Beast Wars all the way for me. Man that series was badass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzoD90M4yzg


Note I made this thread because I am currently watching it now om youtube :)

Original series.

It was ending around the time I was old enough to get into it, but I ended up with most of the VHS tapes of episodes that came out and watched re-runs. Had tons of the toys from when they started getting rid of them on clearance. I still have an in box Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Starscream from when they had re-issues in japan several years back.

I would like to say "original series", but after re-watching it, I can't say much good about it. It was bad.
Sadly later TF series were just as bad. The good TF storylines came from the comics (they were, and still are, great!)

Original stuff with Galvatron.

Addendum: The G1 movie was quite good though.
And the music in it was so... 80's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKpByV5764

Shame S3 that came after it was so bad. Galvatron was a horrible replacement for Megatron (unlike in the comics, where Galvatron was a good character)

Beast Wars!

The original. I recall detesting Beast Wars, but I was no longer its target audience by the time it came out, so possibly I didn't give it a fair shake.

Yup! I know. I used to have a optimus prime that transform to a gorilla and a megatron that transform into a dinosaur. I really love that show.

Generation 1 and Beast Wars. Beast Wars was a true sequel to G1.

Galvatron was awesome. He was just insane. The real problem was how Rodimus Prime was written.

This may sound cheesy, but none. I loved the toys, without knowing about the show, and one fatefull day I saw on TV one of my toy robots acting real mean on TV. I made it a point of not seeing the show ever again. I do recall having watched and enjoyed a few beast wars episodes, though.

I think it was this white decepticon car, who could combine with 4 others to make some huge badass robot. I'm now really bothered I can't remember it's name, I'm sure I'll spend the rest of the day thinking about it.

Beast Wars is my favourite of the lot, if a bit goofy at times. Generation 1 is very badly dated (it has the usual poor animation and one-off episode plots of most '80s shows) but it's great for what it is, especially compared to some of the series that followed it.

The Japanese ones (Robots in Disguise, Armada, Energon, Cybertron) are often cited as the worst in the series, but I was more offended by the preachy, pretentious betrayal that is Beast Machines. The Japanese shows were written for foreign tastes and then hurriedly adapted into English; Beast Machines has no such excuse.

My biggest problem with all the shows after Beast Wars is the obsession with including child/teen characters. The logic behind this is to make the shows more appealing to children, I guess, but even when I was a child myself I resented these characters and would have been happier without them. Transformers: Prime seems to be the worst of all in this regard, frequently relying on the children doing stupid things as the basis for an episode's plot, and Season 2's finale ultimately hinges on them rather than the giant robots the show is supposedly all about (seemingly crushing hopes and dreams of a Season 3 set on Cybertron--but of course that would mean saying goodbye to the children, and we can't have that).

I'll just leave it here.

Edit:
This.