Looking Back at Transformers Prime... 11 Years Later 

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Transformers Prime is my all-time favorite Transformers series. I've got all 3 seasons on DVD, I've got the main 5 Autobots, Megatron and Knockout toys and I got the game for the Wii. The Rooster Teeth WFC Trilogy and EarthSpark failed to recapture the awesomeness of Prime, in my opinion. I hope the Nostalgia Critic and Steve Reviews review this show eventually.

Transformers Prime will always be my favorite transformers show. It is what I grew up with as a kid. While there was G1 Transformers, I just preferred more of TFP. The art style, the characters, the design, all of it. I am just sad that it didn't continue. But, all good things come to an end. Till all are one.

Fun fact about this show: While Frank Welker does voice Megatron in Transformers Prime, his voice was vastly different compared to his G1 voice. The most interesting thing about his Prime voice, is that it’s actually modulated. You could find this out in some of Frank Welker’s interviews where he does all of his Megatron voices plus Galvatron, and his Prime Megatron voice is very different compared to how it was in the actual show. This is surprising for me as I actually assumed it wasn’t modulated and it just had a filter just like with his G1 voice. In fact, I assumed it wasn’t modulated that I keep impersonating Welker’s Prime Megatron voice naturally everytime I do the voice whenever I play a Transformers game, or watch another movie.

At the end of season 2, smokescreen is the only one returning is a good character trait shown here. Everyone else follows optimus to his word, but since smokescreen is new, he did what he felt right rather than simply following orders

Transformers Prime was my introduction to Transformers. While the movies and RU-vid Parodies exist, I didn’t get into the series fully until watching Transformers Prime episodes on Netflix.

9:34 And that’s what I love about Transformers Prime, it combined the best parts of G1 and the Bayverse and made them even better. Optimus Prime & Megatron in TFP were to me, what the Bayformers versions of them should’ve been. In fact, Optimus having enough of Megatron throughout Seasons 2 and 3 works better then him killing Megatron in Dark of the Moon. Because we’re shown that Optimus slowly realizes that Megatron’s not the same Decepticon he knew.

You managed to put into words why I love this series so much. I also think TFP's version of Optimus is on of the best written iterations of Optimus Prime.

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children isn't a good children's story in the slightest.” - C.S. Lewis, that quote sums up my feelings about how they covered their story, good for kids, but it can mean a lot more to another demographic. - Luke

Let me just that Transformers One is literally Transformers Prime 2.0 in Disguise. It takes heavily based ideas from the Aligned Continuity, Animated and G1 such as Desgins, Storyline, Characters and Etc. And oh my goodness the OST, Brian Tyler coming back for this movie is freaking nuts you can hear the TFP osts in it. As someone who very much attached to TFP this was just reliving the whole aligned continuity in a completely different way and i loved every moment of it. And very much gonna call out that the next instalment of TF one is gonna be based on War For Cybertron which i look forward to see.

Prime is what I consider to be perfection for Transformers. It streamlines the aesthetics of the High Moon games and Bayverse into a cohesive, highly stylized unique look, carries the excellent storytelling of Beast Wars, and on its best days, can be as much fun as Animated. Not to mention, it swiped the crown of Best Human Character. Agent William Fowler will always be my favorite human character in the entire franchise. It's also one of precious few entries where the exploits of the baddies are equally as entertaining as whatever the heroes are up to, which can largely be credited to a Starscream who's at his absolute slimiest and most conniving, a stone-cold Soundwave who surely gave kids nightmares, and the actual greatest character in Transformers, the sexiest thing since sex, never imitated, never duplicated, Knock Out. I could go on for hours and hours about how well it portrays the complex relationship between Optimus and Megatron, the way this is one of the best Optimus depictions we've ever gotten, how great all the worldbuilding is for both Cybertron and Earth, and a million other things, but I'd inevitably just end up repeating all of Emperor Kumquat's videos (watch them) Special mention goes to the all-star voice cast, who give 110% on every episode. Peter Cullen was probably just happy to be playing an Optimus who wasn't a psychopath, and gives Optimus this fatherly vibe that's stern, yet approachable, and I think it's the best Optimus he's ever done. It's matched perfectly by Frank Welker turning his Megatron voice completely on its head, giving the head 'Con a raspy, gravelly voice that just oozes delicious malevolence. It's not hard to see why Megatron is capable of keeping things locked down despite having such a backstabbing crew, when his voice gives him such a dominating presence. There's also, of course, Daryl Norris, whose silky tones are half the reason Knock Out became the standout character of the series, and Jeffrey Combs, who has implanted himself in my mind as the definitive Ratchet voice, and the only one I ever want voicing him. Transformers fans are known for their nostalgia bias, and I'm no different. Yet, when I look back at Prime with an objective lens, I find my opinions consistently reaffirmed. It holds up, even now, and I firmly believe it's earned its place as one of the all-time franchise greats.

Prime's Optimus is the best of both the G1 kind and a little naive and the freaking decepticon killer of the bayverse. This one have all to be a honorable leader, but also the firmness to fight to death the decepticons when its necessary

One of the thing that elevates TFP the most for me, which is not often mentioned is the theme and the score. It is just so good.

Grew up with transformers prime, the feel was different from things now. The story was amazing felt like actual stakes, animation is smooth still holds up today can’t see any flaws, comedy and jokes are fun no matter how many times you rewatch. Still amazing even after 10+ years.

AS A 45 YEAR OLD G1 FAN, TRANSFORMERS PRIME REVITALIZED MY ADORATION FOR THE SERIES. THE BUMBLE BEE, THE NETFLIX SERIES, AND COMBINER WARS WERE OK, BUT THIS TF ONE MOVIE... WAS BANANAS. IT BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES. I HAD TO SEE IT AGAIN AFTER THE PRE SCREENING. THIS SERIES IS BACK, THANKS TO THE LOVE FROM THE FAN BASE!!!

The shockwave design looks so cool and he just looks like he simply does not feel

funny thing is that every time Bay was asked to direct each transformers movie, he said no, then came back and said yes after being asked again

TFP was the only show to finally give the title "Transformers" a deeper meaning. Optimus' speech about change at the end of the series is the best speech ever written for this franchise.

No mention of Soundwave, Wheeljack, and Arachnid??? Those were my most likable character in the series... In terms of the Diversity they provided... 1). Soundwave being the absolute loyal and steadfast follower of Megatron... He would NEVER leave his side, no matter what... Also his ability to conjure space bridges at will, his "petcon" Lazerbeak, brings a sort of diversity and possibility of other Transformers having such abilities and relationships with minor lifeforms of Cybertron... It makes sense as not all beings on Cybertron would have been huge hulking Bots... They should have been smaller and more diversified lifeforms as well... Also his ability to detect and manipulate all Sonic frequencies, could be a sign of other Transformers having control over other physical forces, such as the Light Spectrum, or Radio waves, or Kinetic energy etc. 2). Arachnid representing the Difference in terms of sub-species in Transformers (kinda like South African male and a Siberian Male Human) Her complete control over a seemingly independent form of life i.e. Insecticons, also showed promise for any future additions to the series... Maybe other Transformers could control all the Worker/Guard bots, or the Predacons, or maybe some other form of life such as the Scraplets, or some Worm like lifeforms, etc. 3). Wheeljack representing the diversification in terms of Military and Strategic Units... He was part of the Wreckers, but maybe there were other special Units formed by both Autobots & Decepticons, which never came to light... Maybe some research Units were sent out by Deceptions which found something unique... Or some Special Ops units who got wiped out by something and only a sole survivor was left... There were soooooo many areas which could have been expanded by Hasbro, if only they kept the show alive... The story was concluded too fast in my opinion... And although the ending itself was quite a good one, it could have been postponed much much further to experiment and incorporate all these ideas... I hope I didn't ramble too much, I just wanted to show my humble fanboy opinion on a video, which clearly also loves Transformers for what it is, and hopes for its best parts to come out in the future...

It was literally peak Transformers! From animation style, to audio from voice actors, effects and music. To camera angles and usage that where genius, to amazing story and characters 😮 It really, had it all!😎

Since its been years since prime was on tv, finally rewatching it again felt amazing and brought me back to my childhood again

"Big whup. I snuffed Hardshell!" I always liked Miko as a human character, but holy hell did this one line make me love her more than any other human in any other series.

The quality of the video vs the no. of subscribers you have is truly astounding. Amazing video. Hope you have a great youtube career

That awesome theme song still lives rent-free in my head :)

This show gives me nostalgia like no other. I get that there are plenty of other Transformer tv shows, but this one felt mature, the character arcs were interesting, the deaths were emotional and the soundtrack was a chef's kiss. I love how Megatron and Optimus felt like these two massive titans when compared to other bots and it made their presence enjoyable to watch.

Arcee's Airachnid PTSD will forever echo in my head.

Honestly I prefer that transformers prime continued with more seasons and more new characters that we all know and are familiar with like the dinobots combiners and more autobots and decepticons

the single best transformers based content we've ever gotten. i wish we had some continuation of this today.

Transformera Prime Season 2 and 3 were something else. All the way from One Shall Fall part 1 to Predavons Rising, the series i.proved and became something very special

This show had the best ever iteration of Starscream and I will die on that hill. He's not as one-dimensional as in other media, he has layers and development to him, thanks to the brilliant writing and the amazing voice acting by Steve Blum. And it's amazing precisely because he didn't try to emulate any of the past iterations, but instead did his own spin on the character. And it's glorious.

A TFP Commentary vídeo!? Oh boy count me In!! ^0^ Transformers prime is one of the series that I think it stands out the most on story, it is just so unique like TFA, it's one series that I hope it should never be forgotten. Though, with that, it just makes me mad and kinda sad that hasbro left this series in the shadows and killed some characters(breakdown, skyquake,dreadwing and cliffjumper) because they just din't *sell enough*, the series *din't sell enough*, that's the reason they made RID15. This series deserved so much better, and I hope to we somehow, SOMEHOW, get more of it with some toys and references, cuz I think that's all we are gonna get. Thank you sm for this video! Can't wait for the TF One movie to come here where I live! Till all are one!! ^u^

Alligned Continuity isn't just Prime it also includes War and Fall even Rescue Bots.

TF Prime is seriously the best transformers we ever got my first introduction to Transformers was Transformers Prime it instantly made me hook to the franchise i remember first time seeing the show on my tv while laying on bed.... Seeing these robots with unimaginable power and and complete packed action I was tempted for more from there i started gathering more info and eventually found everything that transformers has to offer i personally have a digital content collection stored in a hdd in my old laptop which has all the tv shows and all the movies and all the books and all the games I mean everything and currently working on collecting the Acc of Games that collaborated with transformers like recently roblox and rn squad Busters (a mobile game of supercell company) sadly I cannot buy toys because I am still studying and can't ask for parents because it would look too silly as I am already 18 but I will definitely collect toys as well once I get a job but to sum it all up I just want to say it all started with Transformers Prime 🖤 and if I hadn't came accross that show on that day I think I could have missed out on such an amazing show and a wonderful franchise

Transformers Prime is one of the greatest Transformers shows ever made🔥💯

Crazy how this kids show was ten times better Transformers than Michael Bay’s million dollar budget films series that were released at the same time

TFP was actually my first and favorite Transformers show! i’m in the middle of season 2 rn, took a couple month break, might get back into it since watching Transformers One being a newer fan myself, i started with Bumblebee back in 2023 i think, then started jumping around the animated shows, Prime and Earthspark are my favorites 😊 ngl i couldn’t get into Animated, Cyberverse, or RID (2015)

all imma say is PEAK

This show is great and I am so glad that this was my introduction to the franchise to a whole.

I loved watching this as a kid!! I really wish it got more seasons

Transformers Prime just had perfect designs for the transformers themselves imo. Like how can you look at Soundwave or Shockwave and say "Nah, these designs are mid" They turned Soundwave, the recon like decepticon, into a STEALTH DRONE! I mean of course a boombox would make no sense anymore, but who could have predicted stealth drone over something like a Northrop?

Glad to see there are people out there who love this series as much as I do. 🥰 I used to watch this show on repeat

one of my best childhood shows, feels like a fever dream bacc when i was yung watching this sleeper series on da hub channel

TFP Arcee is not only the best written character in the show, but is in fact the best written character in the entire franchise. She's absolutely incredible. There's so much development and depth packed into such a small package

I was literally so obessed with transformers as a littke kid TFP was SUCH a cherry ontop 😫 i rewatched it in Middle School and I was so soso in love I kepted up with all the shows and went as far as to watch the animes and stuff and go crazy over the more than meets the eyes comics UGH so great

great vid ive been binging some transformers stuff in prep of Transformers One and started reminiscing on watching this sick transformers show at my grandma's house as a kid so i found the name of the show and you were the first vid i watched all of. you the goat bro

Good thing we don’t talk about RID

Bro this, Clone Wars, Ninjago, & a lot more was the shi

Transformers Prime Will Always Hold Top Spot Along With Earthspark and fun fact brian tyler composer for the music in transformers one remade the soundtrack from bumblebees death in the season 3 finale

if only robots in disguised wasnt a sequel to tfp

Transformers revenge of the fallen was the first movie I saw in theaters

Transformers prime was the first time I was introduced to Transformers and they change my outlook on the series. I love that show so so so much because of the characters the story, the music everything else I have no complaints about that show. It was just such a masterpiece to watch, especially as a little kid waitingto air on TV while sitting on the couch eating cereal I believe in transformers Prime we are introduced to the best version of Optimus prime.

The main thing I loved about Prime were the human characters. Admittedly in most Transformers series the humans are always the weakest parts to me, but in Prime they felt like true characters because of how they all help in their own ways. Raph is a smart hacker and assistant to Ratchet, Miko uses her bravery (though occasionally clumsy with it) to her benefit and even fights like a champ in the Apex Armor. And to me, Jack is the best human ally in any Transformers media, to show his growing maturity, survival skills (especially against Airachnid), and the fact that he's trusted enough to be given a key to one of Cybertron's most important relics.. Jack deserved more than being scrubbed from the so-called "sequel series".

Transformers prime have the best character development. I really loved Megatron and in my eyes he was more a noble and strong leader than Optimus prime

The ending of DOTM changed because Amazon released the entire ending of the movie on their website and they had to change the ending due to it.

About half way through, great video so far. The thing I like most about it is the fact that you're a fan of Transformers as a whole. Not someone who has vague nostalgic memories of G1, or someone who's only seen and only acknowledges the Bay movies. You're open to everything. I'm not a fan of the Bay-verse myself, but I'm fine with others enjoying it, especially if they give other TF media a fair shake. There's a lot of surprisingly good TF media these days, even Cyberverse, particularly Season 2 onwards. Earthspark's actually pretty good except for the "anvil over the head"-LGBTQ agenda. Which is fine except for the "anvil over the head"-aspect.

The reason that Prime killed Megatron was because Amazon leaked the ending of Dark Of The Moon where they had a truce and Megatron left Earth to fix Cybertron and the Autobots would stay on Earth for the time being

Anyone else have a crush on Arcee while watching this show as a kid? No? Just me? Anyway, Arcee was a badass in TFP. The human characters were great, Shockwave was great, Megaton was great. Everything about this series was amazing. It's my go-to Transformer show to rewatch besides Transformers Animated. My only complaint is I found the relic hunt in S2 to be repetitive. I also wish the show had more seasons

i grew up with transformers armada and galaxy force. but i also played war for cybertron games. those should be released again on newer consoles and pc because they are severely underrated.

It had its flaws and severe lack of characters but Transformers Prime is still my favorite Transformers TV show.

"Ralph" kept making me laugh, his name is Raf, short for Rafael

Correction: The vehicons have sparks.

God damnit! Why the hell have we spent over a decade NOT making more Transformers stuff Like TFP and the Cybertron games? Or just ... I don't know, ... uncancel TFP?!?! And I'm not talking about the crap-fest continuation that came after and we shall not name. That doesn't count! A( ・`д・´)

5:50 Ah yes, Cliffjumper, the character with less deaths than Wheeljack and has only two prominent deaths outside of comics; yet everyone says dies all the time. I know he has more deaths outside of Prime and the Bumblebee movie, but those are the only things I ever hear people that make this joke mention. He f***ing fought and killed Deathsaurus once, sure he got damaged doing so, but he didn’t die. Yes Cliffjumper’s been my favorite character since I was little, how’d you know.

I like how he says the bayverse but shows the skybound comics. (Very good comic series btw)

Lmao starting the trend of executing Cliffjumper in every series

This show is peak Transformers right after the original series. The voice acting is amazing and the animation is even better(not counting the Decepticon fodder bots they always look janky). And somehow they managed to blend the two seamlessly together like some of the best moments are hearing them talk and having a close up on their face. Megatron and Starscream being the two stand outs since they have the widest range of emotions. It also just tells a really amazing story start to finish with only like one or two tiny missteps. It also does the Breaking Bad format where instead of going on and on and on for a dozen seasons it ends at it's peak. Like that finale/movie that ended the series is so damn good. It also has my and many other people's favorite episodes in all of Transformers canon, that being Rock Bottom. Seriously if you call yourself a fan of Transformers and have not watched that episode you are doing yourself a disservice. It's peak Megatron being the most badass of all badasses and he's barely in the episode yet after a single monologue you quickly get the sense that this is the absolute last being in all of existence you mess with. He pretty much tells Starscream, you've been fucking around for too long, it's time for you to find out.

Man the Silas slander is something I cannot stand. M.E.C.H was my first gamertag

My only gripe with the show is that slow motion sound effect they constantly played whenever someone got hit. Hearing it multiple times in a single fight got a little annoying

Did you know that Dwayne Johnson actually voiced cliff Jumper for one episode?🤣

Arcee should be in front of Bee in that thumbnail like in the official wallpaper for the show.

This makes me want to watch this show all over again after watching Transformers One

I did not realise TFP was over a decade old...

My nephew begged me to watch the show when it came out and I didn’t like how it was animated, I was 12 years old, so I thought that was a little too childish for me. I only was used to the movies. I hate that I didn’t watch it with him. I also didn’t play the war for Cybertron games for some reason, but transformers is my favorite franchise of all time. I hate myself.

love the ancient aliens reference

Transformers prime(all series) and transformer Armada were the OG of all time.

I will say rise of the dark spark is not made by high moon so some people don't consider it cannon

0:32 I am your father Till all are one I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt, and guess what’s inside it?

I wish they make one on the Book "The Covenant of Primus"

The book of World War Z is amazing. The movie didn’t even try to adapt it.

What would be absolutely awesome is if the movie that comes out after transformers one in that timeline is some kind of mixture story of the wfc and foc games that could possibly lead in to another movie with transformers prime elements. Just a thought

Somehow I did not know that there was more than one season of transformers prime, I thought it just ended after ep 26 of season one. This is life changing information

The decepticons were my favorites about that series

As much as this is my favorite transformers show, I can definitely see it's flaws. As well as seeing thay we can do way more with the transformers. I believe we've barely scratched the surface of what this franchise can be

Omg TFOne was amazing, basically a masterpiece and the honestly the best Transformers film ever made

I love prime! Was such a good series. I really do wish that they had added a few new bots other than smokescreen and ultra Magnus, would have really loved if jazz or like red alert made an appearance. Jazz being the og second in command and red alert never really being a bot that gets a spotlight and could have been a cool in between worrier/medic

G1 & Transformer’s Prime were great because they weren’t KIDDISH. 👍🏼

I also liked Transformers: Prime. It was a good series. But as for me, my all time favorite series will always be Transformers G1.

Not to mention transformers prime toys are bangers. Still one of my favorite optimus prime and megatron figures are the voyager from transformers prime

Prime was and is still amazing and took transformers to another level. The darker theme, character evolution, it had it all. It was a true crime. We didn't get another season. I will say rid was horrendous and not a part of prime. It was all but a massive downgrade.

11:35 Love the Pointless Hub reference, that was a gr8 video haha

You can say anything you want about TFP... and the humans in particular... but Jack is still the only human to go to cybertron

after watching this and looking at your points , you are definitely inspired from pointless hub

great job on this video rid in 2012 was terrible im still waiting for hasbro to give us another good tf show again rid in 2012 was awful and this newer series eathspark is crap so its been 11 years since hasbro has given us another good tf show. i grew up watching g1 back in the day and this post prime crap is just bad it really is

Transforms Prime was such a good series

Peak.

It’s still peak moving on

I just finished rewatching the whole show a week before this video what the hec

If you can endure the 90s 3d animation then check out beast wars

Prime has the best designs imo

One word: epic