Out today on Blu-ray is Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising. That’s quite a mouthful, to be sure, but it’s also the feature film conclusion to a fan-favorite animated series, a strange format decision in a show full of surprising approaches.Transformers Prime has been, all along, basically a hodgepodge of different bits of continuity from previous Transformers cartoons, movies and comics–basically a rolling “greatest hits tour,” incorporating elements of the histories of generations of the popular robot protagonists without letting itself get bogged down by all that continuity. It was essentially their way of rebooting the long-running cartoons so that they jived better with Michael Bay’s blockbuster movie franchise.And as a result, you get things coming in from those movies. The character designs certainly owe something to the Bayformers, and for the duration of the series–until the finale, anyway–Bumblebee couldn’t talk.When he did, it was Will Friedle whose voice came out, and so it’s no surprise, given the popularity of the character and the extent to which he’s a key part of the Autobots, that Friedle has a major role to play in today’s Predacons Rising direct-to-video feature.Friedle, who has also starred on Boy Meets World and Batman Beyond, joined ComicBook.com to talk about Beast Hunters, what it’s like to work with actors whose work he loved as a kid and whether he’d like to continue on as Bumblebee in whatever the next iteration of Transformers cartoons is.
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