Desanto, he explains it came down to budget, saying, 'If I hire Peter Cullen, there goes half my budget.' This is an example where the fan base as a whole may need to step back and examine more than what supposedly met the eye. The show was marginally criticized for a sub-par voice cast, but in our interview with showrunner F.J. Shop collectible Transformers toys and figures including your favorite Autobots and Decepticons like Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, and Starscream. That's a lot of territory before and after to explore.Īdditionally, as well as frankly, the criticisms of the show just aren't valid. When we first see the Autobots and Decepticons in G1, we see Wheeljack and Bumblebee scraping for energon, and, before you know it, it's 4 million years later on Earth. Siege, Earthrise, and Kingdom succeeded in what it set out to do with an original take on the franchise and going into territory that just hasn't been explored. In the animated series, Prime is 22 feet tall. In his power-up form that he reveals in Revenge of the Fallen, Prime grows 12 feet and is 40 feet tall. In the movie, Prime is 28 feet tall, an 8 feet height difference. Airing on Netflix from 2020 to 2021, the production took a chance and explored the early days of the Great War. As I already mentioned, in the movies, Optimus Prime is depicted as a Freightliner FL86 cab that is 20 feet long in real life. This may be a highly criticized placement on this list as the show left fans of the franchise divided, but it did something that has rarely been done.
