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Transformers: Rescue Bots is a Daytime Emmy award-winning cartoon series that launched onThe Hub onDecember 17,2011 with a preview of the first two episodes, and the full season startingFebruary 18,2012. UnlikePrime,Rescue Bots is animated in Toon Boom Harmony (similar to a Flash cartoon), and aimed at a younger generation ofTransformers fans. Unusual for aTransformers cartoon, it features noDecepticons, though they are mentioned from time to time.

Following the closure of The Hub,Rescue Bots continued to air on its replacement network,Discovery Family. The series is the onlyTransformers cartoon to have a full-length fourth season, and at 104 half-hour episodes total, isthe longest-running Transformers cartoon ever, eclipsing theGeneration 1 cartoon by six episodes.

A follow-up series known asRescue Bots Academy aired from late 2018–2020. In addition, a choose-your-own-adventure web series,My Transformers: Rescue Bots Adventure, was uploaded to YouTube.

Story

TheRescue Bots are a team of inexperiencedAutobots primarily designed to serve as a rescue team on the battlefield. When their craft is drawn toEarth,Optimus Prime judges them as not ready to face theDecepticons, and instead stations them in the technologically advanced town ofGriffin Rock,Maine located on an island off the east coast ofAmerica. There they must work undercover, posing as ordinary robots used as rescue vehicles by the island's "family of heroes", the Burns family. Team leader and team hotheadHeatwave is paired with egotistical firefighterKade Burns; rules pedantChase is partnered with police chiefCharlie Burns; nature-lovingBoulder is paired with engineerGraham Burns, and height-fearingBlades has hotshot pilotDani Burns for a partner.

The Rescue Bots must learn to work together, both with each other and theirhuman partners, to help the people of Griffin Rock. Life on the island is far from ordinary—with the town a voluntary test-bed for new and advanced technology, the rescue team regularly has to cope with disasters and mishaps caused by previously untested technology. Though the Decepticon empire has yet to touch the island, it has its own villains: the devilishly-cunningDoctor Morocco makes life difficult with hisMorBots and other hostile tech; Machiavellian business ownerMadeline Pynch is primarily motivated by greed, particularly for the gold she knows lies beneath the island; and the hacker/thief twinsMyles andEvan who are adept at using the town's technology to steal from the townsfolk. Occasionally when things get really tough, Optimus Prime,Bumblebee, orSideswipe will visit to lend a hand.

As the years pass, much changes. The Rescue Bots reveal their identities as aliens to the townsfolk. Helping them in this endeavor are many new allies they've encountered during their adventures —Blurr andSalvage, two Autobots found frozen in time are now training to be Rescue Bots themselves, and an old friend of Optimus Prime,High Tide, lends a hand for water rescues with his helper botServo.Quickshadow, a covert Rescue Bot agent, has been assigned by Optimus himself to work with the team. Together with these newcomers, the Rescue Bots have expanded their operations to the mainland, establishing a newRescue Bot Training Center there, though they continue to maintain their secrecy

Cast

Episodes

For further information, see:List of Rescue Bots episodes

Season 1 (2011-2012)

Season 2 (2014)

Season 3 (2014-2015)

Season 4 (2016)

†Clip show

Production

The series was developed byNicole Dubuc,Brian Hohlfeld andJeff Kline, who work as story editor, supervising producer and executive producer respectively. Dubuc and Hohlfeld, along withGreg Johnson, form the series writing team, though some of the episodes have had guest writers. Direction duties are rotated, withFrank Molieri as supervising director —Nathan Chew andPatrick Archibald were the directorial team on season 1 withTim Maltby andKevin Altieri replacing Archibald on season 2. Season 3 addedFrank Squillace to the directing lineup.Ginny McSwain handles voice direction duties, whileTherese Trujillo works as animation producer. Designers who have worked on the show includeShane Glines,Steve Jones, andJeremy Tin (character designs),Jeremiah Regan (character/prop design), andEdgar Carlos (backgrounds).

The show changed animation studios for each of the first three seasons. For the first season, the show was animated by Canadian firmAtomic Cartoons (Johnny Test,Spider-Man Unlimited) in Toon Boom Harmony. For season two, the animation work was taken over by Malaysian firmVision Animation, withKickstart Productions and Australian firmMoody Street Kids also working on the production. For seasons three and four, Canadian firmDHX Media (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,Littlest Pet Shop,Pound Puppies) handled the animation, outsourcing the nitty-gritty work toTop Draw Animation. Music was provided for the first season by duoStarr Parodi andJeff Eden Fair. For the second season onwards, Australian composerChristopher Elves took the musical reins.

Awards and nominations

2016 Annie Awards

• Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children - "I Have Heard the Robots Singing"

2016 Daytime Emmys

• Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program -Jeff Bennett(WINNER)
• Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program

2017 Cynopsis Kids !magination Awards

• Best Guest Appearance on a Kids Show -Mark Hamill(WINNER)
• Preschool Series (Honorable Mention)

Home video releases

Main article:Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)/home video

Notes

• Jeff Kline stated thatRescue Bots andPrime occupy the same continuity, and do so because he felt twoTransformers shows on the same network should share the same mythology. This is whyRescue Bots takes place on an island, so that it can exist in a relatively insulated bubble from the more dangerous plot elements of the older-skewingPrime.
• Rik Alvarez said in 2015 thatRescue Bots andPrime being in the same continuity was a studio decision, and not one Hasbro had expected.

Foreign names

• French:Transformers Rescue Bots: Mission Protection

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