Your a fool....Transformers has always been about Transforming into a different phase...throughout the original series there was always new robots being introduced. I am the #1 fan of Transformers...no one has matched me and my passion the these spark driven robots....so before you start talking smack of the animation that blew away Akira or any other anime that was released in the 80's. The death of our favorite robots in The Original Transformers movie was the cost of the Cybertronian war and was a good lesson of war to the young generation. Sure i cried when Optimus Prime died but i got over it...and loved Rodimus Prime just as much...the young hot rod given the duty of leadership under great pressure....fantastic....the movie is truly a masterpiece of it's own. Watch it again and learn about your Cybertronian history....fool.