Not specific continuities or series' but just decades and the fiction and the fan community corresponding to that specific decade.
Since the 80's G1 era is what i grew up on that is my choice. So that is just simply cause i don't know of anything else since 80's Transformers is my love for the franchise. I have respect for the other era's but those are just not my love or feel for transformers.
80's - Not just for Hasbro's toys and the Sunbow cartoon but also for Takara's toys and Toei's continuation of the cartoon series. Not to mention all the other good stuff from the 80's: Star Wars, Masters of the Universe, GI*JOE, M.A.S.K., Thundercats, Silverhawks, Voltron, Robotech, Centurions, and the list goes on.
80s. Was 5 when the first cartoon premiered, was hooked ever since. Was so awesome since it was so new and all the commercials advertising the new toys would make me instantly harass my parents. Loved watching the cartoons and reading the comics with my dad
2010's due to shows like Prime, films like Bumblebee, the Generations toyline, and the overall expansion of the brand from successful franchise, to global phenomenon. Transformers has gone a long way, my dudes.
I prefer my beast characters over g1 or the newer characters, but I do have certain favorites from throughout. Beast Era is just my style
Right now. Everything we’ve ever had still exists and new shit hits every day, it seems. But, I do long for the magic of my 1980’s childhood experiences when the whole concept felt new and fresh. I wish kids today could have experienced that. It was a paradigm shift in the toy world the magnitude of which rarely happens.
The mid-to-late 90s, when the beast era dominated. I’ve never been attached to any other TF show the way I was with those ones. And aside from the usual praise that people dole out for BW, it just felt special again. It was a time when online fandoms were just beginning, Botcon was still a small time operation run by fans, I had my own income for the first time & was able to collect nearly all the characters from the show, there was so much newness to it while still acting as a direct continuation, and it rekindled my love of Transformers at a time when I could’ve easily moved on to other things & forgotten about TFs entirely. As the franchise has become bigger & more visible in the public eye, I kind of lost that feeling that I had discovered this unique niche thing that only a few people knew about- the people that were up at 6 am watching cartoons before the sun had come up. Now it’s everywhere and ballooned into this massive thing. And I’m not complaining about that, because we’d never be getting the incredible BW Masterpieces or the HasLab Unicron if it had remained a small niche thing. But I do miss that feeling that I had discovered something secret and incredible & hardly anyone else knew about it. It’s the last time Transformers made me feel like a kid again.
90s and early 2000s for being my childhood and incredibly tight in the fiction department with several unique reinventions of the brand in succession. Gritty Neon G2 comics + toys using classic molds and new innovations also. Beast Wars + it's total engineering and aesthetic shift, and of course the instant classic T.V. show. Beast Machines and it's crazy left field philosophical streak. JP Beast Wars, a hidden gem in the canon until the recent fansub. Car Robots/RID01 and Sky-Byte/Gelshark's debut. Armada/Micron Legend, a really tight toyline that sold gangbusters worldwide! (Show only palatably watchable in Japan ) The Armada Comic was good and connected to the old Marvel G1 stories via Unicron. That rascal, Simon Furman! First Major Reprints of Marvel TF Post Cancellation Early Dreamwave like Prime Directive was good for its time and the sole burgeoning '80s reboot' TF at the time. The 86 Movie was in print and solidifying its cult classic status. The kickass Universe 2003 line foreshadowing the Classics/Generations lines and the fun Botcon stories that went with it. Too bad Energon (And Armada's Painfully BAD Dub of an EXCELLENT Anime) slowed their roll so hard.
