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An internal pitch that was made to Hasbro back in the mid 2010’s. With the brand having direction issues, the current team at Night Shining (who use to work for the official G.I.Joe licensee) made this pitch. It brought together 1970’s Adventure Team G.I. Joe with the concept of the 1980’s ARAH. This concept was pitched as a mix of appeal to the Rescue Bots and Transformers Prime audience. Basically, what cartoons use to be in the 80’s!
Obviously it was not used by Hasbro, but what do you think? Would something like this have been a hit? A young Cobra Commander, Destro, and Baroness? Future G.I. Joe’s making weekly guest appearances? Guess we’ll never know. (And never knowing is… the other half of the battle?)
The amazing art for the pitch was done by Evan ZeroMayhem
NEVER BEFORE SEEN concepts for the series Transformers: Prime! (August 2009 WIP - Not Final)
It’s been 13 years since Transformers Prime debuted. For better or worse, this franchise was the series intent on transitioning the characters from the big screen to the small.
Like many media projects, the initial idea is often somewhat to quite different than what is finally seen on the screen.
So, with that seems now is the perfect time to show off a little something we have been holding on to for the last 14 years - The original official working pdf pitch for what would eventually be known as Transformers: Prime. The series had a working title of ‘Robots in Disguise’ and as you will see, the design and character selection was initially much more aligned with the live action movies.
So take a look! We are showing off around 20 pages of the pdf here. Some amazing never before seen looks at the Prime series!
As you may have heard, our partner Night Shining is closing up shop at the end of the year. With only 10 days left in 2023, we thought we’d take a look at some of the other TF inspired exclusives they had planned/proposed.
First up. The Action Force BotCon exclusive Wasp Raider. This was the FIRST new BotCon exclusive in nearly 5 years when BC Productions acquired the BotCon trademark. Produced by Night Shining, the thought was to actually do THREE BW homages.
Wasp Raider (Inspired by Waspinator)
Aracknid (working name) - a Blackarachnia inspired toy
Scale Face (working name) - a Dinobot inspired toy.
Despite Wasp Raider being one of Action Forces most popular releases, and doing extremely well for Night Shining having sold out completely, for whatever reason Valaverse decided just to keep all their releases in house. A shame for sure. But it’s always good to see the BotCon brand expanded out in to other fandoms, at retail, and in homages such a Gridman. So for that, we can say we are happy that this item got released and is out there for BotCon fans to enjoy!
Another fun little "never before seen" update. Concepts for Beast Wars series 2? Series 3? Packaging from way back in the day. Some of these are pretty wild. These are scans of the concept proof cards we use to have, but have all been long since sold minus a couple. What is your favorite design?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Chriphord wrote:That version of Megatron was featured in the Covenant of Primus. I don’t think I’ve seen that design used elsewhere, but I could be wrong.
Sabrblade wrote:Much of the artwork in this pitch was made for the "Binder of Revelation", the production bible that served as the creative backbone of the Aligned Continuity. While none of these designs actually made it into the final version of Transformers: Prime, several of these pieces made it into the books Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe and Transformers: The Covenant of Primus.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Chriphord wrote:That version of Megatron was featured in the Covenant of Primus. I don’t think I’ve seen that design used elsewhere, but I could be wrong.Sabrblade wrote:Much of the artwork in this pitch was made for the "Binder of Revelation", the production bible that served as the creative backbone of the Aligned Continuity. While none of these designs actually made it into the final version of Transformers: Prime, several of these pieces made it into the books Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe and Transformers: The Covenant of Primus.
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One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
Ironhide was the only one of these that made it that far because he was one of four molds released in the Prime toyline that were originally meant to be part of a toyline for the Chinese MMO game that never/barely ever got released. The other three were Deluxe Rumble, Voyager Thundertron, and Voyager Ultra Magnus (the unique mold one, not the Prime retool we later got in Beast Hunters). Though, we ended up getting Deluxe Ironhide as Kup instead.Emerje wrote:I wonder how far these designs got in toy form? Normally I would guess this was too early for that, but considering we ended up getting that exact Ironhide design in the Prime toy line there may be others. Heck, maybe all of the figures that were made without appearing in the cartoon came from this early draft.
Crazy ass moments in Transformers History wrote:the designers of the Prime toyline, not knowing Ultra Magnus would appear in the 3rd season of the show, gave him an original design and made two toys of it.
Magnus ended up appearing in the show with a modified Optimus CGI model instead to save costs. (2012-2013)
wadapan wrote:this is an even crazier ass moment in TF history than presented here! The Magnus design and the three other non-show molds were, iirc, designed for that Chinese MMO...? The intended Ironhide and Red Rumble decos for the Deluxe molds never saw US release
wadapan wrote:(trivia time) if you look at the Prime toyline (pre-Beast Hunters), you'll notice there's only four molds not based on show characters: Ironhide, Rumble, Ultra Magnus (the weird one), and Thundertron. These were intended for a subline tying into (iirc) https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Online_(2012_video_game)
Crazy ass moments in Transformers History wrote:you gotta get me a source on this, cos this is the first i'm ever hearing of this
wadapan wrote:I heard about it on Discord from @Jalaguy, who cited this now-defunct Allspark thread by Monzo: https://web.archive.org/web/20131105080940/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/96540-monzos-mega-hasbro-customer-service-listing-breakdown/
(fun fact, that appears to be how we learned the identity of the cancelled Bot Shots ROM too!)
Joe Kyde wrote:It’s more or less accurate.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Would that make Skullgrin their rival?Brokebot wrote:That "Adventure Team" logo needs more workshopping. It's pretty much identical to the AT Trail logo used by the National Park Service.
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