Transformers Robots in Diguise is the sequel to the acclaimed Transformers Prime series. And it is a complete disgrace to Prime. One could write a book about everything that's wrong with RID. There is no plot, character development or anything else that would be part of a good show.The plot is terrible. RID promised to pick up where Prime left off but it does nothing to keep that promise. Instead, it drives on a silly plot in every episode and does nothing to expand the Aligned universe as a whole. Unlike Prime, RID is not one continuous series. Every episode is a new plot and the events of the plot have no real consequences. There is no tension or threat to the heroes like in Prime. And the so-called important plots end up being very anti-climatic. For example, in season 3, Soundwave is constantly teased and the audience are led to believe he will be a threat but he ends up being defeated in a single episode. There are many occasions such as this where you're anticipating something big and nothing big actually ends up happening.As for character development, there is none. Episodes mainly focus on characters learning some kind of lesson. However, the lessons learnt don't forward to future episodes. For example, an episode would deal with Sideswipe going rogue and having to learn teamwork but just a few episodes later, he would learn the same lesson all over again. Another instance is when Sideswipe and Steongarm learn to work and respect each other and in the next episode, they would get into a fight again. It seems so silly and makes you wonder if the writers read their own scripts. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee resemble little to their Prime counterparts. The whole Bumblebee feeling jealous of Optimus Prime in season 2 was stupid and annoying. The Prime version of Bumblebee would never act in such a way to defy his leader. It's simply not in his character but yet we are forced to accept these two Bumblebees are the same.I just wish Hasbro had ended the continuity with Prime. RID just ruins the masterpiece that Prime was.

When I finished Transformers Prime I was totally blown away by the characters, animation, development, and the all-around plot of the series. Then I heard there was going to be a sequel, I was expecting just as good quality and the characters that I had grown to love but I was sadly disappointed in all areas.I would not consider this a sequel to Prime. RID is directed to small children <12, the way they overly simplified the characters speech, and the moral 'lesson' learned in each episode definitely enforced this. The animation was probably the worst let down besides the butchering of the characters, a large step down from what it was, very disappointing, especially knowing the possibilities and expecting the same quality as Prime.There are so many other things that ruined this show for me, like the Decepticons and the repetitive plot. But as a stand-alone and the show in general, I gave it a 3 because of the poor animation, butchered characters, repetitive plot and personalities, and the overall poor quality of the show and its design. But it's catered to small children and I have to say if this wasn't meant to be a sequel to a great show and if there wasn't an audience of adults and teens that were looking forward to more of that, I would say that it was OK for a very young audience.

A Decepticon prison ship crashes on Earth and Optimus Prime summons Bumblebee to lead a ragtag team of Autobots - including a bad-boy rebel type, a by-the-book Elite Guard cadet, a loudmouth Dinobot and a hyperactive Mini-con. Their mission: capture an all new batch of escaped Decepticon villains and save humankind. Although it's very different than Transformers: Prime this Transformers spin-off does contain a lot of heart, humor and action that is going to justify it self in even some of the most hardest fans of the Franchise plus for once you get Bee being in charge instead of Optimus and although i do love Optimus Prime i'm also a huge fan of this little yellow fella and i wanna see him doing more in general and he does a lot of stuff thew out many episodes plus Grimlock is super funny.

**Spoiler alert for both Prime and this show**Transformers Prime, while reaching the end of the series, had some unsolved issues. During this time, Megatron ran away into self exile. This was used to cause the disbanding of the Decepticons. Less we forget Airachnid's story arc in which she is infected with vampirism. Hasbro and Polygon stopped the show right there which was the worst timing they could actually do. They decided to "make it up to us" by airing a more "toned down" version of the show that would "appeal to all audiences." They brought in the most overrated autobot in existence who now wants to play leader with a generic punky rebel, generic damsel stereotype girl, a heel face revolving dinobot and some random minibot who have the sudden urge to overthrow a new threat consisting of furries as robots. Also, there's no sign of the other characters from Transformers Prime besides him and Optimus Prime.Now we're stuck having to watch what Hasbro and TakTom views as quality television with it's severely watered down fight scenes, lack of intensity, boring character designs, terribly designed weapons, little-to-no plot, monster-of-the-week style, lack of explanation and sudden interest in not bringing back characters who they should have brought back. Where did Megatron go? Did Starscream survive the predacons? Did Soundwave escape from the Shadowzone? Was Knockout imprisoned? How did Optimus Prime, who was going to die anyway, come back to life? How the heck did Megatronus become a Generic Doomsday Villain? Most importantly, why doesn't the cast consist of the new sparklings?