Transformers Prime's Nightmarish Production

Great video mah dude

"We dont care which decepticons live or die - as long as Knockout stays alive." Absolute king.

It’s honestly amazing that with all of this going on in the background Transformers Prime still turned out to be an incredible show.

I would like to thank Prime for being brave enough to make Jack's mom thirsty for Optimus

i love the phrase of "everyone wants their endgame, but they don't remember they have to have their ironman 1" it explains the whole DCCU fiasco and i guess it also applied to the aligned continuity here

The fact that Prime still turned out looking as good as it did in less than half the expected development time is almost unbelievable. It really makes you wonder how good the show may have looked if they had given them the proper 2 years required.

I liked Prime. But the show was far more interesting with where they wanted to take it. Things like Bulkhead being permanently disabled. Cliffjumper dying at the end of season 1. Thundertron and the Starseekers. There was lots of other things too i cannot recall at the moment. My dream series was always Prime designs with animated plot. But, it has left a lasting mark in the franchise.

Wow. That explains why so many characters either stopped showing up, had their plot threads cut off or straight up died anti-climatically. Like, so much of Prime was left unanswered and unfinished, but I still loved the show.

Transformers Prime really suffered in the long run because there were too many cooks in the kitchen and it feels like the executive higher ups didn’t care for it. I just feel so bad for the entire crew who wanted to create a genuinely good show (writing wise), but they were forced to adhere to ideas that ultimately flopped hard. At this point, just let TFP rest in peace. It lived its glory days, just let it be, people.

Honestly, it kind of astonished me to hear everything about this show. Maybe it’s just because of the person I am, but I always enjoyed it without fault and without complaint no matter what. Nothing ever felt out of place for me, and the way that the story flowed always felt consistent and rewatchable through time and time again. But to hear this feels… strange. To know the hell the writers went through, the insanity they had to endure, and to know how absolutely bonkers Hasbro was about all of it. Hearing the cut concepts makes me wish we had more (the original S3 and the eventual S4) but even through that I still love the show and not a single episode of it I dislike for any reason. And some of the stranger things about the show I loved a whole lot, I must admit. The dead, almost lifeless backgrounds of Nevada filled with desert and not much color I actually loved a whole lot. The smaller cast, the celebrity voices, and everything else. This is, bar none, my favorite Transformers show of all time.

The fact that the show ended up finishing, and not only being good - but one of the greatest pieces of transformers media of all time, is a fucking miracle. I cannot believe it didn't explode into a disaster of bad writing or poor animation

The show was still awesome, despite everything. I grew up in an @busive home and to say Transformers Prime was one of the few things that gave me joy in that environment would be a massive understatement. I would stalk my computer for news of the next episode every day until the final episode, then stalked all news of the movie until it's release. I must've rewatched the whole series at least four times now, and I still watch some of season 1 to this day, now 20 years old, just because of nostalgia. This show was like a cup of hot coco on a cold, winter's day for me.

I knew the show was under budget and struggled to do what they can, but Jesus, this video shows the team were reeeaaallly under pressure. Alot of people tend to trash on the show, but truly it's Hasbro fault for its stubbornness to greed after the bayverse movies.

This is actually insane! Prime is probably my favorite Transformers series and is still a highlight from my childhood, but damn, I wasn't aware about any of this.

What's truly amazing is the reach Transformers Prime has had. there are undoubtedly better shows in the franchise then Prime but something about it was very special, maybe it was the time or something else but it has such a large effect on the fandom. To this day I still see episodes being shared in foreign languages like Spanish, Russian and today I even saw it in Hindi. What an impact it's had.

Just the mere thought of what the tfp team had to go through sends shivers down my spine

Knockout literally shined every scene he was in

I remember when TFPrime came out, it was not well-received. The dedicated fans like me loved it, sure, but I remember many arguments on Facebook with geniuses who would swear on their mother's graves that Beast Wars' PS1-era graphics was soooo much better.

As much as I enjoyed Beast Hunters, I really wish we could’ve gotten the space pirates and/or that fourth season.

TEN MONTHS! (another good video pp)