Transformers One earned critical acclaim but underperformed financially, while a fan-animated series by Blokees aims to continue the story. The original 2024 film reimagined the origins of Optimus Prime and Megatron with a Cybertron-only setting, receiving high Rotten Tomatoes scores but lacking profitability. Despite no active sequel from Paramount, Blokees is producing an officially authorized fanimated social media collaboration featuring 3D models of their figurines.
earned near-universal acclaim while reintroducing Optimus Prime and Megatron as the miners Orion Pax and D-16, whose friendship curdles into the war that defines the entiremythology.
Director Josh Cooley built an origin story that traded the human-centric spectacle of the live-action films for something more intimate, andParamount has since confirmed that a sequel isn’t in active development . However, fans hoping to revisit that version of Cybertron may finally get their wish, though not through the channel anyone expected.began on Cybertron.
Blokees described the endeavor as an “officially authorized fanimated social media collaboration,” with voice actor Jon Bailey stepping into the role of Optimus Prime and Bob Carter voicing Megatron. Blokees has built its reputation for producing affordable, non-transforming buildable figures under license from Hasbro, expanding its “Transformers Galaxy Version” toy line into one of the busiest corners of the collector market.
The BotCon reveal marks the company’s first major push into original animated storytelling, rather than toys alone, although the footage shown during the convention underlines how the series will use 3D models of Blokees’ figurines as characters.currently holds an 89% critics score and a 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Those figures place it two points behindstands as a statistical outlier in a franchise that has otherwise struggled with critics since Michael Bay’s original 2007 film, which itself only managed a 57% score.
The sequels that followed,arrived in 2023, moviegoers had largely tuned out despite a modest critical rebound to 52%. In part due to the franchise’s complicated theatrical history,opened to $24.6 million domestically and closed its nine-week run with $59.1 million domestic and $69.2 million international, a global total of $129 million against a reported $75 million budget.
After marketing costs and theater splits, that total left the film short of profitability.succeeded because it dropped the sidekick-and-human dynamic that defined the Bay era and set its entire narrative on Cybertron instead, tracking its two leads across the years that turn them into enemies. That structure let Cooley build a real character study out of figures who previously existed only as archetypes in theaters, giving their eventual rivalry emotional weight that the live-action films never earned.
Sadly, longtime fans who sat through five Bay-directed sequels and a soft reboot had little reason to expect a seventh trip to the multiplex would finally deliver. That skepticism costthe opening weekend it needed, even as reviews told a different story. Even more tragic is that Paramount executives brush over this context, deciding against a proper sequel for
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