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(l to r: Windblade, Bumblebee, and Rubble)

Transformers EarthSpark was not a successful project. While some of the toys looked okay, I had nothing against the Maltos except for the girl’s original character model, and the non-binary Terran just raises more questions about Transformers and gender that has been going long before the culture war started playing with gender as a concept, I just found the whole thing boring. The aforementioned Nightshade was rather boring to me, his only personality trait I caught was the Earth “museum” that Hoist of Rescue Bots Academy did better. In the same vein, Mandroid was a less interesting fusion of Circuit Breaker, Silas from Prime, and Rescue Bots recurring villain Doctor Morocco. The Terran idea sounded interesting in theory but never really caught on with me. Of course the big problem is post-war Transformers stories rarely interest me.

This thought pattern of what I would like to see in the next Transformers kids project was inspired by TJ Omega on YouTube, and I’ll show you his video before I go into my own thoughts. Cyberworld is the next announced kids line, and there will be media to go along with it. Whether or not Skybound has the guts to do a kids comic with this I can’t say, but they did make Super Dinosaur, so they are capable at least. While I like some of his ideas and others I could accept, I have my own thoughts on what I would like a Transformers series called Cyberworld to pull off. With that name there’s one or two options. Either make it some kind of virtual world, like I’ve seen done with Marvel characters in an anime I haven’t checked into, or the most likely and approved by older fans idea of setting it on Cybertron. Then again, they’d probably just call it Cybertron. It’s not like Hasbro or their licensers hasn’t reused a name before. More Than Meets The Eye has been a regular series and a profile book, while Robots In Disguise has been a rework of an anime, a continuation of Prime, and a comic set after the war, neither of which have any connection to each other beyond the Transformers themselves.

I’ll let TJ go over what little we know about Cyberworld (the short version is “it’s going to exist”) and what he’d like to see in the new project. I’ll follow that up with my own ideas, some of which we agree on, some we don’t, and one is the Decepticon Justice Division.

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