Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
It looks like the Warrior/Deluxe class is the most complex, non-gimmick class so far known, and even those are very simple from what I saw at the SDCC display... and I think its because the cartoon is aimed at a younger audience than even Animated (but still a couple years older than the Rescue Bots audience).
But like Animated, as the age-group gets older with the cartoon, the toys might get more complicated with them.

The Generations toys are the ones aimed at us oldies next year, so I don't think Hasbro are even bothering to create RID toys that would interest us. Just like Rescue Bots, most of us probably won't even follow the RID cartoon if it ends up being as young as the promos so far look.
Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
I think Rescue Bots is one of the better TFs cartoons, for being fun to watch... but not fun for fans of Decepticons.

The RID cartoon may end up being a good one for us older fans to watch... but if it is, it's going to annoy fans who would want some toys that have more than 6-8 steps of transformation.
Even though Animated was aimed at a younger audience, it got massive props from us of the older school simply because of the amount of G1 homage in it and how much they correlated the characters in one way or another to their origins (Blurr, Swindle, Soundwave, Shockwave, Megatron, Starscream, Optimus, Bumblebee Cliffjumper, Alpha Trion, Grimlock, Swoop, Omega Supreme, Mixmaster, Wreck Gar etc etc).

This cartoon, despite having a yellow Bbee, a red Sideswipe etc is already departing from this by the look of the Grimlock on offer (both in colour and robot mode). So that may put off some of the older fans.