The third and final chapter of the Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy, Kingdom, is hitting Netflix on the 29th of July. Ahead of Kingdom's debut, a new trailer showing off some of the new characters joining the cast from the Beast Wars era of Transformers history has been released.
Following Siege and Earthrise, Transformers: War For Cybertron: Kingdom is the last season of this latest continuity in the vast and confusing web of Transformers lore. After Hasbro's partnership with Machinima resulted in the poorly recieved Prime Wars Trilogy prior, the toy company teamed up with Rooster Teeth for a higher-budget Netflix original series.
The War For Cybertron Trilogy takes place in its own timeline, making it separate from the events of previous cartoons, movies or comics - but it's a very familiar setup. The Autobot and Decepticon factions have torn apart their homeworld of Cybertron in a civil war. In a desperate and controversial move, Optimus Prime throws the life-giving Allspark through a spacebridge, taking the conflict to space and other worlds.
After fairly formulaic and G1-adjacent two seasons, Kingdom has the potential to shake things up - not only is there new talent on the production team, but the third chapter of the series will introduce the Maximal and Predacon characters from Beast Wars. Turning into realistic (uh, mostly, there is a purple t-wrex in there!) animals instead of vehicles, these new characters don't only bring a different aesthetic to bear, but have their own allegiances and motivations.