If you’ve been with the site long enough you know about tonight’s showcase. When the show debuted I discussed it. It came up during the Many MANY Intros Of Transformers series. It’s part of the Aligned continuity, which technically wasn’t all that aligned but that’s another post. For the rest of you here’s a brief summary.
The third series of the Aligned Continuity (after Transformers Prime and Rescue Bots, the fourth being the current survivor Rescue Bots Academy) and the second series and toyline to use the name, Transformers: Robots In Disguise saw the series move from The Hub as the partnership with Hasbro fell through (the channel being renamed to Discovery Family) to Cartoon Network, where the channel soon buried the show as during this run someone at CN became so obsessed with Teen Titans Go you couldn’t get one of the five remaining programming slots without emulating it. The series takes place just after the end of Predicons Rising as Optimus (spoilers) sacrificed himself to save the planet. Although let’s be honest, Optimus dying and coming back is hardly a spoiler these days.
Bumblebee is sent by Optimus’ ghost to planet Earth when an Autobot prison ship carrying Decepticons crashlands on Earth. Bumblebee is reluctantly joined by by-the-book cadet Strongarm, joyrider Sideswipe (who may be more reluctant to be there than Bumblebee), and dinobot Grimlock (back before Hasbro gave everyone a G1 makeover in Rescue Bots Academy). They find the Mini-Con Fixit, the only Autobot survivor of the crash, and two humans who join them to recover the lost prisoners. Tonight, thanks to Hasbro’s official YouTube channel I get to bring you the first episode (well, it’s a two-part episode, so technically episodes one and two) of my favorite of the new century Transformers shows. Enjoy!
