Energon/cybertron era of the unicron trilogy had great cgi models and a cool slight cel shading effect over them but fucked up and lazy animation probably due to the fact the cgi models were viewed more as a ay to save money on animation of the more complex character designs rather than anything else. Still it was so unique it kind of became it's own visual style that if some media referenced it you'd immediately know what it's referencing.
Wow, this is the first time I've ever heard someone say something positive about that CGI animation. I don't care about it because the designs and stock footage are good, but most people seem to treat it as the scourge of Transformers cartoons -- super ironic considering people LOOOOOVE Beast Wars. Also that style isn't unique to the Unicron Trilogy; I think some of the Zoids shows had CGI like that.
You forget that Polygon Pictures, a Japanese CGI studio, animated Prime and the Beast Hunters movie.
I feel like the issue with it compared to the Beast shows is even though the CG itself is more primitive in them, they're also more dynamic in a lot of ways in the actual movement. Now which one is actually better looking overall is totally subjective. I don't really have an opinion because I've never seen Cybertron and I don't think I watched Energon all the way through when it was coming out. I liked Beast Wars/Machines as a kid and was into the 2001 Fox Kids Transformers show but for whatever reason I didn't keep up after it and Armada.
Studio that worked on the Machinima shows was one owned by Takara at the time, like 60% share or something so they'd want to cut back on paying for quality. Now they only own like 20% or something. Even the commercials for the revived Diaclone series have been pretty bad. Thankfully the figure make up for it even though they're expensive as fuck. They make Takara's recent MP figures seem cheap.
He can sure try though.
From what I've seen of it it's around the same degree of posable as missing link but the feet have a bit more range and the wrists/hands are cheaply made static single piece of plastic shit.
Hard question to answer as Hasbro has been reissuing figures as of late. Even Titans are getting reissues now.
Target was running a 25% off toys coupon it qualifies for if you can find it in store. Otherwise you may just have to hope for another sale down the line.
There's a lot of unannounced reissues the last several years on top of the announced ones. Last time I checked Siege optimus is still available post that happening for like the fifth time the last few years. Would recommend him if you don't have him already, even though I really would recommend the cel shaded one more just out of personal preference if you want a (slightly off model) g1 animated styled optimus. If you can get it for cheap that is.
He's also out of scale/too tall slightly to a degree with everything else in robot mode. He should have been leader class but Kingdom rodimus already cemented the commander class has gone from "slightly taller than old leader" to "anything g1 with a trailer post earthrise prime" class now. The one time we got something that wasn't like that recently it was armada optimus who still has a trailer but said trailer is half of a full super mode that doesn't require 4 extra figures to look right like motormaster's menasor mode.
Transformers Prime is pretty far from being kid friendly. It's more of a PG-13 show at times.
TMNT is still going strong, Masters of The Universe is having a bit of a resurgence as well thanks to the Netflix shows. They both actually have a pretty neat crossover line as well with the TMNT cast in Eternia and a whole slew of toys with turtles in Eternian style armor and MoTU cast members in Turtles inspired armor. I also enjoyed the actual Netflix shows even if they had the whole modern "girl power" slant, but nothing I felt was egregious.
