Quote Originally Posted by Ralph Wiggum View Post
I never followed the cartoons after G1, but has Transformers delved or come close to this whole concept of "gotta collect them all!" or "competition" style plot lines?

Basically I was building a Gunpla and looking into the backstory of what I was building (I don't actually watch Gundam, I just like cool robots), and found out it came from a series called "Gundam Build Fighters". Which to me was just this ridiculous concept of reducing the Gundam franchise to yet another competition style cartoon show.

I never liked that style of plot-line, including Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Beybladez, etc. I guess I'm from the old-school of epic good vs evil storylines. Characters blah-blah-blah-ing about stats, power levels, power-ups just feels like lazy writing IMO.
As people have said Armada was very much in line with 'catch 'em all' statement, in my opinion this also applies to RID as well.