Are you going to collect TF:PRime toys?

[SkyWarp91]

Are you?

I started off collecting the Bay Movie toys, then seeped into getting Generations/Classics/Henkei/Universe toys and the occasional G1/BW/Animated and even KREO but I don't really care for the PRIME series. And plus, I'm running out of room!

[GoktimusPrime]

I'll collect the show cast and any figures that may tickle my interest.

[Hursticon]

As a massive fan of this series? - Hell Yes!
But, I will not be purchasing the figures locally, no, I'm not waiting for Aussie Retail to pull it's thumb out of it's A*** - It's online for me.

[kaiden]

terrible writing aside, the characters designs are awesome and seem to translate well into toys.

[Arcee]

As a massive fan of this series? - Hell Yes!

Hursti how do you rate it compare to other series, e.g. your lifetime favorite BWs?

[Firestorm]

my response

HECK YEAH!

After DOTM the prime figures look so cool, I've gotta get them all particularly cant wait for Bulkhead and Knockout

Prime might not be as great as beast wars, but it's still pretty good and the deisgns are pretty nice

[liegeprime]

Yep. I sure will! Good thing about it is, there's only a limited number of figures to get, so it's easy and will not be heavy on the wallet. Mainly 5 from autobots and 5 from decepticons, and then there's about 6-8 more support/guest figs - oh and I'll prolly do a bit of army building of the car robos and jet robos for the decepticon ranks. From what Ive seen in the reviews posted on youtube, it's a bit smallish (just like the DOTM figs) prolly due more expensive materials these days. I hope no shortpacking issues - not that would possibly NOT happen here

I also hope they don't do what they did to Tf animated and skip making figures for show important characters... Im still quite disappointed they never made constructicons and Supreme Class Omega Supreme toy for animated and instead made tons of recolored versions of Lockdown, and Megatron not to mention that uber big Animated prime which easily could've been a Supreme class Omega.

[Hursticon]

Hursti how do you rate it compare to other series, e.g. your lifetime favorite BWs?

Personally, I'd rate it a 3rd place when it comes to my 'All-time Favourite' TF Cartoons, with my list looking like this:

1. Beast Wars
2. Generation 1
3. TF: Prime

Now, the only reason why I rank G1 over it is purely because G1 started my infatuation with Transformers and Beast Wars is #1 because of bias ; but to be frank, G1 narratively is at the bottom of the pile really.

I can quite honestly say that TF: Prime's writing is just slightly under par with that of Beast Wars at the moment, which is saying something for a series in it's 1st season to be narratively as engaging as the franchises best written televised medium: Beast Wars.

To properly get a feeling for TF: Prime you have to look past the 5 part Pilot (Which isn't really bad anyway ) and You absolutely must see it in HD to get a full grasp as to how stunning the Animation actually is; Youtube does nothing for it visually and the 5 part Pilot is simply a taste test.
Trust me when I say that after having just watched the 1st of a 3 parter that brings the show to it's 1st season's end, I can honestly say I haven't been this pumped for a Cartoon in over a decade.

The writing and what transpires in the series is very much geared for adult enjoyment, without being the depressive show that Beast Machines tended to be , and it's so refreshing after the movies too for the fact that it does things the movies could never do and doesn't make the many mistakes the movies did either.
Points in case; Prime is not a Homicidal Maniac (Though I do love that Energon Lust of Movieverse Prime ), Arcee is a thoroughly strong character (Both in personality and fighting prowess ) being the favourite amongst many of the show's fans and doesn't die in three 5ths of a second , as well as Bumblebee not being front and center of the whole bloody show.

So basically, if I had to put the show in a list of 'Best to worst Transformers Cartoons based on writing', it'd look like this:

1. Beast Wars (Best to date)
2. TF: Prime (Very entertaining, well rounded)
3. Beast Machines (Quite good really, if not a little depressing)
4. TF: Animated - (Way too Hanna/Barbera until the 3rd Season)
5. Unicron Trilogy (Poorly ported from it's Japanese Telling)
6. RID (Next!)
7. G1 (It has great moments but not consistently enough)

That's why I damn want the figures for TF: Prime.

[GoktimusPrime]

and You absolutely must see it in HD to get a full grasp as to how stunning the Animation actually is; Youtube does nothing for it visually and the 5 part Pilot is simply a taste test.

Yeah but if a story is well written, it should be enjoyable even with poor visual quality. For example, I first saw Beast Wars Seasons 2 and 3 on crappy NTSC VHS taped off US TV (because I couldn't wait for it to air here ). The video quality was pretty shoddy, but I absolutely loved the story! Then later one when it did finally come out in Australia, I was able to watch it on TV and PAL VHS - then I was able to appreciate the marvel of the animation quality, although even in grainy NTSC the improved graphic quality and visual effects was noticeable.

TF Prime would be a whole lot better if Miko and Raf didn't exist though... those twerps are so freakin' annoying. Jack I don't mind, but those other two kids are just stupid. Especially Miko. (-_-)