Lucky that the movies sold so many tickets, even with the lacklustre reviews for the sequels, as the toyline surely would not have been enough to convince hasbro to make another movie.
Like many of you, heres to a new aesthetic, and hopefully a new direction. (Doubt either will happen). Who knows, perhaps the soft reboot will be a "prequel" of some sorts, set mostly in space?
Allows them use of all the dead characters.