Posted 26 February 2010 - 02:08 AM
An opinion is an opinion and everyone is entitled to having one.
Mine:
G1 and G2 were inovative for their time but the cartoon is extremely campy and sometimes the animation just goes haywire! Dissapearing faces, background, heck they sometimes even get the colors and voices messed up! Have to say I really enjoyed it when I was little, today... not so much. It's hard for me to watch more than 3 episodes in a row.
Beast Wars still holds it's own today. The series was completey computer animated and featured some of the character developments and stories ever. My favourite series. The figures were hit and miss, but they tried, like they always do.
Beast Machines was ok, the second season was definately better as the story progressed. Not to fond of the design and animation, still think Beast Wars looks better most of the time. Toys were meh in most cases.
Robots in Disguise was typically Japanese, the animation was pretty awesome but the random mix of characters and story doesn't appeal to me. The toys have some of the best designs ever, still being pretty damn impressive to this day.
Armada, Energon, Cybertron: Can't stand the animation on these, Armada's ok from time to time but they have some really bad episodes where the animation quality isn't what it's supposed to be, reminds me of Dragon Ball GT. They have some good toys though, not a big fan of gimmicks, at all, especially when they're useless and take articulation or hinder the overall appearance of the toy. First time we ever got an Unicron and Primus though.
Animated is one of the best shows ever if you ask me, full of homages and plain old fun adventures. The style might put some people off, but I got used to and really like it. Too bad the show is cancelled. The toys are amazing in terms of engineering, they have great posability and they look slick as hell!
I know there are some Japanese series as well, but I never watched those. Have a few Japanese Beast Wars and I quite like them.
The movie didn't really appeal to me. Felt more like Humans with Transforming robots to me. Thought the second one was even worse. Action wise it was pretty good, but the story really lacked, as did the acting. Not to big of a fan of the toy designs, but there are some real winners in there!
The Alternators figures have me hooked, amazing engineering! Cars that look like model cars that Transform into posable modern version of the G1 characters I know and love. I've dreamt about this when I was little.
Same goes for the Masterpiece line, those are some very, very, very impressive Transformers! They might cost a bunch, but they're unlike anything I've ever seen. An Optimus Prime that is show-accurate in both vehicle and robot mode? Rock on!
Then there's the Classics line. Filled with modern updates of old characters, great posability, transformations and designs. It seems to me like Transformers are only getting better and better.
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) 1984-2009 is about right! The Transformer toy line idea originated in Japan from a company named Takara (the japanese equivilant of Hasbro) and the car-to-robot idea didn't exactily take off there, but Hasbro thought the idea was great and decided to sell it here in America (but with different design schemes, different names etc.) The toys sold like hot cakes here in America! They sold so well that the people over at Hasbro decided to make a TV series about the toy line, But the law was back in 1984 was that Toy producers (like Hasbro) couldnt make a TV show about their products, But then He-Man (Mattel) changed that.Today the Transformers are still a hit and growing 25 years strong! 
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