Looking Back At Transformers Armada 20 Years Later

[@kallethen9389]

The Armada show had one of my favorite incarnations of Starscream. I loved how we got a such a different take on the typical Starscream vs Megatron dynamic. A lot of the other characters in the show were pretty fun too.

[@Zap_Master99]

Energon ruined it, but it still has tons of potential to me, like the autobot-decepticon alliance, the maximum combiners, Scorponok, Inferno, Alpha Quintesson's redemption, and maybe showing on how Hotshot grew to be a leader, even Demolisher.

[@TheACcam]

Everything you mention about Armada toyline-wise is how I felt about RID (with the exception of the minicon related things, or course). Back to Transforming car robots (which is literally what they went for with the Japanese name). I remember wandering into a store and doing a double take when I saw the toys. Optimus and Magnus were what I went home with that day, the first toys I ever bought since becoming an adult. As for the cartoon.... To this day, I have a love/hate relationship with Armada. They could have done so much more with Armada's first half if they gave the mincons full personalities and voices. Instead we got R2D2 "gotta catch em all" pokeformers. But then..... damn, the second half or so of Armada is amazing! So many good, interesting things going on with the characters. It may as well be a different show. And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to play with my Meg-Tyranno from Fanshobby.

[@nogame.metakethrone.3007]

I got a Transformers Armada best episodes DVD at Walmart when I was a kid. I remember really liking it and I'm actually bingeing it now.

[@bilal_Hadjlaoui907]

armada was truly a masterpiece,and one of the best things about the transformers japanese media after the headmasters-energon-cybertron and it has a unique designs and humor especially with cyclonus,and starscream was a true heroic decepticon like dinobot and idw megatron,i hope hasbro care about armada in legacy

[@igna3157]

Im still waiting they reveal armada starscream for legacy

[@KodyCrimson]

If the Prime figures we've gotten are anything to go by, the only way Legacy characters are going to be used is as pre-tools/retools, unless they're G1, G2, or Beast Wars.

[@MrUniq]

Uh wouldn't 't call it a masterpiece..but it was a fun series with a-lot of great homages.

[@warrenhammer7262]

@@davidm4566 Armada was not better than Cybertron. Cybertron was at least okay, Armada was trash. Cybertron had an RID 2001 feel, though RID was better.

[@TMNTransformerz]

@@KodyCrimson haha you are wrong

[@wsc0tt]

I still love the Armada design of Optimus. The soot-covered grill was a great touch, and with the extra wide wheels it really looked like a tough truck. Mini-cons were great too, it was like an improvement on the Micro Master idea, which I already liked. The mini-con port concept was really clever too, it was essentially a hidden button in the form of a peg hole, and any mini-con was the key to hidden gimmicks. The mystery and surprise of that play feature was always fun. There's a great and underappreciated Transformers Armada game on the PS2 also. Some really fun powers you can get from collecting mini-cons.

[@KodyCrimson]

"It was familiar, but new." Ah yes, that thing Hasbro refuses to do nowadays. It must be G1, G1, and only G1 (and Beast Wars, since that's part of G1). I really want something like Armada or Animated again, something that redesigns the cast in a new way and gives us NEW interpretations of them.

[@StevenDolce]

Armada originally premiered on Cartoon Network in the US on August 23, 2002. The show premiered in Japan as Micron Legend on January 10, 2003.

[@RiderNexus]

I'll always love Armada for getting me into Transformers

[@HORRIOR1]

Armada was the first Transformers series I really got into, and probably the first Transformers series ever aired in my country. I remember buying Armada Megatron when out of town with my aunt, her asking my mother if it was okay via cellphone. I loved the toy and played with it all the time, and then a brand new cartoon series aired during saturday. The animation was brisk and beautiful, the story had an air of mystery, and then all of a sudden, my newest favorite toy popped in on the screen. It was a magical moment. Now that I have seen all the transformers series there is, I gotta give credit to the toy line for the first successful Unicron toy.

[@BraveBladeProductions]

To be fair Armada had a lot to live up to considering it was the first return to the traditional Transformers concept after G1. All things considered I would say the series and toyline as a whole managed to return to the concept quite well while also giving its own unique spin on franchise characters and lore.

[@douglasbrownell2704]

I have been around for every single transformers series from the day one meaning the original gen 1 to the present. I believe each and every series is good in its own way, there is no such thing as just filler. And I don't mind stating this I'm 52 years old and I'm a transformers fan.

[@clogs4956]

61 years old TFan here and I agree. The best toy range, though, is definitely Armada; I think, between my sons and myself, we have every one except Tidal Wave. The Starscream arc is only bettered by Dinobot, imo.

[@douglasbrownell2704]

@@clogs4956 I like a lot of characters but my all-time favorite is Optimus prime. Sadly they did do a version of Optimus prime that I just totally hate and that version is transformers animated. They started him out as a loser instead of a leader heck even his own group some of them didn't even respect him. He got booted out of an academy a little one his girlfriend got corrupted into a black arachnia. Man for Optimus prime he was loser prime.

[@douglasbrownell2704]

I agree with everything you said about transformers animated Optimus prime. You don't bring an ax or grappling hooks to a gunfight, and that's exactly what he did. This was the only series I was rooting for the decepticons and was hoping that they would destroy him. This was the first series I was actually glad to see get canceled.

[@clogs4956]

@@douglasbrownell2704 I don't really like Animated at all; some nice ideas but mostly meh. I have the Starscream toy, but only because...

[@MasterWalrus]

My first series in the franchise. I still have all my toys I got when I was 8. Really great memories of Armada.

[@JIreland1992]

Armada was the first thing Transformers related I was exposed to. Wasn’t into it much, but it was my introduction to the franchise.

[@xtort1220]

My absolute favorite packaging, every toy felt like something special before you opened them.

[@skysamfreeman]

Armada was my first introduction to Transformers when I was 7. My first TF toy was McDonalds Armada Hot Shot. I'd never heard of Transformers before. But the concept immediately clicked with me. When I moved into a new house and changed schools, I found a few friends that had been collecting the toys and watching the show. My next door neighbor had a few toys and one of my school friends had almost all of them up until that point. Started watching the anime on Cartoon Network and the rest is history. Now I'm a fellow plastic addict.

[@todddavis2041]

Armada was my first series, Ive been into Transformers ever since! Thrust with Inferno were my first Armada figures, i bought them using birthday money and im not going to part with them. The Anime despite the several errors it has is among my favourite Transformers shows. My opinion might be biased but I will always cherish Armada. The voice cast from Ocean Studios in Canada is something else i love about the series, as i spent time imitating and trying to perfect the voices of the Autobots and Dacepticons. Especially Optimus Prime and Megatron. Gary Chalk and David Kaye are tied with Peter Cullen and Frank Welker as the best voices of Optimus Prime and Megatron. Also Armada has one of the best Themes in Transformers, i like it so much i listen to over and over on the odd occaision.

[@redalert697]

Transformers Armada was and imo still is One of the Best series of Transformers in all time. My very first one was Beast Wars, if I'm correct, but I was very, very young to get a grasp of any of it's story( watched it years later tho and it's amazing!). I never had an opportunity to get deluxes but a few months later I could buy some smaller figures in the most expensive store in town, that not many people knew about( funny enough nobody bought RID smaller transformers like me because they've thought it’s just expensive small toy cars, but when I saw the Autobot Logo all was clear,). They had Minicons from Sea Team and Street Speed Team, and to this day I find most of Minicons way better than what new small Micromaster( I’ve got Autobot rescue team. miraculously on sale like 3 years from release. I guess it was a similar case as with Armada, because not so long after there was Energon) from theWar for Cybertron Siege. Idea was there but execution in weapon form… wasn't very good(I would still forgive looks if it at least held properly together). Anyway It was the show I always could watch after going back from school, well most of time, then they messed up order of showing episodes, so you like got Unicorn Battles from the ass, but overall I always loved it and back in a day I didn't knew what Anime was but that aesthetic it’s Timeless and still very likely for me It was like - “ooh this cartoon had this specific look it would 100% mean it would be smth interesting”. Also maybe it was an accident. Maybe a genius marketing idea, but this small Minicons hella reminded me about Pokemon, which were gigantic back in the day, and maybe Digimon too so that would explain it’s undenying popularity. I didn’t have the opportunity to rewatch the series and judge it by myself today, but opening is smth they can't mess up from my nostalgia . Maybe if I can afford to buy those episodes somewhere, cause it’s way too hard to find them on the internet ( or any Unciron trilogy, at least every time I have looked for them they didn't have my native language, maybe in English but Subtitles are needed for me)... I could talk about this very long, But I'm glad I was there when the series had its peaks, and hopefully I could rewatch it someday.

[@victorapontejr.8244]

Well I'm currently watching the Japanese version of the show called Micron Legend right here on KZbin with subtitles. Just search & you'll find it. And I think Armada (the English version) is on Tubi??? I could be wrong about that one.

[@fordfox8229]

Transformers armada was my introduction to Transformers

[@NerdyTransformed]

Armada is the series that made me a transformers fan when I was 7. I only saw scraps of G1 on vhs, beast wars and RID. Armada was the first one where I tuned in every Saturday night for the new episode.

[@javivaki]

As a young boy, I never dove into the toyline, but I do remember watching reruns of the anime late at night (I think it was Toonami). I didn't really care for the story at the time, but I enjoyed visually and it was oddly comforting, lulling me to sleep. Since then, I really like Armada for its aesthetic and designs. My uncle had the Universe 2.0 Hotshot, which I really wanted, but it was so hard to transform. Missed out on that, along with the original figures, but I managed to get the 30s deluxe Armada Starscream and the Mini-con Assault team to combine with him. Now I'm really hoping for new figures based on Armada (especially the unique ones such as Demolishor and Sideways) to come out in Legacy as I feel like I missed out on something back then. I would be so happy with a Starscream that is like the 30s but bigger and the Hotshot like the Uni one but less complex. And many other such as Mini-cons in core class.

[@boundmoonkingdom]

Armada was the show that really got me into Transformers. I only heard of Transformers in passing before from like my dad and such before then. Now I've tried to at least look into every transformers things or shows that come out. Out of everything it is still one of my favorite Transformers shows.

[@officerpanda911]

That Lion fire Megazord in the back will live there as its forever home, Treat him well, he's lived a rough life.

[@shadowmarauder6033]

I never got the chance to see it on TV, but Armada has so many ideas which I want to return. Autobot constructicon, supermode of completely different colors, and especially a big toy with a small minicon packed with that can actually work on it’s own.

[@warrenjehosephat231]

Pros- +Bringing Unicron back and actually producing a big toy. +Some killer designs (Megatron's H-tank with antlers) +Some surprisingly good episodes with surprisingly good animation +A Transformers game worth playing?! +Minicons forced the Micromaster angle into something that sort of makes sense in a story context. +Playability- probably the sturdiest TF toys ever made +When the gimmicks were good they were great (Megatron's hidden knife is a delight and used to great effect in the anime) +Dreamwave's slaves doing the toy box art +The Dreamwave Armada comics when Simon Furman came back were a dream come true. Cons- -Bringing back Unicron and making him the continuous presence he's been ever since. Also while the toy was mostly good for the time, dear GOD that really is just half a planet and then the kibble, jeeeez that kibble -Some unbelievably bad designs (Sideswipe DEAR GOD). -Great day in the morning the show is unbearable. Some episodes have animation nearing G1 s3 AKOM levels of bad. Speaking of G1, an unwelcome return to the world of ANIMATION ERRORS. There's flashes of brilliance and episodes with good budgets but less than a quarter of the 50+ episodes are even worth watching. -Minicons made for some of the best figures in the line, but their gimmickry also usually sucked. The obvious attempt to Pokemon-ize Transformers grated on my nerves back in the day. -Playability- there were G1 figures that were better articulated. Megatron- your big ticket item- can't move his legs forward. Some couldn't move their arms. And this was coming on the heels of the ball-joint revolution where characters from Beast Wars-on were so well articulated they had better range of movement than your average humanoid action figure. -When the gimmicks are bad they literally ruin the toy (looking once again at Sideswipe) -Hope you like anime because Transformers is now anime until the movie hits. -Dreamwave's Armada comics were just abysmally written until Simon Furman swept in to save the day. Then due to Pat Lee's malfeasance, Dreamwave folded in the middle of giving us the best Transformers comics since the Marvel years. T H A N K S.

[@TFcoyoteF1]

Happy 20th Anniversary Transformers Armada one of my favorite Tfs Series

[@silverslayer6262]

RIP Armada Starscream, your name will forever be honored.

[@JZBelexes]

I remember reading the announcement for Armada when it first showed up on the Transformers website. Just descriptions of the toys, no pictures. The concept of a self-transforming trailer blew my mind. But I remember the way they described Red Alert and Longarm it sounded like they integrated better in their alt modes to turn him from a rescue truck into a toy truck. Course, when the toys showed up, as someone who had a taste of G1 before the Beast Era appeared, and after the Beast Era's quantum leap in articulation, the fact that a lot of Armada figures were bricks felt like a huge step backwards to me. Over all though the line was a lot of fun and I have a greater retroactive appreciation for how they did something DIFFERENT and didn't just rehash G1.

[@mindwipe8788]

The Minicon gimmick for Armada Bluur was similar to Tracks for the fact it gave Bluur a flight mode, I also love how Armada Scavenger faked being a Decepticon and turned out to be Optimus’s mentor and old friend.

[@glxblrt]

Armada episode 1 was my first exposure to Transformers. The same day that I watched that episode, my local supermarket had put the toys on pegs so there I bought my very first Transformers figure, being Bendy Prime. Needless to say, Armada holds a very special place in my heart. :] Truck over monke, long nose over flat nose.

[@omegamaximus1727]

I hope we get Transformers Armads toys in Transformers Legacy.

[@clogs4956]

Once and never again, I fear. Many of the original toys are chunky and solid; they don’t make them like that anymore.

[@ilikepancakes2368]

Boy do I got news for you. We’re getting an Armada Starscream, Megatron, and possibly an Armada Hot Shot.

[@omegamaximus1727]

I know right.

[@ArtificerOfSolus]

Armada was my first Transformers series so there'll always be an eternal soft spot for it in my mind. I still think a lot of the designs hold up super well and need proper generations updates, like just give me the old "bendy" prime with a properly articulated super mode and we're golden.

[@skuffy4930]

Legacy honestly might be the make or break line for something that'll leave an impression. Either it's the line that will make Bulkhead, and G2 Optimus get a significant role in the story or we're all going forget about it next year.

[@skybite]

The Dreamwave comics were the best stories for Armada. They made Hot Shot likeable.

[@genyakozlov1316]

No Sideways, not Armada. That's all I'll say. Also the whole interdimensional G1 nostalgia pandering doesn't help.

[@skybite]

@@genyakozlov1316 Sideways was in it as a Decepticon.

[@christiantaylor3446]

I vaguely remember watching the show as a kid, but I loved the toys. I didn’t own too many figures but I have been in love with the character designs ever since. Now as an adult I’m able to experience my love of the toy line again especially with characters such as Tidal Wave and demolisher. Just need to get the star saber minicons at some point to put on my megatron.

[@ydoc180]

I was 8 when Armada came out. Sure I saw few episodes of Beast Wars and RID here and there and had a couple of toys, and I remember promotions for Beast Machines but never watching it. Armada was the first Transformers series where I really sat down and watched the show. It is what started me down the road of being the transformers fan I am today.

[@ShadowWingTronix]

I would love to see the Mini-Cons come back but I wish the media had played up the interactivity more. Based on their alt mode you had extra weapons (including figures with working missile launchers), jump jets, gadgets, the headlights could be flashlights or lasers (made of light), and even armor. All the shows, comics, and books said were "power boosters who activate gimmicks". I also find it fun to find older Transformers or Transformers outside of the Unicron trilogy (though it pretty much disappeared by Cybertron outside of Vector Prime) that are compatible with Mini-Cons like RID Optimus and Ultra Magnus or reissue Hot Rod allowing his gun to connect to a Mini-Con if the plug was in the right spot, thus giving said Mini-Con a huge gun on its roof.

[@ORLY911]

i still think back to the theme song and have extremely fond memories everytime i hear it. armada was kinda what got me into transformers, i liked beast wars but i didnt get much chance to watch the show. Armada 'I watched start to finish and loved it despite its obvious early eng dub jank and questionable animation moments.

[@ZOSO900]

I was somewhat there. It came out at a weird time for me. I was old enough to barely remember the tail end of Transformers on TV, and have a few "Go-Bots"(those small Transformers cars that looked like Hot Wheels), but Beast Wars was my childhood. I watched RID for a while, but never had any figures from it back then. Then, while RID was still on, something happened with my parents, and I lost almost everything I grew up with and went to a contained, structured placement for a few years. Armada started while I was there, and I remember catching a handful of episodes, but more importantly, we had $10-12 a week to go to Target, and I would pick up a Minicon set or a Deluxe figure if I had enough. Also, me and another guy who was into it pooled it a couple times, once for Megatron, and once for Starscream. Also while I was still there, My parents bought me Unicron from the outside for Christmas shortly before I was able to go home. Once I was out though, my focus turned more to recollecting my old Beast Wars figures that I lost, and I never got into Energon or Cybertron at the time. Now as an adult, I have figures from almost every line, however. But yeah, Armada has kind of a connection with me because of what was going on at the time it was out.

[@therealthirst8099]

Im only 21, so I wasn't able to be involved in the Unicron Trilogy. However I will admit some of the character designs were really out there and unique, certainly something we haven't seen since. The most I ever touched of Armada was the pretty fun PS2 shooter.

[@Teh_Spirit]

iirc the Armada show was also rushed out for the western market so there was a bunch of unfinished stuff in the animation and such (which could explain some of the other issues it had) and some of those issues was then fixed in the japanese release (though iirc they did also name various characters differently like demolishor being called ironhide etc)

[@metalheadrobredbar6899]

Hell yeah, I grew up watching the g1 VHS's, R.I.D. was great but Armada got my pops to sit down and watch it me lol.

[@matiasmarcelotoledop]

Armada was my g1 mostly the show but i remember seeing the toys on shelfs when i was a kid it was so cool beacuse armada was the show were i wanted toys of the characters

[@galvatronus1139]

Armada was my intro to the franchise. I remember sitting in my dad’s lap in his recliner at 5 and catching the last two minutes of the premiere. I remember getting Starscream and Hot Shot for Christmas. I remember accidentally discovering my birthday presents early by hiding in the hallway closet during hide & seek and Red Alert and Smokescreen fell on my head. Not all the toys were great, and the show was rough at times, but it will always hold a very special place in my heart.

[@PhilcomX]

I think you missed one of the biggest deals to the fandom with Armada at the time, Unicron. This was the first time we were getting a Unicron toy and mostly everyone was excited for it. The opinion of Armada was mostly negative at the board I was at until Unicron was announced. In fact, the episode where he first showed up was a big deal, I think at that time there was no toy announced, I believe it was a surprise to most that Unicron was involved (Though I could be remembering it wrong). From that point the momentum shifted I think. When the toy actually come out, it was amazing. I even remember one post from someone back then saying that when he died he wanted to be cremated and his ashes put into the Unicron toy's storage compartments.

[@skyatollah2skyharder276]

It's strange. Armada had the "worse than Beast Machines" tag for the anime when it was the current thing and I feel like the pendulum has swung back way too far the other way in that fans are now claiming it was one of the best entries in the franchise. It's not the former and it certainly isn't the latter. Armada isn't bad. It's not. And it definitely got better the longer it went. The comics were amazing too. I think nostalgia has helped it a bit, but it's also helped by the fact it wasn't, ya know, Energon.

[@genyakozlov1316]

I love Energon. Your point is invalid.

[@skyatollah2skyharder276]

@@genyakozlov1316 Yes, one bath dodger invalidates my point. Sit the fuck down.

[@warrenhammer7262]

The issue is that Armada is worse than RID and even Cybertron. Cybertron isn't even great, at least it was fun, they did some creative sci-fi stuff.

[@skyatollah2skyharder276]

@@warrenhammer7262 The Unicron battles elevate it over RID. Cybertron I'll give ya. It's underrated.

[@esaunothing6336]

I think like 7 of the 10 transformer toys i had as a kid were armada releases

[@calebgowett4430]

Well I was like five so I didn’t get to really experience it myself. But it is interesting to hear about the early days

[@Messsenger]

My infatuation with the toyline started at the tail-end of Armada, and while I had seen the 1986 movie years prior from a video rental store on a whim, it wasn't until Cybertron that I got involved with the cartoons. From my perspective, Transformers just always was and always would be. It's so weird to have it put into words outright that "oh yeah, the older series didn't just poof into existence the second I learned about them" and that everything between G1 and the point I got on the train could be considered one long series of experiments.

[@Tazer_Silverscar]

My parents were firmly in the 'You're too old for toys' area of parenting when Armada came round, so I didn't get any of the Armada toyline. Probably for the best, because I was never fond of overly invasive gimmicks in my transforming robots, something that still stands to this day (unless they are implemented in a way in which they don't interfere with the rest of the figure). That said, despite how overly goofy the cartoon tended to be, I did enjoy it. I wanted POTP Starscream (as well as not being crap) to have some nods to the Armada version, I think it was a missed opportunity given it combined, and the Armada toyline literally gave two potentials in the form of his minicons (admittedly Swindle would need a different name since Swindle was already in the line, but I'd have loved to have him and Zapmaster - both subtle remoulds of CW Dragstrip - as King Starscream's combiner arms).

[@apex2000]

20 years wow

[@blueraccoon1088]

I never heard of transformers until 2005 and I had a unicron trilogy DVD my dad got me when I was 6 then I lost it when the movie and animated came I got Optimus vs megtron, Soundwave, black arachnia (scared me at the time) and so on years later I discovered armada by the game and later i got a tidal wave in a house moving sale for free he didn't have his left arm but after 2 years I found it bought and completed the same week I made a new friend she was also a collector too and that's all much

[@NerdRahtio]

“Familiar but new” is something really lacking with todays TFs

[@ernestsahakyan2556]

happy birthday transformers armada. ☺️😀

[@gannondollins]

the second half of armadas show I think is some of the best of the unicron trilogy. optimus vs galvatron on armada is top ten anime battles for me

[@Snugrot]

Minicons are still one of my favorite things to come from transformers. Maybe it's just nostalgia or that all the ones I had as a kid were stolen in grade school but I always try and pick at least one up when I'm looking for older figures. It's a shame so many are so expensive nowadays.

[@mattr75]

Armada was the first TF series I recall getting more than one figure from, but I eventually got hooked onto Beast Wars a few years later, and I have to give it some thanks

[@gamingguru2k6]

I like Prime in Armada. Sure, he wants peace, but he actually kind of enjoys the fighting. He is more of a conflicted character when compared to the original. Starscream was also a great character. Plenty of other people have pointed out why, so I won't really get into it. He had his own ideals and goals. They fleshed him out. He does kind of feel like Dinobot though.

[@Undrave]

I never saw Armada air around here and I have no memory of seeing the toys except for shelfwarming Laserbeaks :p between RiD and Cybertron I was pretty much not involved with Transformers. but I've been thinking it might be cool to have at least 1 Transformer for every year of the franchise so I might go back and get some Armada and Energon dudes... Speaking of anniversaries, it's Akibaranger's 10th anniversary this month, that could be a subject for a video!

[@NightmareZerogbs]

I was too young to join the online discourse, but I do remember missing the animals from Beast Wars...but then I got addicted to Minicons and the huge, chunky, borderline playset of a toy that each bigger Armada toy was, it was marvelous. Sure, a lot of them were bricks, but they were the prettiest, most fun bricks ever.

[@jessecowled5764]

Just like Hercules; Armada Optimus can sing the praises of pants

[@denorangeblackandwhite2213]

I love Armada

[@filmgoblin5016]

This series needs a remastered for 4K or blu ray

[@Arufonsa1]

“You don’t get characters designed to be weapon packs…” Looks over at the last three lines of weaponizers. Uhhhhhh lol. Just having a bit of fun. Loving the content it’s been so great reliving toylines with you.

[@serPomiz]

not quite, the skyboom shield, the starsaber and the requiem blaster are still unmatched in the hasbro lines (the arms micron from takara it's a different story). all bot had their uniqueness, their weapon form and their identity as bot. the road-destruction team also, especially with toy that had ports on the arms

[@Arufonsa1]

@@serPomiz I was just talking about weapon packs not combiners.

[@serPomiz]

@@Arufonsa1 the road destruction team, and the battle team are weapon packs. kinda. they do not make too much sense but they try...

[@Stingerman100]

Transformers Armda was the best iteration of Transformers for me besides Beast Wars.

[@xxrocketshark216xx4]

I grew up on the Unicron Trilogy so I have (and always will have) a massive soft spot for Armada Ik the show isnt perfect, but I still love it to pieces. Mainly due to nostalgia, but there are some things I will defend unironically. 1. Garry Chalk as Optimus Prime...I love it. Honestly my favorite Optimus voice, i dont care how sacreligious that is. No disrespect to Peter Cullen, love the guy and he is THE iconic Optimus voice...but Garry is what I grew up with and will always prefer. 2. Armada Starscream is the BEST version of the character, full stop

[@SgtScorpious]

I was 11 at the time so I don’t think my excitement was that of some others

[@TechnicalJimActual]

You do know that Earthrise Cliffjumper isn't the standard size for deluxes in the War for Cybertron toylines, right?

[@tiagosales4913]

Make a similar vídeo about the aligned continuity

[@victorapontejr.8244]

It was great to hear your opinion about the toyline, but what did you think of Armada & Micron Legend as shows? I'm super curious & would love to know how ya felt about them. Like did ya enjoy the sub over the dub? Do you always go by the English names instead of the Japanese names? Which characters were amongst your favorites? Things like that.

[@Zap_Master99]

I have still Armada Unicron, I really want Tidal Wave and Jetfire.

[@Cdr2002]

I’m as old as this show 😳

[@ampeater777]

Some of the minicons were a bit shit but there were a few that were ridiculously well engineered and fun. I played with the minicons far more than I did the actual transformers when I was a kid. I probably would pose them with my gunpla if I still had them

[@KRBrickBot]

Armada is the first Transformers series I was introduced to by guidebooks and online clips. Simply, cool - robots that turn into cars are a thing.

[@Ranma_Leopard]

Very enjoyable video. I remember watching it when it was live on TV (I didn't follow it religiously but when it was on I tried to watch it)

[@omegamaximus1727]

I was about 3 years old when I watched Transformers Armada was on Toonami, because when I was little I love giant robots in general.

[@douglasbrownell2704]

Mini cons existed in Armada energon and Cybertron power link ing also existed in Armada like for example with jet fire and Optimus prime and Optimus prime with overload and Optimus prime with both of them at least in the toy line in energon Optimus prime had the drones that he first power linked with then later on wings saber came in and gave Optimus prime two different modes to form with wing saber. Then Optimus prime joins with Omega supreme to pull another combo Optimus supreme I believe. Then in Cybertron Optimus prime still powerlinked with other other Autobots like for example Optimus prime and Leo breaker jointed to become Savage claw mode and later on in that series Optimus prime and Wing saber joined up together become Sonic Wing mode. So in other words to put it simply Armada the main gimmick was minicons, energon the gimmick was power linking, but then Cybertron the main gimmick was cyber planet keys. In all three series they had two similar gimmicks in all three series. I'll admit by the time Cybertron rolled around the mini-cons want that plentiful there was only like four of them with the Autobots, one with vector sigma and the other three with the three human children..

[@TotallyNormalUK]

I my 1st Transformer was Cybertron Prime and the 1st new Transformers media I saw was the 07 movie. So, of course I went down the rabbit hole and watched (most) of Transformers' English speaking media which does obviously include Armada. As a stupid little kiddie wink (bonus points for those that get that reference) I thought that Armada took place after RID as, Prime 1st looked a lot like RID Prime before he took on his iconic Armada earth mode. And have watched it to completion at least once... with all the good writing in the 2nd half going over my head. I do have some toys from back then in my collection mostly Minicons as, a shop used to stock Transformers blind candy bags which had a random Minicon inside it. And since the 07 movie was using literally any mould they had on them to fill shelves, that's how I got a hold of "Inferno" whom swears that his name is "Red Alert awo awo awo". Nowadays, I'm tempted to get one toy from this line some day. Probably some version of "Bendy Prime" due to the fact that, he won't burn my house down due to bad design...

[@iron1349]

Without Armada, I wouldn't have given a fuck about the 2007 movie, without that movie, I wouldnt' care about the franchise I still have my smaller Optimus. He has some replacement parts, and even those are starting to crack.

[@blueraccoon1088]

The game was fun

[@myoldhandlewasmadewheniwas9]

Armada is what got me into this franchise. My first toy I remember was Armada Megatron. I will defend the franchise, faults and all, to the day I leave this fandom. Yes, the cartoon had bad production but the story itself had plenty to explore, especially in the subbed with more polish and care. Best Unicron to date and I will accept no argument otherwise

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

😉👍 stil have my armada scavenger! ❤

[@demonwolf3286]

I can't believe I'm older than armada

[@robinthedragonhunter64]

I was born in 2003 I never got to experience this series

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Tj: the cartoon sucked because of its hackdub Armada fans: megatron and optimus prime's dynamic was the most well done and thought provoking out of any transformers cartoon/anime which was not dumbed down for the American dub

[@capmodesty]

One thing I recently learned, the Japanese dub had a far better soundtrack. I have fond memories of the Armada toyline, only really ever owned Decepticons from the line but there were some great fun toys despite not having the greatest articulation, the Minicon range and variety was great and really should have been how Hasbro should have looked at for the Siege/Earthrise Micromasters rather than forcing awful "gun" modes onto all but one pairing (who really should have been redceoed into Runway and Jetstorm)

[@genyakozlov1316]

The soundtrack is the same barring the openings, endings, and the American insert song, isn't it?

[@capmodesty]

@@genyakozlov1316 surprisingly, no, Armada seemed to exclusively use the intro/outro, an ominous sounding piece and a piece of rock music that they used for everything. Micron Legend had a bit more variation

[@medafan53]

I actually joined the fandom with Energon of all things, but for me the early 00s era in general (RID - Cybertron), were really the origin of my Transformers obsession (and yes it is an obsession) and I really loved/still love that era. And of course Armada has one major legacy; Nemesis Prime (for that matter RID has a claim to that legacy as well, since their Scourge lay the groundwork for what Armada would make with Nemesis) I'm really hoping that Legacy, or what comes after it will revitialse some of those designs.

[@RialVestro]

Tidal Wave also had the smallest Mini-con of the entire toy line and it still had to be folded up to store inside of him. I freaking hated Ramjet (Tidal Wave's Mini-con) because it was so small and had the worst articulation compared to all the other Mini-cons. Rollout in contrast was the largest Mini-con plus it technically had 4 modes cause it was a vehicle, a robot, a Headmaster for Overload and a Target Master for when they combined with Optimus Prime. I love the Tidal Wave figure but he just has the worst Mini-con. I also want to point out, as long as we're comparing this to RID2001, that the 2001 Super Modes were better than what we got in Armada. Optimus' trailer actually forms armor for him as apposed to Armada where he's just wearing pants. The Combination with Ultra Magnus again actually feels like an integration between the two characters as apposed to Armada just wearing Jetfire as pants. He also gets a shield on his chest and Overload as huge shoulder cannons which is pretty cool but still feels like a step down from RID2001. On the plus side Armada is still better than it's sequels. The Super Modes and combiner modes for Optimus just kept getting lazier and more simplified over time. That might be why they stopped doing them because even when the combined modes looked good they were so simplified that the individual figures usually suffered for that gimmick and some times they suffered for a gimmick that didn't even look good when combined. Leobreaker is literally just an arm and the figure is known to suffer for that gimmick that doesn't even look good. BTW I kind of love that Soundwave and Blaster's cassettes have been retroactivly called Mini-cons after this series. RID2015 also gave us Mini-cons but I don't think they worked as well as they did in Armada.

[@douglasbrownell2704]

I don't think anything is as just filler, I enjoy each series equally, regardless of strengths weaknesses or problems with the series. I have the r i d Optimus prime and he was solid even though the armor and his main weapon made him top heavy. And later on this year I will be getting the ultra Magnus Optimus prime to pack from rid and there's no telling how top heavy Omega prime is going to be when you put ultra Magnus on top of Optimus prime.

[@serPomiz]

I'l date myself, I am one of the latter sons of GiG the first wave of Armada was the last time we got the top choise, after that distribution would fall and become a mess and as a country we would miss on endless good toys ironically, we got an overabbundance of smokescreens, hotrod and later sideswipe, but we got plenty of megatrons, optimuses and demolisher as well. sometimes I wonder if I should not have grabbed that discount gameboy game and took sideways instead. still, even after all this years, is still far more common finding takara carrobots and various G1-trought-G2 than anything armada on the local garage sales the unicron trilogy was the last few years of good dubbing; with actually capable people in every position and even managing to tweack a little, resulting in all bot having more consistent spikes of assholery without at least some of the idiot balls of the english version. also, armada finally gave all of us the Unicron toy, which was unchallenged up to last year

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

I should watch micron legend some day, or atleast armada with subtitles reflecting the original dub. All the new characters were classics. Sideways, what a chad!

[@Teh_Spirit]

not sure if they fixed it with home video release of armada but i remember one difference between armada and micron legend that the animation was not completely finished due to being rushed out (and that some of the names was different)

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

@@Teh_Spirit true! Armada came out a month ahead of micron legend. I forgot

[@firesonic1010]

Didn't armada premiere in August of 2002?

[@RKStrikerJK5]

Alexis was and is awesome and the show had best Starscream of the *franchise!!!*

[@jeremyalyntattoo]

This show did mean a lot. The figures meant even more. I'm happy that they've decided to revisit them in some capacity through this current line. Happy birthday, Armada

[@MikeD974]

I love armada megatron 1 of my favorite versions of megatron tge show was ok but the 1 kid whining all the time gets to me after awhile . Starscream was a great character from this show love the minicons and the game for the show was fun.love demolisher too

[@warmachine9846]

I wasn't a big fan of the whole Pokemon gotta catch em all aspect period the Armada storyline was okay but as it progressed to the trilogy and sucked it got very incoherent

[@nachoprime9649]

Armada is slightly before my time and tbh I think it's pretty lame. The first half of the show is a slog and felt like g1 without the charming characters that made all the flaws bearable, although the unicron battles did redeem it to a large extent. And the toys are by and large awful from what I've handled, the only ones I'd consider good are Unicron, Tidal wave, Jetifre, and Megatron. Bendy Prime, Starscream, and Demolisher are pretty decent as well.