What Are The Next-Favourite Transformers Franchises?

[Sky Shadow]

I suspect G1/G2 and then Beast Wars are always going to win any polls here for the favourite Transformers franchise/toylines. But I'd be interested in seeing how the others pan out. In this thread I would like us to rank our favourite franchise from 1 (favourite) to 10 (least favourite) of the ten franchises listed below. Your first choice gets nine points and your tenth gets zero. Assuming more than one person actually participates, I'll tally things up as we go. Does that make sense?

(Disclaimer: I've left out anything beginning with "Generation" - i.e. 1 and 2 or "Beast Wars" - i.e. II and Neo. Or anything that's solely a reissue or direct homage to any of those. I've also left out War For/Fall Of Cybertron which has only had four and a half toys released so far. And Animorphs, Crossovers, First Transformers/1-2-3 Transformers/Go-Bots/Rescue Heroes/Rescue Bots. Because all those toylines are so awesome that it would be unfair to all the others.)

Okay, so the ten franchises you have to list from favourite (1) to least favourite (10) are the following:

1. Animated
2. Robots in Disguise/Car Robots
3. Beast Machines
4. Cybertron
5. Prime
6. Energon
7. Armada
8. Machine Wars
9. Alternators/Binaltech/Kiss Play/Alternity
10. Bay Movie

Even if you're not 100% sure, you must still rank them from 1-10 based on what you know of that franchise. (It's like an election - you must number all candidates on the ballot or your vote won't count.)

Happy voting!

[Doubledealer]

1. Animated
2. Prime

Err...

3. Robots in Disguise/Car Robots
4. Bay Movie
5. Alternators/Binaltech/Kiss Play/Alternity
6. Cybertron
7. Energon
8. Armada
9. Machine Wars
10. Beast Machines

[swoop]

Animated
Rid
Armada
Cybertron
Alternators
Beast machines
Energon
Bay movie
Machine wars
Prime

I ranked prime as number 10 because I haven't got around to actually opening any of the toys I have and the only one I've seen in person out of the package is soundwave and 1 toy for me doesn't compare to the other lines. Also I've only seen 10 minutes of the first ep from the cartoon. I'm sure my opinion on it will change as I see more

[UltraMarginal]

1 Prime
2 Animated
3 Bay Movies
4 alternators/Binaltech
5 Beast Machines
6 Machine Wars
7 Robots in Disguise/Car Robots
10 Armada
10 Energon
10 Cybertron

I ranked prime as number 10 because I haven't got around to actually opening any of the toys I have and the only one I've seen in person out of the package is soundwave and 1 toy for me doesn't compare to the other lines. Also I've only seen 10 minutes of the first ep from the cartoon. I'm sure my opinion on it will change as I see more

Get out there and watch some!! For the good of your eyeballs
If you can get hold of it in a high res do that.

[iamirondude]

what no G1, that's where it all started.

[Sky Shadow]

what no G1, that's where it all started.

Read the first post or the title.

[Paulbot]

1. Animated
2. Robots in Disguise/Car Robots
3. Cybertron
4. Bay movies
5. Energon
6. Alternators etc
7. Prime
8. Beast Machines
9. Armada
10. Machine Wars

[swoop]

Get out there and watch some!! For the good of your eyeballs
If you can get hold of it in a high res do that.

I've got the boxset it arrived from amazon last Friday. I started watching it Sunday night but my girlfriend wanted to play the wii so it was turned off. But I'll probably watch some of it tonight

[Seraphim Prime]

1. Animated - The sow was a great combination of fun and seriousness that worked well with the medium it was presented in. The toys were fantastic and really pushed engineering principles, and gave us toys that looked like the highly stylised characters on TV.
2. Robots in Disguise/Car Robots - Fun TV show with quite amzing toys (for the time, some of them are quite limited in today's standards). It also brought me back into TFs after giving them up during Beast Machines.
3. Prime - Haven't seen the show, but the toys give me that sense of enjoyment and engineering wonder that I found in Animated
4. Alternators/Binaltech - Toys were fantastic (for the time) and showed that a decent toy line could work without show support. The idea ultimately led to us getting the Classics/Universe/Generations toy lines.
5. Cybertron - Quite good toys, decent show. Wasn't outstanding, but had quite a lot of very good things about it.
6. Bay Movie - Mass market apeal with decent toys with real life vehicle modes was pretty awesome for a while. (Comes a very close runner-up to Cybertron)
7. Armada - First true entry into the TF multiverse - a new generation of Transformers for a new generation of fans. The minicons were an awesome idea. Some gimmicks were hampered by minicon ports, but the play pattern established was a fantastic idea.
8. Beast Machines - Not bad. Didn't really get caught by the toys. Watched the show in recent years. Not bad, but not fantastic, and takes itself way too seriously
9. Energon - Had some great toys and concepts. Also had some pretty aweful toys that were severly hampered by the combining gimmick. Show was pretty forgettable.
10. Machine Wars - Basically a line of repaints with no story support. Decent repaints though.

[GoktimusPrime]

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[ 3 ] Animated
[ 1 ] Robots in Disguise/Car Robots
[10] Beast Machines
[ 2 ] Cybertron
[ 4 ] Prime
[ 7 ] Energon
[ 8 ] Armada
[ 9 ] Machine Wars
[ 5 ] Alternators/Binaltech/Kiss Play/Alternity
[ 6 ] Bay Movie