Transformers - First Season Collector's Edition

Rating:
Summary: The Best Animated Season Ever.
Review: This season of the Transformers is great. The animation quality is above and beyond similar series' of the time (Gundam/DBZ) and the storytelling is really fun and very interesting. The introduction of the main/original Autobots and Decepticons are great, and the random transition from the crashlanding on earth to millions of years later in present day America always makes me laugh.

Optimus Prime was my hero as a kid and he still is. I just can't get enough of that guy and I look up to him in every way possible. There isn't a better example of selfless love, compassion, and caring (with the exception of Jesus) in the world today. Optimus Prime is the truest soul ever created, and watching him save people time and time again is a great experience, especially on these restored DVDs. The picture quality is great, and the sound quality is much better than when originally aired. I highly recommend this season.

Rating:
Summary: Awesome
Review: Ok, there are tons of reviews nit-picking every little detail in this box set. I am not going to do that. If you look for mistakes hard enough you will find them, hell you will spot them easily in this box set. But if you are looking to be entertained, as you were when you were a kid watching this series, then you will feel like a kid again seeing this series come to life again on DVD. This is not your kid's Beast Wars or Beast Machines or Transformers Armada, Energon or whatever other boring, bad-animation, rip-off that spun off of one of the greatest cartoons/toy-lines ever. No, this is the original and best.

From the introduction of the Transformers in the 3-part opening episodes "More Than Meets The Eye" to the introduction of Skyfire (Fire In The Sky) & Dinobots (S.O.S Dinobots & War Of The Dinobots) to the introduction of the Constructicons (Heavy Metal War) & the Insecticons (A Plague Of Insecticons). This first season is what started it all. None of us would be writing reviews, or caring about the Transformers all these years later, if not for this first season.

The 2nd season gets better with introductions of Omega Supreme, the Aerialbots and others.

The 4th disk is all Special Features with bumpers, Botcon special and oher extras and outtakes. The first Box Set is definately one of the best.

The animation and characters stand the test of time. This was long before they created Transformers with little or no character. Optimus Prime is one of the best leaders ever in a cartoon, cool characters like Sideswipe, Jazz, Bumblebee and many others in the first season left us fans wanting more and more.

The only problem I have with the Transformers cartoon continuity (not this box set but the overall series) is that there seems to be chunks of story cut out. For example, how did Teletran One get destroyed? What happened to the Ark? Where did Transformers from the Movie come from originally? Was Hot Rod built by the Autobots on Earth or was he a rebuilt Autobot from Cybertron? Same for Sky Lynx. Who created Autobot City aka Metroplex? What happened to Sparkplug (Spike's Dad)? If someone could answer some of these questions please feel free to email me at [e-mail]