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Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (or simply Rescue Bots Academy) is an animated children's television series on Discovery Family. Based on toy manufacturer Hasbro 's Transformers franchise, the series is a sequel of Transformers: Rescue Bots , sharing the name with the Rescue Bots season three episode called "Rescue Bots Academy".
This season (having thirteen episodes) began just one week after the first season had ended, on April 12, 2008, with the airing of "The Elite Guard", and ended on July 5, 2008, with the two-parter, "A Bridge Too Close". The season revolved mainly around the Autobots in the aftermath of Megatron's return, trying to restore the city and their image.
As of its fourth season, Rescue Bots is the longest-running Transformers series, surpassing The Transformers, which aired for 98 episodes. On June 6, 2017, it was announced that the series had ended production and would be succeeded by Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy. [7] None of the cast members reprised their roles in the series.
A spaceship carrying four members of Rescue Force Sigma-17 receives a distress call from Autobot leader Optimus Prime. The spaceship self-navigates its way to Earth, on the island of Griffin Rock, near Maine, where Optimus Prime assigns the Rescue Bots on a mission: work with the Burns family and learn human customs, while concealing their status as aliens from Cybertron.
Launched in the summer of 2002, Transformers: Armada was the first series co-produced between Hasbro and Takara, with the intention of creating a toyline for simultaneous release in both North America and Japan. It was released in Japan six months later in January 2003, where it was known as Transformers: Micron Legend.
New Transformers introduced in the first season include the Autobot Arcee (who only appears in Ratchet's flashbacks), the Decepticon Soundwave, the bounty-hunter Lockdown, and the Dinobots Grimlock, Snarl, and Swoop. Several human villains are also introduced, including Nanosec (who can run at extreme speeds), the Headmaster (who pilots a ...
The Autobots built rocket engines to move Jungle Planet back to where it was. Galvatron damaged the rocket boosters, and then challenged Optimus Prime in the command center to a final battle. The Autobots attempted to salvage the situation, along with the remaining Decepticons (after they were free from Galvatron) who arrived to lend them a hand.
The Autobots are searching for the new location of the Decepticon's space bridge when they get a distress call from Chip Chase, who is at a munitions factory being attacked by Decepticons. The Autobots try to stop them, but the Decepticons escape with the Energon and Optimus Prime is badly damaged.