Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 TV series)

For the 2000 animated series, see Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2000 TV series).

Transformers: Robots in Disguise
Genre
Based onTransformers
by Hasbro and Takara Tomy
Developed byAdam Beechen
Duane Capizzi
Jeff Kline
Voices of
Theme music composer
ComposersKevin Manthei (season 1)
Kevin Kiner[1]
Country of originUnited States
Japan
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes71 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersJeff Kline (seasons 1 and 2)
Stephen Davis
ProducerAdam Beechen
Production companiesHasbro Studios
Darby Pop Productions (seasons 1 and 2 only)
Original release
NetworkCartoon Network[2][3][4]
ReleaseMarch 14, 2015 (2015-03-14) –
November 11, 2017 (2017-11-11)
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Transformers: Robots in Disguise is an American science-fiction animated television series for children produced by Hasbro Studios and Darby Pop Productions in the United States for Cartoon Network. It was also animated by Polygon Pictures in Japan. It is the stand-alone sequel to Transformers: Prime that ran from 2010 to 2013 on The Hub Network, featuring characters (most of whose voice actors reprise their roles) and storylines mostly self-contained from the events of its predecessor as well as an overall more lighthearted tone.[6] Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (the executive producers of Prime) did not return to the new series. In the United States, the series ran on Cartoon Network from March 14, 2015, to November 11, 2017.[2][3][4][7][8]

The show's second season, featuring guest appearances from some returning Transformers: Prime characters, premiered on February 20, 2016. A six-episode mini-series centered on the return of Starscream premiered in Canada on September 10, 2016, before debuting on U.S. television the following month.[9][10][11] The third and final season, subtitled Combiner Force, aired from April 29, 2017, to November 11, 2017.[12][13][14]

It was the first Transformers series to feature Bumblebee as the main protagonist rather than Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots and the main protagonist in most of the other series (though Optimus appears in a semi-regular role throughout Robots in Disguise).

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