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Exciting news in the robot land
Sunday, 23 February 2020 19:49New trailer, new trailer, new trailerrrrr
So, there's a new TF cartoon coming out later this year, made by apparently the same team that made the Combiner Wars tie-in cartoon? The format is a little unclear, whether it's going to be an actual episodic series or more an OVA-style collection of short films, and I'm a little disappointed-but-not-surprised that it's all 3D, but
What is interesting to me is how similar aesthetically and tonally the trailer is to the High Moon games. I was all ready to be mad about the choice of name, honestly, but now I'm curious as to whether this means that NWFC might actually be in-continuity with either the games or the Prime cartoon, acting as some kind of a soft prequel. The designs do not match either Prime or FOC (they're apparently almost exact matches to the toyline under the same title) but that's to be expected, as it's a new studio and a new creative team. When NWFC was announced, I originally figured they'd be doing a straight-up G1 revisit, in the style of the other 80's revival shows, which is still the vibe I'm getting from the art direction in general, but the vibe is... very familiar, let's just say.
I'm genuinely trying to not get super excited, but my brain is atm going "Aligned cartoon, Aligned cartoon, new Aligned cartoooooooon" and you can hear a persistent 60Hz hum around me from how hard I'm vibrating.
(I also snapped up in my seat at about 45s in because what what was that Impactor, no, go back, WAS THAT THE TRASH MECH???? so. I already have at least one thing to look forward to.)
So, there's a new TF cartoon coming out later this year, made by apparently the same team that made the Combiner Wars tie-in cartoon? The format is a little unclear, whether it's going to be an actual episodic series or more an OVA-style collection of short films, and I'm a little disappointed-but-not-surprised that it's all 3D, but
What is interesting to me is how similar aesthetically and tonally the trailer is to the High Moon games. I was all ready to be mad about the choice of name, honestly, but now I'm curious as to whether this means that NWFC might actually be in-continuity with either the games or the Prime cartoon, acting as some kind of a soft prequel. The designs do not match either Prime or FOC (they're apparently almost exact matches to the toyline under the same title) but that's to be expected, as it's a new studio and a new creative team. When NWFC was announced, I originally figured they'd be doing a straight-up G1 revisit, in the style of the other 80's revival shows, which is still the vibe I'm getting from the art direction in general, but the vibe is... very familiar, let's just say.
I'm genuinely trying to not get super excited, but my brain is atm going "Aligned cartoon, Aligned cartoon, new Aligned cartoooooooon" and you can hear a persistent 60Hz hum around me from how hard I'm vibrating.
(I also snapped up in my seat at about 45s in because what what was that Impactor, no, go back, WAS THAT THE TRASH MECH???? so. I already have at least one thing to look forward to.)
