We’re getting closer to the end of this series and we get to a series I’ve discussed before. The original Robots In Disguise was a dub of Car Robots while this incarnation was a spinoff of Transformers Prime. For whatever reason (and a bad decision if you ask me) the show moved from Discovery Family, which was still airing classic The Transformers at the time and continues the Aligned continuity as I’ll get to next time, to Cartoon Network, who barely advertised it and buried it in the early morning. Somehow they still have a Transformers series but more on that in a later installment. The show aired for three seasons plus a six episode…what would call it, sub-season? It wasn’t a miniseries so I don’t know what to call it. There was also a series of shorts produced for the Cartoon Network and Transformers official YouTube channels. They put a lot into a series they barely acknowledged.
It’s also the one that threw what was left of the Aligned plan out the window. Grimlock is at best a namesake of the G1 style version seen in the Cybertron games and related IDW comics. Bumblebee still has his voice for the first time in any series since the movie came out since he got it back near the end of Prime and kept it for this show and Rescue Bots, a trend I wish had continued but Cyberverse ruined that goal. It was just a continuation of Transformers Prime (forgetting they had human allies and requiring a junk dealer and his son to keep their secret) and ignored anything except Prime and Rescue Bots, which was still back over on Discovery Family. And yet somehow it may be my favorite incarnation since the original series. It’s fun, it has character development, and it had good characters. It’s really good.
Japan on the other hand only brought forth the first two seasons, redubbing the show Transformers Adventure (much as the original Robots In Disguise was a renamed redub), and toning down some of the injected humor of the previous dubs since Beast Wars thanks to a new person in charge. In total we have four intros to go over, so let’s start stateside with the first one.
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