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  • A Transformers series that I HAVEN'T seen.

    IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!

  • My first day at middle school, I met a kid with RID Optimus, Megatron, and the Spychangers. He also brought a VHS to class. From that day on, I was sold.

  • This show was alright, but Armada was better. I didn't like the mixing of vehicle designs with Beast Wars designs. It wasn't necessary to have Decepticons and Predacons.

  • How long did it last before it got canceled?

  • @Skinner0816 It lasted a year, from 2001-2002 and it wasn't canceled; all 39 episodes made in Japan as "Car Robots" were screened (more or less) in the US as "Robots in Disguise".

  • i liked the hologram chick that told them what was happening

  • This series was totally messe dup in so many ways, I mean, one of the Predacons was called, SLAPPER?! XD My dear Primus . . . .

    The only thing I really like about this series was Skybyte, as for the rest, I don't really care much for it, I prefer Armada to RID. XD

  • Ugh i like the American version theme song of this

  • and people complained about beastmachines still cool opening none the less

  • This was badass.

  • If you watched Beast wars Neo and Neo 2, you get a bunch of weird beast war figures that never made it to the american show. Primal minor, etc. Magnaboss, Tripredicus, etc. Were all there. Even that baboon guy that you found at KB toys when it was still alive.

  • this is like a combination of beast wars, beast machines and armada

  • One of the few shows I actually had most of the toys for back in the day, actually... All except for Prime and Ultra Magnus.

  • I think this was ten times better than the live action movie. This is, of course, IMHO...

  • OMG Nostalgis to the max!!! This was the 1st Transformers show I ever saw. This is what got me into Transformers.

  • @optimusprime23able Same here! :D

  • love the series.

  • i actually like this theme. ^^

  • Before I saw the Kid I fought AWESOME!!! - after that I just thought WHY IS HE THERE!?

  • this is sick!!! lmao

  • I wish they would bring that to DVD here in the states.

  • rid seemed to use alot f older molds which isnt a bad thing IMO

  • I would like to know what the writers were smoking when they came up with Sky-Byte. Especially with his Shark mode.

  • Better ask the Beast Wars people. Sky-Byte is a redeco of Transmetal 2 Cybershark from the Beast Wars toyline. Who was a Maximal, even.

  • @ChrisCa1601

    Uh.. did you know that Sky-Byte actually flies.

  • @i wanna now what they were smoking when they came up with robots in disguise.

  • i remember this!!!! i havent seen this for like, 7 years!

  • This show used to come on every morning. I like watching Transformers: Robots in Disguise.

  • any1 else think the kid in the theme somg look ALOT like one of the main chatecters from digimon?

  • If it wasn't for RID I wouldn't be into Transformers

  • @BeastStudio yea,me too

  • @BeastStudio Same here! High five!

  • @Inikalord *high fives*

  • dude, 2D animation ftw. I hate that 3D stuff they keep making.

  • this was the best :)

  • The Guys Who Did Power Rangers And Digimon Diecied To Make RID,Beast Wars And Beast Machines

  • Beast Wars and Beast Machines have nothing to do with the Japanese productions.

    The only thing RID has in common with Power Rangers and Digimon is they were imported and dubbed by Saban. They don't share any other production credits.

  • @AeonMagnus what about the attack name yelling? =p

  • Armada may have been a better series in my opinion, but this intro is way better. Armada doesn't even sound like a theme song, it's more like reading Cybertron Monthly.

  • OMG! I remember this! TT vTT

  • They can remake them all they like, but there will never be as good as the first Transformers...

  • I never heard about this one. I don't think it can beat Armada :P

  • A masterpiece

  • Impresses song. I can't get it out of my head.

  • it was all good to me

  • Loved RiD, but it really can't beat Armada in my book. xP

  • Lol,this song sucks

  • God this ruled big time the reason why is because this is when I started watching transformers

  • This came *before* Armada.

  • @AeonMagnus

    Exactly, hell even in the states it aired like a year or two before Armada.

  • I liked it. it was my favourite out of all the cartoons. but Beast Wars will always be my favourite

  • To me G1 and Armada will always be my favs. But this is pretty good too.

  • worst opening ever

  • I only got to see 2 episodes of this show before it was replaced by Armada

  • wtf sounds like they're saying transformees.

  • Was this the same series with the giant planet sized transformer? What one was that?

  • "Robots In Disguise" didn't have any planet-sized Transformers.

    "The Transformers" from 1984 (aka "G1") introduced Unicron. Armada and Energon had their own rendition of Unicron (essentially the Transformers "devil"), while Cybertron had Primus (basically, the Transformers "god"), and for a short time, a plant-sized Starscream.

    Armada, Energon and Cybertron are regarded as a trilogy, often called the Unicron Trilogy, since Unicron either appears, or is a key plot-point in all three.

  • Really I didn't know that I was only able to watch half of the cybertron series since then the bastards at the CW decided to give iy away at cartoon network and I never had either cable or satellite so I've been screwed out of the trilogy.The series that you posted Is above all my favorite because I know this the best plus My fav. autobot only comes in here: omega prime. the only other one that I know (series) is beast wars.

  • Actually, all Unicrons are the same Unicron. Unicron, along with Primus, is a multiversal singularity.

  • Yes, but only G1, Armada, Energon and Cybertron showed "giant planet sized transformer[s]". I was referring to in-series depiction, rather than the larger mythology.

  • this was he only transformers series i ever watched on tv, other than beast wars (if that counts)

  • man i used to hate this one but now that ive seen the piece of shit movies and animated i love this one now epecially the trains

  • I totally agree with you on some aspects. I liked this show though from the beginning when it first aired on FoxKids (I love you FoxKids forever!). And these hollywood transformers suck in part because they are Michael Bay films; he refused to do it in the beginning cause he didn't want to do "some stupid kiddie toy movie." But he changed his mind when he saw how much money was there to be made from the concept.

  • First unique Transformers where their were both Decepticons and Predecons as the main villians, and Optimus Prime not being voiced by Peter Cullen or Gary Chalk.

  • Gary Chalk he did OP in BW, BM, TA, TE, and TC right?

  • Yes.

  • Yes, and he did a great Optimus Prime in each of those shows!

  • Who Megatron in those shows?

  • David Kaye.

  • First Actor to play Megatron and Optimus Prime as regular roles due to Transformers Animated. Funny since both Gary and David tried out for the opposite roles in Beast Wars.

  • Gary Chalk tried out for Megatron? I had no idea.

  • Foxkids had the best shows

  • Until 4Kids killed everything.

  • True. The only way to fix the problem is to get inside of the system, work your way up and fix it from the inside; and to not allow success and money to make you greedy and turn you into the same people that run 4kids. Be true to the fans, and the fans will be true to you.

  • I liked the 4Kids actors at first, until I realized 4Kids was recycling them over and over again.

  • Transformers: the animated series

    yeah!

    I shed a tear when I see Spike and Daniel as a cameo

  • @StarFoxAutobot 4kids did not dub it actually only showed it on they're saturday morning block for awhile.

  • @StarFoxAutobot *facepalm*

  • @StarFoxAutobot 4Kids has never had anything to do with Transformers...

  • @Synonymous52 I never said they did.

  • @StarFoxAutobot join the movement to kill 4kids! or at lest bring it back to what it was before 2003 when they got a new CEO who wanted to fuck up every thing they got there hands on as well as buy the rights to cool shows and not air them.

  • is this the original intro or is a changed intro throughout the series because I only remember watching the second half of the series and I don't remember if that ever happened

  • Evey other series was good but this is my favorite series #1 Optimus is a badass fire truck #2 The only series with Ultra Magnus and Omega Prime

  • I used to be obsessed with this show,lol,it still feels like yesterday I was waitng each week for the next episode.

  • I always used to combine Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus into Omega Prime.

  • me too but I found out that there are some assholes who don't like Omega Prime. I don't know who but I know that.

  • Beast wars was the first transformer i ever saw when i was a little kid but i liked this one better.

  • theme god

  • I've been watching this series for a while now and It's actully quite enjoyable. It's a show not meant to be taken seriously, especially when the villians include a toad, a squirrel and a skunk!

  • Transformeeeeers! Robot's in disgues! Transformeeeeers! Change befor your eyes!

  • man that voice is annoying !

  • if its annoying dun hear dumb fuck

  • i loved this theme

  • this was my generation's transformers... ahh loved my childhood with this on

  • the best series ever.

  • Doesn't this series connect to transformers armada a little bit?

  • RID and Armada/Energon/Cybertron are set in different continuities.

    However, RID Sideways is apparently the same as Armada/Cybertron Sideways, being a multiversal minion of the multiversal Unicron. That's all Takara's doing. However, RID Sideways is a toy-only character and does not appear in the RID cartoon; it was only established in toy bios for Robot Masters.

    There may be some homage references to RID in Armada, but then there are also homage references to G1 in RID.

  • Good point. However, in the first appearence of optimus in armada, optimus looks a lot like R.I.D.

  • yeah and is this tied in with beast machines? because the its autobots vs predacons, and since the decepticons were introduced in this series, it could even more tie in to armada

  • It doesn't tie in with BW/BM or A/E/C. The use of the word "Predacons" doesn't actually have anything to do with previous Preds - it mostly came about by the original Japanese version throwing in some factions, names and characters that had never been used before, and a need to adapt them somehow into English. While the Japanese versions were entirely new, for the English language version, they chose to resurrect some previous names to make it more familiar. Only Sideways ties into other series.

  • Aeonmagnus, whos your favorite charater

  • Megatron is 1 cool bad***!

  • i still can't figure out what they say afters "transformers, robots in disguise". does anybody know????!?!?!?!!?

  • Change before your eyes.

  • who the shark

  • Skybite.

  • Sky-Byte

    tfwiki. net/wiki/Sky-Byte

  • I wish this show was on DVD. I miss this show.

  • it is^^

  • Yeah, but in the UK, not in the US.

  • Better then the Unicron Trilogy... Much better.

  • Great series but agreed that the theme wasn't one of their best xD

  • I enjoyed this show.

  • sucky song

  • nice

  • this show was alrite but not as good as Armada.

    i wonder do someone have the episode they cancelled due to the events of 9/11 becuz they was goin to show it until the event happened and the news overran the show. DAMN you terrorists!!!!!!!!!!

  • search: Transformers RID ep: 22-1

    to see the cancel episode

  • Anyone know what the lyrcis are the second time round after they say Transformers? I have looked everywhere and can't figure it out. It sounds like the say something like "Transform By Your Eyes" but that doesn't seemt to make scence.

  • Transformers

    Robots in disguise

    Transformers

    Change before your eyes

    transformers. wikia. com/wiki/Theme_song

  • Oh, of course! And I never thought to look there! Thanks.

  • this optimus prime was my favorite prime

  • ns song, but lousy storyline

  • Ah, yes. This was the first Transformers series I ever saw, and still my personal favourite.

    The theme song is also the best of any Transformers series.

  • um this show was ok the best intro was the original transformers

  • Definitely the best animated Tranformers series but the lousy Saban dub, also known as the screw translation, just write any stupid crap you want method, made it absolutely painful to watch. And I so wanted to like it, too.

  • This wasnt the first series I watched, but its definitely my favorite.

  • This was the first one I ever saw too, the one I grew up with. I think the music from RID is really awesome.

  • @pikamario99 Yeah me too, but not the theme though

  • This series wasn't as good as armada. And it was short...

  • I only watched Robots in Disguise and Transformers Armada and both were great! :D

  • This is the first cartoon i ever grew up with.

  • this is the one of the best series of transformer made well

  • I miss this series

  • I think the Predacons were a little out of place, but other than that, this was the next coolest show compared to the original, although this one could have used more core cast members from the original as well.

  • all these new shows just prove that optimus prime is betetr the rodimus prime becuase in all of these new shows it's optimus in them not rodimus

  • I really got to watch RID More often.

    I liked Skybyte and Scourge.

  • Well Ive seen all the Transformers and no matter what anyone says the best will always be the ORIGINALS which later came to be known as G1.

  • G1, Armada, Beast Wars II and RiD are my favorites. I hate the look of this new Transformers Animated cartoon. Prime is like Captain America...

  • And that's a BAD thing?

  • YESS!

  • Like I said, I grew up in the 90's and I grew up with Robots in Disguise. That's why today it still remains my favourite series and I am hoping to complete my R.I.D collection in the future as I am about half way there now.

  • The only Transformers shows I liked were RID and Armada Energon and especially Cybertron sucked ass and if you seen the ending for Cybertron you know I'm right I haven't seen Animated yet but I hope to soon because I heard It's all american

  • This show was canned prior to Beast Wars in 1997.

  • No.

    It was made after both Beast Wars and Beast Machines, in Japan, in 2000. It wasn't "canned" either. It ran its course; all 39 episodes made in Japan as "Car Robots" were screened (more or less) in the US as "Robots in Disguise".

  • Too right. I wish they made more of RID; it was the better of most of the series. They should have doubled RID and dumped Energon (although Energon was an ok story since it continued with Unicron and into the Cybertron story but it was still a horrible series).

  • wasnt energon story 9 years fater da armada story

  • Yea, 9 or 10.

  • yeh to me armada nd robots in Disguise were da best transformers shows

  • Armada was pretty cool - I liked the fgures - the minicons really appealed to me a lot and I liked Cybertron's figures - not too much the storyline but it was good as a whole (and the Recon minicon team Jolt, Reverb and Sixspeed ruled). G1 was pretty awesome. I grew up with RID since I was born in the 90's but I watch G1 on YT and I will watch BW and BM soon too.

  • they didnt show an episode

  • What do you mean?

  • No you're acutally wrong. If you think Animated is better than RID, you have something wrong with you or you are just a little kid. The movie was good but a lot needed improving - particularly all the Decepticons. Animated changes the original storyline but is still a nice cartoon as a seperate Transformers from the rest. I do like G1 and I have yet to watch BW and BM but I have seen some BM and it rules.

  • Not too many people remembers this series but me.

  • who cannot love this series!!!!!!!!!

    This is the series that made me loved transformers, i can remember sitting on the floor eating chocolate bars while watching this *sobs*

    God bless transfomers

  • It looks like they animated megatron from beast wars to me.

  • Some of the Car Robots/RiD characters and toys (mostly Predacons) are straight remolds or repaints of Beast Wars toys. eg: Dark Scream and Sky-Byte. However, Megatron (Gigatron in Car Robots) was a completely new mold.

  • did this series have another team with nemesis prime as their leader? because i remember a series that had those three teams

  • RiD started as Autobots vs Predacons. The Decepticons were created later as a subgroup under the command of Megatron who was leader of the Predacons.

    He put Scourge (a black Prime-styled character) in charge of the Decepticon subgroup. These days he would probably be called Nemesis Prime, however that name didn't come along until later - in RiD it was Scourge.

    Check out transformers dot wikia dot com for Robots In Disguise.

  • thanks

  • The animation and the voice acting in this show was really great, but the story from G1 is still the best.

  • im young, so i grew up listenin to this

  • Amen, the very first TF series I saw the whole way through. Back then, I didn't like Beast Wars at all. Still remains as a good series, but G1 was the best.

  • And thank you for typing that in uppercase.

  • horrible song

  • do you have a better one? I though so..

  • the better one is g1  song, MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!

  • that's obvious.

    I wish they wouldn't replace all the intros to the Japanese ones and just keep the Japanese language ones.

    I don't care if i don't understand the Japanese song, and the kids don't either.

  • Oh this was one of my all time favourite series. Thanks so much for posting the opening! I love the music in Robots in Disguise. I hate Japanese openings etc. coz the are boring and dull most of he time coz they usually have different music e.g. season one of one piece has a rap but I like he rap best. The Car Robots song (RID Japanese song) is lame. I like the English ones bet since they sound best AND I can understand them.

  • You noticed how much cooler the Japanese Transformers is than the American one? At least, that's my opinion.

  • Do you mean Japanese *production* (ie: RiD, Armada, Energon, Cybertron vs G1, Beast Wars, Beast Machines), or Japanese *language* (ie: Car Robots, Micron Legend, Superlink, Galaxy Force vs RiD, Armada, Energon, Cybertron)?

  • ya the amrican ones are realy getting boring and japenese ones are getiting better :p

  • Any idea why they didn't put Starscream in rid?

  • Don't forget, unlike Armada/Energon, RID was originally developed as a Japan-only line called Car Robots, and was only adapted for the US after the fact.

    Many of the characters in CR did not have any relationship to previous G1 characters; they only received G1-related names when the series was adapted into RID. eg: "Megatron" originated as a whole new villain called Gigatron, "Prowl" was Mach Alert. It was pretty much only Convoy (Prime) that was inspired by G1, because he's so well known.

  • People always wonder what it'd be like to have a show without Prime and Megatron when there already was a show.

    Convoy and Gigatron.