Transformers Armada: The Complete Series

Honestly, I've been watching the stream that is up on Tubi, as that's slightly more convenient than dragging out the discs for this whopper of a series.So I made a bet with my wife that I need to own all of the early 2000s cartoons that have a release over here before I will watch the original Beast Wars, as I have difficulty watching that animation. And we got this one on sale, just as we did Energon ten years ago.This show has many, many flaws. Most of the flaws come from the version included being the US TV release, which is just straight up shoddily animated from start to finish. The rush and pressure put on the animators is so painfully obvious that I have made posts online about characters turning into low-resolution pixelated .GIF images as they crawl across the screen like it's a Geocities page. The only characters the animators seem to care about are Starscream (final season only) and Starscream (final season) who are animated by someone who clearly was /one of those/ kinds of people.The voice acting is hilariously tragic and borders on unlistenable. But if you are a fan of garbage dubs like I am, its passable until the continuity errors between scenes start happening and characters start becoming inconsistent to a massive fault (Shockwave/Tidal Wave, Sparkplug/Leader-01 being two big ones that really stuck in my craw).Carlos is a problem, because it's one of the whitest guys trying to do a "mexican" accent, and it's just straight up bad.And one of the characters is diabetic, and the other characters pick on him for it? Fred has this thing where he is consistently hungry and he literally gets bullied for this, and at one point (final season) mentions the risk of a massive diabetic crash due to not having access to his meds.I also just really, really hate Hot Shot. He's a terrible person (robot) and I'm glad we more or less got rid of him.But honestly, if you need a good laugh and dont want to have to think too hard, this show is good for that.

It has some of the voice actors from Beast Wars like Garry Chalk as Optimus Prime, David Kaye as Megatron and Scott McNeil as Jetfire. The story retells the original G1 story with some major changes like adding the minicons as a power source for the Transformers to use. Only minor downside is some of the human characters, but otherwise a much watch show.

Even though it was made later than the original show, it kept the same graphics and just tweaked the storyline which I thought was better. The original had more characters introduced though.

Say what you like about this series, it's a classic (of the same "every bit as much nostalgia rather than production quality" lovely cheesy feeling that G1 has) I've been searching for a DVD version of the entire series for a long time, only finding it for crazy expensive prices. Finally, I found it here on Amazon! I've only gotten about three discs into the series so far, but it seems to be how I remember it. There is a slightly odd error in my discs where the last part of a scene repeats during the transition between scenes, but I don't mind too much given how much less expensive this version is than the others I've seen for sale. Picture quality is definitely a lot better than watching uploaded old VHS tapes on youtube!I've seen some of the commenters saying that the voices don't seem to match the character's mouths, and part of that could be because the series was originally Japanese and later dubbed in English. The dialogue gets a bit odd sometimes as a result.Another complaint that I saw is that there is no option to watch each individual episode. I did not have that problem? The menu says "Play All" and then underneath it "Episodes", and if you select "Episodes", it takes you to the individual episode menu. Perhaps that was the confusion, because it looks like it says "Play All Episodes"If you're a fan of G1 and want to see something entirely different (the characters are very different! Do not expect the Transformers characters to behave the same way they do in G1 or other series!), but with a similar goofy style, this series delivers. It also delivers a lot of hilarious one-liners and quotable lines, and also some surprising depth.The action figure is not included, he just wanted to be in the photo.

This anime was my introduction to transformers back in the early 2000s and it is amazing though the English dub can be little goofy at times but it has the best Starscream

Transformers: Armada has always been one of my top favorite transformers series. This one involves the autobots facing the decepticons in a race to recover all the mini cons that crash landed in earth. Now with every "kids" show, of course there are human characters and of course there are young kids who have to be involved somehow.Which brings me to my next point: the animation. The way all human characters are animated in this show is hilariously bad. It's almost cringy. This show was jointly made by Habro and a Japanese production company, so it's almost disappointing how bad it is. However, if you can look past how bad the kids are animated, you'll be able to appreciate how really well done the actual transformers themselves were redesigned and animated. So if you enjoy transformers and don't mind a little bit of slight animation flaws, then this is a great one to add to your collection.