Summary: 10 years ago when Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to restore new life on Cybertron, the Great War officially came to an end. But Cybertron's most wanted criminals have escaped from a Prison-ship that crash-landed on Earth. To save this planet from the Decepticon Fugitives, Bumblebee must lead a rag-tag team of Autobots that consists of a Weapon Specialist (Ironhide), a sniper (Flareup), a framed fugitive (Sideswipe), a washout Cadet (Strongarm), and an amnesiac Prison Guard (Fixit). Being the captain of his own team is a tough job, but Bumblebee will learn what it means to be a leader...
What If!Release Date: 2016
Streaming Service: Netflix (In My Mind, TFP: GF should have been released on Netflix instead of Cartoon Network).
Language: English
Animation Type: 3D/CGI
Runtime: 24 Minutes
Category: TV Series
Age Demographic: 12-18 (Targeted at Teen Audience)
During my teen years, I used to enjoy Transformers Robots In Disguise (2015), a show that is a sequel to Transformers Prime (my second favorite TF series, next to Animated which is my favorite TF series). But as time goes on, my opinions drastically changes about TFRID. While the show is either loved or hated by fans, I acknowledged it as a mixed bag. But I agree with the fans that TFRID 2015 sadly failed as a sequel to a critically-acclaimed show. The real reason Hasbro created this show was because of boosting Toy Sales, not to mention that it has a lot of continuity errors and ruined a perfect ending for Transformers Prime; bringing Optimus from the dead was really unnecessary as it was the result of toy sales that ruined the ending of Transformers Prime.
And aside from that, my favorite Autobot Bumblebee was not treated with respect which breaks my heart because Bee is my favorite Transformers character. He was the reason that I watched TFRID. TFPrime!Bumblebee was so good and relatable and it upsets me to see him getting degraded and butchered in TFRID (like how Beast Machines did dirty to my favorite Maximals like Rhinox). This is why I don't like TFRID anymore of how the show mistreated my favorite Autobot. Bumblebee deserves better character development and better treatment.
Me and my good friend/partner Stingerstrike77 had been discussing plans on how to rewrite TFRID and make a lot of changes to the show to make it way better than the actual series such as fixing all of its problems and continuity errors that the show has caused and make it accurate to TF Prime.
The TFRID rewrite will have numerous changes such as having a new title, a CGI animation (similar to TF Prime), a darker tone, and it will become more like TF Animated and Beast Wars (since these shows were better at handling the balance between humor and maturity).
I hope the rewrite will do justice to Bumblebee and the other characters because they deserve better stories. Hope you guys like my rewrite.
Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, all rights belong to Hasbro.
