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The Badassitron joke felt incredibly forced to me.

It is really weird they gave everyone else a different, ealier name but not to Elita-1, who is one of the characters who has an existing name like that!

Young Megatron is weirdly a sticking point for me; it's just weird to have him without some sort of gravitas; even the IDW version that starts off as a lowly miner at least had that idealist chic to him. Here he's just a dude and I know that's the point, but it's just weird to see Megatron...

Pax says "I know we're just lowly worker bots who can't even transform" which implies that 1. Transformation is already a known concept; it's not being invented in this movie 2. That some people can do it and others can't, and given it's attachment to "lowly worker bots" might imply is a...

Also, I just want to say I'm fully aware the original cartoon and comic both had Transformation being something that was invented later in cybertron's history.

I was hoping this would feel a little more unique instead of appearing to be a lost Dreamworks movie, but that's probably just me showing my age. This is just what animated features in 2024 are like I guess. Though I partially blame Earthspark for setting my expectations for modern TF animated...

I never like the idea of Transformers that "predate" Transformation, whether it's the 13 or the upcoming pitch for Transformers One, but that's juts me.

I've been so inured to dumb Transformers movie stuff over the last decade and a half that I didn't realize how terrible a name "Transformers One" was until now. It's the Xbox all over again!

The thing with the GI Joe crossover toys is that they're not just Transformers, but they're also fully Joe vehicles and as such need to be large enough to accommodate the figures. Unlike other crossovers where the hook is just getting a cool pop culture vehicle that is also a Transformer.

Just, please dear god, don't use the Siege leg engineering anymore.

Also if they can properly size it, being able to put other autobots in there is really cool. Same reason the Soundwave toy was awesome, really.

There was a definite drop in fidelity when we went from sprites, which were just getting better and better quality, to primitive polygonal models. The industry had gotten very good at rendering sprites but 3D graphics were still in their infancy. The PS1/N64 generation could have stood to have...

I've said it elsewhere, but Beast Wars is so dated at this point that it honestly just looks stylized to me. Like it's an intentionally retro design.

Mainframe is still around (As Mainframe Studios) and it looks like they primarily make animated Barbie stuff these days.

The problem with the cutting edge is that it gets dulled over time. In 1996, with the technology and budget they had available, Beast Wars looks pretty good, but nearly 30 years later it just looks dated because it's been surpassed so much.

Those two vehicles look pretty different, honestly. Like they didn't even get the hood correct, even ignoring the engine block, the middle is concave in cyberverse but convex on the toy. All of the shapes and stylings are off, the windows are the wrong shade, the wheels are almost flat on the...

Most backers probably weren't getting charged Japan prices, which IIRC, were quite high in comparison.

What in Tarnation is going on here?

The problem typically is they want him to look like cartoon Megatron and that requires finding places for tank kibble so his legs and chest look sufficiently G1. I really feel like some characters, such as Megatron and Arcee, just need new designs instead of trying to fit the square pegs of G1...