some of you may remember the originals - started way back in '84 and some of you may only know of the latest movie which was a big hit in summer '07.

but what we should all know and respect - is that transformers is awesome

it gives you toys that are robots AND big trucks, tanks, planes, cars, all of cool things

anyway, the point of this really is to tell you my hobby, i would love to hear what everyone elses is.

Do you feel Transformers inspired not only future toy products, but TV shows and robotics too?

It was cool in the 80s and early 90s, but that Armarda and Beast Wars crap ruined it. A robot that is a cassette tape that goes in a robot boombox is what the sort of stuff they should have stuck with.

Robots in disguise ruined it. Compared to that all the other series seem resonable by comparison

Physicist wrote:
It was cool in the 80s and early 90s, but that Armarda and Beast Wars crap ruined it. A robot that is a cassette tape that goes in a robot boombox is what the sort of stuff they should have stuck with.

Wrong...

Beast wars has appauling character designs, but storywise ties in perfectly (and also very well) with the generation 1 series and movie. Armada, cyberttron and energon all tie in together and are brilliant as an on going story, it has classic unicron, classic characters, and massive battles and is 3 entires generations and seasons combined.

now robots in disguise, that's a tricky one, series starts off a bit silly (mainly down to poor _script_ writing) but gets really good once they introduce a bucketload of new characters...

the new series, so far, not impressed, animation and design is awful, has strange slapstick comedy in... but the overall story is really quite good... guess we'll have to wait till they start on season 3 to see if it's gonna actually get anywahere and be any good...

TMM