phil LaMarr - (Jazz)
Josh Moschitta - (Blurr)
Weird Al Yankovic - (Junkion)
Susan Blu - (Arcee)
Townsend Coleman - (Sentinel Prime)
Characters
Some of these characters are one episode characters or cameos; also, some have not yet appeared in the series but are going to be.
Autobots
Arcee,
Blurr,
Bulkhead,
Bumblebee,
Elita 1,
Grimlock,
Ironhide,
Jazz,
Jetfire,
Longarm Prime,
Omega Supreme,
Optimus Prime,
Perceptor,
Prowl,
Ratchet,
Sentinel Prime,
Snarl,
Swoop,
Ultra Magnus,
Wreck Gar,
Decepticons-
Blackarachnia,
Blitzwing,
Jetstorm,
Lockdown,
Lugnut,
Megatron,
Mixmaster,
Oil Slick,
Scrapper,
Shockwave,
Skywarp,
Soundwave,
Starscream,
Swindle,
Thundercracker,
Humans
Angry Archer,
Captain Fanzone,
Carly Witwicky,
Cyrus Rhodes,
Daniel Witwicky,
Headmaster,
Isaac Sumdac,
Master Disaster,
Meltdown,
Nanosec,
News Anchor,
Police Officer
Police SWAT Officer
Porter C Powell
Professor Princess
Sari Sumdac
Spike Witwicky
Episode List
Season 1
Ep 1: Transform And Rollout
Ep 4: Home Is Where The Spark Is
Ep 5: Total Meltdown
Ep 6: Blast From The Past
Ep 7: Thrill Of The Hunt
Ep 8: Nanosec
Ep 9: Along Came A Spider
Ep 10: Sound And Fury
Ep 11: Lost And Found
Ep 12: Survival Of The Fittest
Ep 13: Headmaster
Ep 14: Nature Calls
Ep 15: Megatron Rising, Part One
Ep 16: Megatron Rising, Part Two
Season 2
Ep 17: The Elite Guard
Ep 18: Return of Headmaster
Ep 19: Mission Accomplished
Ep 20: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Ep 21: Velocity
Ep 22: Rise Of The Constructicons
Ep 23: A Fistful Of Energon
Ep 24: S.U.V - Society Of Ultimate Villany
Ep 25: Autobot Camp
Ep 26: Black Friday
Ep 27: Sari, No One's Home
Ep 28: A Bridge Too Close, Part One
Ep 29: A Bridge Too Close, Part Two
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