Toransufômâ: Kârobotto

Plot synopsis:
Several thousand years ago, the planet Cybertron was consumed by a civil war by the two Transformer factions, the Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the Decepticons led by Megatron. Optimus jettisoned the AllSpark, a mystical artifact that brings life to the planet, into space, but Megatron pursued it. Megatron crashed in the Arctic Circle and froze, and was discovered in 1895 by explorer Archibald Witwicky. Witwicky activated Megatron’s navigational system, which scanned the AllSpark’s coordinates into his glasses. The glasses end up in the possession of his great-great-grandson Sam Witwicky. In the present, Sam buys his first car, a rusting Chevrolet Camaro, but discovers it has a life of its own.
In modern Qatar, Blackout attacks and destroys a United States military base in a failed attempt to hack the military network to find information on Megatron and the AllSpark. A team of Army Rangers led by Captain William Lennox escape across the desert, pursued by Blackout’s drone Scorponok. They fight Scorponok off, aided by aerial reinforcements, and travel home with Scorponok’s stinger, discovering sabot rounds damaged the armor. At the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense John Keller leads the investigation into the attack. Sound analyst Maggie Madsen catches another Decepticon, Frenzy, hacking into the network while onboard Air Force One. While the hack is thwarted, Frenzy downloads files on Archibald’s glasses, tracking down Sam with Barricade, disguised as a police car.
Sam and his high school crush Mikaela Banes are rescued by the Camaro who turns out to be Autobot scout Bumblebee, but he is mute and has to communicate through his car radio. Previously sending a beacon to his fellow Autobots, Bumblebee takes Sam and Mikaela to meet the new arrivals – Optimus, Jazz, Ironhide, and Ratchet. Optimus explains the details of their situation, revealing if Megatron gained the AllSpark he would transform Earth’s machinery into a new army and exterminate mankind. Sam, Mikaela, and the Autobots travel to Sam’s house to retrieve the glasses, but the teenagers are captured by agents of Sector Seven, a top secret government branch led by Seymour Simmons. The Autobots stop the agents, but Simmons calls for backup, who take Sam, Mikaela, and Bumblebee into custody, while Optimus obtains the glasses.
The respective groups connected to the Transformers are gathered together at Hoover Dam by Sector Seven’s director Tom Banachek. Inside, the group discover the frozen Megatron and the AllSpark, but Frenzy, who smuggled away in Mikaela’s bag, summons the other Decepticons to attack. Bumblebee is released to protect the AllSpark, shrinking it down to a handheld size so it can be transported to safety. Megatron escapes the dam after thawing out. A lengthy battle occurs in Mission City, with most of the Decepticons being killed, but Megatron murders Jazz. He prevents Sam’s attempted escape with the AllSpark, and begins to fight Optimus. After a long brawl Megatron seems to get the upper hand. Optimus then tells Sam to push the cube into his chest in order to ensure their mutual destruction, but Sam rams it into Megatron's chest instead, extinguishing his spark. Starscream is the only Decepticon to escape, but Barricade remains on Earth.
Optimus salvages a shard of the AllSpark from Megatron’s body. The United States government shuts down Sector Seven, disposing of the dead Decepticons in the Laurentian Abyss. Sam and Mikaela then start a relationship while the Autobots secretly hide out on Earth, Optimus sends a transmission into space inviting any surviving Autobots to join them.

Tags: good versus evil

Review:
Every time the latest iteration of Transformers comes out, old-skoolers like me immediately run out and disparage it for not being as good as the last.
After the Success of Beast Machines, The Animal transformers series had finally finished along with the original G1 story that started back in 1984.
Just called "Robots In Disguise" The Toyline went back to its vehicle mode idea from the original transformers series.
So instead we got "The Predacons" back into transformers, Most of the toys and characters were composed of Repaints of Classic Transformers introduced in the late 1990s and of course 1 or 2 Beast wars toys.It was pretty unusual.Anyway, The TV series follows the same idea of the Autobot/Decepticon-Predacon battles.
The Series was dubbed by Geneon (Mahoromatic, Gungrave, Cowboy Bebop, Heat Guy J, etc) and the actors did a pretty good job with the voice work in this series, and I especially like the script work in this series, Its pretty close to the G1 and Beast Wars scripts as our gonna get so be grateful ;) A lot of people say its Lame, Poor and just not worth watching.
Well anyone who says that needs to give them self a good punch in the jaw and realise that this was the Last great Transformers series to come along in the 21st century.and Believe me, This series is got pretty funny jokes and sometimes doesn't have the time to get too serious.Sadly the series ended in 2002 and then the Unicron Trilogy began which complety took transformers a turn for the worst.Bottom line...This is a fun, Enjoyable and Great Transformers show which shows you how great Transformers can be without the serious tone which Beast wars and G1 took.
His voice is mean and a lot more threatening than people give credit.I like the new Scourge, he's an evil Optimus Prime!
There are even references for Beast Wars fans, with stasis pods and slapsticky bumbling Predacons.Who wouldn't like a singing Sky-Byte?!
I am a TF fan I loved Generation 1 (the original series from the 80s), Beast Wars, but didn't care much for Beast Machines.In this series, the Autobots are back.
It is a dubbed version of the series Car Robots in Japan.Basically involves Megatron kidnaps a young boy's (Koji) father.
He is a young kid who wants nothing more than to chase the girls, well red sports cars that he THINKS are girls.They are later joined by 3 trains that can also merge into a giant gestault robot, 4 construction vehicles that also form a gestault, 6 ninja expert robots know as the spychangers, and two more autobots.Megs also has his lackies.
I am one of the biggest fans of the original Transformers series, and I know this dosen't compare to the original, but you can take it many ways..Try this on for size:After G1 Optimus Prime and the Autobots returned to Cybertron(sometime before 2001, when this new show takes place)to fight G1 Megatron and the Decepticons, R.I.D. Optimus Prime (from around the time Beast Machines ended) was sent back in time to watch over the earth.
(Two different Primes running into each other would more than likely have some sort of effect on time) Same with Megatron and the Predicons.Now, that might make R.I.D. fit a little better.
First off here is a brief explanation of how this series came to be - After the success of Beast Wars : Transformers in America, it was transferred to Japan, where it was redubbed and did just as well.
A few years passed and the Japanese audience began craving more Transformer goodness, so Car Robots (later known as Robots in Disguise) was created.
To cash in, on the Beast Wars craze of the time the creators set this series in an alternate universe, allowing them to have Autobots, Predacons and Decepticons.
The reason many of the names have carried over from the original series is because if they are not used they will be lost to other companies (as an example Rodimus Prime was lost a while ago and is now known as Rodimus Major).Now, what alot of people tend to forget is that this series had to compete with Pokemon and Digimon, it was also made in another language so many of the jokes dont exactly cross over and it was made with a younger audience in mind rather then those of us who grew up with the original series.So with all that in mind I begin my review - The two biggest flaws as I see it with Robots in Disguise (RiD) is rather weak voice acting, and the weaknesses of the villains.
In RiD the villains are both stupid and weak, a flying skunk versus an SUV or a flying shark against a firetruck aren't my idea of fair.So overall I rate this series fairly low when compared to Transformers Beast Wars, and the Original Series, but that isn't what is meant to be rated against.
So, as a stand-alone series using Transformers for the core of its story and competing with the like of Digimon and Pokemon, I give it a 6.5 out of 10.
In fact, it takes an excellent product like beast wars to even make us forgive a TF series for existing.Sadly, RID isn't excellent like beast wars, so old fans will think they won't like it.
The writing is childish because it was meant for pokemon-buying kids, and the producers were at least kind enough to use some stuff from previous series, like the flying shark from the japanese Beast Wars, the combaticons and Ruination's ability to "scramble" from G1, and the stasis pods from Beast Wars.Fortunately the show doesn't take itself seriously, something that already makes it better than Armada and Beast Machines.
As a long time fan of the Transformers this one is perhaps the most underrated series and often times the forgotten one.Transformers: Robots In Disguise is the first Anime Transformers series to be dubbed for an American network.The story line features Optimus Prime and his Autobots facing off against Megatron leader of the Predacons and Decepticons as they battle on Earth.For this series the Autobots Include: Optimus Prime, The Autobot Brothers Sideburn,X-Brawn and Prowl, Ultra Magnus, Team Bullet Train: Railspike, Rapid Run, Midnight Express Spy Changers: Hot Shot, R.E.V., Crosswise, W.A.R.S., Ironhide, and Mirage.The Decepticons and Predacons include: Megatron, Sky Byte, Slapper, Gas Skunk, Dark Scream.
Decepticons: Scourge, Mega-Octane, Armorhide, Movor, Ro-Tor and Rollbar who together form Ruination.The series was taken from Car Robots in Japan and dub to Transformers Robots In Disguise.
The Animation style is hand drawn and each character design is very good with attention to detail for the Transformers.
It's more than meets the eye and an entertaining series too it feels like Transformers.
The voice acting doesn't really work either, Barry Stigler as Scourge and Peter Spellos as Sky-Byte the only ones that properly stand out in a good way, the rest range from overdone(David Riordan's Megatron) and bored-sounding(Lex Lang's Tow-Line).
The story lines could have had more complexity and did feel on the juvenile side, it's not quite as bloated as the Unicron Trilogy Transformers shows but there is too much of a filler-feel with Robots in Disguise.
And not all the animation is consistent, the sleek character designs and vivid pastel colours are nice, but the static backgrounds, the tendency to look too over-saturated(could have used more foreboding colours) and lack of fluidity, not so much.Overall, Robots in Disguise is better than Energon, Cyberton and especially Armada-the three parts of the Unicron Trilogy, and not really worth bothering with-, also Beast Machines(but only just), but for better shows in the franchise look to the original 1984 show, Beast Wars, Prime and Animated.
The original cartoon had its funny episodes and so did Beast Wars.
Seeing the Autobots and Predacons duke it out in this series is less like seeing the conflict between Autobots and Decepticons in the original cartoon, and more like Bugs Bunny Vs Yosamite Sam. THe first few episodes were perfect in keeping with the sci/fi adventure feel of Transformers, but after than, everything descends into a laugh-a-minute.
An autobot flirts with a red sports car every episode, Predacons whine like schoolgirls and over-the-top lameness typical of comedic Japanese anime(see huge sweat drops and super deformed characters/chibi) get thrown into even the most serious and emotionally charged scenes, thereby ruining whatever impact those scenes were meant to have.If the humour works, i would have no qualms.
Too bad about the material they had to work with, or this series could have been so much more than it currently is.Fans would enjoy the sleek re-designs of many classic characters.
this series has very good combiners, like rail racer, landfill and omega prime.Optimus is way better as a fire truck, which shows that he goes, to protect people!
I also love megatron/galvatron he looks wicked, changes into 6/10 different forms, instead of just a jet or a gun, i must say, i do like the original, but this is great for entertainment.
but don't all the great classics have failures as bad guys, we like things to be unfair and disadvantaged, just look at how more powerful and clever Galvatron was.
I just thought it should be pointed out that in the original Japanese version, all of the characters (except Gas Skunk) had different names.
They were NOT intended to be new versions of old characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Prowl, etc.
If you are a fan of the original Transformers, you will more than likely enjoy this show as well.
Fans of the original should be pleased with this updated version of their favorite robots in Disguise, and first-timers will get to marvel at the awesomeness that is The Transformers!.
I really can't believe people actually stick up for this mindless drivel that FoxKids has foisted upon unsuspecting Transformers fans.Now, first, I will state that I have no real qualms with things like Optimus Prime being a fire engine as opposed to a tractor-trailer or X-Brawn being an SUV.
The animation gets extremely goofy for no good reason (robots sweating, gimme a break), the dialogue is bland, tacky, and uninspired (I could never be a voice actor on this show, I feel sorry for the ones on there now), and the plots are laughable at best and downright ugly at worst.
I can only moan in frustration while watching them "fight", shouting each other's "attacks" as they open fire, coupled with the monotonous transformation sequences (at least in Beast Wars and Beast Machines they didn't keep up the "Maximize/Terrorize!" or "I am transformed!" lines for the entire series) that infest the show.The show was written to the lowest denominator, the problem is, they know it will show anyway because it has a strong toy line and the same little kids who watch the brain-cell killing Pokemon and Digimon will like it's basic plots, childish characters, and tedious attack-calling and transformation sequences.This is the worst Transformers show ever.
This Transformers is not like the 80's.But it not to bad, the concept have changed alittle.I must Spike and his father,but the animations is very good.And the story is very well written.All in all this new Transformers of the Fox kids generation will bring in a new generation of giant robot lover."Autobots transformers...and roll out".
One thing I have to say: "God bless the hardcore."Sure, this isn't the Transformers you know and love from the 80s, but let's face facts: Did you really expect it to be?
This is another rehash of kiddie anime from the good folks that brought you such fare as Digimon and other unmentionable failures (anyone remember DinoZaurs?).The point is: you will find your viewing experience bettered if you take it (with a grain of salt, mind you) for what it is: A new twist on an old idea..
I like Digimon,Pokemon but this Transformers is bad.
I only saw one episode and the movie of the old Tranformers and I watched Beast Wars and Machines from begining to end but I read the story of the old transformers and the biggest thing that makes this one bad is that is dose not fallow the old story at all.
From before the show even aired, I never liked the fact that Hasbro decided to re-use 80's American Transformer names for this totally unrelated Japanese series.
What I did look forward to was seeing the Japanese "Car Robots" transformer series in English.
The truth is that Hasbro wanted to ride the popularity of other Japanese translated shows such as Digimon and Pokemon and try to pick up the die-hard 80's fans that only could accept hand-drawn cars and classic names as being true transformers.
I can only hope that Hasbro for the next series (if this doesn't kill the line) would hire back the writers of Beast Wars and Beast Machines and make an original series that at least takes place anywhere in the Northern American transformers timeline.
I grew up on Transformers, and when I heard a new version involving the robots was back, I was excited.
I hope that the people who made Transformers great are watching this series and try to get back involved, because after this show has run its course it may have alienated all the of the original fans.
I don't want any excuses about how it wasn't meant in Japan to be the original characters, Optimus in robot mode looks WAY too much like the old Optimus.
It's a dub of the Anime series "Car Robots," where they all have different names.
just like most kids cartoons.Basically, enjoy the new series and don't take it too seriously.
Maybe the original Japanese Version is better, but this translated show seems to be lacking in plot & character development.However, if young kids are watching this show for the First Time and have no concepts of Transformers, they may enjoy it, as it has a very "Digimon" & "Pokemon" feel.
I like the new Fire Truck design of Prime, voice was okay too.
It takes place in a fictional city somewhere in Japan I presume (I've only ever seen the untranslated version) and from what my friends and I can figure out, the shows are self-contained (apart from the overall link of on-going battle, kidnapped scientist and a surprisingly annoying tourist woman whose vehicles end up trashed in each episode during one of the many fight sequences) and are all to do with the trials and tribulations of being a transforming vehicle (or animal, in the case of the Destrons) and, in the case of Convoy, an effective leader to a group of heroes.The funniest episode to date (and probably of the whole series) saw a group of the Destrons forced to take community service in order to join the Autobots.
HUGE!) is one of the best moments I have witnessed on TV in a long time.Let's hope Hasbro (is that who still makes the show?) pick up on the obvious market for this new version of the already popular toy and TV series and start dubbing it right away.
Yep it has tobe said that this cartoon is dire, very poorly written, very bad voice acting (the only decent voices was that of Omega Primes and Midnight Express).They take the name Transformers, slap the names Optimus Prime and Megatron on these two characters a hire bad writers and voice actors to devlope them...Yes this is a dubbed from the japanese car robots series, but that still doesn't make up for the fact that the cartoon sucks.As bad as the new Armada cartoon is, it's 100 times better than this, better voice acting and better plot, same bad animation though.Hasbro should take a page out of Mattel's book and make a Transformers show for a mature audiance again (like Beast Wars was) hire some decent writers, don't make another Transformers series untill you can come up with a decent story and decent voice actors, and please don't make it another joint effort between the US and Japan again, it's really ruined the new Armada series with stupid name mistakes and horribly annoying children running around the autobots base as if it where a playground..
Now, there is Robots In Disguise, a story that combines original Transformers and Beast Wars.
In RiD...every energy extraction mission is the exact same (except for the location), and ends more because of Predacon stupidity than Autobot skill.I've heard that the Japanese version of this, Car Robots, is much better...it would have to be, I can't see it being much worse.
While Beast Machines and Beast Wars were intended as kid shows, they didn't talk down to the audience, had sharp dialogue and cohesive plotlines, kept the cornball factor to a minimum, didn't alienate the adult audience, and put in references to the original 1984 TransFormers cartoon for the nostalgic fans, especially towards the end of the series (even if you hated the whole organic thing in Beast Machines).With RiD, we have something that is considerably less.
In the Japan version of RiD, or Car Robots, Prime's name is Fire Convoy.
Good lines abound in this series and it often has a little easter egg for us G1 fans like Beast Wars did.
After the surprising depth of the original series, the 1986 movie and the 3D animation of Beast Wars, this is what we get.
Even though I haven't watched it for a little bit I don't think that Robots In Disguise is all that bad.
However, because the show is basic anime it can come off as predictable and dull, and also Transformers (which is basically robots beating up each other) is an acquired taste that only a specific group of people (generally fans who grew up with the TF cartoons/toys) can enjoy.
Like the other series before it, "The Transformers", "Beast Wars", and "Beast Machines", the series focuses on the war between two rival factions of giant robots from another world.