"Transformers: Robots in Disguise" (2001) TV series 2001-2002

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Directors:

Osamu Sekita
Michael McConnohie (co-director)

Writers:

Richard Epcar (writer)
Marc Handler (writer)

Release Date:

8 September 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi | Action

Plot:

Optimus Prime and the Autobots defend Earth against Megatron and combined forces of the evil Predacons and Decepticons.

Plot Keywords:

Transforming Robot | Android | Based On Toy

Cast

Steve Blum	...	Dark Scream, WARS (as Steven Blum)
Tifanie Christun	...	Dorie Dutton (voice)
Jerry DeCapua	...	Gas Skunk
Keith Diamond	...	Rapid Run
Doug Erholtz	...	Miscellaneous
Sandy Fox	...	T-ai (voice)
Bob Joles	...	X-Brawn
Neil Kaplan	...	Optimus Prime / Ro-Tor
David Lodge	...	Midnight Express, Railracer
Peter Lurie	...	Slapper
Michael McConnohie	...	Ironhide, Hotshot
Mike Reynolds	...	Railspike
Daniel Riordan	...	Megatron / Galvatron / Omega Prime
Philece Sampler	...	Kelly (voice)
Joshua Seth	...	Carl (Koji's friend)

Runtime:

USA:22 min | USA:30 min (39 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

English

Certification:

USA:TV-Y7

Company:

Dong Woo Animation Co.

Quotes:

X-Brawn: I swear Sideburn. If you were as good at fighting as you are at flirting, the Predacons wouldn't have a chance.

Movie Connections:

Alternate language version of "Transformer: Car Robot" (2000)

The Last Good Transformers Series

After the Success of Beast Machines, The Animal transformers series had finally finished along with the original G1 story that started back in 1984. Around 2001, there were rumors on the internet saying that there was gonna be a New CGI TF series, the rumors were fake sadly. But this is what happened.

The Latest Transformers series came along. Just called "Robots In Disguise" The Toyline went back to its vehicle mode idea from the original transformers series. However some changes were made.

The Autobots stayed as they were but the Decepticons however weren't available in the series till later in the middle. 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. and The series actually is pretty well done...

It is in fact and anime exported from Japan and dubbed in English which we didn't know, lol. 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. Go and Buy the Show on DVD or download the episodes and Enjoy the show ^_^