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TRANSFORMERS PRIME
- A NEWBIE LOOK BACK
By Ruth Krabacher
Like any respectable adult member of society, I

Transformers: Prime, Hasbro’s most recent (at

have a healthy admiration for a good robot cartoon.

the time) attempt at a Transformers TV series.

This is born in part, I’m sure, from watching Beast

Perhaps unsurprising to almost everyone but

Wars at a young enough age that I only have the

me, I liked it. I really liked it. It turns out that if

vaguest recollections of the show and an older

you like robots, a series about giant transforming

brother with a Bioncles collection. If there’s a robot

robots will probably appeal to you—who knew?

character in something, somewhere, it’s pretty
much guaranteed it’ll make my top five list for the

In terms of broadcast history, Transformers: Prime

show. It’s one of those weird gravitational pulls I’ve

was picked up only six months after the end of

never had an explanation for; I just like robots.

Transformers: Animated, a Japanese/American
endeavor that spawned a manga adaptation and

Despite this, I’ve strangely never developed an
interest in Transformers. I saw the first two Michael

noticeable mark on the Transformers franchise:

Bay movies, wasn’t a huge fan (who was), and left

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a game. Prime, like its predecessor, has left a
the tv series ran for three seasons, including the

it at that. I got my robot fix elsewhere in life. And

prequel miniseries Darkness Rising, and finished

yet somehow, in mid-2010 I ended up watching

off with a made-for-tv movie Transformers Prime

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