I grew up with G1, so that will always be my favorite. You just can't help but love the characters and Optimus Prime has become an icon. The movie that accompanied it is one of my all time favorite movies too.
Beast Wars/Beasties definetly comes in first for best storytelling and character develpoment, thats for sure. BW is definetly where the series peaked befeore it took on a more Japanese flavour.
I haven't really watched the anime ones, but I did like the look of RID. I find that the cgi of the other ones just don't look very pleasing. But I do watch Cybertron if I happen upon it.
I'm looking forward to the new transformers series comming out: Heros. It is being made by cartoon network, some of the character designers that are working on it are also designers from Fosters, and some of the writers used to work on BW and BM.
What's getting me excited about Heros the most is that it is not going to be an anime, and it will be a purley North American made transformer show.
