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Well the new CGI Transformers series is set to start in less then two months (sometime in December) The initial characters and most of the cast have been revealed 
Autobots 
 Optimus Prime-Peter Cullen (thank god)
 Arcee-Sumalee Montano
 Bumblebee-actor not casted or unrevealed
Cliffjumper-Dwayne Johnson (Yes as in The Rock) 
Ratchet-Jeffrey Combs
Bulkhead-Kevin Michael Richardson 
 
 Decepticons  
Megatron-Frank Welker (thank god X2) 
Starscream-Steve Blum 
Soundwave-actor not casted or unrevealed 
Breakdown-Adam Baldwin 
Knockout-Daran Norris (new Decepticon!)
 
Humans
Jack Darby-Josh Keaton 
Miko Nakadai-Tania Gunadi 
Rafael Esquivel-Andy Pessoa 
June-Markie Post  
Fowler-Ernie Hudson (Woo-Hoo a Ghostbuster is on the cast!) 
 
So will you be watching the series and what are your thoughts on the series/character choices/cast and so on?

It will air on a new cable network called The Hub, which I don't know if I have LOL... It's a Discovery/Hasbro co-owned channel

@cfatalis:  Yeah this definately took some inspiration from the live action movies 
 
I wonder if Cliffjumper will ever call Megatron a candy-ass or ask Arcee if she likes pie or stroodle LOL

@cfatalis:  Rodimus always does seem to pop up, even in the last series TF Animated, but highly doubt he will replace Optimus this time around. 
Well at least they look good though, would not call smoothing out the Bay look a bad thing, since that should have been done in the live action movies anyway. Though gotta say it WTF is up with Cliffjumper having devil horns?

@cfatalis:  
True, though making Cliffjumper look more bad-ass would probably be unnecessary if he is anything like the G1 version who pulled out massive guns bigger then he was out of nowhere... 
Starscream's voiced by the same actor who voiced Spike in Cowboy Bebop (english) so that may work well, the actress playing Arcee in this is mainly known for live action films, but she is very talented so no complaints there, and Breakdown is voiced by yet another random member of the Baldwin brood...

I'll put it as simple as i can.

• The movie versions are in the series now
• The chins are also staying
• This is a mix of the two and it makes me cringe!! 

This blows i'm not even going to consider watching it.

I'll check this out just to see what the rock does.

We have a release date! 
11/26 will mark the series first episode on The Hub, I'm sure a Black Friday release date for the series has absolutely nothing to do with pimping the action figures right? :)