Steampunk AT-AT, by Captain Bayley. Awesome!

The third season of Transformes Prime hasn’t even gotten an air date yet and a reports coming in from Kidscreen magazine has officially stated that Beast Hunters will be the final season for Prime. Finn Arnesen, SVP of international distribution and development at Hasbro, revealed to the mag that the 13 episodes of the third season end the story for Prime. Back in September voice actor Jeffrey Combs (Ratchet) caused a lot of buzz by stating the series was ending at the third season and he’s completed his recordings. But soon after he said there would indeed be a fourth season, probably under pressure from Hasbro.

This doesn’t bode well for the toy line which is hitting stores now. Regardless of sales stores tend to stop ordering figures for series that no longer have cartoon support and Hasbro tends to stop releasing figures regardless of demand. That’s only made more confusing by figure lines like Generations showing success in stores despite never having entertainment backing in the first place. For now Prime is mirroring the history of of the previous Transformers cartoon series Transformers: Animated. Both series had much delayed toy launches months after their respective shows debuted, both have had three season runs with Prime also likely to have its ending rushed, both have met their demise in favor of a new Transformers movie (TF4 is scheduled for July 2014), and like with Animated Hasbro will certainly leave a chunk of the final waves of the toy line left unreleased. Pretty disheartening for fans of the series, knowing what its fate will likely look like as history repeats itself.

It’s not entirely bad news, however. Arnesen also revealed that a new show is coming in 2014 as part of the big Transformers 30th anniversary celebration plus the aforementioned Transformers 4 movie and what will certainly be a major expansion of the Generations line which will already be sporting the new 30th logo this year. So sure, it’s no fun seeing a series end, but at least Hasbro is wasting little time in filling the void it’ll leave behind.

Boooooo.

Tron: Uprising, the new pre-Legacy animated series debuted this week. I’ve been looking forward to this for quite awhile.

Based on the debut episode, I’m not sure I love the character/animation style, but maybe it’ll grow on me. The general Tron aesthetic, however, is still very present overall, and looks especially great in HD. The world and vehicles look A+.

The story is already shaping up to be quite intriguing, and looks to tie up a few lingering threads from Legacy. So far, so good.

Worth waiting three months for.

Howdy, former followers (all two, three of you? I dunno.) Anyway, after a good couple of months of being under the weather and generally bored with the internet and feeling I had nothing to contribute, I feel like I am ready to get back into the swing of things again. I can’t believe it’s already (basically) February. For me, thanks to massive flu after already recovering from Pneumonia just two months prior, January has been the worst on record. Also very slow business-wise.

I did just celebrate my birthday yesterday, though, and had a pretty good day of it overall, so that’s the one silver lining.

I still plan on still many random videogame/toy/art/nerd posts to pad things out, but I’m going to try and make this blog a little more of a personal/diary journal than it has been, putting myself out there a little more, due to various recent (and old) developments in my life that I am slowly growing more comfortable with discussing. as time moves forward. I’ll still be constantly posting cool artwork and toys and whatever stuff I deem cool on a weekly. Perhaps I’ll just be focusing things overall a little bit more, going a bit more personal here and there. Assuming I don’t quickly bore of it, which, desperately needing a forum to articulate my thought processes, I truly hope I don’t, I shall see you on the flipside!

Not sure as yet if my plan is to be posting on a daily, weekly, or every-other-day schedule, but I will hopefully figure that one out in the coming days…

Thanks for reading!
-DP

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