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!	”
—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 as rescue vehicles by the island's "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, and the unethical greedy business owner, Madeline Pynch.

Cast

Autobots	Humans	Others
Rescue Bots/Rescue Force Sigma-17 Heatwave (Steve Blum) Blades (Parvesh Cheena) Chase (D.C. Douglas) Boulder (Imari Williams) Other Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) Bumblebee (Nicole Dubuc)	Burns Family Chief Charlie Burns (Maurice LaMarche) Cody Burns (Elán Garfias) Kade Burns (Jason Marsden) Dani Burns (Lacey Chabert) Graham Burns (Shannon McKain) Greene Family Doc Greene (LeVar Burton) Frankie Greene (Diamond White) Townspeople Mayor Luskey (Jeff Bennett) Huxley Prescott (Jeff Bennett) Mr. Harrison (D.C. Douglas) Mrs. Neederlander (Billie Hayes) Mr. Alper (Steve Blum) Edgar Prewett Mr. Bufkin Mr. Perkins (Steve Blum) Milo (Jason Marsden) Captain Arthur Shaw (Maurice LaMarche) Hayley (Danica McKeller) Mr. Pfeiffer Captain Wild (Steve Blum) Professor Anna Baranova (Kath Soucie) Taylor (Roger Craig Smith) Priscilla Pynch (Katherine McNamara) Antagonists Dr. Thaddeus Morocco (Tim Curry) Evan (Robbie Daymond) Myles (Robbie Daymond) Madeline Pynch (Stacy Darrow)	Robots Trex (LeVar Burton) Robo-Baby (Jason Marsden) Dither (LeVar Burton) MorBots (Maurice LaMarche) Pets Mister Pettypaws Edison Aristotle

Mark Hamill will also be voicing a character.

Episodes

For further information, see: List of Rescue Bots episodes

Season 1

1. Family of Heroes
2. Under Pressure
3. Hotshots
4. Flobsters on Parade
5. The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock
6. Walk on the Wild Side
7. Cody on Patrol
8. Four Bots and a Baby
9. Christmas in July
10. Deep Trouble
11. Return of the Dino Bot
12. The Other Doctor
13. The Reign of Morocco
14. Small Blessings
15. The Griffin Rock Triangle
16. Rules and Regulations
17. The Lost Bell
18. Bumblebee to the Rescue
19. You've Been Squilshed
20. Countdown
21. The Haunting of Griffin Rock
22. Little White Lies
23. Shake Up
24. Rescue Boy
25. It's a Bot Time
26. Bot to the Future

Season 2

1. Road Trip
2. Sky Forest
3. One for the Ages
4. Tip of the Iceberg
5. A Virtual Disaster
6. Spellbound
7. Prescott's Bots
8. Blame the Gremlins
9. Feed the Beast
10. What Lies Below

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. 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).

For the first season, the show was animated by Canadian firm Atomic Cartoons (Johnny Test, Spider-Man Unlimited) in Toon Boom Harmony. For season two, the animation work was taken over by Malaysian firm Vision Animation with Australian firm Moody Street Kids also working on the production. A third season is also in the works. Music was provided for the first season by duo Starr Parodi and Jeff Eden Fair. For the second, Australian composer Christopher Elves took the musical reins.

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.

External links

• Transformers Rescue Bots on HubNetwork.com