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Transformers Prime Marathon Poster, Promo, and Clip (Updated)

A friendly reminder that starting Thursday, November 1st at 5:30pm EST, The Hub starts their 26-hour long Transformers: Prime marathon. It starts with the very first episode and ends with the season 2 finale "Darkest Hour". In the episode "Megatron comes up with a complex plan and once it's put together, Optimus is placed in a position where he is forced to make a risky decision that, if not carefully considered, could have an inescapable effect on the entire Autobot team." As part of the marathon, The Hub has created a poster (left) that depicts Optimus Prime using an image from each of the episodes. If you are interested in winning 1 of a 100 copies of the poster, click here. Don't forget that Transformers: Prime Season Two 4-disc set will be released on November 20th.

Update: Added a clip from "Darkest Hour" where revealed that Megatron's plan isn't to reformat Cybertron in his image but Earth.
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Disney Buys Lucasfilm with ILM for $4.05 Billion

Tuesday it was announced that Disney has bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas for $4.05 billion. Lucasfilm's main properties that matter a great deal to Disney are Star Wars, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound (sound effects, mixing for most movies). ILM is the company that did all the visual effects for all three Transformers films and invented most of the effects we see in movies for the last 30+ years. It is assumed they are doing Transformers 4's effects but now that ILM is part of Paramount's movie studio competition, who knows if they will keep such an important summer tent pole picture there. Disney has posted several videos about the acquistion (below) making surprising use of the internet to get info about this purchase across. Normally something like this would be handled with a press release and maybe a quick press conference. Companies should pay attention to this approach.

Highlights:
- A new Star Wars Trilogy was announced with Episodes 7 (for 2015), 8 (for 2017), and 9 (2019). Treatments already exist for this.Read More »

Transformers Prime: The Game Out Today

Friendly reminder that Transformers Prime: The Game has been released for the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS. The Nintendo Wii U version will be out on November 18th with the new console. Below the is the launch trailer and press release for game. Click here for screenshots.

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Transformers: MTMTE #10 Preview

Wednesday is new comic book day with Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #10 hittings real and virtual comic stores. The issue goes back to the past, before the TF civil war, to tell a story of Orion Pax and the hunt for a serial killer. Considering the Lost Light has one on board, those skills might be useful in the present. A preview of the issue can be found here.

Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #10
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Milne, Nick Roche (c)
SHADOWPLAY continues! On pre-war CYBERTRON, Prowl and Chromedome realize they’ve got a serial killer on their hands, and Orion Pax receives a summons from an old friend that will change his life forever!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers Prime Producer on Show Mythology, Beasts

In an interview with Hero Complex, Transformers Prime producer Jeff Kline talked a little bit about the last two seasons of the show and the upcoming third. The full interview is here, highlights below.

- From series start, had three seasons planned out but as "wanted it to get more epic", the idea of self contained episodes "became impossible." Also that 3 season roadmap was burned up by early season 2 "which is pretty typical."

- Having a full time writing staff allowed them to plot story arcs out. Normally cartoons have a story editor and freelance the writers.

- "the end of Season 2 will paint us into a corner and hopefully you’ll be surprised at how we get ourselves out of it. For Season 3, we’re actually bringing Beasts into the story, which is a big game-changers. Not necessarily “Beast Wars” way or “Dino-bots” but Beasts, which are part of the Transformers lore."

- "Season 3 will be even more about how Earth and Cybertron are brother, or twin, planets in some way. And, as we’ve been doing for two seasons, allegiances will change, good guys and bad guys will switch sides, new elements will be brought in and old elements will be sent away."

Transformers: Prime 2.25 Regeneration Promo, TV Spot

Tomorrow Transformers Prime air the penultimate episode of season 2 on The Hub at 7PM EST. "Regeneration" has The Autobots and Megatron's Decepticons are drawn into Cybertron to face each other in a heroic battle over their mutual quests for the coveted Omega Lock, which, once unlocked with the four keys, would reawaken Primus' power." Considering that the previous episode Patch was a clip show, I suspect the next two episodes will be going full throttle, spending the money the bottle-episode saved. Below is clip and promo for episode, screenshots here. The 26 hour long Transformers: Prime Marathon that starts on November 1st at 5:30pm EST and ends with the November 2nd 7:00pm EST season finale episode "Darkest Hour." Don't forget that Transformers: Prime Season Two 4-disc set will be released on November 20th. The previous two episodes of TF Prime are also up on HubWorld.

Upcoming episodes:
11/02 Darkest Hour (2.26) - Season 2 finale. Megatron comes up with a complex plan and once it's put together, Optimus is placed in a position where he is forced to make a risky decision that, if not carefully considered, could have an inescapable effect on the entire Autobot team.
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