Remember when studios LEARNED from their mistakes?
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Love the movie - yes the whole thing was basically an ad for the new toy line which sucked compared to gen1.
Karen Professional Associations (moms) du jour hated the series to begin with because it was “just an ad to sell toys” then ran with the “it’s too traumatizing for kids” in the movie because that was a better narrative.
Yeah - Hasbro kinda killed the franchise there but did it with one glorious bang.
Season 3 being written and animated like shit didn't help anything.
And let's not forget Transformers is far from dead. Probably the best selling action figure line out there year after year.
The comics still do well. More Than Meets The Eye from the 2005 IDW series alongside Robots In Disguise was a very well written and long series. The end of the run does turn into a bit of a mess when it starts bringing in every other IP owned by Hasbro at the time such as M.A.S.K. [the woke version], Rom and the Spaceknights, G.I. Joe, Visionaries, and whatever else there was.
The Lost Light sequel/followup has some very good moments in it but also goes far harder on woke inserts like several previously male transformers now identifying as female, far too anthropomorphic relationship interactions for a millions year old robot race, and blatant woke talking points such as "Tough lady 'bots for the win" from the ending Unicron series. Personally I stop any re-reads of the 2005 IDW collections once Lost Light ends since the Unicron story is just shit.
I was going to read Lost Light until I heard about the woke shit, they just can't help themselves.
Did they really kill it when it kept going on strong in Japan