Transformers: Prime (cartoon)

The name or term "Prime" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Prime (disambiguation).

Well, that's just Prime.

There's a pegasus and a puppy in this show?! Hasbro, you ruined Transformers!

Transformers: Prime is an upcoming computer-animated television series that will air on The Hub in late 2010.

Confirmed news

Susan Blu is the casting director (and likely voice director) for the series. Michael Bell and David Sobolov have auditioned for parts. Bell auditioned for Ratchet and "General Fowler."^[1]
According to his official fansite, Jeffrey Combs will be voicing the role of Ratchet and there are 26 episodes scheduled for the first season.^[2]
The series will have Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci as executive producers, and the cartoon is described as "cg-animated". ^[3] Alongside Kurtzman and Orci, one of the "show runners" is Jeff Kline.^[4]
Digitalscape has announced on their website that they would be responsible for the CG production. ^[5]
It is not yet known which continuity family the series will take place in, but it has been revealed that it will follow on from the back-story set up by the upcoming War for Cybertron video game and its tie-in book, Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron.^{[citation needed]}
On May 17, 2010, it was revealed that Peter Cullen (the voice actor for Generation 1 Optimus Prime as well as the live-action movie Optimus Prime), would be lending his voice to Transformers: Prime.^[6]
Producer Roberto Orci revealed on Don Murphy's forum that Frank Welker (voice of Generation 1 Megatron and live-action movie Megatron in the video games) had been cast in Transformers: Prime in some capacity and had in fact worked alongside Peter Cullen.^[7]

Autobots	Decepticons	Characters of unknown affiliation
Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) ^[6]	Megatron ^[4] Starscream ^[8]	Ratchet (Jeffrey Combs) ^[2] Fowler Bumblebee