So far it's BW=TFA=G1>RID>AEC. Haven't watched BM yet.

 

Animated is a ton of fun. I really enjoy it.

 

Since when are the bad guys always stronger? G1 and Beast Wars Megatron were never stronger the Optimus Prime, equal at best which to me made their fights so cool. Then, all of the sudden Megatron trashes OP and it takes almost all the autobots to defeat any 1 decepticon in the movie and in the cartoon?? Hollywood crapola I say. Bad guys come up with evil plan, good guys foil evil plan and big fight ensues. Bad guys firing weapons at good guns and good guys dodging everything isn't my idea of a fun story.

For Megatron to be more powerful then Optimus kinda ruins the whole thing for me and I get the impression he is. I missed the first 8 episodes though so someone fill me in, is he alot more powerful then Optimus?

 

it would seem so-until they turned off the gravity in the first episode, Megatron was throwing Prime around like a rag doll-and while i admit, i would have prefered the two of them to be equal in strength, it is a fun and interesting twist to have the Autobots have to use more than sheer strength (except usually Bulkhead) to win a battle.

 

You really need to watch the 8 episodes or at least the premier movie to understand what's going on. I could say it to you that THIS Group of Autobots technically aren't warriors in contrast to G1 but then you'd have more questions . Only OP and Ratchet have had or at least experienced some war/military training but this OP didn't finish his. The premiere/summaries explains things better than I do so check it out.

So as for these Autobots not holding thier own against the Decepticons- they are, for now because they're intended to grow over the course over besides they do manage outwit them in the end. Plus, it was the show's intention to make the Decepticons that badass 'cause they've always been fighters and as for fans like me, it's a welcome change rather than have them look like bumblin fools every week.
Besides, triumph doesn't always have to be physical.

 

just for fun... =)

for me it's ....

BW>BM>G1>TFA>TFG2ComicArc>RID>AEC

BW and BM... Are still awesome plotwise. I have never been more impressed with a Transformers cartoon; let a lone a kids show. For me G1 beats TFA only because it had episodes soley devoted to the transformers, on cybertron, and it felt very sci fi... Which I loved. Aside from that; TFA is just as good as G1 for me and I'm enjoying it. Frankly BW, BM, G1 and TFA are all in the same sort of love catagory.

I loathe the rest. I wish they never existed and that better ones like bw and g1 could have taken their place instead; it was a hard 4 shows for me, but I tried not to complain too much. I'm glad that dark age is over.

That's just me though.

Oh... And I know the G2 comic is not a show, but for me I just loved the grittiness of it, and storywise, it's FAR beyond RID or AEC... For me that is.)

Mike.

 

i loves me some g1 as much as the next guy. toys and cartoons, especially TF was a big part of my childhood.

but i'm sorry to say that TFA is making g1 look like it was made for 'special' kids. outside of the nostalgia factor, g1 the cartoon has nothing on TFA. nothing.

i hold BW/BM in another class for some reason and tend not to compare them with the vehicle-based TF lines.

 

OK here's my take on it.

Beast Wars>Beast Machines>Superlink>Animated>G1>Galaxy Force>Energon>Cybertron>Armada>RID

That's is were I rate Animated for now, but I'm as yet undecided as it appears to be alterating between good and bad episoides, it shows a lot of promise but so far has failed to fully deliver IMO. The only part Im really loving is the design/style of the show and toys. Im my opinion in that department it may well suppass all.

I also think its unfair to judge AEC (and to a lesser extent RID) against the other western series, these were made for a Japanese audience and are best appreciated in thier original language/context. Thefore I've rated the Japanese and US versions seperately.

Yours AK

 

For me, it's BW>BM>TFA>G1=RiD>AEC

As of now, for me, Beast Wars is the creme-de-la-creme. Superb storytelling. It was fluid, easy to follow, nothing confusing, hardly any animation errors, and humor. BM was a step below mainly because it was way too dark. TFA's storytelling for me seems very forced, rushed, and choppy in places. It's definitely better than the majority of the shows but it can't quite top BW/BM.

G1 and RiD are about the same for me. G1 doesn't have the greatest storytelling (consistent continuity), animation, but it did have decent voice acting while RiD was more consistent but hunkered down by too much stock footage and cheesiness. In the end, they sorta pan out to about the same in terms of quality. AEC...ugh...that was just painful to watch in parts. I can't say what Micron, Superlink, and Galaxy Force are like. I should probably throw in Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory, Zone, and the Japanese BWs as well but I don't know enough about them.

 

I love animated but G1 is higher up when it comes to nostalgica and great memories that animated cant win against. But man I sure love animated.

 

I will say one thing that has impressed me about animated. G1 had the luxury of having basically one type of target audience, boys age 5-14 or so. It's a little more tricky for Animated though. It has to be basic enough to keep that target group BUT it also has to be adult enough to please all the people who in the 80's loved the g1 cartoon and still love Transformers. Hard to do and Hasbro capitalized on the movie good. They basically took the same story from the movie and put it in a 30 minute cartoon commercial.

How many incarnations of Transformers have we seen over the years for them to get it right or as close to G1 as they could popularity wise? Probably never happen but this one is ok.

The originals are usually always best to me, maybe it is the nostalgia. Probably why I collect G1 toys and don't really care about the others.

 

Best show since Beast Machines, IMO.

 

In terms of plots, story, character development, etc., I think Animated is the best show period. However, a lot of what makes it so good is the amount of clever references, homages and character updates of previous series, so it's a hard call to make. I guess I'll rank G1 as #1 and Animated as a VERY close #2.

 

Its the best since G1 by far and the only reason I'm not saying its better than G1 is that G1 defined what Transformers is and created so many characters there isn't a way for Animated to get beyond that.

In terms of quality Animated is leaps and bounds beyond all of the other Transformers series. The storytelling/scripts are better than G1 (as much as we hold them in high stead they really were very simplistic compared to What we have today) even though G1 defined most of the story parameters.

The design basically looks at the original and takes it one step in a different direction, completely against the styling of every other TF toon which has either tried to be a Japanese Anime look or 'Look at us using CGI' show off fest.

The voice actors and guest stars have been excellent. I think only the orignal G1 movie picked more names.

They took a risk with the style, they took a risk with some of the voice actors (and in doing so got some of the best voices in thebusiness today) They managed to get some of the best looking toys which actually look like the characters on screen.

Personally I prefer the Animated storyline to the Movie story, which is a bit bland even for a hollywood blockbuster.
Boy gets car, car turns into robot, boy loses car and robot, Boy finds car girl and robot but ends up with cube instead, boy loses cube killing bad robot, Boy gets girl, but ends up not actually having car because its really an alien....how many times have we heard that tale.
Speaking of which...Sams down $4000 on the whole deal...I think I'd be kinda pissed

 

Man, this place is lousy with zombies lately.

 

1. Cybertron- Had better last episodes than Looney Tunes season 3 of Beast Wars
2. Beast Wars- Season 1 and 2 were awesome, season 3 not so great)
3. G1- The nostalgia kicks in
4. Beast Machines- For its epicness
5. Animated- Season 3 has a great contribution for this series to be so up
6. RID- The most underrated TF series ever
7. Armada- Unicron Battles were  
8. Movie 07- Too generic for my liking
9. Energon- Snooze fest of a TF show imo.