#wfc arcee

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had 2 map this 2 get out of head, orange is stuff that we basically/actually know, black arrows r speculation. this head design map of Arcee only goes up to 2018 & doesnt cover everything. amazed that Blackarachnia is part of this & roots of prime arcee r basically unknown afaik!

would love to know whats going on with prime arcee's lil' upper cheek guard stubs that are like idw1 arcee's but hidden under her pointy cheek guard ridges. she also shares the chin armor that binaltech arcee & art of war #5 arcee were 1st to have followed by idw1 & animated 'cee.

notably, we weren't able to fit Classics, Prime, and Wings Flamewar onto this or anyone else based on the energon and prime molds (besides Elita who shares her mold with SG Arcee)

[askarcanamagnus]

the arcee singularity is happening again & its happening in the fucking mainline

film rotb arcee is trans by Arcee Singularity logic end of discussion lol (also sincere on the trans iterations of Arcees character &/or physical aesthetic stuff are across Arcees now, starting w/ TR & comic crossovers)

[ask-cloverfield]

[kuzunoha-xiv]

i was gonna make a joke about society being perfect if ratchet had stayed a woman instead of getting changed because 80s hasbro sucked, but then i remembered what fandoms were like with any woman character who dared to be a little grumpy or mean (or just exist) and i realized something

these two would've been 2010s fandom's biggest nightmare if that had happened

[comicchannel]

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[does-this-look-inanimate-to-you]

trying to settle an argument

[wimi20]

Huerta

[starlight-artisticmoonfall]

A TFP Bumblebee Backstory Head canon

Warning: A bit dark

TFP Bumblebee is the most traumatized Bee out of all the Bumblebees in my opinion, due to the fact he was stated the last generation to be created before the loss of the Allspark. He had to wear the Autobot badge for survival meaning he never had a childhood outside of war. 'Earth was a far cry from the ravaged wasteland of his birth, and Bumblebee adapted to his new home faster than any of his fellow Autobots. ' Meaning Bumblebee was born during the already destroyed city of Iacon and never saw Cybertron without ruins/crumbling skyscrapers.

During the battle at Tyger Pax, in canon Bumblebee was alone. However it wouldn't make any sense for Bumblebee to be alone there, since he was meant to act as bait for Megatron and his Decepticons. Bumblebee would of had a small team made from friends made up of 'the last generation'. Bumblebee being the leader of that team would be forced to watch his teammates be slaughter and torture every time he didn't answer Megatron, then had his voice box torn out. We know from the WFC that Autobots were on the losing side and wouldn't have enough materials to repair Bumblebee, however WFC Bumblebee is a minibot and TFP Bumblebee is not but a regular size cybertronian. Meaning Bumblebee didn't just had his voice box torn, his whole body was torn in pieces so Ratchet and the other medics had no choice but to rebuilt Bumblebee a whole new body using his former teammates remains. Due to the fact TFP Bumblebee doesn't have horns and which is why Bumblebee is so traumatized about taking leadership in Predacon Rising.

The way Arcee mentions, 'You have your voice back, now is not the time to go radio silent' implies Bumblebee not only used to a leaded a team but was very good at it. How leading others easily comes to Bumblebee but he has been unable to move on or take command ever since Tyger Pax. Which is why losing his voice meant so much for Bumblebee. It's a reminder of how much Bumblebee failed to keep his team members safe.

[blueikeproductions]

An update on the Transformers CyberWorld situation.

Without a shadow of a doubt, it’s the next cartoon as a new copyright notice on Hasbro’s part includes animated series.

So we’re moving on from EarthSpark. A well intentioned successor to Rescue Bots aimed older that … just didn’t stick the landing for many reasons (no Nightshade being Enby isn’t one of them, but among certain groups it didn’t exactly help either…).

So what can we expect going forward.

Honestly I think we’re in the middle of a shift, creatively.

Cyberverse & EarthSpark clung to a lot of IDW centric ideas about how the Autobots are shady & the Decepticons are the actual heroes.

Skybound and TFONE are to be returning to traditional Heroic Autobots and Evil Decepticons. Starscream & Shockwave are absolutely psychotic, Soundwave is more professional in an ends justify the means capacity, and Skybound Optimus being praised for a much needed return to the strong enough to be gentle vs the introverted millenial/Gen Z kid most stuff lately has cast him in. And just by official trailers and snippets alone, ONE’s fixed a huge problem with the cast system thing started by Aligned, by making future Autobots into the oppressed miners and from what we can tell, the future Decepticons being among those who either benefited from the system or joined Starscream’s splinter faction, a faction that likely has no benefits to Cybertron as a whole.

It does feel like there’s a bit of course correcting to go with a more traditional route most casuals expect. Even a recent toyetic promo for ONE where the actors play with the toys with some football players, among them is the one who calls himself Megatron, & the players express mild skepticism on an origin story, when they all know Optimus & Megatron are mortal enemies so why bother having them be friends previously or some such. I can always appreciate when a studio expresses self awareness and happily pokes fun at itself.

It also feels like they’ve realized they’ve both overexposed certain characters and also realized certain characters don’t work.

I think RotB and Skybound’s willingness to kill off Bumblebee shows even Hasbro might be sick of him now. His absence so far in early CyberWorld leaks seem to point in this direction too. A recent promotion and opening animation with Squad Busters doesn’t have Bee, but instead uses Elita. It also keeps Megatron and the Decepticons as the villains.

I don’t think Bee is going away, since he’s a major component of TFONE, Reactivate (whenever that sucker comes out), and that separate racing (?) game thing, but outside of EarthSpark, it does feels like they’re trying to move away from him a little. Cyberverse also sticks out as it’s pretty clear the writers wanted nothing to do with Bee after S1, but Hasbro marketing and rebranding made Bumblebee a huge focus, confusing matters, as despite the rebranding, Bee’s role had greatly diminished. (Like realistically, it should’ve been Bumblebee leading the Autobots during the Quint occupation, not Hot Rod if Hasbro was that insistent about it.)

Elita is also an interesting change. For years, Hasbro seemed content to ignore her (and her squad) in favor of Arcee, with Hasbro & IDW trying to beef up female presence with “OCs” Windblade & Pyra Magna among others to little fanfare. Indeed, Windy appears to be benched in favor of Elita-One who has gotten more attention post Netflix WFC (that god awful show did one thing right and it was bring back a Female Autobot people actually like to complement Arcee).

I stand by the series still has a villain problem, and EarthSpark didn’t help by trying to make the Decepticons sympathetic moody Autobots, but also not properly taking advantage of Mandroid, Croft and (so far) the Quintessons. This has been an issue for the bulk of IDW, Cyberverse, & RotB as well, by either omitting Megatron, trying to redeem Megatron into a good guy and/or his replacements not being up to snuff/killed off too quickly. Scourge & Mandroid were steps in the right direction but alas. The Quintessons are also a step in the right direction but Hasbro seems semi hesitant to do much with them, despite their increased presence. (I’m leaning towards it being most toys related to them don’t sell, which is what will make a future Void Rivals toy line interesting…)

So now we’re at CyberWorld.

The lack of Bee in favor of Mirage due to his popularity from RotB seems telling among the Autobots, though we don’t have Elita so far in this series curiously.

All we have to go on Decepticon wise is Galvatron, Scorponok, and Sky-Byte, but that’s still a pretty big change up.

While they still have relevance in TFONE, Screamer & The Waves’ roles in EarthSpark are mostly minor, with Starscream as the standout (in a bad fan fic kind of way). Skybound mostly has ignored Megatron, slowly building up to him in stuff like Cobra Commander, with Starscream getting the crap beaten out of him, and as of the recent issue, Shockwave’s fate isn’t looking too good, leaving Soundwave. It does feel like Hasbro is willing to experiment more outside of Screamer & The Waves, given their absence this far in CyberWorld. Galvatron is also a surprise, given the “Let’s make Megatron an Antihero!” phase started in IDW, that carried over to stuff like Prime Wars, WFC, CV & ES.

I feel like using Galvatron is an attempt to both move away from Megatron for a bit, but to also still technically use him (as a villain) as usually Galvatron IS Megatron. Scorponok, at least in comics and the Headmasters anime, is typically a main villain, but how that works here we don’t know yet. He’s either G1 Marvel Scorponok or BW Scorponok, there’s very little inbetween.

So I think what we have is a big change that is going back to basics like Skybound did, but is willing to still experiment with other characters to add variety. Plus let’s be honest, having multiple Megatron toys from three different things with little visual difference is a sign of stagnation. Shaking it up with Galvatron is an improvement post TFONE.

[pluralsword]

Haven't seen photos or art of Arcee with Leia, who she was based on in part, so with all our blade Arcees and Leia using a lightsaber in eu & canon too we figured a while ago we might as well be the ones to do it. Also, yes, Arcee has had a beam saber before besides thermal blades, in Transformers vs. GIJOE by Tom Scioli and John Barber

[phoenixisobsessed]

100 cat transformers checklist:

Just so we can keep track and I don't end up getting requests for the same things after having done them xD I think I should be able to edit the post and just gradually update when I post, so I shall do that.

(Original post about the catformers: here)

1: Deadlock (IDW)

2: Cyclonus (Armada)

3: Cosmos (Gen1)

4: Astrotrain (Cyberverse)

5: Riptide (Mtmte)

6: Nautica (IDW)

7: The Pet (IDW)

8: Optimus Prime (TFP)

9: Megatron (TFP)

11: Tailgate (Mtmte)

12: Starscream (IDW)

13 Bumblebee (Cyberverse)

14: Red Alert (Armada)

15: Skywarp (Gen1)

16: Arcee and Airachnid (TFP)

17: Sideswipe (Gen1)

18: Sixshot (Energon)

19: Kaon (IDW)

20: Roadbuster (IDW)

21: Prowl (IDW)

22: Downshift (Gen1)

23: Sunder and Froid (Mtmte)

24: Browning (Super God Masterforce)

25: Barricade (WFC)

26: Senator Shockwave (IDW)

27: Honk (IDW)

28: Rodimus (IDW)

29: Broadside (Dreamwave)

30: Optimus Prime and Megatron (Earthspark)

31: Breakdown (TFP)

32: Nightshade (Earthspark)

33: Swindle (IDW)

34: Hound (Gen1)

35: Starscream (Bayverse)

36: Wreck Gar (Animated)

37: Windblade and Superion (Combiner wars)

38: Smokescreen (TFP)

39: Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)

40: Soundwave (TFP)

41: Hotshot (Armada)

42: Minimus Ambus (Mtmte)

43: Scavenger (Armada)

44: Whirl (Mtmte)

45: Spinister (IDW)

46: Ravage and Soundwave (Gen1)

47: Waspinator (IDW)

48: Drift (Mtmte)

49: Slipstream (Cyberverse)

50: Quickshadow (Rescue bots)

51: Ratchet (Gen1)

52: Twitch (Earthspark)

53: Jazz (Bayverse)

54: Grimlock (IDW)

55: Starscream (Gen1)

56: Blurr (Animated)

57: Skywarp (My original design)

58: Blurr (Gen1)

59: Knock Out (TFP)

60: Ratchet (TFP)

61: Rodimus and Optimus Prime (Gen1)

62: Trepan and Overlord (Mtmte)

63: Misfire (IDW)

64: Thrash (Earthspark)

65: Brainstorm (IDW)

66: Jazz (Gen1)

67: Sideways (Cybertron)

68: Rung (Mtmte)

69: Optimus Prime (Animated)

70: Heatwave (Rescue bots)

71: Skyquake (TFP)

72: Mirage (RoTB)

73: Blueberry Rodimus (IDW)

74: Bluestreak (IDW)

75: Javelin (IDW)

76: Starscream (Armada)

77: Nickel (Mtmte)

78: Blades (Rescue bots)

79: Starscream and BB (BWII)

80: Pharma (IDW)

81: Swerve (IDW)

82: Rumble (Gen1)

83: Dead End (Cyberverse)

84: Spitfire (Earthspark)

85: Ultra Magnus (Mtmte)

86: Megatron (Gen1)

87: Bumblebee (Animated)

88: Bumblebee (Earthspark)

89: Fulcrum (IDW)

90: Roadbuster (Marvel)

91: Bluestreak (Gen1)

92: Tarn (Mtmte)

93: Cheetor (Cyberverse)

94: Lightbright (IDW)

95: Jetfire (Armada)

96: Metroplex (Fall of Cybertron)

97: Jawbreaker (Earthspark)

98: Starscream (Shattered glass)

99: Whirl (Cyberverse)

100: Starscream (TFP)

[lucidia-sys]

Hi! I see you like transformers. Been meaning to get into it but have no idea where to start. Any pointers?

- V from @starlight-labyrinth-system

OH GOODIE WATCH ME BECOME A UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENE

It really depends on how much you wanna hurt. If you wanna start with light stuff, I recommend Generation one, or Rescue Bots (first or Academy, but rec you watch RB before RBA) or Botbots!! Medium light would be Transformers Animated. It starts out light but the series gets a bit heavy in the last half of the 2nd and run of the 3rd season. Same with Transformers Earthspark. Heavily say to avoid TFP. And if you want goofy stressed nonsense, Robots in Disguise 2015 is a good place. More anime based type would be RiD01 or TF Victory (PLEASe. Only the sub, the dub is AWFUL). Grittier shows would be the WFC series on Netflix, maybe Prime if you can handle bullshit that doesn't make sense and awful portrayal of trauma and lame edginess.

AS FOR THE COMICS

Well. It also depends on what you want. They are a mix of all depending on what one you're reading. The MTMTE/LL continuity is a continuation of G1 and OH MY GOD. You better not get attached to anyone or you will cry a lot. Shattered Glass is an inverted hellspace of pain and attachment and sorrow. The spotlights vary from volume to volume on quality (AVOID SPOTLIGHT ARCEE). the MLP crossover is very lighthearted and silly so its a good one to read. Don't recommend the GI Joe crossover comics. THE NEW COMIC LINE, Skybound, is really good but it DOES have some heavy stuff like on panel death and goreish as well as implied cannibalism and like... wowie Starscream is a menace and I love her for that. Like, full tw of shit like on-panel murder and like. Starscream blows up a hospital. Its goes from zero to 100 real damn fast.

[transingthoseformers]

So, what I've gathered as far as ages (most of this is from the tfwiki descriptions on the characters, closest I've ever gotten to reading the aligned novels, and let's be real some of this might be from things that are technically aligned continuity but technically not??)

Megatron's firmly stated by the tfwiki as having been created during the age of wrath. (It's also noted explicitly that he wasn't created with a set name or personality, which tells us a bunch of the others did) Also, fun fact, the altmode we see in the show isn't really a Cybertronian jet but a shuttle built for space travel. I will proceed to use Megatron as our reference because there's more ambiguity with other characters and also he's my more favorite

The tfwiki having a sentence that Could imply Orion was born before the age of Wrath but he could not have been as well (gonna entirely not mention the Optimus to Orion to Optimus reincarnation thing right now) with him having spent an indeterminate amount of time in the while.

Soundwave was created before or during the age of wrath and the tfwiki states this outright, with it possibly placing him as older than Megatron. He was apparently originally part of Sentinel Prime's council?

Shockwave is placed at a very similar creation time range as Soundwave. Dude spent a lot of time being a cryptid on Cybertron after the whole overthrowing the Quintessons stuff.

The tfwiki is super unhelpful with trying to find around when Starscream was created, or even who he was before the war.

Bumblebee is very much outlined as Cybertron's last generation during the war (and obviously before the Well was revived post-tfp) now I've got a particular headthing where i call all mecha born during the war "Warlings" as a combo of war-sparklings, but that is just me being special decial. Ohhh he was Very adopted by autobot high command

Ratchet is firmly placed as having been born before the age of wrath, is older than Iacon definitely. Beyond that, most of his stuff is mentioned about his actions during the invasion and rebellion against the Quintessons.

Arcee was spying in Kaon before the war, and that's all we got.

Hmm, while we have nothing on Breakdown before the war, i did find something useful. Aligned Breakdown used to be far more similar to the nervous g1 Breakdown we know as a scout. His first interaction with Bulkhead and subsequent major upgrade seens to have dispelled most of it

Segueing to Bulkhead, we know he had a blue collar job and that's it. Great.

Knockout, nothing.

For Wheeljack, we actually got something again! The tfwiki states he was created during the Age of Origins (which... doesn't have a page) which is stated as when transformer civilization started to rise? Wow that's pretty old? Apparently the Wreckers are older than the Autobots, having started as a vigilante group. We might be able to use Wheeljack's age to determine Bulkhead's, and both may very well be as old as Ratchet or older. Hmm.

Ultra Magnus, who is especially old as hell goddamn, was created before or during the age of origins.

Jazz is, you guessed it, before or during the age of wrath. Great. He was an Iacon cultural investigator, apparently.

Ironhide (is this when you realize the wfc games are technically for the aligned continuity yet?) Was created during or before the golden age, which is actually fairly younger than anticipated.

Smokescreen is noted to having been an elite guard cadet at the end of the war (well... the end of the war while on Cybertron) where he got knocked into stasis to be a key container like immediately.

Predaking as we know is a clone so we cannot play by the same rules as the above, and we don't know how long Shockwave was working on him for before popping him to Earth

Darksteek and Skylynx on the other hand we know exactly when they were created as it was the spave between the tfp finale and the epilogue

There are two Sideswipes. I will dub these Sideswipe senior and Sideswipe junior. Sideswipe senior's creation and actions before the war are unknown. Sideswipe junior, also unknown but considering how he was called a teenager in the rid15 pilot, I'm going to assume he was created somewhere near the end of the war or after the war.

Strongarm is a similar situation as Sideswipe junior, and honestly I'm gonna put the RBA kids in a similar category, at the end of the war or directly after.

Oh honey I'm not going through all the RID15 Decepticons as we definitely aren't going to get any timeline answers there.

Hm... the Rescue bots yet again pose questions by defying the rules of the aligned continuity, the tfwiki suggesting they were straight up protoforms upon arriving to earth (which defies what we know that protoforms in the aligned continuity aren't exactly able to be up and walking, and there's the reference that Blades had wheels when he was on Cybertron...) who the fuck knows though, they could've been frozen for Fuck All Knows (at least I've got an Idea when Blurr and Salvage were frozen being the paleolithic-neolithic boundary, thank you Ira lol)

[quetzalpapalotl]

Mr. Griffith, sir, please, if you have any concept art of Arcee in the style you were going for before Hasbro demanded the WFC style, please release it. Please. I bet she would have looked great. I want to see her.

[lastchance1art]

Here is my take on Transformers: Prime Arcee I have done the WFC Arcee design and my own take on ROTB Arcee, which is WFC Arcee with the ROTB chest design but more recently I added the Prime colors to it and I looks great but it's not Prime Arcee. So I draw her off of the WFC Arcee design, and it looks amazing by far of my favorite art piece of this year

[sharksmirk]

How did you create designs for Elita and Arcee?

I'm guessing you're talking about these designs:

That was me drawing Elita 1 and Arcee in a RID '15 style because I really liked the designs in that show - it was a nice blend of TFP and G1 (and also TFP designs are a PAIN to draw smh).

Elita's is based of her WFC appearance (and toy alt mode), but I tried to incorporate it in a way that would allow her to actually transform instead of just carrying a car backpack 🙄 That's why she has back wheels as shoulders - though I kept the "wings" for the front hood, because I'm a sucker for "wings" on fembots :3 It also gives her wide shoulders which I really like for her design, it has a power-vibe to it.

As for Arcee, I wanted to try a mix of her G1 design and the motorcycle alt mode, but with wings because wings fuck yeah! :D That's why the outer hull of the motorcycle transforms into "butterfly" wings (one wheel is in her chest, the other splits up and goes into the top "wings"). I also like that she looks quite feminine and fairy-like: I don't have a problem with feminine fembots, it was just annoying when each one of them was basically pink and spindly :P But with new characters like Strongarm I think things are moving in the right direction and we can get more body type variety!

(PSA: drawing all the fembots the exact same way - even if they're all bulky - is not "body type variety").