Is G1 TRANSFORMERS Still Worth Watching? Season 1 Retrospective

[@caseymartinez1349]

I watch it regularly, almost daily.

[@retroandreissue]

Favourite episode?

[@Grant80]

@@retroandreissueone other thing I’d raise. Why weren’t the Dino bots given a filth bot so they could conbine or why both Megs and prime could make laser weapons from their hands but never used.

[@TF80s]

@@Grant80 I'm glad they weren't..why are people so obsessed with the Dinobots combining. It defeats the whole point of having robotic Dinosaurs...They didn't need to combine, being robotic dinosaurs was what made them bad ass.

[@DeltaTrion]

Accepting that the film is both a commercial and something that can be remembered fondly is a great take. G1 will always have so much charm to it

[@retroandreissue]

Indeed! I've got through G1 - do you think I should bother with the hacked together Season 5 or just move straight on to Beast Wars?

[@TF80s]

@@retroandreissue well season 5 is just a selection of the same episodes with an annoying boy talking to a Prime puppet so I'd say just skip it...unless you want to recap before moving on.

[@retroandreissue]

@@TF80s It might be fun to just document the fact it existed - and maybe a good opportunity for some comedy!

[@TF80s]

@@retroandreissue well yeah, it's interesting to see the movie split into a five parter with Prime doing the narration at the beginning instead of Victor...Also, l feel like the Five Faces of Darkness episodes look better in the lower quality vhs recording that's available on here..the animation errors don't stand out half as much as they do on the dvd. But maybe that's just me ☺

[@TF80s]

@@retroandreissue by the way, for the first season in particular, there's loads more animation errors in the dvd/Hasbro YT channel versions than there was in the originally aired episodes. It really spoils the episodes.

[@blammers]

I think it’s still by far the best Transformers series. No other has the scope of characters, stories, and imagination G1 had. Every time they try to reinvent the wheel, they fall short.

[@themoviereviewwarriors939]

Still my favorite,but beast wars was great and prime was pretty good as well.

[@durreallduncan4710]

@blammers Dreamwave comics did VERY well for VERY long time if you had a chance to check them out. They successfully conveyed the size, complexity and scale of the Cybertronians conflict.

[@blammers]

@@durreallduncan4710 Dreamwave? Or did you mean IDW?

[@durreallduncan4710]

@blammers both but yes IDW...my bad

[@andrewrichards312]

Actually the Technobots don't break canon with their creation, but it does take some reading between the lines. What I would argue is that when Grimlock gained super-intelligence in "Grimlock's New Brain", he actually gained a tiny portion of the spark of Unicron, through being hit with an energy burst which stemmed from the blood of Unicron, which I would argue had been infused with the energy of Unicron's spark. However it wasn't a direct infusion of Dark Energon, so it didn't cause Grimlock to be zombified. What happened was that the Technobots were initially each designed with a generalised AI, which each of the 6 Technobots had. However when Grimlock transferred the resonant energy from himself to Computron, it gave each of the 6 Technobots a proper spark. I think this can be somewhat deduced through the fact that Unicron's powers suggest that he is as capable of creating sparks as Primus is - especially when you consider that Scourge and Cyclonus weren't actually Thundercracker and Skywarp, but rather original sparks, inside the reformatted corpses of both Seekers.

[@dal5x5]

It's better than any of the Transformers series since 2000.

[@oliviawilliams6204]

Dunno, not sure i would say it’s better than Animated and or Prime

[@borisblagojevic571]

@@dal5x5 Agree.I still trying to find it download it save it and back it up.I will never forget this version of Transformers.NEVER.

[@PrivateAccountXSG]

Great video! My head theory for why Megs keeps Starscream around, is because he secretly respects his ball bearings for directly challenging him. No other decepticons ever try to take over so defiantly. Megs is trying to groom a true warrior out of him. None of this is supported by the show of course, but i think its a fun idea.

[@retroandreissue]

I like that take!

[@makocrab2223]

That theory certainly applies to the TF: Armada version of both those characters. This clip from the show really shows it: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXfCnHaqfc5ge5o&pp=ygUuVHJhbnNmb3JtZXJzIGFybWFkYSBzdGFyc2NyZWFtIGZpZ2h0cyBtZWdhdHJvbg%3D%3D

[@SlashTheWeasel]

I just rewatched some of the old season 1 G1 cartoons this week. Little here and there each night. Its nice to hear another adult fan on well-thought points on the series. I've always acknowledge and just blindly accepted (cause what else can one do) the animation errors and continuity, and still love it for all that. I grew up with it, collect thed comics, kept what toys I could then add to it when I got into my 20s.

[@retroandreissue]

I wish I'd kept my original toys (like most collectors do!) The only one I have left now is a beat up Prowl. I got back into collecting and that re-ignited my interest in the cartoon again (also re-reading all the original Marvel comics). Thanks for watching by the way!

[@SlashTheWeasel]

@@retroandreissue I've been enjoying your channel great deal so keep it coming. I only had few TFs from my child-hood cause there was this . . . that shouldn't keep them due to not being that age anymore. I've bought quite few old G1 as adult taht I didn't have and enjoying new G1/Legacy toys.

[@retroandreissue]

@@SlashTheWeasel I'm still focused on Studio Series 86 but recently bought my first vintage - Pipes! But mainly so I can compare him to the Kingdom version for a vid. Found a really good vintage seller on eBay though so I'll probably pick up more in the future

[@SlashTheWeasel]

@@retroandreissue I'm on Studio Series/Legacy G1 so I get it. Its little bit at time and when you can. And I got some in not the best shape while others are in good varying on price. I figure I'll never truly be done which is fine with me.

[@retroandreissue]

@@SlashTheWeasel No, I don't really have an end goal in sight either. I'd like to get some boxed vintage since they stopped doing the reissues but the prices are scary!

[@mikeburkhart8336]

Got the whole series on DVD . .still my favorite cartoon.

[@epcotboy1982]

This was a great retrospect and I can’t wait for season’s two three and four

[@retroandreissue]

Thanks for watching and for commenting! I really need people to do that so I know there's that interest for more - cheers

[@kommissar.murphy]

I am rewatching with my 4year old. It's grwst seeing him be entranced just as we all were the first time around.

[@robobird3383]

Triple Takeover is still my favorite piece of Transformers media.

[@thegreattreon0177]

I grew up watching G1 Transformers during the 80's and although I thought it was great, I always noticed there was continuity and scaling issues like in the first 5 episodes the Autobots could fly then later on they can't or how did Starscream have an Earth based alternate form when it was millions of years before they came to Earth or the biggest 2 errors of all, the orgins of the Constructions and Insecticons. Even though I thought about these I still loved the show

[@retroandreissue]

Very similar to me. I wonder why they didn't change Starscream's jet mode for the episode with Jetfire to one of the triangle seekers we see on Cybertron?

[@avenuePad]

It was probably a time issue. They were pumping out episodes like crazy and in a short time frame. There were 16 episodes in the first season and then 49 (repeat 49!!!) in the second season. Something tells me they were likely working on the second season during the first season. Lol. Anyway, there probably wasn't enough time to work out those kinds of continuity details with that kind of output.

[@retroandreissue]

@@avenuePad That's a good point since Transformers were selling like hotcakes they're were probably under a lot of pressure to keep up. I know that the movie we in pre-production pretty early and that's one of the reasons later additions to the cast (like the Aerialbots) were absent

[@ryandaly01]

Great video! I appreciate your efforts to do these season long retrospectives and hope you continue. I know there are better episodes later on, but--for me--this first season is the heart of Transformers. I got a lot of the toys in the early '80s; Transformers was perhaps my earliest fandom, before being overtaken by G.I. Joe, Star Wars, Marvel superheroes, and other stuff. Bu I never *loved* the toys. Some of them were hard to transform, and some of them just looked... dumb (Ironhide!). I fell in love with the Autobots and Decepticons through the television show; this was how I imagined the characters; this is how I wanted them to look. That's why I only started collecting Transformers toys again a couple years ago when they started the War for Cybertron line and the characters looked a lot more cartoon accurate to me. Over the summer I did a podcast on "The Ultimate Doom" three-parter. It's probably my favorite Transformers story ever told, and at the crux of this planetary destruction threatened by Cybertron entering Earth's orbit is a very real, very human drama playing out between Spike and his father. I was just a kid when I saw it and Sparkplug turning evil and betraying his son rocked my world. The trauma Spike felt hit me in my soul because as a child I could think of nothing more horrifying than my parents rejecting me and calling me their enemy. "The Ultimate Doom" also had some of the best action sequences and dialogue by Brawn (my favorite) and Skyfire and Wheeljack. Because of my emotional tether to that story, I've always felt that the Transformers work best with a human POV character like Spike or Buster in the comics or Sam in the movies. Likewise, I've also always preferred stories with the Transformers set on Earth as opposed to Cybertron or other planets. For me--again, this all stems from being a little kid when this came out--the coolest aspect about the Autobots and Decepticons was the "robots in disguise" part; that they could change into the same cars and trucks we see on the road every day. Any ambulance could be Ratchet. Any jet could be Thundercracker. Without the Earth-based alt. modes, the transformation is just a cool mode of transportation, but it lacks the disguise element. Anyway, for all those reasons, as well as financial considerations, I've limited my Transformers collection to only the Autobots and Decepticons that appeared in season 1 of the cartoon (omitting the Dinobots, because that was too much and I missed the chance to get Grimlock the first time around and didn't want to overspend to get him on the secondary market). So the only figures I still need are the Constructicons, who are all coming out in 2025, and Windcharger, whenever they get around to him. I would like to update a few figures like a Studio 86 Megatron, and better versions of Sideswipe, Mirage, and Bluestreak, but those aren't priorities right now. Okay, like I said, great video. Thanks for going through these episodes and sharing your thoughts.

[@retroandreissue]

Loved your take on The Ultimate Doom! I think that's why Sparkplug was such a key feature in both the comic and cartoon - because really at that age your parents are still your best friends. Best friends that you admire and look up to - the idea of them turning on you is, as you say, traumatic. I have forgotten if I ever looked at vehicles on the road and wondered if they could be Autobots but I must have done. I loved cars as a kid and that was the route into Transformers for me. Please let me know the name of your podcast (links are turned off in KZbin comments but you could always email it - my email is on the about page).

[@ryandaly01]

@@retroandreissue Email sent.

[@iridescent6685]

@@retroandreissue I tell a joke based of this where a kid asks if something they see is a transformer. Their parent replies "that's just one of your run of the mill mechanical dinosaurs."

[@mushroomhill]

I'm pretty much in lock step with you through your entire assessment of the show. 34:19 - When that War for Cybertron video game came out back in 2010 it took all the wonky, goofy, slanted, stuff and realigned it into something incredibly mature while maintaining the nostalgia and charm of the source material. For me it was the PERFECT updated digestible form of Transformers media we needed. The massive scale of that game and the pacing of the story just blew me away. The developers were huge G1 fans who all grew up and got dream jobs working on this game. The game really got down to the nitty gritty of war too. That game's story was so well written that there were moments I sympathized with Megatron's motivation and was actually rooting for him. If your inner child has a warm soft spot for the 80's cartoon, then your adult self should appreciate it. I've never seen anything come close to the multiplayer modes it ever since. I have yet to see any other iteration of the franchise retain so much G1 but still being on a more advanced mature level.

[@retroandreissue]

I loved the High Moon games also - of all the modern Transformers takes that's probably my favourite. My friend @DeltaTrion did a vid on the game recently which is worth checking out if you haven't seen it kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5eZZ5R4nsqhsJIsi=-n_aFYZyMFWPNRrG

[@mushroomhill]

@@retroandreissue I’ll definitely check it out! Thanks

[@IsiahTomas]

Yes. Now the one where that Pretender kicked the puppy, on the other hand....

[@Phonesavanh-dd7oh]

I’m 46 . I was 7 yr when this cartoon came out .

[@brianelam9297]

Optimus technically fought 3 Dinobots at once so it wasn’t a one on one with Grimlock

[@mathesonhickey8320]

I really enjoyed this video and totally agree that episodes where new characters are introduced are the best. I would love to see a video like this for season 2 and possibly even beyond to see your take on the random introduction of many more characters.

[@retroandreissue]

So many more get introduced in those later seasons so those episodes were something I was always looking forward to. I mean, all the Headmasters in Season 4! Thanks for letting me know you would like to see more - it will definitely help me decide what to do in the future

[@borisblagojevic571]

I do.My early childhood.

[@PlayDHDGaming]

Great video dude, as someone in the UK who grew up watching G1 (and yes I had the Vector Sigma VHS too haha) I went back when I started collecting 4yrs ago, starting with the new ones (Siege onwards) I had as a kid and now 150+ deep I've rewatched all G1 seasons + Japanese mini series after S4 I echo alot of what you said atleast regarding S1...defo do Season 2!!

[@retroandreissue]

After getting to the end of Season 4 I definitely want to see where the Japanese series took the Headmasters - thanks for watching bud!

[@TF80s]

@@retroandreissue brace yourself for the headmasters series...it's a chore..no a punishment 😉

[@alphatrion100]

It's the ONLY generation of transformers i like. And the reason the brand still exists.

[@jonarmstrong1961]

I'm 41 years old and grew up with the cartoon on vhs and the toys in the late 80s cause my dad and his buddies collected them back then so I've always have been a transformers g1 fan. I still pop the g1 cartoon on on Saturday mornings on tubing to get my day started. My 11 year old son watches it with me and we both collected the g1 modernized toys that come out. It's still a great show and the 86 movie is still the best transformers movie to those day in my opinion 👍

[@Phonesavanh-dd7oh]

Transformers is not only iconic cartoon . Don’t forget Voltron ,He-Man, Thunder Cats, M.A.S.K, Robotech, Silver Hawk, G.IJoe .

[@retroandreissue]

Many more to do Retrospectives on! Thanks for the comments and insight

[@houseofno]

I LOVED the first season with the Toei animation. The art quality sank when the producers switched to Akom to cut costs for the second, third and three-episode season of Rebirth.

[@philfitnesspt6139]

You mean third season? As most of animation in second season is brilliant with certain exceptions but most 3rd isn't great.

[@durreallduncan4710]

It can/should be reimagined....after the first 5 episodes the animation and stories are hard to watch- I've tried. However G1 is the best for so many reasons

[@IcaroPhantoka]

Great cartoon if you just want to lay back and enjoy a fun series, wouldnt say its the best Transformers series, foolish to say it based purely on the liked as kid and as an adult. Being episodic in nature, having a lot of inconsistencies, corny 80's stuff, animation errors, and some episodes really suck. But its a really fun cartoon

[@oliviawilliams6204]

As a fellow transformers collector, it’s absolutely fine to be critical to G1 cartoons, ot has it’s up and down. And yes i want season 2 retrospective too

[@retroandreissue]

Thanks for commenting Olivia - good to know there is some interest in a follow up!

[@jasonsteel9335]

This was amazing, brother! I'm definitely down for a Season 2 retrospective. I was (and still am) more a fan of the figures than the lore and media surrounding them.

[@retroandreissue]

Yeah, it's something I only realised after really starting this channel. Where does my actual interest lie? But I'm enjoying picking things about and thinking about them more in-depth. Glad you're interested in a season 2 vid!

[@jasonsteel9335]

@@retroandreissue Keep up the great work, my dude! Hope this video blows up! All the best ☺️

[@retroandreissue]

@@jasonsteel9335 Thanks for watching buddy!

[@iridescent6685]

I think however you learnt their character, be it comics or cartoon, goes along way towards playability and the enduring like of them. The Toy being part puzzle, part action figure and toy vehicle is enough for initial interest though.

[@retroandreissue]

@@iridescent6685 It's true! The two things are very much tied together - I would add the comics were also a big deal for me getting into the story (although it goes in quite different directions at times!)

[@bludesayo3651]

7:11 We NEED a series with Farmatron! His foil could be Badassatron constantly ruining his crops and telling bad jokes 🤣🤣🤣

[@retroandreissue]

Kickstarter here we come!

[@RetroRenegade8706]

Im 23 and still is my favorite series. And yes i have seen prime, but that takes the number 2 spot to this

[@retroandreissue]

I have a friend about your age who says exactly the same thing!

[@RetroRenegade8706]

@@retroandreissue really! It's hard to find others my age who share a love for g1! I personally feel that it is just an overflowing well of untapped potential!

[@douglasbrownell2704]

I don't give a damn about what anybody else says to me the original gen 1 Transformers is always going to be worth watching because if you don't have the original you don't have anything else afterwards

[@richardwillis7154]

If you have Pluto TV...g1 transformers is on every weekend on the transformers channel

[@RetroRenegade8706]

I have a headcanon as to the mixup in canon concerning vector sigma's creation of the cybertronians vs wheeljacks creation of the dinobots. So just as megatron was able to create the stunticons, wheeljack was also able to create the dinobots. So obviously, it appears that cybertronians can "reproduce" artificially (at least in this continuity), but vector sigma is the only one who can give these artificial life forms true sentience and character traits. But it seems that with the dinobots, judging by how sporadic, buggy, and primitive their behavior is compared to the rest of the cybertronians, I like to think that the dinobots were wheeljack's (or possibly any cybertronian in this case, depending on if any others like shockwave has ever attempted something like this before in cybertronian history) first attempt at creating fully sentient, artificially intelligent cybertronians, but just as with weeljack's many other inventions, they have a tendency to have lots of glitches, and, because he doesn't have the vast amount of intelligence or technological complexity like that of vector sigma, hence there is bound to be many imperfections with the dinobots' artificial sentience and intelligence, as the show clearly portrays in many episodes. But that's my 2 cents.

[@retroandreissue]

It makes sense and explains their very basic nature. I always thought on Vecta Sigma as containing some kind of elemental force that was beyond any Transformer to reproduce. Now that I think about it I wonder why they decided Vecta Sigma was needed at all - since they were just making things more difficult for themselves when it comes to adding new characters

[@R0-83-RT]

Fire in The Sky is one of my favorite G1 episodes. Though oddly enough despite really liking Skyfire I kind of wish he had stayed buried, since he doesn't do much past his debut episode, and if he stayed buried I think the episode would feel more profound.

[@retroandreissue]

It's true - he shuttles people around a lot but doesn't have the same impact as say The Dinobots on the rest of the characters

[@philfitnesspt6139]

That's due to the rights issues know not their fault and why he is thased out in season 2.

[@Phonesavanh-dd7oh]

The “ color seeker “ was just random color wasn’t meant to be. Look at Transformers the movie 86, they so much background random appear . But now a day third party you make those toy color lol. Only true color seeker is star scream , thunder cracker , and sky warp. Just like so many extra cyclonus in movie .

[@iridescent6685]

Nacelle, Acid storm. There are Hasbro versions of them.

[@DjProducerTerrex]

I just watched G1 Season 1 and 2 on Hasbro Pulse on KZbin. And it stood up to the time, it's a kid's show but some dialogue is very mature. I enjoyed re watching it and if you never have seen it , it's definitely worth the time. ❤

[@Robotrik1]

G1 grew up with it's audience . At first we got the "Strangers in a Strange Land ” with season 1, only to move on to a more mixed season 2, where the Transformers sometimes took us with them to new and fantastic worlds, to the movie that I saw a bit too late, hence the understanding of a script that looked more like "action sequences taped together with tape" than an actual movie came much too early for me . Followed by 1.2 seasons that were almost always in space -- in a way cheapening that wonder of a space adventure that was so strong in season 2 .... -- while also providing some characters that seemed to be of interest to older viwers .

[@SwainyAtRetroAsylum]

Despite a lot od the episodes feeling very similar in the first series, it is the one that I enjoyed the most. The second series felt very dumbed down.

[@mattcappelli5822]

This was a fantastic video! I appreciate your capacity to articulate your love of the toys and IP, but not the blind defense of all things transformers. Foolishly thinking the movie was being played in the movie theater several mo the ago, I ended up seeing the first four episodes of season one. To be honest, I was rather bored! I love the toys and the feelings I felt as a kid watching these episodes after school. But seeing them now and not loving it doesn’t in the slightest spoil my nostalgia and fandom.

[@retroandreissue]

Exactly the same with me! Thanks for for the feedback mate

[@rayleighvongola9840]

Hasbro pulse have a complete G1 transformers season on the KZbin

[@retroandreissue]

Indeed - I have linked it in the description if anyone fancies watching

[@Hurricanelive]

I think I pretty much laugh a lot more now than I did as a child, because I get it more. I think it's amazing that they saw, we have these different toylines, make a cartoon to sell em... lightning in a bottle! God Bless Japan! I always think how things could have been not if we had had the Japanese animation we had without terrible dub changes, censorship, and episode removals, but if we had stations more willing to carry more Japanese programming, which we still often suffer from to this day.

[@MrCarpediem6]

Better than anything that came afterward. Prime though is a very close second..

[@retroandreissue]

I've heard a few people cite Prime as their favourite - it's one I plan to get to (I have this crazy idea to watch through all the series and do videos like this one about them all but that's such a massive project it's sort of a "soft target". Something to aim for having done years from now

[@jimzilla1701]

Another Great Video. I do disagree with the thoughts on Season 2. For me the S2 stories were a bit more silly in nature. And the influx of new bots was just a bit too over the top. G1 Season 1 for me. Keep up the good work.

[@retroandreissue]

Thanks Jim!

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Yes it is. Season 1 is by far the best. Season 3 is just awfully with its animation.

[@73clementines]

I understand the gripes about continuity and even logic in many of the episodes. I’ve complained about them to myself while watching, but…it’s still a CARTOON. Based on NOTHING. why complain about it? We all enjoyed it (or else we wouldn’t be here) and I’m not at all a fan boy when it comes to it. But why not just have a productive conversation about some of the things that went on in the episodes? Why not speak about the creative aspect of it? Criticizing a cartoon is like…criticizing a cartoon.

[@Justhereforinsanity]

Certainly worth watching. Gets worse as it goes along. Stop after season 2. I grew up with transformers so halt the hate

[@charlieparks2015]

The movie, rebirth red dawn

[@francoisregis2155]

Still fun to watch just like Gi joe Masters of the universe yeah sure it might be cheesy but who cares they are still fun to watch I still watch the Flintstones, looney tunes and I still have fun

[@retroandreissue]

I'm seriously considering a watch through of The Real Ghostbusters since I remember that one being particularly good

[@gdjaybee742]

I really don't get adults review a kid's tv show with adult eyes. This is a kid's tv show now a grown up show. It's a null ray when Starscream calls it that, and its a concussion blast when Ratchet calls it that; that is is, no need to ask the difference; that's how kids think. If things don't make sense because you are a grown up. Kids do not care at the time. If you want to review a Transformers' show, review Beast wars tailored to the same audience who are at the time are all grown up.

[@technomicah]

t 2:05 why, Ratchet

[@TomMSTie1138]

I tried watching the whole series, but tapped out in early season 2. I dearly love Transformers, especially G1, but some of the stories are so corny and the animation/continuity errors are laughably bad. I hate the notion that, "It's a kids show, it doesn't have to be good." There are mountains of "kids" entertainment that hold up because they took the time and effort to craft a good story and didn't cut corners. There I'm done.

[@retroandreissue]

Thanks for taking the time to comment Tom. I have a higher opinion of the show but share some of your frustrations with it!

[@DaFactsNoNonsense1713]

The fact that you think you can watch ANY transformers shows or movies, without watching the original show, makes "0" sense to intelligent adults, with functioning brains! Why does it make sense for you guys to everything backwards?

[@Justhereforinsanity]

Free on pluto TV...

[@jimvac77]

Seasons 1 and 2 are worth watching.

[@OfficialTransformers]

🤩🤩🤩❤️‍🔥‼️

[@warmachine9846]

Know the rights issue surfaced a little bit later that's why you never see Skyfire in season 2. There was a memo circulating don't use his animation model or the name anymore going forward

[@retroandreissue]

Thanks - I plan to look closer during Season 2 for when his last appearance is

[@TF80s]

@@retroandreissue l think he last officially appears in the season 2 episode, "Day of the Machines"....but the animators did sneak a mis coloured version of him into a scene in the season 3 episode, "Dark Awakening", where we see him as part of an Autobot fleet going to attack the Quints..the Jet gets destroyed in that scene and in some people's head cannon, that's Skyfire's unofficial death scene.

[@retroandreissue]

@@TF80s Good to know - thanks!

[@tigerbread78]

Whoa! Slow down there! Grimlock isn't necessarily stronger than Prime, who is shown to be holding back offensively in that fight, I dunno, it's like you don't even know Prime's character

[@retroandreissue]

It's a good point - he obviously didn't want to hurt Grimlock (I still think Grimlock could batter him in a straight fight though!)

[@funghoul9124]

great video. yah just gotta accept the stupidity but admire that they knew what they were doing. like putting facial hair like mustaches and goatees on some older transformers to represent age even though it's ridiculous for robots to have a human trait like facial hair.

[@retroandreissue]

Wreck-Gar just wouldn't look right clean shaven!

[@godstomper]

Its the best.

[@MikeD974]

Season 1 is good season 2 is hit or miss alot of dumb episodes but great ones too . The movie is awesome and season 3 is the best with maybe 5 episodes that are bad but the rest are great and 4 is ok but sad that it was the end until headmasters anyways . But that's my take growing up with g1

[@retroandreissue]

Thanks for the insights Mike I would put Season 2 as the best just for the range of episodes and some episodes just focusing on one character (Changing Gears is so daft!) Season 3 I found to be the wonkier one - I got the sense the writers didn't really know what to do with the characters and locations introduced in the movie (even deciding to blow one of them up!)

[@MikeD974]

@retroandreissue 1 thing I love about season 3 is they not just stuck on earth plus get more cybertron episodes and it gets away from the Megatron scam of the week theme . But season 2 is great too and has alot of episodes but some I just find super boring can't wait to see you do the other seasons though

[@retroandreissue]

@@MikeD974 That's true. Season 3 for me felt like episodes of Star Trek at times as the Autobots go about trying to solve galactic problems!

[@fernfernacelli]

*Yes.* \m/, 😊 ,\m/

[@171QA]

Such a silly series.