TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on THE ARK
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Prepare for blast off! This week, it's The Basics on the Autobot spaceship that brought the Transformers to Earth - THE ARK!
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"Transformers: Fall of Cybertron" video game had the BEST depiction of The ARK imo. It was the size of a human city and actually felt like it could carry hundreds (if not a few thousand) Autobots inside. It even had a giant highway built ont the surface that you could drive on during one level of the game. Other depictions of the Ark are TOO SMALL. This ship is supposed to be the last hope of the Autobots and carry the survivors of a dying race away from Cybertron. It shouldn't feel like some space shuttle. It needs to be BIG.
Agreed it was very cool and huge it could hold nearly 100,000 autobots and was bassicaly a moving city/hq
If there was ever a third game, I had always hoped you could duke it out with an ark vs trypticon finale fight. How epic would that have been?
Wow. 😯
The Titans are usually portrayed smaller as they are supposed to be as citiybots.
" It was the size of a human city and actually felt like it could carry hundreds (if not a few thousand) Autobots inside."
I can't be the only one seeing how wrong all that is.
If its a human size city, then its not hundreds of trasnformers. Because "Human City" is relative. if my city was Ark, probably some 50 autobots would be here, all boxed and tight.
Therefore that argument is not valid if you are referring to some certain city that big, or you mean.... a North American STATES, the size of Texas or such.
“This thing wasn’t built, it was POURED!”
“Die cast construction! It’s a lost art.”
-Rattrap and Optimus Primal on The Ark.
That's a deep cut, bro!
One of the best lines in the series.
Primal looking at us when he said "It's a lost art" was the icing on the cake. I'm surprised Jobby hasn't used that clip.
Beat me to it.
I remember that
At least the Ark wasn’t taken offline by a Cosmic Powered Starscream
Do not give hasbro this idea, please
@@ivangenov6782 good call
@@ivangenov6782 You mean the comic writers...
@@jimbodeek that too
That's, damn true
The Ark has come to be known for several features such as, its crash landing on Earth, its immense size, being the exodus for the Autobots fleeing a dying Cybertron, the location of the super computer Teletraan-1, and for being the alt mode of some Autobot Titans, such as Omega Supreme and The Last Autobot (a.k.a. Autonomous Maximus), but one thing is clear, the Ark will go down as being the most prominent starship of the Transformers franchise.
hehe, go down... cause it crashes.
@@ardensediri80 lol Kaboom!
It was also the second Maximal base.
Thank.....you?...
Yeah The Ark Becoming a Titan will probably be a theme now, with Kingdom haveing stated that another Universe Ark, had also gained sentience and become a city titan, so that leaves out one big question where is the Arks Drone team like Metroplex's and Trypticons little minions.
I always loved how in Fall of Cybertron, the Titan Metroplex uses his very spark to give power to the Ark and allowing it to blast off without him. I don't know about you, but I sometimes get teary-eyed when I hear him say, "Til all are one"
I fell in love with the concept of The Ark being a transformer itself!
It was always a surprise to me when something like that happens in cartoons! 😁
I remember watching animated for the first time and my jaw dropped to the floor when I saw the end of the second season
It is so cool
Ah, the Ark: the ship that never needs landing gear.
Lol
Hahahaha
And will never have.
We prefer the term aggressive decent
Does it ever need one?
Animated's depiction of Orion/Ark as a stasis locked Omega Supreme was a great idea and I'm glad to see a version if it meld into the Ark proper.
I'd like this idea to continue, maybe with the Decepticon ship Nemesis too. Maybe both sides had to rebuild their last titans, Omega and Trypticon, into ships to escape Cybertron as all other vessels were either dismantled or destroyed during the war.
If I remember correctly Nemesis is Trypticon in the aligned continuity. TFP has a episode where the Nemesis goes haywire and hints heavily to a personality trapped in there.
They seriously need to do that more, also Chris should cover the basics on any Transformer who's been Scottish.
@@smb-c3po Ultra Magnus: Optimus..... what's a kilt?
@@ExcalibeonSwordofEeveelutions Chris is clearly Scottish, right?
@@rashakor AN episode. Wasn't he already their ship in G1 too?
Biggest takeaway from this is that the Transformers' origin might have been completely different if a volcano hadn't erupted in 1980 and Budiansky and Shooter instead took inspiration from somewhere else
Checking the events of 1980 and maybe it crashes into the Iranian embassy in London (which I assume was there in prehistoric times) and the TFs are reactivated by the release of Pac Man and Back in Black.
1980? i'm pretty sure best wars reconned it to August 1986. 19 years before the movie
@@Captain_Chaz86 Hasbro can't retcon actual history
@@HelloMisterJAMWAH Technically it can. It can not happen in fiction.
@@Protosilver97 Yeah, but retconning the date of a volcanic eruption in fiction wouldn't make a difference to the real world inspiration of two writers in 1983.
I just keep thinking on how titanically, massive this ship and the nemesis have to be if their flag ships for a race of robots the size of vehicles. Theres probably so many sci fi ships they casually dwarf when you wouldn’t expect them too!
Looking at the thrusters sticking out of the mountain compared to the Autobots leaving it, the Ark wasn't that huge. Then again the show was notorious for playing fast and loose with size continuity. *Looks at 3 Autobots riding inside Cosmos or Devastator standing up inside Astrotrain
But even then I'd say it was only around the size of the Enterprise D at most.
@@darwinxavier3516 In the japanese exclusive series Beast Wars II explains that the cybertronian space ships have a reduction ray at the entrance that makes everyone smaller so they can board the ships.
@@Hektols They took that straight from Doctor Who, Some Time Lord Engineering that is, Bigger on the inside like a Tardis
In the Fall of Cybertron game, Megatron remarks that the Autobots' Ark is nothing more than a cargo shuttle. It might've been a cargo shuttle, but it was armed too
Yep. Megatron underestimated the ARK. During the Soundwave Ark invasion mission, if you take too long then Megatron starts yelling at Soundwave saying that the ARK's guns are taking their toll and heavily damaging the Nemesis. And to hurry up and disable the the main guns.
Yes it’s finally here. Have to admit the ark from fall of cybertron has to be my favourite….it’s like a giant city even the first level of the game saw bumblebee travel through the massive exterior and no wonder they never told the story on how it crashed into earth…..it would probably just destroy the mountain itself
Agreed. The Ark needs to be BIG. Its supposed to carry the survivors of a dying race to the stars. It shouldn't feel like some small space shuttle. It should look and feel BIG.
Admit not edmit**
My theory is that it never actually crashed on earth but was destroyed by decepticons somwhere in space and then crashed on a completely different planet. That would explain why autobots couldn't recover Teletraan-1(which in aligned is a main computer of the Iacon Archive as told in the novels) and didn't have access to Archive's database to get relics before decepticons could. Also may be an explanation for such small ammount of autobots being on earth(Only Optimus, Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bee were on earth originally, others joined them later, as was shown in the Prime series). Might as well explain lack of technology and a lot more if you go into detail
Someone forgot to mention that the Ark from Beast Wars was made from Die Cast construction. Its a lost art.
Die cast construction - they don’t make them like that anymore.
Primal totally roasted Hasbro.
Thats a good thing. That line was horrible
@Screaming Soldier have you ever had 1 single figure from that line? If you did you would know why it was a bad idea.
7:37 Yes it was, you just had to pay attention. Multiple times in the game they show shockwave getting readings of prehistoric earth through the space bridge portal (that’s also how he got the Dino ideas for the dinobots)
He meant the ark not transformers on earth
Might as well call the ship “Charles”, because crashing is the greatest plaaaaaaaan
I understood that reference
If Ewan Mcgregor will voice one of the Ark's passengers in one of the future Transformers films, then I hope he will say "Another happy landing" after the Ark crash landed! 😂
Can't lie I would laugh my ass off lol
Arcee also mentions the Ark briefly in Season 3 (i think) of TFP when Jack asks about other Autobots coming to their aid. His conversation with Arcee seems to imply that either the Ark crashed on earth & most Autobots left earth, or more likely that the Ark was destroyed while traveling to earth (I think they began traveling to earth at the end of the novel Retribution), & the Autobots scattered from there, some of them arriving (perhaps even crashing in debris or escape pods) on earth. Personally, i'm reminded of the Armada comic's Minicon Ark, which was forgotten here - it crashed into the moon, & half of it remained there while the other half crashed on earth.
As megatron once said “A glorified cargo carrier”
I absolutely love the twist of the Ark assuming a robot mode in Kingdom. I call it a twist because the trilogy has a nasty habit of making figures for characters that never appear in the show itself, so when the Ark was released before the show, I just saw it as another figure who would never make it onscreen
Very very cool, this remains my replacement for Saturday morning cartoons.
I do like that in WfC: Kingdom, they did give it a robot mode, and that it did take out the Nemesis for good, its like payback for all the times it crashed because of the Nemesis and/or Decepticons.
After so long, now it's the ARK'S turn to crash the decepticon ship. Lol
I feel like the ark was always going to be the last autobot anyway, on the Netflix series. Instead of the dead universe plot
It would be cool if in the future they depict the ark in the same way as the fall of cybertron game as a really massive ship that could carry thousands of autobots and maybe make mainframe be the true form of teletraam 1 so he could go around and interact more with the other autobots.
As soon as I saw the head of the Ark's robot mode, the first thing that came to mind was the Last Autobot from the Marvel comics (thank you Linkara and your retrospective on the original comic continuity).
Another amazing basics episode and maybe do a basics on the nemesis
Anyone noticed the G1 toy "trailer weapon systems" integrated into the Ark? Prime's trailer repair bay is repairing the deactivated bots, while outside, on the hull, Ironhide's "trailer" is opened-up and shooting at the cons.
I really like the idea of there being multiple arks like and Omega Supreme being the ark is a nice contrast to Trypticon being the Nemisis, maybe calling them the Ark: Genisis and Ark: Nemisis respectively.
The Ark and The Nemesis designs are so cool! Very true to their individual factions. The Ark being relatively smooth and non threatening. While the Nemesis is angular and aggressive looking!
Wonder if they'll ever bring out a silver variant of the Ark but instead of giving it the face of the Last Autobot give it a variation of Auntie's face
Fans are mostly demanding a remold as Animated Omega Supreme.
Glad to see both the ark and teletran 1 get love in transforming toys
I really wasn't expecting the Ark to transform in WFC,. But when it began its transformation, it was a sight to behold! Such a great moment when Wheeljack and Bumblebee get to a door and there's just a rotating wall blocking their path!
Great video, man! Superb knowledge, and incredible delivery of it! Thank you!
Animated:the ship is alive 😱
Kingdom:the ship is alive 😐
Animated: Did it way better
@@darwinxavier3516 and we never get a toy 😥
Considering Transformers: Prime never showed the Ark (that I remember), it’s safe to assume the Ark never came to Earth in the Aligned continuity.
TFP did mention the Ark in the episode "Scattered". Moreover, given that TFP draws more from the Aligned books than it does the videogames, it should be noted that the Ark never made it to Earth at the end of that trilogy either, that by the time Team Prime made it to Earth, all the other crewmembers of the Ark were already scattered. So straight up, the Ark never made it to Earth.
Transformers Universe, the 2015 one, did imply that Prime's team had landed on Earth in a different ship called the Arclight, and RID made explicit reference to Mount St Hilary as their first base.
@@rayo146-x8x that’s right! Are those books any good? I’ve been curious about them
I think Chris should make an episode on Tarantulas for Spooktober. Mad scientist, spider, creepy voice, creepy personality. He fits the holiday perfectly!
11:11: Even if it’s best known for crashing.
Me: Lol
"I... AM... OMEGA SUPREME" is still one of my most favorite scenes in any Transformers show.
I like lore in TF: United Unicron toy that took over The Ark and reformed it to become his new body.
But yeah, WFC Kingdom Titan Class Autobot Ark is crown jewel on Ark toys with happy bonus of modern Mainframe toy that can take form of Teletraan 1 plus Voyager and Vok Golden Disks.
And the Bridge and the mini Optimus figure to give an idea of how big it actually is.
@@Hektols Very true.
Great video! I even learned a new word, thanks to the G2 comic excerpt -- uliginous (growing in swamps or muddy places, marshy, waterlogged)!
Megatron: Ark cannot transform!
Ark: * transforms into 70 meters of robot mode *
Megatron: Oh no..... I'm about to be scrapped metal by this moment!😂
2:10 It's generally accepted nowadays that "AUNTY" was an unfortunate blunder. Jim Shooter simply put that into some of his notes as a possible name for the computer and for the ship i.e. it was the Autobots' home away from home, before settling for the name "ARK". He removed the references to Aunty from the later drafts of the script for the first two issues, but carelessly left one in the scene just after the Autobots had been revived. There is no other reference to Aunty anywhere in the US comic continuity at all, and just a few pages later, Optimus Prime explicitly addresses the computer as "Ark" instead. Sadly, no one at Marvel UK got that particular memo, and so poor old Simon Furman was left to assume that the computer really was meant to be called Aunty, and even did a huge story centered on it.
I think we'd all agree that "TELETRAAN-ONE" is a much better name for a computer than either of the comic book names.
In the G1 cartoon, you see other arks fleeing Cyberton during the early war.
Yep, carrying non-combatants fleeing the impending war.
This led to the existence of several cybertronian colonies throught the Universe, something that the original G1 cartoon didn't exploit as good as they could, it could have been used to explain from where came the new characters.
Thank you for giving me something to watch at 5am!
Another great one thanks Chris and crew I appreciate it and thank God I finally got my 50" smart tv hooked up a week ago today and got through both earthrise and kingdom series and like the idea of the ark finally being a transformer robot. Now need to save enough money to buy the toy. Take care
"In the comic, the ship was white in colour"
I can see the huge Generations Selects box from here...
The Arks robot mode is awesome!
Well, that was a heckuva nostalgia blast. My brother had the Star Bird and it's base when I was little. He let me play with it all the time, even when he didn't know about it. I loved how it's engines would rev up or down depending on how the nose was pointed. I thought that was the coolest thing back in 1978.
i love the idea of the Ark being the last autobot to awaken. great call back
You should do Mirage next. He’s the only famous g1 character that you haven’t done yet.
That's definitely not true.
@@martl8615 G1 *AUTOBOT*
@@basedpota NAME ONE FAMOUS G1 CHARACTER THAT’S ACTUALLY *FAMOUS*
@@basedpota they are not famous. Most of them haven’t even been used until recently in transformers cartoons
@@basedpota they’re only famous because of Grimlock… and Chris has already made a video about them.
Gotta say the netflix version is my favorite, I saw the toy first of course, but much like how Rodimus had a netflix toy despite not being in the show, I didn't actually expect the ark to transform
Fall of Cybertron had the best (modern) incarnation of the Ark for sure!
I love the new Ark and I grew up in the 80's.
Very thorough. Impressive video.
Love the Ark bares the face of the Autobot symbol. So awesome!
"even it IS best known for crashing." Absolutely SAVAGE!
'Long have i waited'. For this video
7:37 Well in my Robertverse headcannon, I just kept it classic (and maybe add a few bits of Dreamwave into it).
Ok I have to have this toy too....damn you Chris....such a great video with so much detail on a ship best known for crashing on Earth!!
Haha, the Ark being known for crashing? Well that's new and could be an accompaniment to Cliffjumper being known as the bot who dies a lot heh...
On the other hand, this was a well informed a video and I enjoyed it! It was nice to know some of these cool facts, like how it was named after a special craft in one of the best stories in the Bible. I also like the idea of the Ark having its own alternate mode. That would be an epic addition to the list of characters and we already got our sick Omega Supreme!
Can't wait to know more characters and other stuff in this franchise!
Being named the ark also fits what they were doing. In the cartoon they were taking so many bots to survive, like what happens in the bible when god tells Noah that it will rain for 40 days and nights so he creates the ark to save his family and takes two of every creature in order to preserve life
Or something like that anyway, I haven’t really paid attention to the bible stories since I was a kid, but I can see how it suits what the autobots were doing
@@livingphoenix1 In the Bible, the Ark was created to store all the land and sky animals. Each species contained a pair, a male and female so that they may reproduce more of their kind once the flood had dried out. The Ark was to save the animals and Noah's family for still being loyal to God, therefore they all survived. So yes, it makes sense for the Autobot space shuttle Ark to carry them all. It's nice.
@@LockheedF-117 that’s what I thought to when I made the connection and that, huh that’s rather fitting actually. I didn’t make the mt saint helens connection until I actually watched an episode of seconds from disaster and realised
In fairness Optimus is probably more known as "the bot who dies."
@@auberginemanproductions1608 so is screamer
My top 5 favourite versions of the ark
5)marvel comics: it actually looks kinda cool
4) unicron trilogy: more like a wepon but still cool
3)wfc trilogy: a robot as a ship is cool….until you see its body
2)animated: iconic ship and iconic character…..I can’t argue with omega
1) fall of cybertron: if Iacon city were a ship…….it’s actually realy big and cool
Any agreements or arguements
I prefer the live-action toy concept of a playset with a pack-in Transformer, rather than having to make the Ark itself a Transformer. Something the size and look of the new Generations toy but as a playset would be the best of both worlds.
Ironically, despite being the Autobot base in several depictions, the Ark toy is the only modern Titan toy without a base mode.
I actually woulda been fine with an ark that's transforms into a playset. I'm not all that pushed on the bot mode
I guess the toy has a bridge section for tiny robots to play in, but one thing we've never had is a true playset interior with levels or interconnecting rooms. Something Gobots had that Transformers lacks. ;)
Although the movie arc should've come with Sentinel Prime as he was the only one associated with it in the movie.
Honestly, I hope we see The Ark as an actual transformer again, I mean, the shock factor is gone, but still
I remember when Omega Supreme was the Ark in Transformers Animated. I miss that show.
Get the dvd set. Its so worth it. I got my friends to love the show. The look on their faces when they found out Ratchet wasn't just pretending the ship was an old friend was priceless.
Good choice. There are some comics you can read.
@@darwinxavier3516 I have the DVD set also!
This video is perfectly timed as I just got my copy of the Kingdom Arc today!
"This is the so called Ark? The Autobots have placed their hopes on a glorified cargo hauler!"
i have precommanded the ark for october and saw the war for cybertron trilogy. Althought his appearance was short, it was epic how he single handedly took down the nemesis ship and decided not to crush megatron in his palm
Always love your videos, man. Thorough, interesting, and engrossing. Thank you very much!
Although things haven't come to full fruition yet, IDW 2 seems to be building up for a similar origin of the Ark leaving to find more energy. We've even gotten a glimpse of the Ark, one of four similar ships that was in the possession of Straxus, but which he left behind fleeing Cybertron with the population of Darkmount due to it missing an engine.
It's kind of a shame that, while the Titans Return Trypticon toy retconned his vehicle mode into a spaceship, they didn't do anything to make it look like either the G1 or Prime versions of the Nemesis.
Also wish the the Ark toy was better armed. It has little gun turrets molded in, with a few on his arms in robot mode, but because they're not articulated they point the wrong way to be used offensively, making him the least armed Titan class toy.
i mean it make since being the ark wasn't never design to fight
Always preferred the G1 cartoon version over the first comics’ one, design and story-wise.
Interesting takeaway from the original comics, though: Cybertron didn’t have much of a protective atmosphere. As per usual, it suddenly got breathable oxygen when required, except in TF:Prime, which totally gets my kudos.
Edit: as I write this, there are three downvotes. The Demons are now trolls, it appears.
What's the idea of Cybertron's atmosphere?
Making a mostly G1 Ark into a Transformer is nice and all. But I'm still waiting for a TFA Omega Supreme figure.
As a fan of the G1 cartoon with only a passing familiarity with the Marvel continuity, I kind of always assumed the Ark's designation as a "Vanguard-class Deep Space Interceptor" was just a bunch of random sci-fi words thrown together, but I must say it makes a heck of a lot more sense in the version of the story where the ship's original job was to shoot down space rocks.
To be specific, that classification was invented by "Transformers: The Ultimate Guide" in 2004, but the version of the story included in that book was indeed the asteroid-smashing one!
Oof you know your obscure when your spaceship gets an episode before skids
Please, let the next Basics be about "The Nemesis".!
Nah axolan
@@deepstrike9750 No way, Axalon was just in Beast Wars, the Nemesis had more Cameos on the other hand.
@@tarn9415 it did get a transforming toy
@@deepstrike9750 You mean the Nemesis?
Primus: Make thee an Ark of gopher metal, with garages inside, three decks, and a ramp. Cover it inside and out with welding.
And Optimus Prime did exactly as Primus has commanded him
Genesis 6:13-22
Die-cast construction, It's a lost art.
And nice educational video about my most favorite space ship
Transformers: *Create a new timeline*
The Ark: Ah shit, here we go again. *crashes*
I liked the yellow animated original best. It felt like a safe ship, not sinister like the pointed Decepticon one (did that ship ever have a name BTW??). I think The Ark looks better than the later ships we saw in Transformers: The Movie.
The decepticon flagship’s usually called the Nemesis
The Ark, now an autobot, has a singature move called "The Crash", where it's an uppercut that causes people to fall over as if they were crash landing.
In 1986 "Transformers The Movie" the autobot city had 3ish Ark-class vessels which were used to escape the Decepticon invasion, featuring the ability to split the ship in two parts, the front body, which is the same as the ark, and the thrusters, ability that was used to trick Galvatron he had destroyed the last autobots (ultra Magnus and his crew) and the matrix. Ultra Magnus released the thrusters of the ship to be destroyed by a swarm of missiles which allowed the to land in the scrap planet Junkion
10:47 That part just feels very satisfying to me.
Can we all agree. That the Ark is basically a City titan, but it can fly.
Accoding to newest lore all Titan Cities are supposed to be massive space ships too.
I love my Saturday mornings
My favourite Ark story is still Generation 1 cartoon episode 1, where Teletraan 1 awakens with both Decepticons and Autobots in a pile of heap after the Ark crash landed on Earth.
What actually blow my mind every time I think about it, is the fact that the Ark is huge in cybertronians terms, so from a human perspective it is massive!
Another incredible video Chris! Do the Nemesis next!
Love how it looks like the last Autobot. :) Always thought it was a very pretty ship.
Great video
I used to own one of those Star Bird toys. Damn, that's some nostalgia.
Love the idea of Cyberverse and Bumblebee
Macross ships would be very proud that the ark itself can transform
"Best known for crashing" just like Launchpad McQuack. Tell me I'm wrong 😁
My personal headcanon for how the ARK got its robot mode is this, like in Fall of Cybertron, Megatron used Trypticon to create the Nemesis and destroyed the original ARK but luckily the giant autobot Metroplex (who in FOC sacrificed his life to power up the ARK) had scanned the ARK beforehand allowing him to transform into a new ARK for the Autobots
I find it funny that in the WFC trilogy, the voice of the Ark/Teletraan 1 was done by the same voice actor who plays Jaune Arc from RWBY
🤩It was all kind of Badass when the Ark Transformed into a Titan!!!🤩
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Wish I could have gotten those "Kingdom" toys of the Arc and Nemesis. Hanging them both from the ceiling like they were locked in combat.
Since the Decepticon spaceship, Nemesis, now has a toy that can transform, I imagine there'll be Basics episode about it in the future.
I just got the giant ark and he is very awsome, thanks for the story of the ark...
“Even if it was best known for crashing”…. Lol, low blow, low blow! 🤣
The Titanium series Ark was actually based on the likeness of the 2 Autobot ships that the Autobots escape Earth in to save Cybertron from Unicron. In fact the front quarter of the ship actually seperates from the back as a nod to the fact the Autobots allowed the rear 3/4 of the ship to be destroyed. The front quarter also looks more like the Ark from the cartoon
While the idea of the disconnecting front piece is certainly derived from the movie shuttle design, no, the rear portion is very definitely based on the Star Bird, with numerous prominent details including the raised hemisphere on the back, the engine detailing in front of it, and the wing-shapes that all owe nothing to the movie shuttles.