I've just been watching the premiere on YouTube. I am sold. While the flexible vehicles is a bit strange, it suits the style. The Unicron trilogy had the flashing cockpits or lights when the vehicles talked, but they were CG after all.

So far there has been more characterisation in the first 10 minutes than some characters got in the whole G1 series, and far more than the generic clones in Headmasters etc.

I'm not out to bag the other shows, but I am extremely relieved that this show is about a core group of well-characterised bots and cons, rather than every possible new toy we they can cram in with cameos. Having said that, there is still the rest of the show to go...