Need something different...

[Jhiaxus]

You're going to run into the same problem with the Unicron Trilogy that the Japanese generation 1 cartoon had. It's a Japanese toy-based serial.

The people making it didn't give a crap about quality -- only quantity. There's a TONNE of episodes, and none of them are particularly good. Basically, you'll be wasting a CRAPLOAD of time to try and find the handful of awesome moments that hide in among the bullshit.

Sure there are some fun moments in Armada (Especially with the Unicron Battles arc), and the Cybertron dub can be a lot of fun... but to get to it you have to sit through endless boring stories about hunting mini-cons (oh god... such a yawn) or racing on Speed Planet. (Yes, somehow the Japanese production company managed to make a PLANET ENTIRELY BASED AROUND CAR RACING boring.)

Beast Wars doest not have this problem.
Animated does not have this problem.

You might find them jarring -- for various reasons -- if you're STRICTLY used to G1. They are not aesthetically the same as Generation 1 and the characters, despite similar (or identical) names, are not the same. But if you ACCEPT that it's going to be different before you go in it should be fine.

Both series, Beast Wars and Animated, are relentlessly fun with self-contained episodes that are entertaining on their own merits. They're also FILLED with character, acting (both the voice acting and the actual animation of the characters), and humour. They have some great action -- and are able to mix a sense of menace in with the sense of fun.

--Jhiaxus
(Masterforce is bad because every single story is the same. The Decepticons attack/whatever to draw out the Autobots. They draw out the Autobots and the Autobots kick their sorry arses. The first five or six episodes are really quite entertaining... but the rest isn't worth anything.)

(Victory is the opposite way -- it starts off really BORING. Same thing every time. Decepticons attack, Decepticons kick Autobot butt. Star SAber shows up and kicks the crap out of the DEcepticons. Then... suddenly... at one point it changes the dynamic completely. The story kicks into gear with the Decepticons rescuing Gaihawk from an Autobot prison, then shortly after that they're able to merge Leokaiser and really kick some butt. It's pretty good from there up until they introduce Victory Leo and things fall apart again.)