Ralph Breaks the Internet is The follow up to Wreck It Ralph, the 2012 Disney video game movie about an 80’s arcade game character Ralph (John C. Reilly) who gets tired of being the bad guy in Fix It Felix, Jr. a fictional Donkey Kong style arcade game. With the help of  Vanellope (Sarah Silverman), a glitched character from a racing game Sugar Rush they make their escape. In the process, Vanellope realizes that she’s actually a princess with amnesia and he’s not really a bad guy and the two become best friends.

In the sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet, coming to theaters this Thanksgiving, Ralph and Vanellope find their way out of the arcade and onto the internet, where their next adventure ensues. Disney Animation invited me out to their studios in Glendale, CA for a special presentation of select scenes to see first hand the story, animation and execution process of the movie. I also got a chance to talk to Oscar winning and directing team  Rich Moore and Phil Johnston about what went into the films. (I’ll share that interview soon!)  But here’s what I learned about the upcoming movie.

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Machinima released the first of 4 episodes of a “motion comic” otherwise known as an animatic for the upcoming Transformer Combiner Wars: Prime Wars Trilogy on June 28th. The series, to be released in full 3D animation in the US on August 2nd on Verizon’s new go90 app, has been described as an “adult version” of the Transformers, clearly catering to fans like myself, who were fans of the original series and the animated movies.

Transformer Combiner Wars takes place in the future after the war between Autobots and Decepticons has ended and all Transformers have returned to Cybertron. Neither Optimus Prime nor Megatron are around anymore and a new hybrid race of machines has emerged. Ones that combine and transform with any Transformers around them. (Gurren Lagann anyone?). Some of what happened to Prime is described in the first person in the following first 3 minute short. 

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