For the ALLSPARK endows Sari with a very special power, one the DECEPTICONS would love to get their hands on, not to mention the ALLSPARK itself.Īnd before they know it, the AUTOBOTS are not just heroes in the eyes of the humans, they’re superheroes! Sworn to protect the ALLSPARK and their newly adopted home, the AUTOBOTS now have a huge responsibility to CYBERTRON and a super reputation to live up to on Earth.Įpisodes 1-3: Transform & Roll Out! | Review Setting the AUTOBOTS up with their headquarters in an old abandoned auto plant on the outskirts of town, Sari not only becomes an “honorary AUTOBOT” by enlightening them on such mysteries of Earth life such as megamalls, holovision, hoverboards, junk food, and basic hanging out, but also becomes a vital component of the team in their adventures. The AUTOBOTS unlikely guide through human society is a brash, energetic 8-year-old girl named Sari Sumdac, the adopted daughter of a robotics magnate. But it doesn’t take long before they’re changing back to robot mode and utilizing their unique individual powers: OPTIMUS PRIME’s versatile gadgetry, BULKHEAD’s strength, BUMBLEBEE’s energy stingers, PROWL’s stealth, and RATCHET’s magnetism to save the day. Responding to an industrial disaster, the AUTOBOTS “blend-in” with their new surroundings by scanning and assuming the form of the local emergency vehicles. It’s a struggle for the plucky and unseasoned band of AUTOBOTS, but despite overwhelming odds, OPTIMUS PRIME and his crew manage to obliterate MEGATRON’s ship and save the ALLSPARK, only to have their own battle-damaged ship crash land on a remote backwater planet known as Earth. The ALLSPARK is being pursued across the galaxy by the megalomaniacal MEGATRON and his army of ruthless DECEPTICONS, a brutal race of war-mongering robots who seek to use the ALLSPARK as their ultimate weapon of destruction. OPTIMUS PRIME gets more than he bargained for when the AUTOBOTS answer a routine distress call and suddenly find themselves in possession of CYBERTRON’s most precious and powerful artifact, the ALLSPARK. Given his first command in an unremarkable sector of CYBERTRONIAN space over a ragtag crew of misfits including: BULKHEAD a lovable, gentle-giant “strong-bot” BUMBLEBEE a wise-cracking, over-eager “hyper-bot PROWL an instinctual, intense “ninja-bot” and RATCHET a crusty, battle-hardened “medi-bot.” OPTIMUS PRIME dreams of excitement, adventure and somehow making a difference in the galaxy. On their home planet of CYBERTRON, OPTIMUS PRIME and his crew AUTOBOTS are not heroes, they are loyal, dedicated, resourceful, hard-working, fun-loving “regular bots.” Official Show Description | Production Run | Voice Actor and Production Crew Despite being a Cartoon Network original series, the show was aired on Nicktoons in the UK, Jetix/Disney XD in the rest of Europe and finally, back in the states on The Hub in high definition.The following is the episode list of Transformers: Animated episodes with show synopses and links to each episodes' review and screen captures gallery, where available.Įpisodes air Saturdays at 8:00 A.M.
The show’s continuity is separate from any other previous Transformers series, despite using footage from the first series in its first episode as a historical film. The Japanese version of the cartoon was slightly rewritten to tie into Michael Bay’s Transformers trilogy.
The series began its broadcast in Japan on April 3, 2010, on both TV Aichi and TV Tokyo. The European Jetix began to air the series on September 10, 2008. The series has 42 episodes across three seasons. It is produced by Cartoon Network Studios and animated by The Answer Studio, MOOK DLE., and Studio 4☌. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 26, 2007, and has been shown on NickToons in the UK since February 2008. Transformers Animated is an Japanese/American animated television series based on the Transformers toy line.