Growing up with the Beast Wars transformers, I wasn't very familiar with the original Transformers, and now that I have seen the awesome movie, and now that I have seen the older cartoon on which it's based, I have to say I like the original cartoon and the live action movie more than Beast Wars.Not that I don't like the BW characters, I just think that characters like Optimus Prime are better than Optimus Primal.I mean, "AUTOBOTS TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!" sounds a lot better than "MAXIMALS MAXIMIZE!" The voice of the original Optimus Prime still makes me a strong believer that he's a real commander, more so than Optimus Primal.Besides, Powermaster Optimus Prime is a lot more powerful than Optimal Optimus. Just look on the web! Megatron in the BW character seemed more like a humorous version of the more evil version of him in the original series.Besides what's cooler, robots changing into animals or robots changing into vehicles and spaceships? Gimme the original Transformers any day over Beast Wars!