I cannot stress enough how realistic and cool it was not making all the Autobots super buddy-buddy with each other. It was nice way of breaking that stereotype in Transformers
Animated really brings variety to the franchise, more then just Autobots and Decepticons. Now that Hasbro want to merge JI joe into TF, There's gonna be less to talk about.
Teen Titans, Spectacular Spider Man and Transfomers Animated, such great series that unfortunatly got cancelled, hope in the future they give them the seasons they deserve
The idea of making Optimus an underdog and making his dynamic with Megatron more a akin to david and Goliath rather then the two being equal like they are usually portrayed makes the wins the autobots do get more satisfying
Well it's good personal I prefer transformers prime especially megatron who is very intertaining and powerful as his strength includes aspects all villains should have mind and body
This is my favorite show of all time. It's good to know that people did come around on this masterpiece. This show's voice cast especially is legendary.
Believe me how crazy I got upon this video, I was thinking about Blitzwing's faces for my character design, so I search on RUclips and saw this 5 days ago video. Transformers: Animated will always be a strong childhood to me, hack now at the age of almost 22 my "Roll out Command Optimus Prime" is still sleeping beside my bed lol.
This was the first show I ever watched to completion, it started when I was three and ended before I was 6, and my ultimate dream is to one day help revitalize the series and do a final season just like they did for the clone wars, since it was so important to me at such a young age
Yeah, but I don't think you should really take away somethings value because of it's appearance. I mean this is the literal same art style as Teen Titans and they're both good shows
@@Brutustolfo They designed certain art styles to appeal to certain audience there's a reason kids cartoons look the way they do and adult cartoons look the way they do so yes you can judge based off of appearance
The whole opening bit about stuff getting lost in the broader franchise drives me crazy. I hate how people will always see transformers as pretty bad giant blockbuster movies. I wish that stuff like Transformers Armada & Animated was what people knew. There’s so much good stuff in this franchise that nobody even knows about. Even the hardcore fans write off large portions of the media. Stuff like Transformers Victory, that never got a good English dub, and then got released on DVD decades after release is just cursed to never be seen. Or how they ruin English releases, like Transformers Energon. It was butchered into oblivion and the west hates it. Where the Japanese version of the show is a pretty damn competent anime. Animated while not my #1 favorite, is easily the best transformers show the west has made. It’s fantastic, and I hope more people dive into it.
This prob has my fave op in the Franchise. The song & visuals were jus so memorable to me & I really liked the designs. Not much to say except I really liked everythin bout this show growin up & I'm glad certain things leaked into Prime. Who knows it might actually come back
Now that I think about this review, I feel really guilty not watching this show back in the day when it first came out or binging this incarnation years into my high school days. Out of all the Transformers incarnations this one is really my all time favorite, now that there's a Transformers themed channel on PlutoTV I can catch the series anytime I want to and this will my official debut watching the series on my TV.
I remember it was my first ever Transformers show or any type of transformers related media i watched. I LOVED it and because of child me not knowing how tv series aired and when, the Decepticon's had a lot more mystery and threatening air around them for kid me. I rarely saw them and each time i did i ate it up. Megatron was such a menace and shockwave was a mystery through and through. Sadly for some reason as an adult i have a hard time rewatching it. I had tried it like 4 times and either skipped through A LOT or stopped all together. I want to try it again, it was such a comfort show it made me so happy as a child. Evem if it doesn't spark the same emotions i want to hold the show close to my heart for what it has done in the past for me. (It was also one of the shows that made the egg crack a little bit. It's so funny how i saw myself as bumblebee and wanted to be a boy like him or headcanoned him as transmasc without even knowing thay the word even existed and my experience even had words.)
No, I didn't. Because it was the first Transformers show I watched from beginning to end. I've been rewatching random episodes as of late, and it has aged way better than the rest of my childhood Transformers shows.
I dont like that this show died in favor of Prime a show which has weaker story telling.What ads more insult to injury is how Derrick wanted to work on Prime but wasnt allowed to.May he rest in peace thanks for making my childhood great.
I love Transformers Animated so so so much. I started watching it in my last year of highschool and it fully got me into transformers, as well as being a darn good series overall.
@@TheDoomerDen ok so remember your bondrewd video i thought of a another character that is similar to him but before I tell you I need to know if you played doom pesecely doom 2016?
@@TheDoomerDen it ok i was wondering if you know about the similartys of dr samuel hayden and bondrewd also I do have a another question have you heard of fire emblem?
@@sueflewelling3657 yeah I have heard of the similarities with Dr Hayden, interesting character for sure. And I apologize, I have not played fire emblem either
I've been wanting to make my own Transformers series. I would give it a TFA, Prime, & Justice League cartoon vibe. It would be called Transformers Extinction. Peter Cullen would be Optimus Prime & David Kaye would be Orion Pax. Cybertron is now a dead planet; Optimus & many other Autobots come to live on Earth, although begrudgingly. They would include Ironhide (voiced by Cullen), Ratchet, Prowl, etc. Prime & his team would have to fight off Decepticons and deal with the Autobot Elite Guard. Eventually one of the bots would possibly betray Optimus, like Hawk Girl in Justice League. Two concepts that I got from watching Animated is that Elita 1 was infected by spider venom & became a techno organic. In my show Elita would be infected by a symbiotic entity like Venom from Spider Man. Another thing is that Sari is a techno organic that was possibly created by the All Spark (we don't know her full origins though). In my show the All Spark could inhabit the body of a human being and could try and transform the earth into a new Cybertron. In Prime Starscream said he wanted to be an Autobot but then later in stayed with the Cons. I would give him a redemption ark. Last but not least, we have an Orion Pax ark & we would get to see him interacting with humans after he escapes. In this state he doesn't remember being a Prime. He's an alien that only knows Cybertronian, specifically the Iaconian dialect, which means he can't understand what humans are saying. Those are my ideas. If you have more ideas I would love to hear them.
that's sounds awesome, I hope you make that dream come true. when that happens, I would love to be part of the writing team and voice one of the characters since I'm trying to be both an Animation writer and voice actor.
In my personal opinion, I thought it was okay. But, super weird for me. Sari turning out to be a robot never sat right with me and it pretty much turned me off from it. I preferred her to be just human and nothing more. Didn't like how small and weaker Optimus Prime was, but he was just starting out.
I love Blitzwing to me eventho he is insaine he such great comidy relife with out big puppy lugnut (Also Bumblebee is kind of good as well.) I hated that they cancled it but it was probably for a good reason.
I am one of those that I get why people like it. The designs, voice acting, some of the characters and themes are good, and I did appreciate them doing something NEW with the transformers. Although I probably wouldn’t put this in my top 5 maybe in the lower part of my top 10 transformers shows. I mean no disrespect but there’s a few things holding it back for me. Like the human villains outside of Meltdown and Headmaster I couldn’t have cared less for any of them. The animation was also mixed sometimes and clearly didn’t have the budget like shows like Ben 10 or Secret Saturdays for their action. I may also be a little sour given I grew up with the Unicron trilogy (it has its problems don’t get me wrong) but there were more characters there I liked more than here in animated. Especially Hotshot who was my favorite character and I find it sad that they haven’t done anything with him since rescue bots academy. Plus the fact growing up animated was the only decent thing to watch while getting ready for school and I got REALLY sick of it after awhile.
For trying to introduce the series to new ppl (or ppl who haven't watched), which is what your intro suggests, you spoiled stuff that I missed having mainly watched the season only maybe a little into Season 2. Especially when it comes to Sentinel Prime. You might ease up on the details like that if you ever do a video like this again for another series. Otherwise I really liked the video, and coming from my specific perspective, I suppose it is nice to be told of things I have to look forward to and truly have confirmation that, ye, I definitely never did make it all the way through my quite potentially favorite Transformers series (which means I need to make more of a point to fix that error).
I finished tfa yesterday. And it was so underwhelming, everyone was raving about how incredible it is and it's genuinely meh. I mean i get why ppl like it, but its rly not for me. The designs, the voices, the characters aren't terrible but sari was incredibly annoying, thankfully after she upgraded herself she got better, bc she was in it less.....but it was just so meh. No one will agree with me but thats fine. I think calling it the best tf series is far from the truth. Prime is better beast wars s01 is better, hell even earthspark and cyberverse is better. "Waaaaa! Theres a twansformer wiv a pwonoun other than men and women! WAAAAAAA! Yes i think earthspark is better. Hate me idc
I’ll be controversial and say I think armada and cybertron from the Unicron trilogy are better. At least Armada gave some of the decepticons and starscream of all characters had the best arc there. Energon….. has its moments but deserves a good chunk of its reputation.(although it’s still better than most of the Michael bay movies)
@@michaelnally2841 i haven't watched armada and all them, and i don't plan to. Designs can make ot break things for me, and the designs in those shows are hot garbage imo
Some character build were good, but there were some that is confusing, if ratchet keeps calling optimus a kid and ultra magnus was a leader looking, then is this show even making him optimus a prime or orion pax?? If optimus is a prime then why ultra magnus act like he is the prime instead???
@Kayrannkanal20 TFa does have things I don't like I don't like how Optimus is a inexperienced I don't like how the war was lost I don't like how there are very few decepticons bumblebee is pretty silly to be honest many aspects of the show are a miss for me especially the human villains
@Kayrannkanal20 TFA did kill off fan favorites I'll give them that TFP surprisingly had plenty of human death and darkest hour darkness rises and many more showed how dangerous megatron is the aspects of the scares of war the death of an autobot at the beginning breakdown another character who died interesting overall but unfortunate
I cannot stress enough how realistic and cool it was not making all the Autobots super buddy-buddy with each other. It was nice way of breaking that stereotype in Transformers
Animated really brings variety to the franchise, more then just Autobots and Decepticons. Now that Hasbro want to merge JI joe into TF, There's gonna be less to talk about.
...I'm still so mad that Sari's origins and abilities were never fully fleshed out like they would have done in season 4, it was such a cool concept
Apparently, there was going to be a fifth and final season that would've fully explained sari's origins
@@Brutustolfo Yeah, what could have been...
Teen Titans, Spectacular Spider Man and Transfomers Animated, such great series that unfortunatly got cancelled, hope in the future they give them the seasons they deserve
The idea of making Optimus an underdog and making his dynamic with Megatron more a akin to david and Goliath rather then the two being equal like they are usually portrayed makes the wins the autobots do get more satisfying
Animated has my absolute favorite Megatron design.
It also features the best Decepticon of all time, Lugnut.
Well it's good personal I prefer transformers prime especially megatron who is very intertaining and powerful as his strength includes aspects all villains should have mind and body
Yesss. Megatron was absolutely menacing in that one
This was such a good transformers show I recently rewatched the series and I really wish we got a season 4
This is my favorite show of all time. It's good to know that people did come around on this masterpiece. This show's voice cast especially is legendary.
Prime may not have been the leader of the autobots but he was the leader of the good guys.
Honestly crazy that they were sure to make that distinction in a kids show way back in 2007.
Believe me how crazy I got upon this video, I was thinking about Blitzwing's faces for my character design, so I search on RUclips and saw this 5 days ago video.
Transformers: Animated will always be a strong childhood to me, hack now at the age of almost 22 my "Roll out Command Optimus Prime" is still sleeping beside my bed lol.
This was the first show I ever watched to completion, it started when I was three and ended before I was 6, and my ultimate dream is to one day help revitalize the series and do a final season just like they did for the clone wars, since it was so important to me at such a young age
With that animation style I can see why people thought it would be kid like
It's literally in the name, what does anyone expect?
Yeah, but I don't think you should really take away somethings value because of it's appearance. I mean this is the literal same art style as Teen Titans and they're both good shows
@@Brutustolfo They designed certain art styles to appeal to certain audience there's a reason kids cartoons look the way they do and adult cartoons look the way they do so yes you can judge based off of appearance
Megatron in animated is the best Megatron arguably but his Voice actor is perfect
@Kayrannkanal20 Cory Burton is usually the go to actor for impersonations, like Christopher Lee.
@Kayrannkanal20 Funny Fact: He also plays Disney's Caption Hook in the modern era.
@Kayrannkanal20 yeah
I really want a series with both Corey Burton’s Megatron and Troy Baker’s Shockwave being menaces together
Tfanimated is so loved yet so ignored, yet tfprime is always people's favorite child
I remember really enjoying characters of tfa, such a nice show. Maybe it's time to rewatch. Thanks for vidya!
Thank you for watching!
I am Wreck-Gar! I missed out on Transformers Animated! . . . Wait. . .
You wouldn't dare to be that stupid!
The whole opening bit about stuff getting lost in the broader franchise drives me crazy. I hate how people will always see transformers as pretty bad giant blockbuster movies. I wish that stuff like Transformers Armada & Animated was what people knew. There’s so much good stuff in this franchise that nobody even knows about. Even the hardcore fans write off large portions of the media. Stuff like Transformers Victory, that never got a good English dub, and then got released on DVD decades after release is just cursed to never be seen. Or how they ruin English releases, like Transformers Energon. It was butchered into oblivion and the west hates it. Where the Japanese version of the show is a pretty damn competent anime. Animated while not my #1 favorite, is easily the best transformers show the west has made. It’s fantastic, and I hope more people dive into it.
This prob has my fave op in the Franchise. The song & visuals were jus so memorable to me & I really liked the designs. Not much to say except I really liked everythin bout this show growin up & I'm glad certain things leaked into Prime. Who knows it might actually come back
Prowl was my favorite as a kid.
he is still my favorite.
Now that I think about this review, I feel really guilty not watching this show back in the day when it first came out or binging this incarnation years into my high school days. Out of all the Transformers incarnations this one is really my all time favorite, now that there's a Transformers themed channel on PlutoTV I can catch the series anytime I want to and this will my official debut watching the series on my TV.
Cool, the show is also on the Tubi app. And the complete series is available on DVD.
I remember it was my first ever Transformers show or any type of transformers related media i watched.
I LOVED it and because of child me not knowing how tv series aired and when, the Decepticon's had a lot more mystery and threatening air around them for kid me. I rarely saw them and each time i did i ate it up. Megatron was such a menace and shockwave was a mystery through and through.
Sadly for some reason as an adult i have a hard time rewatching it. I had tried it like 4 times and either skipped through A LOT or stopped all together.
I want to try it again, it was such a comfort show it made me so happy as a child.
Evem if it doesn't spark the same emotions i want to hold the show close to my heart for what it has done in the past for me.
(It was also one of the shows that made the egg crack a little bit. It's so funny how i saw myself as bumblebee and wanted to be a boy like him or headcanoned him as transmasc without even knowing thay the word even existed and my experience even had words.)
same here, it was my very first. i was curious and wanted to rewatch it and it ended up getting me into transformers which i am so, so glad for
No, I didn't. Because it was the first Transformers show I watched from beginning to end. I've been rewatching random episodes as of late, and it has aged way better than the rest of my childhood Transformers shows.
i didn’t, everyone missed out on a 4th season though
this reminds me of my childhood, thank uou
I still can’t wrap my mind around Animated not being on TV anymore. Am I that old?
I dont like that this show died in favor of Prime a show which has weaker story telling.What ads more insult to injury is how Derrick wanted to work on Prime but wasnt allowed to.May he rest in peace thanks for making my childhood great.
WE COULD HAVE HAD SOME TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED SHATTERED GLASS!!!!!!???????????!!!! THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😭😭😭
Transformers animated my beloved-
Maybe I missed in on the series,
But I remember this and it was great as a kid on the weekend's
Finally some transformers animated appreciation in my opinion this show is one of the best cartoon reboots ever
I will never understand how people think prime is better than animated 😂
As a kid i really didn't like transformers animated but after this video im starting to appriciate it
I love Transformers Animated so so so much. I started watching it in my last year of highschool and it fully got me into transformers, as well as being a darn good series overall.
the megatron in this show is menacing
Great video, I'm in a little bit of a TFA craze right now, and this video was fucking perfect for me.
Really glad you liked the video! The show deserves all the praise it can get
While Transformers Prime is still top dog for me, I will always cherish Animated and what it did for the franchise.
I’m so glad someone reviewed this series. It was my favorite show as a kid lol. I was like 5 or 6
Hasbro needs to make an Animated Omega Supreme toy.
Keep an eye on the Legacy line.
I haven’t heard of this before . . .
I know I like animated shows, so probably I’ll check it out
great video is it ok if I ask you a question?
Hello, what's your question?
@@TheDoomerDen ok so remember your bondrewd video i thought of a another character that is similar to him but before I tell you I need to know if you played doom pesecely doom 2016?
@@sueflewelling3657 I actually have not played the doom games, I'm sorry
@@TheDoomerDen it ok i was wondering if you know about the similartys of dr samuel hayden and bondrewd also I do have a another question have you heard of fire emblem?
@@sueflewelling3657 yeah I have heard of the similarities with Dr Hayden, interesting character for sure. And I apologize, I have not played fire emblem either
I've been wanting to make my own Transformers series. I would give it a TFA, Prime, & Justice League cartoon vibe. It would be called Transformers Extinction. Peter Cullen would be Optimus Prime & David Kaye would be Orion Pax. Cybertron is now a dead planet; Optimus & many other Autobots come to live on Earth, although begrudgingly. They would include Ironhide (voiced by Cullen), Ratchet, Prowl, etc. Prime & his team would have to fight off Decepticons and deal with the Autobot Elite Guard. Eventually one of the bots would possibly betray Optimus, like Hawk Girl in Justice League. Two concepts that I got from watching Animated is that Elita 1 was infected by spider venom & became a techno organic. In my show Elita would be infected by a symbiotic entity like Venom from Spider Man. Another thing is that Sari is a techno organic that was possibly created by the All Spark (we don't know her full origins though). In my show the All Spark could inhabit the body of a human being and could try and transform the earth into a new Cybertron. In Prime Starscream said he wanted to be an Autobot but then later in stayed with the Cons. I would give him a redemption ark. Last but not least, we have an Orion Pax ark & we would get to see him interacting with humans after he escapes. In this state he doesn't remember being a Prime. He's an alien that only knows Cybertronian, specifically the Iaconian dialect, which means he can't understand what humans are saying. Those are my ideas. If you have more ideas I would love to hear them.
that's sounds awesome, I hope you make that dream come true. when that happens, I would love to be part of the writing team and voice one of the characters since I'm trying to be both an Animation writer and voice actor.
@ thank you
Ah yes, this wasy Saturday morning cartoon back in the day
And the punch of kill everything, ah how fitting
Finally a transformers animated video
A fan of the transformers anime im still missing out on and HNK? Ur so based and poggers
And people keep saying Transformers Prime is the best smh...
All shows are masterpieces but it depends what people want to see I guess
In my personal opinion, I thought it was okay. But, super weird for me. Sari turning out to be a robot never sat right with me and it pretty much turned me off from it. I preferred her to be just human and nothing more. Didn't like how small and weaker Optimus Prime was, but he was just starting out.
Optimus is just space bridge not a heroes that autobot honor
I would've loved Devastator! (Dirt Boss, Bulkhead, Scrapper and Mixmaster)
And Long Haul, Strip Jack, and potentially Bulkhead
@PrimalDragon1740 yeah
I love the show and I have a good amount of the toys.
I love Blitzwing to me eventho he is insaine he such great comidy relife with out big puppy lugnut (Also Bumblebee is kind of good as well.) I hated that they cancled it but it was probably for a good reason.
@Kayrannkanal20 Bumper Robinson also played Dwight Conrad from Futurama.
I loved this show
Another banger.
I am one of those that I get why people like it. The designs, voice acting, some of the characters and themes are good, and I did appreciate them doing something NEW with the transformers. Although I probably wouldn’t put this in my top 5 maybe in the lower part of my top 10 transformers shows.
I mean no disrespect but there’s a few things holding it back for me. Like the human villains outside of Meltdown and Headmaster I couldn’t have cared less for any of them. The animation was also mixed sometimes and clearly didn’t have the budget like shows like Ben 10 or Secret Saturdays for their action.
I may also be a little sour given I grew up with the Unicron trilogy (it has its problems don’t get me wrong) but there were more characters there I liked more than here in animated. Especially Hotshot who was my favorite character and I find it sad that they haven’t done anything with him since rescue bots academy. Plus the fact growing up animated was the only decent thing to watch while getting ready for school and I got REALLY sick of it after awhile.
Transformers prime and movies retrospective please
No, no I didn't, I was able to grow up with this show :3
I don't get it why people are ok with prime and megatron were not a buddy to enemey like the original. Can someone explain why is that ok.
Gun
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For trying to introduce the series to new ppl (or ppl who haven't watched), which is what your intro suggests, you spoiled stuff that I missed having mainly watched the season only maybe a little into Season 2. Especially when it comes to Sentinel Prime. You might ease up on the details like that if you ever do a video like this again for another series.
Otherwise I really liked the video, and coming from my specific perspective, I suppose it is nice to be told of things I have to look forward to and truly have confirmation that, ye, I definitely never did make it all the way through my quite potentially favorite Transformers series (which means I need to make more of a point to fix that error).
I finished tfa yesterday. And it was so underwhelming, everyone was raving about how incredible it is and it's genuinely meh. I mean i get why ppl like it, but its rly not for me. The designs, the voices, the characters aren't terrible but sari was incredibly annoying, thankfully after she upgraded herself she got better, bc she was in it less.....but it was just so meh. No one will agree with me but thats fine. I think calling it the best tf series is far from the truth. Prime is better beast wars s01 is better, hell even earthspark and cyberverse is better. "Waaaaa! Theres a twansformer wiv a pwonoun other than men and women! WAAAAAAA! Yes i think earthspark is better. Hate me idc
I’ll be controversial and say I think armada and cybertron from the Unicron trilogy are better. At least Armada gave some of the decepticons and starscream of all characters had the best arc there. Energon….. has its moments but deserves a good chunk of its reputation.(although it’s still better than most of the Michael bay movies)
@@michaelnally2841 i haven't watched armada and all them, and i don't plan to. Designs can make ot break things for me, and the designs in those shows are hot garbage imo
@@joshieboy9727 How is Sari annoying???? I thought she was cute🥰🥰🥰
Nah
@joshieboy9727 its your opinon, i really love the designs of this series
"You missed out on Transformers Animated"
Nuh uh.
Why?
Some character build were good, but there were some that is confusing, if ratchet keeps calling optimus a kid and ultra magnus was a leader looking, then is this show even making him optimus a prime or orion pax?? If optimus is a prime then why ultra magnus act like he is the prime instead???
In this show, Ultra “Magnus” is a higher rank than Prime.
@@pryma1604 now thats just prime
Show just seems a little to immature but doesn't mean it isn't good I prefer TFP overall
@Kayrannkanal20 TFP isn't perfect but I still enjoy it the horrors of war the implied death worlds destroyed comrades dead and the main villain
@Kayrannkanal20 well the dark tone to me adds alot as unlike war for Cybertron trilogy there is joy and emotion it's not all boring
@Kayrannkanal20 TFa does have things I don't like I don't like how Optimus is a inexperienced I don't like how the war was lost I don't like how there are very few decepticons bumblebee is pretty silly to be honest many aspects of the show are a miss for me especially the human villains
@Kayrannkanal20 TFA did kill off fan favorites I'll give them that TFP surprisingly had plenty of human death and darkest hour darkness rises and many more showed how dangerous megatron is the aspects of the scares of war the death of an autobot at the beginning breakdown another character who died interesting overall but unfortunate
@Kayrannkanal20 I get it a little risky at the time but doesn't mean it's not a good show I still like TFA I like TFP more but both are still good
TF ANIMATED DESINGS ARE CRINGE
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Your comment is cringe