I've watched a few more episodes and the show is starting to grow on me. What is pleasantly surprising is how many of the actors used in the show turn out to be some of my favorite real life actors, and they do a good job with their parts. Of note for me:

Lockdown: Lance Henriksen. Originally was meant to be "The Terminator" when James Cameron was trying to get funding for the movie. Lance even showed up to a studio exec's office in full Terminator makeup and scared the pants off the poor guy. Later Arnold got wind of the project and "proclaimed" he was to be the Terminator (the rest is history). Lance did have a part in the movie as assistant detective to Paul Winfield's cheif of police character. Most probably remember Lance as either "Bishop" from Aliens or as the bad guy in Hard Target. My personal favorite movie of Lance is Near Dark, in which he, Bill Paxton, and Jenette Goldstein sort of have an Aliens reunion and play the roles of renegade vampires set in modern day Texas. The movie was pure awesome and I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't seen it.

Ultra Magnus: Jeff Bennett. Jeff does numerous other voices on the show (including Prowl), but what struck me is how much he sounds like Robert Stack, whom did the voice of Ultra Magnus in the 1986 movie. Robert Stack for me, was most known for his Unsolved Mysteries show, which I watched for many years and would get spooked by as a teen when it came out in 1988. Robert passed away some years back I recall. In the case of TF Animated, Jeff is clearly paying homage to Stack, and I like that a lot.

Megatron: Corey Burton. We all know him mainly for his roles in the g1 cartoon, the major one being Spike Witwicky. The problem for me is Megatron in TFA sounds very similar to Spike, and I can hear it in every line Megatron speaks. Maybe not a bad thing if you consider it another homage to classic g1

Meltdown: Peter Stormare. Holy cow, I missed this one! Peter is another of my favorite real life actors. You may remember him as the main bad guy opposite Steve Buscemi in Fargo. He was also awesome as Dino Velvet in 8mm. I simply did not recognize his voice when watching the show!

Well that's just to name a few. Anyone else have some opinions on the voice talants? Lets hear em!

Bulkhead is that really tall guy from Coach who also played the M-O-O-N guy in The Stand.

You forgot to mention Peter Stormare's other roles on Prison Break TV series, and as Lucifer on Constantine.

I think both "Sponge Bob" and "Patrick" are doing great in their roles on TF:A. Tom Kenny is making a fantastic voice for Starscream that both new while also being a homage to the original. Bill Fagerbakke is also doing well in his relatively type-cast part.

I do wish that Venus Terzo were doing Blackarachnia again, though. I really liked her in Beast Wars, and Cree just...doesn't sound like I want Blackarachnia to be.

Tara Strong is doing a nice job as Sari as well. really full of personality. And let's not forget David Kaye's faction switch! It's hard to even tell that TF:A's Optimus is voiced by BW's Megatron!

I'm also looking forward to Corry Burton's return as Shockwave. I hope he pulls out the same voice as G1.

Yeah, another thing that I love is that this show really seems to let the VA's have fun with their characters, and it shows.

It's really refreshing to hear energetic and smooth flowing dialogue instead of the stale, jerky and forced kind that we got for the entirety of Armenertron.

Oh, it's much better to have voices actually made for the show rather than dubbed over. You can hear the difference in many of the voices when you watch Armenertron (heh...) and then go back and watch those same voice actors in Beast Wars.

"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. Yessssssssssssssssss."

I could be crazy but Megatron sounds nothing like G1 Spike. You just know It's him and you're hearing what you want. Now if you said Megs sounds like Scar on Lion King, you'd be right.

I don't know, I just hear a tad bit of spike in his voice. Maybe I'm the one that's crazy... Then again it is the same person afterall.

Oh hey Caine, I was trying to forget about Constantine. That movie was pretty bad. I remember when I used to work as a projectionist, some religious group rented an auditorium to watch a private screening of it, and they later came out and scolded me for how bad the movie was. I used to get that a lot, like I somehow directed the movies myself just because I threaded it up in the projector. Many felt I had personally insulted or offended them by "showing a bad movie" that I charged them for.

It's definitely cool when you hear voices of screen actors.

I wonder how they can work Patrick Warburton and more seriously Clancy Brown, Keith David, Robert Patrick, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, and Malcolm McDowell into characters. They are always popping up in various toons.

I think Corey Burton is doing a great job with Ratchet as well as with Megatron. David Kaye also does a T-Rex in Animated (Grimlock), and is still doing an evil role as well (Lugnut)! It's such a shame that they didn't get Scott McNeil reprise his role from Beast Wars as everyone's favorite Predacon cannon-fodder, Waspinator... VA in Cybertron (the only one out of the 'Unicron Trilogy' I could be bothered to watch) was OK, but Beast Wars and deliver TOTAL OWNAGE!!! (sorry, had to do that...) to the VA department. Speaking of annoying villains, Alexander Polinsky does the voice of Headmaster, and did the voice for Control Freak from Teen Titans.

I'm just waiting for Starscream to laugh like Spongebob does.

Ooh. That'd be cool to hear any of them in TF:A. I'd really hope for Keith David. To kind of make up for him being reportedly cast for Barricade in the movie, and then not. Patrick Warburton should be a shared protoform-type with Sentinel Prime. Or at least a subordinate to Sentinel Prime would be fine, too.

Well, if it helps, Keith David voiced Barricade in the Transformers games for the DS (Transformers: Autobots, Transformers: Decepticons). His voice brings shivers up and down my spine, it's that good! I've seen a Deviantart of an artist's thought on what Barricade would look like in , and it seems to really catch the Animated style. I hope Barricade eventually makes it into . His disguise in the Movie was so deviously wrong (in a good way) for a Decepticon, it was perfect!

Keith David is an awesome actor. Ever see John Capenter's The Thing? Badass horror movie from the early 80's. I could probably name a dozen excellent movies Keith was in.

That's a movie that sould never be remade because it's perfect in every way. Still hold up against any monster movie today. One of my top 10 favorite movies.

I saw it the theater when it came out in 1982. I was eight years old at the time and the movie scared the crap out of me. I'm all over the blu-ray when it comes out (which I'm sure it will).

I LOVE the voices for this show.

I'm a total G1 fan and though I do compare certain characters voices to this new show, I think they are doing a fantastic job!

Prime sounds great. Strong and slightly unsure of himself. Though, I'm a HUGE fan of the confident and all knowing "Father" voice of Peter Cullen, this younger voice suits the show perfectly! Well done!

Megatron is awesome! To me his voice is a mix between G1 Unicron and G1 Movie Galvatron...
LOVE it! Smart. Devious and imposing...

Bumblebee is cute. Anoying but funny...

Prowl's calm personality is cool. I did'nt like it in relation to the "Chief of Police" G1 character. But I do like this character... To me Prowl will always be a supercool Security gaurd... Not a Ninja...

Bulkhead is GREAT! Biggest heart in the show! I love the discussions between him and Bumblebee! Really funny stuff!

Ratchet is AWESOME! Funny stuff to hear him complain and put down the young bots! Hilarious! And the scene with Omega Supreme was his best character development so far...

Starscream is an incredible homage to G1! Excellent voice acting! And once I heard the clones, I almost lost it! Funny stuff!

Sari is one of the most anoying. Second to BB. But her character is a neccessity. And it couldnt work without her...

Ultra Magnus is one of the BEST, though! A personal favorite character of mine, and I'm so glad to finally see him given the chance I know he deserves! Well done Hasbro! I LOVE Ultra Magnus!

Lockdown is great, too. Big Lance Hendrickson fan!

Lugnut is fine. Black Arachnia is good, too.

And Blitzwing is real fun, too. The Arnold voice is my favorite of the three!


Keep the episodes coming, Hasbro!

I'm ready for Shockwave!