Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)
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Transformers: Rescue Bots is a cartoon series that launched on The Hub on December 17, 2011 with a preview of the first two episodes, and the full season starting February 18, 2012. Unlike Prime, Rescue Bots is animated in Toon Boom Harmony (similar to a Flash cartoon), and aimed at a younger generation of Transformers fans. Unusual for a Transformers cartoon, it features no Decepticons.
Story
| “ | A routine patrol with four Bots in stasis, Years later awoke in the strangest of places. Earth was their home now, and in addition, Optimus Prime gave them this mission! |
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—The theme song. | ||
The Rescue Bots are a team of inexperienced Autobots primarily designed to serve as a rescue team on the battlefield. When their craft is drawn to Earth, Optimus Prime judges them as not ready to face the Decepticons, and instead stations them in the technologically advanced town of Griffin Rock, Maine located on an island off the east coast of America. There they must work undercover, posing as ordinary robots used a rescue vehicles by the islands "family of heroes", the Burns family. The Rescue Bots must learn to work together, both with each other and their human partners, to help the people of Griffin Rock during disasters and the occasional mishap caused by out-of-control technology. Though the Decepticon empire has yet to touch the island, it has its own villains, such as the devilishly-cunning Doctor Morocco and the petty criminals Myles and Evan.
Cast
| Autobots | Humans | Others |
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Rescue Bots/Rescue Force Sigma-17 Other |
Burns Family
Greene Family Townspeople
Antagonists
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Robots
Pets |
Episodes
- For further information, see: List of Rescue Bots episodes
Season 1
- Family of Heroes
- Under Pressure
- Hotshots
- Flobsters on Parade
- The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock
- Walk on the Wild Side
- Cody on Patrol
- Four Bots and a Baby
- Christmas in July
- Deep Trouble
- Return of the Dinobot
- The Other Doctor
- The Reign of Morocco
- Small Blessings
- The Griffin Rock Triangle
- Rules and Regulations
- The Lost Bell
- Bumblebee to the Rescue
- You've Been Squilshed
- Countdown
- The Haunting of Griffin Rock
- Little White Lies
- Shake Up
- Rescue Boy
- It's a Bot Time
- Bot to the Future
Production
The series was developed by Nicole Dubuc, Brian Hohlfeld and Jeff Kline, who work as story editor, supervising producer and executive producer respectively. Dubuc and Hohlfeld, along with Greg Johnson, form the series writing team, though some of the episodes have had guest writers. Direction duties are shared between Nathan Chew and Patrick Archibald with Frank Molieri as supervising director. The show is animated by Canadian firm Atomic Cartoons (Johnny Test, Spider-Man Unlimited) in Toon Boom Harmony. Therese Trujillo works as animation producer. Designers who have worked on the show include Shane Glines and Steve Jones (character designs), and Edgar Carlos (backgrounds).
Home video releases
Notes
- Jeff Kline stated that Rescue Bots and Prime occupy the same continuity, and do so because he felt two Transformers shows on the same network should share the same mythology. This is why Rescue Bots takes place on an island, so that it can exist in a relatively insulated bubble from the more dangerous plot elements of the older-skewing Prime.
References
External links
- Transformers Rescue Bots on Hubworld.
