If this is what I read in the reviews on rotten tomatoes, I’d be ok with it. I do think inconsolable children isn’t as much a misstep but more of a miscalculation. The fact that children would be upset that their favorite character dies just shows the actual investment kids had in the transformer universe. Especially when you consider Transofmers wasn’t setting the stage for Prime to die.

Transformers was a fun simple idea. It was very successful in what it was trying to do. Even if it was just to sell toys, which, I think we can all agree, toys are great.