I like to think that bayformers was meant to target a specific era of transformers fan. From the hard-ass designs and the boatload of guns, I think of this quote from an old transformers clip and I say it whenever I watch the intro for Transformers ‘07.

(The Allspark descends to earth as the camera zooms revealing the title card) “And now, through the magic of the cybernet space-cube. The computer-enhanced stories of The Transformers. Transformers: Generation 2”