Transfromers Prime - The Animated Series

TRANSFORMERS PRIME

After the Transformers Movie Trilogy we get the best next thing, or in my opinion better..... The Transformers Prime Animated Series and Toyline.  Now I don't know if everybody agrees, but TF Prime has a more stronger and solid story.  If everybody notices, its written and developed for television but the same guys who made story for the movie... but this time more liberated without Spielberg and Bay - and it's better!

This is initially a 5 part test mini-series to capture TF fans for future venture since the movie is about to close, indeed TF3: Dark of the Moon made tons of money in the box office but we were all disappointed story wise.  Definitely the absence of Megan Fox is a big loss, missing Twins (Skids & Mudflap) that made more screen time than sideswipe and others, this movie totally failed for me being a TF Fan.  Thank God for redeption - Transformers Prime proved to have hard core and solid stories and harked G1, Movie and current evolution in animation and storytelling revitalizes Transformers in a totally new perspective.

For me the most brilliant factor in why TF Prime is so awesome is because we get to hear original voices from the past Peter Cullen and Frank Welker proved once and over again that they own Prime and Megatron's voice.  Peter Cullen's majestic and heroic voice is fitting for Optimus Prime's nobility and leadership and a great contrast to Frank Welker's menacing and treacherous voice an perfect execution for a menacing leader. The result a worldwide hit that spawned hype even here in the Philippines despite there is no local airing of the series.  Its G1 all-over again in a different level, this time with better history.

It was awesome how the previous Transformers Animated provided great characters, animation and story for general audience but TF Prime is for the solid hardcore and who would want to be new fans of this genre.  Characters are pulled from the G1 line except for Bulkhead witch was a favorite in the Transformers animated series. The fact that this is a TV series it's in full CG, yes we had CGs before like the Beastwars series, combination on TF Cybertron, but this......I am in awe.

Character wise I love how this series keeps it to a minimum, no over-casting, no over exposure of characters, all is in balance.  This is true for both Autobots and Decepticons, even the human allies and villains are in good proportion, unlike the previous incarnations it either too much bots minimal human intervention or a lot of human intervention which is unnecessary.

Even for the Decepticon I must say, the concept of having Vehicon Drones are superb, it maintains the army and numbers of the Decepticon but focuses on distinct characters.

The Toyline is great....specially the FIRST EDITIONS.... it was something.  For the main line Robots in Disguise I was disappointed.  I expected better since this is the mass produced line by it didn't turn out that way. I got these Autobots for my personal collection.  I feel these lines which I have are the strength of the line.  I am contemplating on getting the Deceptions but only the main Characters.

Copyright njvelasquez 2012

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