Public Service Announcement: Transformers

So my eldest has recently gotten into Transformers hardcore due to the hype surrounding the movie (which he is at least 5 years too young to see, by my estimation), so my Mother bought him the DVD of the '86 movie (which is awful, who remembers that White Lion did the music? Ug.) and I started tivoing Transformers: Cybertron, which is just as awful. Maybe I'm just an old man, but I fail to see the difference between this:

And this:

However....in Transformers: The Movie's defense, without this:

We may never have gotten this:

And that would've been a damn shame.