>>7525069>Nothing they did is signifigant to the franchise.Make souls officially canon outside of Japan and explore the afterlife beyond Rodimus’s acid trip sequence, normalize females, prove Transformers can work without human sidekicks, make Starscream’s Ghost continue past the G1 cartoon, give reproduction and personality immortality that aren’t confusing as to what differentiates a Cybertronian from a mere Earth robot and cause complicated questions about souls and the afterlife as it pertains to that issue, prove CG can work for television and not (barring a miracle) bankrupt the studio, keep the entire franchise going long enough for the Unicron Trilogy to happen, and normalize ball and socket joints among the entirety of toylines instead of just a few select figures in it.
It was also the last gasp of the post-G1 random gimmicks like shooting sparks, autotransformation, and water squirters. As well as marking the death of Galoob Micro Machines as the Beast Wars Microverse line forced them to admit defeat rather than try and compete with Hasbro.