Transformers Armada: The Complete Series

Say what you like about this series, it's a classic (of the same "every bit as much nostalgia rather than production quality" lovely cheesy feeling that G1 has) I've been searching for a DVD version of the entire series for a long time, only finding it for crazy expensive prices. Finally, I found it here on Amazon! I've only gotten about three discs into the series so far, but it seems to be how I remember it. There is a slightly odd error in my discs where the last part of a scene repeats during the transition between scenes, but I don't mind too much given how much less expensive this version is than the others I've seen for sale. Picture quality is definitely a lot better than watching uploaded old VHS tapes on youtube! I've seen some of the commenters saying that the voices don't seem to match the character's mouths, and part of that could be because the series was originally Japanese and later dubbed in English. The dialogue gets a bit odd sometimes as a result. Another complaint that I saw is that there is no option to watch each individual episode. I did not have that problem? The menu says "Play All" and then underneath it "Episodes", and if you select "Episodes", it takes you to the individual episode menu. Perhaps that was the confusion, because it looks like it says "Play All Episodes" If you're a fan of G1 and want to see something entirely different (the characters are very different! Do not expect the Transformers characters to behave the same way they do in G1 or other series!), but with a similar goofy style, this series delivers. It also delivers a lot of hilarious one-liners and quotable lines, and also some surprising depth. The action figure is not included, he just wanted to be in the photo.

I grew up on the original G1 Transformers and my 2 boys pretty much love everything Transformers as well, so when I saw they were re-releasing these episodes of the newer Armada show at a reasonable price, I had to buy it. My kids love it. This series is great, story lines can be a bit hokey I mean 3 kids helping huge robots with their war and not getting squished by accident is an interesting and a bit far fetched concept, but it is fun to watch. It keeps my boys entertained and since that is the key audience of these stories, that is all that really matters. I have not noticed any issues with my DVD’s at all and we have watched them quite a few times already. So I would definitely say that it is an all round great product and would suggest it to anyone with young kids that love transformers or even if you like transformers and don’t mind the tad bit odd storylines.

Great dvd

Honestly, I've been watching the stream that is up on Tubi, as that's slightly more convenient than dragging out the discs for this whopper of a series. So I made a bet with my wife that I need to own all of the early 2000s cartoons that have a release over here before I will watch the original Beast Wars, as I have difficulty watching that animation. And we got this one on sale, just as we did Energon ten years ago. This show has many, many flaws. Most of the flaws come from the version included being the US TV release, which is just straight up shoddily animated from start to finish. The rush and pressure put on the animators is so painfully obvious that I have made posts online about characters turning into low-resolution pixelated .GIF images as they crawl across the screen like it's a Geocities page. The only characters the animators seem to care about are Starscream (final season only) and Starscream (final season) who are animated by someone who clearly was /one of those/ kinds of people. The voice acting is hilariously tragic and borders on unlistenable. But if you are a fan of garbage dubs like I am, its passable until the continuity errors between scenes start happening and characters start becoming inconsistent to a massive fault (Shockwave/Tidal Wave, Sparkplug/Leader-01 being two big ones that really stuck in my craw). Carlos is a problem, because it's one of the whitest guys trying to do a "mexican" accent, and it's just straight up bad. And one of the characters is diabetic, and the other characters pick on him for it? Fred has this thing where he is consistently hungry and he literally gets bullied for this, and at one point (final season) mentions the risk of a massive diabetic crash due to not having access to his meds. I also just really, really hate Hot Shot. He's a terrible person (robot) and I'm glad we more or less got rid of him. But honestly, if you need a good laugh and dont want to have to think too hard, this show is good for that.

It has some of the voice actors from Beast Wars like Garry Chalk as Optimus Prime, David Kaye as Megatron and Scott McNeil as Jetfire. The story retells the original G1 story with some major changes like adding the minicons as a power source for the Transformers to use. Only minor downside is some of the human characters, but otherwise a much watch show.

Great

Transformers: Armada has always been one of my top favorite transformers series. This one involves the autobots facing the decepticons in a race to recover all the mini cons that crash landed in earth. Now with every "kids" show, of course there are human characters and of course there are young kids who have to be involved somehow. Which brings me to my next point: the animation. The way all human characters are animated in this show is hilariously bad. It's almost cringy. This show was jointly made by Habro and a Japanese production company, so it's almost disappointing how bad it is. However, if you can look past how bad the kids are animated, you'll be able to appreciate how really well done the actual transformers themselves were redesigned and animated. So if you enjoy transformers and don't mind a little bit of slight animation flaws, then this is a great one to add to your collection.

This anime was my introduction to transformers back in the early 2000s and it is amazing though the English dub can be little goofy at times but it has the best Starscream

Los 52 episodios vienen en buena definición, y no me tocó ver más que dos o tres trabones en la reproducción de los discos. Así como está descrito el anuncio, así viene el producto, lo que significa que la serie sólo está en inglés y no tiene subtítulos; tampoco viene con material adicional, lo que la verdad me dejó un poco decepcionado, porque Shout! Factory ya ha hecho juegos de DVDs de series completas de Transformers por el mismo precio y con material adicional, pero no puedo quejarme porque no anuncian nada que no traiga este juego de la serie de Transformers Armada. Además de que no incluye contenido extra, a diferencia del juego completo de Beast Wars que hasta viene con un cómic, los menús de los DVDs son tan simples que hasta parecen de DVDs pirata de muy buena calidad: sólo hay dos opciones (reproducir todos, lista de episodios) y todos tienen la misma imagen ya muy utilizada de Optimus Prime de Armada (la de la portada del producto), con la canción de tema de la serie de fondo. Digo esto porque el menú me parece un poco seco y desinteresado. Al igual, los discos DVDs tienen carátulas muy genéricas, que se nota que nada más buscaron en internet imágenes de personajes de Transformers Armada porque ni sale Megatron en ninguno de los discos. Es obvio que estas carátulas no representan en lo absoluto las historias en los episodios de cada disco. Lo que sí es que la caja de DVDs viene con una cubierta deslizable, y eso siempre es un detalle elegante en mi opinión. Si hubieran hecho este set con la cubierta plateada con la que hicieron los juegos de Beast Wars, G1, y G1 japonés, sería un buen detalle que proporcionaría más uniformidad a nuestra colección de series animadas de Transformers, y por cierto ese estilo se ve de lujo, pero bueno, eso sería un extra no indispensable. Si te gustan las series de Transformers y tienes tiempo para ver una completa de 52 episodios, recomiendo ésta. Ya he visto G1, Beast Wars, Transformers Prime y Transformers Animated, y Armada definitivamente es una gran aportación a la lista. Tiene muy buenos momentos, aunque a veces es una serie muy ligera en donde episodios y personajes no tienen la relevancia que me hubiera gustado que tuvieran en el desarrollo de la historia. En general, este juego sí vale la pena. Como ya expliqué antes, no se siente como un producto hecho con tanto amor y cuidado como algunos otros productos que Shout! lanzó en el pasado, pero la serie en sí es lo que más importa y en eso no falla. En cuanto a algunos detallitos técnicos, me di cuenta que la caja, por dentro, dice que el último disco trae 6 episodios, pero en realidad sólo trae 5; sin embargo, el primer episodio que se supone que trae el disco 8, "Portent", está incluído en el disco 7, para que no se asusten. Y ténganle paciencia a veces, porque yo le quise regresar capítulos durante la reproducción, y al regresar o adelantar como cinco o más etapas, se detenía la reproducción y me mandaba a la lista de episodios, lo que puede ser un poco enfadoso porque desde la lista de episodios no funciona la reproducción automática.

It's a region 1 DVD, so unless you live in America, you can't watch it without a regional DVD player. No where on the product page does it state the DVD region code for it, so I just paid $50 for DVDs I can't even watch. I also bought 'Transformers: Cybertron' and it has the same problem.

とパッケージの裏面に書かれていました。国内のアマゾンではまだ登録されていませんが発売元のSHOUT FACTORYホームページやアメリカアマゾンには次のエネルゴン（海外のスーパーリンクのタイトル）の発売も2014年5月に予定されている旨書かれていました。 恐らくいずれ三作目のセイバートロン(国内タイトルだとギャラクシーフォース）も発売されるでしょう。 本作は海外だとRHINOより前半の26話が2004年に後半の26話が2006年にそれぞれ4枚組のDVDボックスで発売されたきり廃盤になっていたのでいくら国内に比べて海外のDVDが安いとはいえ定価の倍位は出さないと中古であまり状態がよくなくても買えない状況でした。 自分が購入した時は約2年前でそれぞれもともとの定価が5000円ほどだったのですが約１万円前後しました。 今回再度発売してくれたことに感謝します。価格も５２話入って３５００円ですから国内で廃盤になっているマイクロン伝説（海外版である本作の日本版タイトル）全１３巻の１巻分(当時約４０００円）より安いのですからマイクロン伝説が手に入らない方も是非映像だけでも手にしてください。 収録内容はRHINO版と同じ８牧なのですが１枚ごとの収録話数が異なるので（例えばRHINO版だと前半のDISK2には７話収録ですがSHOUT版はDISK2には６話収録です。当然８枚で５２話収録は同じなのですが） 後はRHINO版にあった少々凝ったチャプタ―画面（チャプタ―画面でバンブルが合体して壁を突き破って本編が再生される）ではありません。８枚ともパッケージのオプティマスの静止画です。もしRHINO版も持っていて今回再度購入しようかと思っている方がいらしたら参考までに。 マイクロン伝説との相違点ですが当然原語は英語で日本語は字幕音声ともにありません。登場するトランスフォーマーの名前もマイクロン伝説とは一部異なります。 またマイクロン伝説ではコンボイがトレーラーから変形してタイトルバックになっていますがその場面はあるもののタイトルは挿入されず。タイトル自体は冒頭に白字で挿入されます。 アイキャッチも日本版と若干異なりオートボットとディセプティコンのロゴマークが入るだけでトランスフォーマーは出ません。 OP、EDも歌ではなく初代トランスフォーマーのテーマ曲を少しアレンジしたものになっています。 またトランスフォーマーの音声もエフェクトがかかっているのでよりロボットらしい機械的なものになっています。 個人的に思うのは登場人物や舞台がアメリカなので日本語より英語の方がしっくりきます。 ただ制作自体は日米共同とはいえ実質日本主導なのでアメリカのオリジナルアニメとはまた若干質感が異なるようにも思いますが。 ともあれ日本国内では２００３年に一度DVDが発売されたきり現在まで再販もなく海外でもしばらくぶりに再販された本作、是非この機会に手に入れてトランスフォーマーの世界観に浸ってください。

Good anime season

My daughter loves it!