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Transformers that turned into animals instead of vehicles, backed by a groundbreaking all-CGI cartoon. Optimus Primal led the Maximals against a scheming Megatron who turned into a T-rex — and it quietly saved the whole franchise.
Boy genius with the impossible ice-cream-swirl hair, a robot dog named Goddard, and a lab under the clubhouse. "Gotta blast!" carried a movie, three seasons of the TV show, and every kid who ever wished their science-fair project actually worked. It was Nickelodeon's first cartoon drawn entirely in CGI — and it looked like nothing else on the channel.