Transformers: Robots in Disguise Online

Khary Payton Mitchell Whitfield Will Friedle

Original Title :: Transformers: Robots in Disguise
Genre :: TV Series / Animation / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
Cast :: Khary Payton,Mitchell Whitfield,Will Friedle
Type :: TV Series
Time :: 22min
Rating :: 6.3/10

Transformers: Robots in Disguise Online

A Decepticon prison ship crashes on Earth and Optimus Prime summons Bumblebee to lead a ragtag team of Autobots - including a bad-boy rebel type, a by-the-book Elite Guard cadet, a loudmouth Dinobot and a hyperactive Mini-con. Their mission: capture an all new batch of escaped Decepticon villains and save humankind.

Series cast summary:
	Khary Payton	-	Grimlock / - 69 episodes, 2014-2017

	Mitchell Whitfield	-	Fixit / - 69 episodes, 2014-2017

	Will Friedle	-	Bumblebee / - 68 episodes, 2014-2017

	Constance Zimmer	-	Strongarm / - 68 episodes, 2014-2017

	Darren Criss	-	Sideswipe / - 63 episodes, 2014-2017

	Ted McGinley	-	Denny Clay / - 54 episodes, 2014-2017

	Stuart Allan	-	Russell Clay / - 54 episodes, 2014-2017

	Eric Bauza	-	Drift / - 41 episodes, 2015-2017

	Roger Craig Smith	-	Jetstorm / - 28 episodes, 2015-2017

The series was meant to cater to a younger crowd than its prequel series Transformers Prime (2010), since network reports have shown that Transformers cartoons aimed at smaller children produce better ratings and since the older part of the fan community isn't large enough of a consumer base for Hasbro to aim an entire cartoon series at. It is essentially meant for kids who have become familiar with the franchise through Transformers: Rescue Bots (2011) but have since grown out of that show and are now ready to discover the larger universe of the Transformers brand.

This is the first American-made "main-line" Transformers show (as in, it's the primary focus of the brand and not a secondary "side" series like Transformers: Rescue Bots (2011)) that doesn't feature Optimus Prime and Megatron in a major role.

Originally, Grimlock was supposed to have his classic color scheme of grey-yellow-black, but executive producer Jeff Kline thought this made him look too similar to the yellow-black Bumblebee, so Grimlock became green to give the cast more visual variety.

This series marks the animated debut of Windblade, the first Transformers character officially created by fans. Fans could cast their votes to decide her name, faction, gender, vehicle form, colors, weapon of choice, place of origin and her specialty on official polls from April to May in 2013, and she was officially revealed to the public on the San Diego Comic-Con of that year. She first appeared in the IDW comics in 2014, and her original design was only slightly retouched for her cartoon appearance.

Sideswipe's chest bears the Japanese kanji "haya". This means "fast", alluding to his sportscar mode and his swiftness.

Fixit was originally to be called Tuneup, and he wasn't imagined as a Mini-Con at first.

This is Peter Cullen's 22nd time portraying Optimus Prime in a "Transformers" series, film, and video game.

The roars Grimlock make in his T-rex mode are provided by "Transformers" veteran voice actor Frank Welker.

Several countries have premiered the series before the United States. The first 13 episodes of the series were released on December 31 2014 on the Chinese website 1905.com, with Mandarin-language dubbing. Later the series began airing in France on February 9 2015, in Australia and New Zealand on February 20, in Italy on February 28, and in Portugal on March 7.

Sideswipe's original name during the series' development was Fastlane.

Eric Bauza, Drift's voice actor, is a big "Transformers" fan and had wanted to be on a TF show since Transformers: Animated (2007).

According to the creators, the first season of the show doesn't feature many references to Transformers Prime (2010) because it was meant to be an introduction for new fans.

The series mixes 3D CGI characters with hand-drawn 2D backdrops and effects, somewhat similar to Transformer: Super Link (2004), Transformers: Cybertron (2005) and Transformers: Go! (2013), although technically far more advanced. The stylized, cel-shaded computer animation method allows for a wide range of characters to appear, since they are far simpler and easier to create and render than the extremely detailed computer models used in Transformers Prime (2010), which had a very limited cast.

Grimlock incorporates elements from his previous incarnations:

he was a prisoner aboard a ship, as in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
he is colored green and is a teammate rather than a team leader, as in Toransufômâ: Kârobotto (2000); he also disguises himself as a crane, which was his alternate mode in that show
and his dinosaur mode has a prominent underbite in its design, like in Transformers: Animated (2007).

Grimlock's personality as a goofy, fun-loving oaf is irreconcilable with his portrayal in the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (2012) video game and related media such as comics. The same is true for certain other characters, like Sideswipe. When fans asked the cartoon's creators why this is, they responded that the these aren't the same characters. This can mean that Grimlock, Sideswpie, etc. from this show are separate people who only share their name with the game characters, or that the series takes place in a different timeline than the games, much like how the original Transformers (1984) cartoon and the Marvel comics were totally separate continuities despite both belonging to the "Generation 1" Transformers franchise.

Fixit is a Mini-Con, a race of miniature robots that made their debut in Transufômâ: Maikuron densetsu (2002) (the Unicron Trilogy). The Mini-Cons make their return to prominence in this series.

Quillfire's car form uses the same design as Bulkhead's from Transformers Prime (2010).

Grimlock was originally intended to turn into an ankylosaurus and have his tail become a mace (as in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)). This instead became Scowl's alternate mode, while Grimlock retained his tyrannosaurus rex mode.

Steve Blum and Jason Spisak had previously appeared in Toransufômâ: Kârobotto (2000).

Eric Bauza unofficially recorded a few of Drift's lines in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), as Drift's voice actor Ken Watanabe was ill during filming. This makes Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime), Frank Welker (Soundwave) and Bauza the only actors from the Transformers film series to reprise their roles in the show; Tom Kenny, Kevin Michael Richardson, Grey Griffin, John DiMaggio and André Sogliuzzo were in the films and this show, but did different roles.

The show was originally suppose to air on The Hub until the channel was renamed to Discovery Family. The series then aired on Cartoon Network.

The Stunticons, a team of rebellious vehicle Decepticons, had previously appeared in Transformers (1984).

The show contains homages to Toransufômâ: Kârobotto (2000):

a band of Autobots pursue a band of Decepticon fugitives to Earth
a boy and his father are the Autobots' primary human allies
the main cast features a red sportscar (Side Burn, Sideswipe) and a blue police car (Prowl, Strongarm)
the evil robots are mostly animalistic bots (like the Predacons)
among the supporting cast is a green Grimlock, an evil shark robot (Sky-Byte, Hammer-Strike), an evil frog robot (Slapper, Springload) and an evil skunk robot (Gas Skunk, Malodor).

Megatronus Prime (the Fallen) is mainly based on his appearance in Transformers: De besegrades hämnd (2009) (he wields a staff, uses telekinesis, declares himself the original Decepticon, and sets in motion a plan to acquire power by destroying the Earth). However, his Cybertronian tank alternate mode is based on his original appearance in the "Transformer" comics.

User reviews

Utchanat

Transformer Prime was one of the best shows I've ever watched, I didn't even like transformers till I watched Prime. the direction they went in is so disappointing I died a little inside while watching it. I'll never understand why the replaced the amazing animation with this new style that I can only describe as hideous compared to Prime! and the writing which used to be smart, serious and allowed you to really get attached to the characters pulled a full 180 and dumbed down because the studio clearly doesn't think highly of their audience! And I do mean the target audience this is stupid even for a kids show. Terrible, avoid at all costs and do what i did rewatch Prime.

Sarin

Initially i was interested as this was promoted as the sequel to Transformers Prime

Unfortunately this time the powers that be really dumbed down the stories, the graphics and the overall finish.

This in no sequel to Prime.

Purely for kids under 12 years

Adults who can surrender the charm and beauty of Prime may be able to stomach this

I guess after such a fantastic series the only direction was down.

Disappointed

Knights from Bernin

I would have to agree with An Na (See review above). After watching Prime, the story, the detail and the animation, that was by far brilliant, I was so excited to watch this, I had built it up and up for months, on the understanding this was a sequel, so one assumed that graphics would increase, yet they dipped dramatically and the narrative would get better, when in fact it was pushed back dramatically.

The fact they've made Grimlock an awful 'Funny Character' that is incredibly annoying only insulted long time fans of the franchise. ITS A SEQUEL, we have already seen Grimlock in prim, how and why has he gone from a strong powerful force, leader of the Dinobots to a dumbed down plain boring character, it makes no sense.

I watch about 5 episodes of this series before going 'NOPE no more, and removing them from my library to be forgotten to in time'.

My advice, go re watch Prime, Armada, Energon, Cybertron. you'll only hate this and yourself for falling into the trap.

Ttyr

A complete waste of time and a total let down after Transformers Prime. I died a little inside after watching episode 1, which was a struggle to complete. I have no plans to watch any of the other episodes as even watching this one episode was just too painful. My 9-year-old even hates it. He loved Prime, but he is totally disappointed in this one. I tried to like it, but it just isn't happening. Unless you want to be disappointed like us, I recommend you stay far away. Hopefully the creators will realize what they have done and bring back Prime. Bad CGI, horrible plot, and even worse character voice-overs. Total Disappointment. :(

Beahelm

I have to say,this show is way better than the movies that are being released today.The show has more transformers and a lot of character development than the movies do.It's cool to see how Bumblebee is trying to make his own path on being a leader of his Autobot team like Optimus Prime before him.And the show introduces new transformers that haven't been shown before.

Clonanau

SPOILERS FOR TRANSFORMERS PRIME, BEAST HUNTER COMICS, AND ROBOTS IN DISGUISE ALSO Transformers Prime kicked off the aligned continuity, and it was a great show. Although Predacons rising was a little bit of a lackluster, I had hope that the next show will be as good as TFP. Robots in Disguise is THE official sequel, and it takes place years about Predacons rising. Cybertron is a thriving planet, and all is well. I was disappointed that Bumblebee is the lead character in this show because he hasn't really done anything in Transformers Prime but make clicking noises,and had billions of toys on the shelves. He's particularly a very bland robot that is adored by kids. It would've made more sense if Smokecreen had the lead role, because in Transformers Prime, HE was eligible for carrying the Matrix of Leadership. But that plot was suddenly dropped, and now he's nowhere to be seen. The plot of this show is that Bumblebee and a rag-tag group of Autobots return to Earth to round up Decepticons that have escaped a prison ship that also crashed on Earth.

The animation style is nice, but is a downgrade from TFP. The action scenes suffer due to the slow frame rate, and makes use of those transformation stock footages that we've seen in Transformers Armada and such. The character designs are also unique (especially the Decepticons). The main cast features Bumblebee, a young cadet named Strongarm, a punk named Sideswipe, a minicon named Fixit, and Grimlock- strangely a Decepticon seemingly ignoring the previously established back story for him as a tough, and brutal war general in the Fall of Cybertron game, and the two Transformers Prime comic series that connect significantly to the show, especially the Beast Hunter comics due to the Dinobots teaming up with Team Prime after the events of Predacons rising.

The voice acting is also pretty good, and the show is still fun to watch. My main gripes is that the tone of the show is lighter, so that also has an effect on the action scenes. (Hammerstrike literally gets pushed inside a barrel by Bee in episode 3! While Steeljaw is only kicked once and was defeated in the same episode.)Another problem is that it takes place on earth. The first episode heavily featured Cybertron for the first half of it, and had a pretty awesome environment. Wasted potential. The show also has running gags that get stale, and annoying at times such as Fixit's stuttering problem, which I had chuckled at it a few times. Strongarm's gag is reading rules and protocols from her rulebook gets annoying fast. I still like these characters despite this issue. The Decepticons in this show are amazing, funny and interesting. However, some of them are a bit toned down and barely have any screen time. (Even though he wasn't captured, Thunderhoof didn't appeared in his debut episode until the last 6 minutes or so?) And also,the human characters are tolerable. Denny's cheerful and positive attitude makes him alright, while Russel, Denny's son, can get annoying with his angst and almost sudden change of personality every episode. Jazz and Drift makes appearances, and they're fun characters. (Except Drift, who is heavily based off his AOE incarnation. That is terrible and Drift is a jerk and samurai stereotype.)

This show is still fun to watch, and it's still early on. Hopefully Cartoon Network won't cancel this show in under a year. Robots in Disguise has a lot of potential, and many plot holes left open from Transformers Prime for this show to give closure. Give it a watch.

Dodo

For me,Transformers Prime was the best Transformers series i ever watched and Robots IN Disguise is somehow, a little distanced from what was Transformers Prime.It is improving with the stories, but its really not like Autobots stopping grand plots of EVIL Decepticons, but a lot of comedy and 4 Autobots struggling to control just one Decepticon every episode-NO grand EVIL yet and no big mastermind;just catch some Decepticons, put them in stasis.. and make sure they stay that way.Now , speaking of the comedy, you want to see a burger splat on Optimus Prime's face 'cause that would the silliest and most disrespecting thing happening to Optimus in all the animated multi-verse...now i am not saying loose that touch suddenly 'cause if that does the show will loose popularity and'll be canceled.I don't want that , i want the Prime animated universe to continue, now that they have introduced an OK but 'etu'innegative sequel.I say IMPROVE.

Amarin

As a fan of Transformers Prime, I am not very impressed.

I have seen about 5-10 episodes of this show I am not disappointed I am just confused. Why is Bumblebee leading a team? what happened to Smokescreen, Arcee, Knockout, Wheeljack and Shockwave after the previous show? Where are Jack, Miko, Raff and Agent Fowler after TFP? Do we at least get to see what were they doing and why is were they replaced by an annoying kid called Rusell in the show? How did Soundwave escape the shadow zone?

I seriously want answers to these questions which this show never answered.

If they would have kept the animation and intro from Transformers Prime and the same characters then it would be better.

However, the voice acting is good and the action sequences are awesome. I would recommend this show to a person who has seen TFP and if they want something lighter.

This show is pretty much the Star Wars Rebels of Transformers.

This show isn't as bad as Transformers animated or childish as Transformers rescue bots. So yeah give it a go.

Jack

My kids can't stop watching it. They are 3, 5, and 8 and it's one of the few shows they will watch together. Anytime I would allow them to watch a show, they all asked to put it on. Even my husband enjoyed it. I hope that they have more seasons planned as my kids keep asking for new episodes.

Washington

**Spoiler alert for both Prime and this show**

Transformers Prime, while reaching the end of the series, had some unsolved issues. During this time, Megatron ran away into self exile. This was used to cause the disbanding of the Decepticons. Less we forget Airachnid's story arc in which she is infected with vampirism. Hasbro and Polygon stopped the show right there which was the worst timing they could actually do. They decided to "make it up to us" by airing a more "toned down" version of the show that would "appeal to all audiences." They brought in the most overrated autobot in existence who now wants to play leader with a generic punky rebel, generic damsel stereotype girl, a heel face revolving dinobot and some random minibot who have the sudden urge to overthrow a new threat consisting of furries as robots. Also, there's no sign of the other characters from Transformers Prime besides him and Optimus Prime.

Now we're stuck having to watch what Hasbro and TakTom views as quality television with it's severely watered down fight scenes, lack of intensity, boring character designs, terribly designed weapons, little-to-no plot, monster-of-the-week style, lack of explanation and sudden interest in not bringing back characters who they should have brought back. Where did Megatron go? Did Starscream survive the predacons? Did Soundwave escape from the Shadowzone? Was Knockout imprisoned? How did Optimus Prime, who was going to die anyway, come back to life? How the heck did Megatronus become a Generic Doomsday Villain? Most importantly, why doesn't the cast consist of the new sparklings?

Browelali

When I finished Transformers Prime I was totally blown away by the characters, animation, development, and the all-around plot of the series. Then I heard there was going to be a sequel, I was expecting just as good quality and the characters that I had grown to love but I was sadly disappointed in all areas.

I would not consider this a sequel to Prime. RID is directed to small children <12, the way they overly simplified the characters speech, and the moral 'lesson' learned in each episode definitely enforced this. The animation was probably the worst let down besides the butchering of the characters, a large step down from what it was, very disappointing, especially knowing the possibilities and expecting the same quality as Prime.

There are so many other things that ruined this show for me, like the Decepticons and the repetitive plot.

But as a stand-alone and the show in general, I gave it a 3 because of the poor animation, butchered characters, repetitive plot and personalities, and the overall poor quality of the show and its design. But it's catered to small children and I have to say if this wasn't meant to be a sequel to a great show and if there wasn't an audience of adults and teens that were looking forward to more of that, I would say that it was OK for a very young audience.

Malodred

I've watched transformers prime with pleasure and joy, even the movie was great! I liked the details of every bot in the episodes, they where very detailed, just as in the real movies , only much more easier to build in 3D. Transformers Prime was a great series ... until Robots in Disguise came up. Low graphics, no 3D, the bots weren't detailed which mad it way more bad. Of course there where some detailed cons in it, but as you could see in season 2 (spoiler now for those who didn't watch season 2 yet!), put Starscream aside the Insecticon, the Insection is way more better and more beautiful than Starscream. The makers just hanged on to geometrical figures as squares, boxes,... no smaller and detailed forms as in transformers Prime! That's the thing what's making it downgraded as it COULD be! So now to the makers, take an example from transformers Prime, if you want tho build an up following story to that series, you guys really need to adapt the bots, perspective, and, graphics because now it's a big disappointment for big transformers fans!

Zyangup

I agree with the reviewers who rated this series one star. As a transformers fan, I enjoyed Transformers Prime and was excited to watch this show. But boy, was I wrong. I watched three episodes and stopped. This show is downright awful and the characters made it worst. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are the only ones that carried over from Transformers Prime. The others are terrible. For the Autobots, there's slacker Sideswipe, an uptight femme bot Strongarm (who looks like a male) and an annoying minibot Fixit. On the Decepticons, there's Steeljaw and the others such as Thunderhoof and Springload are just butt ugly. The story line is corny and there's no mention of Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave and Airachnid. Overall, this show is terrible and too cartoony. If you're into Transformers Rescue Bots, this show is for you. Otherwise, avoid this series.

Worla

After watching a sneak peak of this new series, I thought it would be promising to the source material of the Aligned continuity family despite the CG animation downgrade. However, when I first saw the first episode of the series, I was more than shocked. I was extremely disappointed.

The storytelling for the first episode (ironically known as Pilot, Pt. 1) was rushed and lacking the creative spark which made previous Transformers TV series such as the Beast Era series, Prime and best of all, Animated, so successful. Storytelling became more and more disappointing with each subsequent episode.

The characters are underdeveloped and generic, it's hard to feel they are believable. The writers were being selfish by disregarding other Aligned fiction besides Prime and (sadly) Rescue Bots, but it feels so wrong with these different characterizations of certain characters who appeared in other Aligned fiction but are entirely different and sh*t in this series. Grimlock, for example, is entirely different in comparison to his WFC/FOC counterpart by starting off as Decepticon, nor is he in control of a team of Dinobots either, which also disappoints longtime fans (including me). Oh, and he is green. There is also an Autobot samurai known as Drift who is a racial stereotype, much like his AOE counterpart.

Most Decepticons resemble somewhat of animals and/or monsters whenever they would transform out of their alternate modes, which remains confusing as to how these Decepticons resemble said creatures in their robot modes. I suspect the Decepticon scientist Shockwave hadn't anything to do with this as he was busy with "Project Predacon" during Prime. Also, there's a Decepticon other than Grimlock who is a Dinobot (daf*q).

Character design is just plain hideous and intolerable. Previous Transformers TV series such as Beast Machines, Animated and Prime were more distinctive with their artistic styles in comparison to this rubbish and that's saying something. Season 2 also sees Polygon recycling many Decepticon character models from Season 1 so as to distance each of these "new" Decepticons from their Season 1 counterparts. Just sad, even for me.

The voice acting is dull, lifeless and painful, it feels as if you wouldn't want to take voice acting as a career anymore. Peter Cullen, (the voice of Optimus Prime) also, doesn't bring the same depth of acting as he did in Prime.

I'm fine with African-American voice actor Khary Payton as the voice of Grimlock (I respect that), but the direction for the character that he has to take is annoying but only because it's the voice director's fault (ironically the same voice director for Prime since Season 1, Episode 12).

Too much Dubstep and campy music scores from score composers Kevin Manthei and Kevin Kiner.

CG animation is a downgrade in comparison to Prime, even by the same animation studio. The character animations feel stiff and lifeless in this series.

As this is (or was) meant to be a sequel series to Prime, this shouldn't feel as if is set within the same timeline as its predecessor. As it's also meant to be set within the Aligned continuity family (Prime/WFC/FOC/Rage of the Dinobots), it feels more non-canonical than it (sadly) is. There's a lot of major continuity errors, many of which offend the continuity timeline. Despite Ratchet, Soundwave and Starscream's reappearance for Season 2, it feels like a complete waste of time adding them to the mess.

To conclude my review of this "sequel", I believe this should be set within a separate continuity family away from the Aligned continuity family and timeline, along with the dreaded Rescue Bots series. I suggest you cease watching this non-canonical crap right now and save yourself some grief. Perhaps the lesson is that not everything new is always better than its predecessor. You should really take this to heart, as the fifth live-action Transformers film is coming out this year.

JoJogar

The series is great, and if we vote enough to it could get another season, all transformers series have been different, there is nothing wrong with this one, but it must have Megatron in it, and the return of the three kids from prime. I have a YouTube videos about it. I wonder why Megatron hasn't appeared yet. Everyone would love that, wound't you?. We should have a poll for it, I can't wait to see what cartoon Hasbro has next for the transformers. However it's all Star Wars and frozen at the moment, and just because transformers was meant for boys doesn't mean it should have more male characters, that makes it unfair, it should be for both boys and girls, it's the same with My little pony, the new baby was said to be a foul but became a female, I'm not saying I don't like her, I do, it's just that like transformers it's cented on one gender, and has more of one gender in it, I wish more girls were involved with transformers.

CONVERSE

Now I had mix feelings about Transformers:Robots In Disguise for a few reasons

1.It was on the Cartoon Network, a station I still have a bitter feeling to since they don't play any good shows anymore.

2.It was titled "Robots In Disguise" because we already had a Transformers from 2001 called Robots Ind Disguise even though it was a dub from Japan's Car Robots it's still the Principal If I had a voted I would have called it Transformers:Legacy since this series is a follow up to Transformers Prime.

But still once I set down to watch it, it still felt good to be a fan of Transformers. They said this series is suppose to target a younger crowd needless to say I believe this series is fit for all fans of the Transformers because it features a lot that fans have love about the series since 1984

This time the Autobots are Bumblebee, Sideswipe,Strongarm, Grimlock and Fixit with guest stars from Optimus Prime, Drift,Jetstorm Slipstream Windblade and Jazz

The Decepticons are Steeljaw, Underbite, Hammerstrike, Bisk, Chop Shop, Terrashock, Thunderhoof, Filch, Springload, Fracture, Airazor, Divebomb and too many more to count

While the first episode did take time for me to get use to I started to enjoy the series as each episode actually makes watching this series worth while.

It features a very well done cast of voice actors who give a entertaining voice performance in each episode. I like the animation style they have for this series it gives the series it's original work and that's not easy to do anymore in TV

Plus the plot for each episode is very creative and it does a lot to work for kids and adults that love Transformers

As a long time fan of Transformers I can say is this show is More Than Meets The Eye

Kazracage

I sincerely remember until today the first time I saw this series, excited and anxious, but when I just saw the first episode, I thought "Wow, it's not possible that's it." I tried to like it, tried to watch but each episode a disappointment, and when Opitimus Prime appeared? It was awful, he came back weak and as weight to team, totally different from TF Prime! And as for Bumblebee, he is horrible, does not know how to coordinate his team, is a lost, is not mentioned Raff, Miko or Jack, disappointing, many holes of script, not even want a child would have patience to see it! But also that people fan of TF would have patience to see this series that in summary is a police versus thief with forced jesting? Nobody! I have not finished even the first season and I do not intend to finish! Thanks to God already came another not so good series but that already surpasses Robots In Disguise in ALL the aspects that in the case is TF Cyberverse! If you want to be disappointed watch Robots In Disguise! Unfortunate.

Vertokini

My rating would be much higher if this wasn't dubbed "sequel" to transformers prime. It completely ruins the ending of the show with primes sacrifice and the rebirth of cybertron creating so many interesting plot points but no they decide to go to earth AGAIN. An overused and worn out plot by now. Every episode is a character learning a "lesson" and "growing" but than a few episodes later there the same again and it's rence and repeat for three seasons no character changes no character grows nothing even really happens in this show. They hunt a decepticon down they loose because one characters "mistake" they "learn" from it stop the decepticon and that's every episode down to the extremely rushed and lackluster/ un interesting finale that ends with the worst ending outta any transformers show ever this one is just bad bad like bad bad

Road.to sliver

Chapter 1: Scowl Come to Earth

Long time ago, In the Planet kingdom Call Cybertron, The Dinobot-Decepticon His Name Was Scowl Butterfly, He like the Having fun and smashing' stuff, When Thunderhoof and Clampdown must send Him to the Planet Earth By the Autobot prison ship Calls The Alchemor, crashes on Earth near Crown City And sparking a mass Decepticon jailbreak. There, He enrolls in the Crown City Outside where the principal pairs Him with Grimlock, a reputed "safe kid" Upon befriending Grimlock

Chapter 2: The Battle for Cybertron

When Scowl Butterfly and his Royal Magic Hammer, This Time he meet the Bad luck, those Grimlock have the Good Team Calls Autobot. Bumblebee is the New-leader on them, that way on the Grimlock to make Scowl is gonna so Mad, he Coming by Pull the Royal Magic Hammer to pounds Grimlock, and brings down a tree on the Autobots and flees

Later, Even Scowl Butterfly nearby to the train station, and the Autobot catch up to him, Scowl is prepare for face off. he clambers up onto the tracks. and he make to kept the Royal Magic Hammer to simply smashes the bridge, But together the Autobots will save the train by resort to grabbing the train and turning it around from this badly-damaged bridge and sending it back the way they came by the time, but Scowl is already disappeared after Grimlock gains the upper hand against him, and punts him into the station roof.

Chapter final: Grimlock and the Dinobot-Spirit

By this time, One Dinobot-Decepticon Scowl Butterfly is start traveling. And now he Travel into underworld and may come to the Spa Center, He must be glad must looking for Tom Lucitor, the kangaroo-demon monster Patient Zero system, in the Spa Center.

and then, the Confrontation is starting, the pursued of the Autobots who split up to keep Scowl Butterfly contained on the Tom Lucitor-Patient Zero. Until Grimlock confront Scowl and tussle again. Who keeps him at bay while protecting the humans. Scowl Butterfly manages to overpower Grimlock Dias and knock him into the wall. Before he can finish him off, Grimlock has an apparent change of heart, he calm down and keep thinking about. How to this Scowl Butterfly must be Defeated.

"these.. People's lives are at stake, you trusted me once, trust me again..." Grimlock pleads

Grimlock waking up and roaring like lion. Confesses that smashing stuff is more having fun and tear easy, Instead of giving his former buddy a tail-five.

"I'm Not Grimlock Dias. I am Batman. is Batman: legendary defender. And I am the Green Lion After All..!!" Grimlock Roar

For ready to finish it off, Grimlock dislodges a nearby stone ornament, he rolling the Lion-T-Rex tail to shooting the stone ornament.

"Converge on me, it's time to from Autobots" Grimlock roll up

Grimlock Power-Up of the lion and shooting the stone ornament, Rolling-Up the lion power to toward Scowl face, and taking this Dinobot-Decepticon to out of commission and Blow up,

"Just because something looking tear easier and more having fun... doesn't means yours Tom Lucitor Right, from now on. You having fun-life, you Crazy fact, and the Smashing' stuff it's over, you may come for the New Beginning" Grimlock tells Scowl Butterfly before that Scowl Butterfly is passes out

Until the surrender of Scowl Butterfly, they made for Bumblebee and the team-Autobot to converge and console a saddened of Grimlock, them who muses that Generator Rex or Voltron: Legendary Defender can't help this Star vs the force of evil who doesn't want to be helped.

This Scowl Butterfly is now captured in the stasis pods, And now, the new Dinobot name Grimlock. And the team Autobot will be Victorious and be happiness... THE END

hardy

transformers rid is the sequel to transformers prime, while that show had a very dark and a brooding tone, this show show is a little light hearted as the there is no major apocalypse or anything, this new show is about a prison ship landed on earth, with decepticons in it getting free and now its up to bumblebee and couple others to stop them because optimus is busy doing something unknown,which means its story lines are about the villain of the week while still continuing the story of the new big bady steeljaw, so lets break down this series:first the animation, the animation is cgi rendered in 2d, while prime had great visuals, this one is all great by itself, featuring smooth fight scenes , out standing transformations and over the top car chases on later episodes, (there is one that reminded of the dark of the moon movie high way chase scene), the character designs are great (although you might not like grimlock for not being g1 grimlock at all), second: the storyline: i already said that its about the villain of the week, but that doesn't mean its bad or anything, its actually fun and most important of all, there is some major character development, something that transformers prime kinda lacked, i highly recommend this series, and if you watched the first 2 episode and stopped, you should continue as they are the weakest,all in all :transformers rid 2015 is a highly recommended series(coming by a long time transformers fan), being different isn't always bad, as fans have bee continuously disliking every incarnation since g1, and g1 isn't that good really, as this show is logically ten times better than g1.

Andromathris

I have not yet finished the first season, but I really want to give this show the praise it deserves. There are a lot of negative reviews complaining that RID does not live up to its predecessor, Transformers Prime. This is true, but RID is enjoyable in its own right, and shouldn't have to live in the shadow of Prime.

One of the biggest complaints is about the animation. It does take some getting used to, but I find that it's very expressive and neat! The humans look a little strange, but they did in Prime, too. The robots have good facial expressions and body language, and each character has a unique design. I'm sure it will improve even more with time--everyone remembers the incredible progress that Prime made in the animation department.

The characters are truly the strong point of the show, though. They are diverse, well- rounded and lovable. I was not very fond of Bumblebee in Predacons Rising, but he has redeemed himself in RID. Strongarm is a wonderful addition to the cast, and a much needed female presence in the franchise. I won't go into too much detail to avoid spoilers, but the characters have a lot of heart. There is also one character who I won't name for spoilers but has particularly strong, moving and realistic characterization so far, and really cemented my love for the show.

One thing in particular that I like is that one of the characters, Fixit, has a clear speech impediment, and no one makes fun of him for it.

Other strong points: It's a typical "villain of the week" setup for the most part, but that makes it easy to keep up with and stops it from getting too dramatic. It's funny and light- hearted, and the voice actors are wonderful.

I've been a Transformers fan since 2011, although my interest in it diminished after Prime's finale and Age of Extinction. Prime is my favorite series, and I was so sad to see it go. I still miss it sometimes. I didn't even watch RID until more than a year after it premiered. However, RID renewed my love for the franchise with great vigor, and I place it as #2 on my list of Transformers series--right beside Prime.

Tejar

The 'Transformers' animated shows have been very mixed overall. While there are some great shows such as 'Transformers' (1984), 'Beast Wars' and 'Prime' there are also some poor ones such as 'Victory' and "The Unicron Trilogy" ('Armada' especially, with 'Cybertron' the least bad but not saying a lot).

'Robots in Disguise' is among the franchise's worst and the worst 'Transformers' show since 'Armada'. It is redeemed by the character of Steeljaw, the most impressively designed, one of few of the characters to register positively or have intrigue value and the best voiced, deserving of being in the show more. As well as some vibrant colours and a few interesting characters, again particularly with Steeljaw.

However, some of the animation in terms of movement is static and slow, meaning that as well as dumbed down the action sequences feel lazy and lack urgency or momentum. While a few of the characters have intriguing designs, some do look weird, especially Bumblebee, Strongarm and Grimlock. The music is not awful as such, but it doesn't have the memorability factor and is not as dynamic as it should be.

Where 'Robots in Disguise' particularly fails is in the writing and characterisation. The writing is incredibly lazy and while certainly too juvenile for adults even children will find that it is too simplistic and dumbed down for them. Any attempts at humour fall flat and some of the more repetitive ones wear well thin very quickly, especially with Fixit, Strongarm and Grimlock.

A vast majority of the characters are obnoxiously out of character or simplified to dumbness (i.e. Grimlock), lack personality (Megatronus, true of most of the Decepticons who act more stupid than threatening is far too under-utilised and lacks any kind of menace) or are irritating (as well as being that Sideswipe serves as a terrible role model and Drift is an annoying jerk). Someone please also decide what personality and such to give Russell, because the frequently indecisive characterisation and writing is really grating. Steeljaw and Jazz are two of few exceptions.

'Robots in Disguise' is lacking when it comes to its storytelling too. Some episodes are paper-thin and static, while others cram in too much, so parts either feel hectic or incredibly pedestrian. The severe lack of tension and conflict and that it does very little with quite old ideas.

Not much good to say about the voice work either. There are a few talented names here (with some prolific names), but almost all either have little to do, have annoying and ill-fitting voices (Megatronus and Bisk are notably jarring) or are over-parted. Steeljaw fares the least badly by far in this regard.

Overall, despite giving it a fair and honest chance, 'Robots in Disguise' is one of the worst 'Transformers' shows with not much good to say about it. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Jode

While some say that it's not as good as TF Prime, I find the new Robots in Disguise series to be refreshing in a way. It does not focus on Optimus Prime that often, but instead focuses on Bumblebee, as well as a slew of new Autobots and Decepticons. It's interesting to see how this new team starts coming together, which is a neat change of pace compared to the Autobots working together at the beginning of Prime. A team is not just an instant-cook meal; it's a slow process that takes a lot of dedication, and it shows in Bumblebee's team as they fight the Decepticon convicts together.

Both sides of Transformers are not static either; they have their own personalities that change and grow over time, or at least give rise as to how they got onto Earth. The one I'm particularly interested in, and some people may disagree, is Grimlock. Since G1, he was always depicted as strong-willed but slightly dumb with phrases like "Me Grimlock King." Here, he's the Autobot version of Cyborg from Teen Titans right down to the voice actor Khary Payton. I think he works, as his antics and attacks keep things interesting. It's not to discount the rest of the team though; Strongarm is the cadet who works to abide by the rules, though in one episode she ends up bending them to prove a point; Sideswipe is the punk kid who wants to have fun, but ends up taking responsibility in another episode; and Fixit, a murky- zzt turkey- zzt! QUIRKY!...Minicon that is well-meaning and reliable, though a little naive in his mannerisms. Strongarm might be my favorite, though many of the other Autobots and Decepticons are also interesting enough to keep me invested in the cartoon.

Bumblebee...you know who he is; he was the scout working to be a leader after Optimus is gone, and it shows. He really wants to do good as a leader and he's always coming up with plans in the middle of a fight in order to accomplish the task and capture the Decepticon with his teammates. He's growing, and that's what I feel kids will get out of this show: working together will help you accomplish anything. It's a journey.

All in all, I recommend it. Though it's not as dark or as complex as Prime, it's well worth it, especially as it goes into the second season. Things are surely gonna get interesting...

Meri

Transformers Robots in Diguise is the sequel to the acclaimed Transformers Prime series. And it is a complete disgrace to Prime. One could write a book about everything that's wrong with RID. There is no plot, character development or anything else that would be part of a good show.

The plot is terrible. RID promised to pick up where Prime left off but it does nothing to keep that promise. Instead, it drives on a silly plot in every episode and does nothing to expand the Aligned universe as a whole. Unlike Prime, RID is not one continuous series. Every episode is a new plot and the events of the plot have no real consequences. There is no tension or threat to the heroes like in Prime. And the so-called important plots end up being very anti-climatic. For example, in season 3, Soundwave is constantly teased and the audience are led to believe he will be a threat but he ends up being defeated in a single episode. There are many occasions such as this where you're anticipating something big and nothing big actually ends up happening.

As for character development, there is none. Episodes mainly focus on characters learning some kind of lesson. However, the lessons learnt don't forward to future episodes. For example, an episode would deal with Sideswipe going rogue and having to learn teamwork but just a few episodes later, he would learn the same lesson all over again. Another instance is when Sideswipe and Steongarm learn to work and respect each other and in the next episode, they would get into a fight again. It seems so silly and makes you wonder if the writers read their own scripts. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee resemble little to their Prime counterparts. The whole Bumblebee feeling jealous of Optimus Prime in season 2 was stupid and annoying. The Prime version of Bumblebee would never act in such a way to defy his leader. It's simply not in his character but yet we are forced to accept these two Bumblebees are the same.

I just wish Hasbro had ended the continuity with Prime. RID just ruins the masterpiece that Prime was.

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