I can't get into the story details of Beast Machines, as we couldn't watch enough of it to really get into the story. I can deal with the computer animation of BW, but both the animation and style for Machines was really a turn-off.
I have 2 boys (10/11) and a girl (14) and we went thru the series last summer/fall.

 

i made a good choice voting for primal  

 

I would love to see a "The Mold was not Clean Enough" version of any Transformer.

 

It was mostly junk plastic. It looked like this:

 

That's disappointing. I wanted to see a half brown half white TR Getaway.

 

I am really digging the reference to the hoverboard and how they handled Primal/Optimal