grow up with the beast war transformer and i wasn not very familiar with the original transformer and and now that i have see the awesome movie and and now that i have see the old cartoon on which it base and i have to say i like the original cartoon and the live action movie more than beast war . not that i do not like the bw character and i just think that character like optimus prime be good than optimus primal . i mean and autobots transform and roll out . sound a lot good than maximals maximize . the voice of the original optimus prime still make me a strong believer that he a real commander and more so than optimus primal . besides and powermaster optimus prime be a lot more powerful than optimal optimus . just look on the web . megatron in the bw character seem more like a humorous version of the more evil version of him in the original series . besides what cooler and robots change into animal or robot change into vehicle and spaceship . gim me the original transformer any day over beast war .