Some time ago I posted the first two episodes of the webseries based on the Transformers “Combiner Wars” line, the first in the Prime Wars Trilogy series. At the time it was all I could post since, at least in the US, the rest of the series was only available at the free streaming site (if you can tolerate ads…you wussy!) Go90. Well, with the second chapter of the Prime Wars Trilogy finally getting it’s release…as the toyline has already started moving to the third series, Power Of The Primes…Hasbro has posted all eight short videos–roughly 5-6 minutes a piece–to their YouTube channel. So before we shift over to Christmas specials for Saturday Night Showcase, here is the full series. Since the intro last time was way too long this one will be short.
As a reminder: the Prime Wars Trilogy series is a co-production between Hasbro Studios and Machinima, the animation studio that was formerly the home of actual machinima, animation done with video game assets or gameplay. Part of the classic fan-targeted toyline, it follows the theme of combination. In Combiner Wars it’s robots joining into a larger robot. In Titans Return it’s a return of the “Headmasters” under the name Titanmasters. And the current Power Of The Primes seems to be an alteration of the Powermasters concept of G1 days plus elements of the previous two series. So how well does it translate to animation?
