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Stasis Pod Episode 103: Coop D’Etat

For our between-seasons special, we take a look at another great battle between giant robots voiced by Peter Cullen and Frank Welker — in an episode of the mid-’00s love letter to all things robots, superheroes, and anime, Megas XLR! After accidentally destroying a robotic alien society’s sacred monument, Coop, Jamie, and Kiva become prime targets! Can they escape an army of ’70s-anime-inspired robots out for vengeance? Will immature misogynists ever be harmlessly funny again? And whatever happened to this show, anyway? Join us this week for the Megas XLR season 1 finale, “Coop D’Etat”!

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Roberto Orci Says Some Vague Things About The Next, More “Kid-Friendly” Show

Over on IGN, Roberto Orci confirmed in an interview that he and Alex Kurtzman will be staying with the cartoon wing of the Transformers franchise, continuing on as executive producers on the as-yet-unnamed (at least publicly) new cartoon along with much of the rest of the Prime crew.

Something that’s sure to raise a lot of fandom hackles is his assertion that the new show will be less “intense” and more “friendly to the family” than Transformers Prime. Though we’ve been spoiled on that lately, with Rescue Bots catering to the younger audience while Transformers Prime gave us something much more sophisticated than we usually get in a main-line Transformers cartoon, this seems like a return to the norm of the main show being much more “for kids”. There was nothing said by Orci about whether this more kid-friendly show from the Prime team would run alongside or replace Rescue Bots.

It sounds like we haven’t seen the last of the Aligned continuity after all, as Orci seems determined to stay in continuity as much as possible with Transformers Prime despite the change in tone. He’s also hoping to keep Peter Cullen and Frank Welker on in their classic roles as Optimus Prime and Megatron.