Unless I've been misinformed, today marks the 20th year since Transformers Armada first aired.


A toast, to the series that got me hooked onto the Transformers Franchise.

 

Cheers indeed! Armada is a great series, and it kicked off the first honest-to-goodness reboot of the franchise (RiD01 wasn't intended to be a reboot).
Love Armada Optimus, Jetfire, Hot Shot, Red Alert, Megatron, Thrust, Starscream, Demolishor, Sideways, and Unicron.

 

I love Armada. It's what got me back into collecting Transformers again.

 

Yes cheers! Armada will always be my favorite. it spawned a new generation of Transformers fans.

 

To reiterate, Transformers Beast Wars was my introduction to the series, but I thought it was just "Beast Wars" since that was the only thing they said in the opening, and I was in elementary school. XP

Then I encountered Robots in Disguise, but I dropped it after the first episode because that Optimus VA was terrible.

So Transformers Armada is what made me a fan of the franchise.

 

It should have been next year if Hasbro didn’t aired its earlier unfinished.

 

Car robot is part of the g1/beast era timeline Japanese version anyway.

 

Cheers to a fairly underrated series that took quite the unique approach to Transformers. And it had Best Starscream in the franchise.

 

Easily one of the most underrated TF shows accompanied by some gimmicky but great toys.

 

...20 years. FFS. It's G1 all over again, for a lot of people. Not too long after that, we started getting Masterpiece and Binaltech/Alternators, and G1 was being celebrated for its 20th. (Followed by the movie's 20th.) Good grief.

HTF have we all gotten this old this quickly? I remember 2002 like it was yesterday. I remember thinking these toys looked like ass and I wasn't going to buy them, but then lost my mind over the gimmicks and bought every friggin' one I could find.

...TWENTY YEARS AGO?! I WAS 22!

I. Am. So. Friggin'. Old. ;_;

 

Man, this really puts it into perspective how long I've been around since Armada was my initial entry into the franchise - sure, I'd seen various G1 episodes from the times mom took me to Hollywood Video and get an episode (The first episode of the Dinobots was always a favorite of mine, which is ironic because I actually don't really have any special affinity for the Dinobots so I dunno why I loved that episode so much). But Armada was the first one I could really catch on TV and follow along with.

That was Neil Kaplan lol.

I know, right? Time just seems so weird - never feels like it's going fast enough sometimes but then you blink and suddenly it's years later and so much has happened in what feels like such a short time.