not the story/plot
not the action
not the Michael Bay shit
not the fact that Megatron is no longer a gun, Bumblebee is no longer a VW, etc
not even the Spielberg + Paramount/Viacom ratings-dodger machine

the robots look like shit.

Beast Wars managed to change the designs up to something more "weird" but keep them somehow still looking like Transformers.

the newer Transformers animated shows...the robots still look like what a Transformer should look like.

But that shit looks like someone took a sledgehammer to a mainframe computer and put wheels on it. That's not even remotely cool.

Not to a Transformers fan, not to a casual fan, maybe to bleary-eyed jabronis who get cheap thrills off things blowing up.

There's a way to not make the robots look cartoonish, but at the same time make them look mainstream-action acceptable, and this isn't it.

Whoever designed those walking piles of asymmetrical crap should have been fired.