What Are The Next-Favourite Transformers Franchises?

[Sky Shadow]

Since I guess the IDW comics are considered G1 and the Hearts of Cybertron has had no toys they don't count? If they do I need a revote to put them both in this list. Universe toyline also counts as G1 right? (even the original?)

Yes - everything G1 isn't part of the poll. The 2003ish Universe line was awesome and should probably be here, but because the Classics line kind of meandered into Universe, as a way of avoiding 'Universe-is-G1-Classicverse' voting patterns, Universe is not here. For the purposes of voting, consider this an election ballot of just those ten candidates.

[1orion2many]

I'm just changing the numbers around as I'm lazy

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

Some of the above I enjoyed some I didn't, Just because something is rated low doesn't mean I didn't like it. Machine Wars figures I like but there wasn't anything(as in mythos)behind them and it was a really short lived line.

[Hursticon]

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

^^This.

[Doubledealer]

^^This.

My, what exquisite taste you have Hursti.

[Sky Shadow]

Scores at this point are:

1st with 119 - Animated

2nd with 105 - Robots in Disguse/Car Robots

3rd with 83 - Cybertron

4th with 81 - Prime

5th with 75 - Alternators et al

6th with 63 - Bay movies

7th with 46 - Armada

8th with 45 - Beast Machines

9th with 39 - Energon

10th with 19 - Machine Wars

Predictable? Surprising? Any other thoughts?

[Paulbot]

Looks about right to me. I thought the Movieverse would be a rank or two higher though.

I'd also expect TF;Prime to rise if you took the vote again in a year or two. That series seems to be popular with those that have watched it and there's little of the hate that Animated got (and overcame!).

I think some people, myself included are just indifferent to TF:Prime as the toys are only just starting to appear and the cartoon is hard to see. As more toys come out and the DVDs make it more accessible, the votes might be more favourable. Currently I just see it as "the cartoon based on the movie".

[GoktimusPrime]

I thought RiD would be higher considering how those toys flew off shelves when it first came out!

[Paulbot]

I thought RiD would be higher considering how those toys flew off shelves when it first came out!

They are very close though.

RID toys flew of the shelves because the were realistic vehicles, a much needed novelty after the Beast era. Also, a lot of fans here were tuned out back then and didn't come back until the movie (which is why I thought that line would be a bit higher). Those fans can only catchup with RID (see the who's Sky-Byte? questions in the Hall of Fame threads) but they saw Animated firsthand.

As great as RID is, there's a lot of repaints of toys from other eras in that line (part of the charm IMO) as well a redubbed cartoon, and that makes it a bit of a mish-mash, compared to the more consistent vision of Animated (thanks Derrick, Eric, etc).

[KalEl]

1. Energon
2. Animated
3. Cybertron
4. Robots in Disguise/Car Robots
5. Armada
6. Bay movies
7. Prime (this low as i havent watched enough)
8. Alternators etc
9. Beast Machines
10. Machine Wars

[theheretic]

1. Prime
2. Bay movies
3. Alternators
4. R I D
5. Beast machines
6. Machine wars
7. Energon
8. Cybertron
9. Armada
10. Animated