From before the show even aired, I never liked the fact that Hasbro decided to re-use 80's American Transformer names for this totally unrelated Japanese series. What I did look forward to was seeing the Japanese "Car Robots" transformer series in English. What a let down! Even if the translation isn't exact, the story lines are horrible. I wish they would have stuck with something at least in continuity to the American transformer series thus far. The truth is that Hasbro wanted to ride the popularity of other Japanese translated shows such as Digimon and Pokemon and try to pick up the die-hard 80's fans that only could accept hand-drawn cars and classic names as being true transformers. Even the current toy line is just re-packaged Japanese toys from the past two years. I can't help but feel deprived of a quality show. I can only hope that Hasbro for the next series (if this doesn't kill the line) would hire back the writers of Beast Wars and Beast Machines and make an original series that at least takes place anywhere in the Northern American transformers timeline. Make it hand drawn or C.G. as long as the story is there.
