Monday, we talked about the new ‘Transformers Animated’ cartoon, and the radical departures that it’s taking.  Michael from Forever Geek pointed me toward the first look we have at the show:

Set on Earth in the near future in Detroit, the alien TRANSFORMERS are thrust into a world populated by humans and automatons. As visitors to Earth, the TRANSFORMERS — OPTIMUS PRIME, BUMBLEBEE, PROWL, BULKHEAD and RATCHET– work in the human world, interacting with the ‘natives’ in exciting and humorous ways. TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED has been created to showcase the heroic AUTOBOTS working together to battle the evil DECEPTICONS and save Earth with kid-relatable plot lines filled with humor, distinctive character personalities, and dynamic action.

I can’t imagine this being good.  It just seems like they’ve taken what should be some bad momba-jomba Autobots, and turned them into Lilo & Stitch.  And Optimus’ face looks like a monkey.