#nicole duboc

[polyhexian]

Nate ranks every transformers thing ever

What:

- Eugenesis

i have no idea how i can ethically rank this as good or bad. its good. its bad. its canon. its fanfiction. it is what it is. dont read eugenesis. please read eugenesis.

God tier:

- Rescue bots

i am not joking. i am not memeing. rescue bots is the best thing to ever come out of the transformers franchise. its the only series to break the three season curse and get a fourth season. it has more episodes than any other series, over 100. it didn’t get cancelled because it wasn’t popular, it ended because they ran out of stories they wanted to tell. then they dropped a sequel series with TWO more seasons. they gave nicole duboc a mainline series for this.

- Mtmte/lost light

life changing. incredible. ruined my life. saved my life. jro is my enemy. jro is my best friend. jro is my dad. i met him once. i showed him my hard copy of eugenesis i paid 150 dollars for and had him sign it. he probably thinks im insane. he DID sign it tho. i think about whirl and cdrw every day of my life

- Cyberverse

I LOVE CYBERVERSE SO MUCH... I don't think any series has captured the pure unbridled chaos of the entire franchise so well. It has so many characters and all of them feel RIGHT. I love the art style. I Love this unhinged soundwave. I LOVE the fresh and interesting new ideas if brought to the table. Season 3 was incredible. The season 4 specials destroyed me. TARN??? TARN IS HERE???

- Rise of the Beasts

I think that Bumblebee is an objectively better film, I just had more fun watching ROTB lol

- Bumblebee movie

- Rescue bots academy

BABY GIRL MY BABY DAUGHTER BABY GIRL BABY BABY

- Earthspark

- Botbots

Yes I am in fact putting botbots this high. This show was so unrepentantly funny. The goof at the beginning show us like oooh space ENERGON crashed to earth the war... Anyway none of that matters lets go to the mall. That is SO funny. They did a chopping mall parody and a Hamilton parody. The protagonist is an unhinged megalomaniac burger.

- Beast wars

don't worry about the visuals you get used to them so fucking fast. beast wars is incredible. the storytelling has so much depth. tigatrons big episode about the cost of their war against the planet and defining what protecting the planet even means changed me. theres an entire episode about farting and rampage and depth charge wanna hate fuck SO bad its fucking unreal

- Recordicons

you WILL acknowledge david willis’s contribution to lgbt history and you WILL laugh at his very funny memes

Great tier:

- Transformers Prime

- Transformers Animated

waspy baby.....

- Idw shattered glass

IM UNHINGED ABOUT SG STARSCREAM AND SG STARFIRE IM ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED

- 86 movie (Bluray remaster)

-the five minutes at the end of earthrise when cog became the main character for some reason

This was the funniest shit I've ever seen. One of the worst most boring shitty tf shows I've sat through with characters I truly care nothing for suddenly lurched sideways as out of fucking nowhere and for no reason at all a random background character suddenly took over the plot and gave the most harrowing performance I've seen in awhile in this horrifically tragic death scene that had my jaw on the floor. And then we just moved on and never spoke of it again ckdhzhcjof. WHAT WAS THAT.... LITERALLY WHAT WAS THAT AND WHY DID THAT HAPPEN....

- Armada (the starscream and Optimus parts)

It is UNREAL how good the starscream and Optimus bits are in this show. When the rest of it is pretty terrible. I would say after starscream dies it's pretty meh but not outright bad, just sort of nothin. The first couple episodes tho are so funny because they're so bad they had no script and were all but ad-libbing the whole thing. They couldn't go two minutes without getting a characters name wrong. Incredible. Anyway this starscream is legendary for being such an interesting and dynamic character with the best design ever. And just like. The coolest character arc.

Okay but also just like do not watch this show in English. The English version is awful and it is More than just a dub!! The Japanese version was finished AFTER the American version despite being animated in Japan!! Because the show! Was not! Done!!! The Japanese version of the show is called micron legend and it's practically a different show. Do yourself a favor and watched micron legend subbed.

- Victory

STAR SABER IS MY DAD OK

also the plot hinges around the premise that current autobot commander star saber found a human infant floating through space and legally adopted him. That's incredible come on

- IDW windblade mini

saren stone could kill me with a brick and i would thank them

Good tier:

- Transformers RiD15 IDW comic

-Beast Wars 2 movie

- IDW2

- MMC mnemo/notif comic *

- Transformers go!

FUCK YEAH DRAGONS

- Funpub shattered glass

- Beast Wars uprising

DID YOU KNOW EJECT HAS A FUCKING SON?

Okay Tier:

- Wfc: Siege

- Zone

homosexual

- Challenge of the Go Bots *

Bad tier:

- The rest of IDW1

- G1

I'm not sorry for this. I don't like it. Boo

- Japanese headmasters

- Armada (the rest of it)

- Energon

- American headmasters

- Robotix *

im fucking unironically convinced when this flopped they just reused the plot for headmasters

- Wfc: earthrise

- Super god masterforce

- Beast wars 2

- Beast wars neo

- Beast machines

- RiD 2001

- 86 movie (pre bluray remaster)

- Cybertron

- Vanpires *

the wildest shit ive ever seen. ive watched every episode. imagine the cgi of beast wars season 1 with integrated live action. theres vampire cars and they "drain the gas from innocent cars" when cars??? not sentient???? the human children got irradiated and now they can turn into fucking horrible car beasts. why was this fucking made

- Bayverse

- Machinama’s Prime Wars

You know a series is bad when the first thing I want to complain about is the sound mixing

- Go-bots (transformers branded)

- Wfc: kingdom

Elite one my beloved I am so fucking sorry

Burn in hell tier:

- Rid15

Copaganda to rival paw patrol

- Exodus

This book called me a slur

- Hayato sakamoto’s Transformers Legends

- Kiss players

The worst thing transformers has ever done

??? (I still havent read/watched these) tier:

- Robot Masters

- Devastation

I played twenty minutes of this

- WfC

I’ve actually played a few hours of this but i got bored and didn’t finish so I don’t feel like i should rate it, but ultimately i just found it kind of generic and it didnt grab me

-FoC

-Wings Universe

-Unite Warriors

this is illustrated by hayato sakamoto and ive seen enough of like, the horny bathtub art and oversexualized female characters to assume its most likely shit tier, but i think he also brought breakdown back to life and canonized kobd? I do legitimately want to read this eventually

-Transtech

-Marvel comics

-GI Joe transformers crossover comics

-Dreamwave comics

-new energon universe image comic

-Q transformers

I have actually watched the subbed episodes of this but, there’s so few of them and its so clearly not intended for me since this is like a little silly flash cartoon specifically for japanese fans of transformers that its like, of course i dont really get the jokes or anything so even though i found this kind of boring i dont think its bad and i dont feel comfortable putting it on a tier

- TFP tie in games

- Bayverse tie in games

- Earth Wars

Energon enema though

- IDW MLP crossover

- Nezha

Nezha is lost media but it has toys and I have one so uhhhh I guess I'm acknowledging it theoretically exists

* don't act like this doesn't count, once you're deep enough to make a list ranking every transformers thing ever made you have to start counting this type of shit too

[eldritch-araneae]

ya know since you mentioned in your earthspark review that you saw some characters sing i have to tell ya that i think i heard elita's va cissy sang an owl house and naruto fan song, and optimus's va alan tudyk does sing sometimes, alex's va is a musical theatre actor too not to mention nicole duboc did work on rescue bots and theres a musical ep so all i'm saying is that we might have one for earthspark later on

Ohh this is great to hear! Musical episode in Earthspark will be a delight! <3

[dabbingonronpa]

Transformers: Prime Director’s Commentary, Ep24-26

One Shall Rise, Part 1 (Nicole Dubuc, Joseph Kuhr, Vinton Heuck, Augusto Barranco)

-”I AM OPTIMUS PRIME. I AM REALLY COOL (...) I BECOME A TRUCK” -Nicole singing to the intro

-this episode was written while Nicole was at ComicCon, so the fans’ enthusiasm motivated her

-”How cool would it have been to have Twilight Sparkle to have been inside that volcano? I wanted to make this shirt for the writers—’Best Typo Ever’” -Nicole

-June was named after Jeff Kline’s mother

-”[June]’s not wearing her heels for Optimus Prime now, is she” -Nicole

-”I think they need to call the Rescue Bots, that’s what I think”

-Nicole’s attempts to bring the Mayan Prophecy of the 2012 disaster prophecy was consistently shot down because it would date the episode hard

-how Bumblebee would save June and Raf in the original draft of the script had them crawling onto the car door while the car was in the air from the tornado, Bumblebee grabbing the car door with both hands, transforming with them falling inside him, and then driving away, but was changed because it didn’t seem plausible

-”Sometimes we write things and find out, ‘oh that’s just not possible’” ”’What medical kit? Ratchet doesn’t have a medical kit’”

-”My favorite weapon is Jack’s, the fire extinguisher. It should definitely come with the toy”

-the prophecy was altered to remove a part of one leader rising and one falling

-bc of the tsunami in Japan, the matte paintings and character designs for the Thirteen had to be done on the spot

-canyons are redressed to be reused in the show often

-Unicron was designed more organically, like a beetle

-originally, unicron’s eyes were green (a la G1) but changed to purple to align with his blood

One Shall Rise, Part 2 (Duane Capizzi, Marsha Griffin, Christopher Vacher, Vince Toyama)

-John Noble (voice of Unicron) was considered to be the VA for Ratchet early on

-Darkness Rising and One Shall Rise were written as if they were feature-length films so the action and suspense can breathe

-Optimus’ character became more edgy and angel-of-vengence because of Ratchet’s grievences in Stronger, Faster and Raf getting harmed in One Shall Fall

-they were worried about how the long conversation pieces would be taken by the audience, because it’s just as long as the action sequences

-all the monitor designs are constantly changing and active throughout the shootings

-”This part makes me laugh.” “This part makes me dizzy.”

-there was some resistance about using too many legacy icons (the matrix, for example) in producing TFP because for some audiences this would be their G1

-the heartbeat was Hartman’s decision and oversaw that

One Shall Rise, Part 3 (Duane Capizzi, Steven Melching, Christopher Vacher, Vince Toyama)

-the episodes are a 3 step process: premise > outline (beat-by-beat skeleton) > script, each undergoing numerous revisions

-The episode Partners originally started as a sequel Wheeljack episode

-the flashback was specifically called the “Exodus flashback”

-most of the matte paintings were quickly remade after they were lost in Japan after the earthquake by three people

-the entire flashback exposition was done in one take by Jeffrey Combs, Ratchet’s VA

-”...SO THAT WAS A LOT OF BACKSTORY”

-”Soundwave superior, Airacahnid inferior”

-all designs were made with Google Sketchup

Toy Featurette

-originally, Megatron was introduced to be someone who would kill a C/B-tier character who was built-up the entire season to be a fan favorite, Smokescreen, initially, but was changed to Cliffjumper

-toy concepts usually take 2 years from concept to actualization

-some characters the production team would like to see join TFP in some capacity: city-formers (Metroplex, Fort Max, etc), Huffer, Brawn, Bluestreak, Prowl, Springer, Sharkticons, Cosmos, Oil Slick

[anonymous-human]

Ah, I can clarify on the Blades thing. Nicole Duboc (spelling is probably wrong), one of the main writers of Rescue Bots, actually confirmed over Twitter that Blades is actually a medic (just something that didn't come up on screen, as the "children's show" screen wouldn't allow for any of the Bots to get seriously hurt.) If you notice, Blades' colours are actually the same as most Autobot medics seen this far. (White and orange)

OOOOOH! Wow. That kinda sucks actually. That’d be soo cool! It’d really add to Blades character!!! (I’ll do headcanons for him when I get home!!!!)

[alikitheofilopoulos]

I will be a keynote speaker at this event, along with Nicole Duboc. Click on the link above for more info.  It sounds like a fantastic workshop!! Check it.

[polyhexian]

I'm really shocked by Alan tudyk's Optimus prime!!! He has SUCH a recognizable voice that I constantly forget he also has a mind blowing range at his disposal. Man went to juliard. He's playing Optimus with, it feels, some of the same inspiration as Peter Cullen, but he's not MIMICKING Peter Cullen. He's giving the voice this very slight edge of nobility or formality that's interesting too. Love that two cybertronian get born and their first instinct is to protect smaller and more fragile creatures. Extremely cool of them. The transformation sequences are SEXY. Human villains again! Loved the idea of mech, would love to see that go farther. "Optimus always sees the bright side in everything, even when they're isn't one." Nice. Nice nice nice. Bumblebee is fun. They show a good range of playful cutesy bee and then a much more serious character that I liked. Arcee looked so good lol.

Honestly the trailer was really good. It's got me hype. The wfc trailers were all incredible too though and all three of those shows sucked, the trailer guy for them was just fucking incredible. But Nick Roche worked on this! I believe they pulled Nicole duboc on for this one too? I wonder if mae catt is on this one. I'm pretty excited, I mean, they shelled out for Alan tudyk, theyre not cutting corners there. Good sign

[polyhexian]

I would die for Nicole duboc rescue bots academy is the only thing that matters