(NOV-2013) Aligned Era - Rate it

[BigTransformerTrev]

I rated as of the better ones. But as in how it breaks down for me:

*Cartoons: Some of S3 of TFPrime have been some of the best TF cartoons I have ever seen. I rate those ep's on an equal footing with my fav ep's of Animated and overall only second to G1. I've only seen a couple of ep's of Rescue Bots though I do have them downloaded. I'm saving them for when my boy gets old enough to watch them

*Comics: Meh. See my review in that thread.

*Books: The aligned books have been fairly poor in my opinion in comparison to the Keepers Trilogy from the DW universe. Lazy writing from authors trying to knit too many disparate strands of the TF Multiverse together (Blurr lives on the Speed Planet from the Cybertron series?!? I dont think so!) and not enough focus on character development, or even decent descriptions of their alt-modes.

*Toys: Some really fantastic ones, I've been genuinely impressed with some of the TFPrime figures and of course the WFC/FOC figures on the whole have been excellent. Depending on if you want to rate Metroplex as FOC or Generations, you could say the toys have been spectacular!

*Games: WFC was awesome. FOC? The mother-fraggin bomb! I cant express enough how much I loved this game and its storyline full of unending homages to G1. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The TFPrime Wii game however - kinda average.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I've plugged the whole era into Average.

The thing is, it's a mish mash of all sorts of stuff. While I really love FOC and WFC, Prime and Beast Hunters were fairly bland. The books were pretty horrid, so really the complete coolness of the games is dragged down by the awfulness of the other parts.

Same goes for the toys. I found the FE Prime toys and WFC toys to be rather nice. Shame about the regular Prime toys and most of the FOC toys that really left a lot to be desired.

[Trent]

I've plugged the whole era into Average.

The thing is, it's a mish mash of all sorts of stuff. While I really love FOC and WFC, Prime and Beast Hunters were fairly bland. The books were pretty horrid, so really the complete coolness of the games is dragged down by the awfulness of the other parts.

Same goes for the toys. I found the FE Prime toys and WFC toys to be rather nice. Shame about the regular Prime toys and most of the FOC toys that really left a lot to be desired.

This more or less sums up my thoughts. I'm still working throughout the cartoons and had a crack at one of the books but only lasted about 5 pages.

The games were good. I rate WFC very highly due to the never ending Escalation mode, but FOC failed miserably in that regard. Both stories were pretty good.

Toys are ok I suppose. The only toy I own from that era is Abominus, purely because combiner

[Jinto]

I put it down as one of the better ones. As a whole it's pretty incongruous, but I like a lot of the separate elements in their own right.
The WFC / FOC games were awesome, I couldn't agree with BigTransformerTrev more.

The Prime cartoon had phenomenal animation (maybe even better than my all time favorite, Beat Wars ) and season 1 really hooked me and reassessed so much potential, but I feel it dropped the ball somewhere along the way. Still pretty good though.
I haven't read the books or comics but I'd like to get around to them at some point. Not in a huge hurry since I haven't heard great reviews.

Most of the video game toys were great but a few, like FOC Prime were kinda junk. What is with those knees? There were absolute gems in there too; FE Starscream, for example.

So yeah, pretty good.