DO NOT WANT. Animated is awesome. It shouldn't be ended abruptly like this.
Wrong!Originally Posted by Oilspill
G1 went on even though there wasn't a cartoon being aired.
Also, the Movie line went on for far longer than it should have.
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DO NOT WANT. Animated is awesome. It shouldn't be ended abruptly like this.
Wrong!
G1 went on even though there wasn't a cartoon being aired.
Also, the Movie line went on for far longer than it should have.
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That's because G1 existed as a toyline first. Comics second. Cartoon third. Animated is different because the toyline was developed concurrently with the cartoon, which is unusual for Transformers where the toys typically come first. With most other TF series I would be inclined to agree with you, but Animated is quite exceptional because basically the toys are based off the cartoon and not vice versa.
That's not to say that the toys will end at the same time as the show. I'm sure that Hasbro will pad it out after the show has ended - we may get some other non-show characters like Oilslick, but more importantly, prepare yourself for repaints, possibly even from non-Animated moulds.
Afaik the movie franchise is set to be a trilogy - and we know that TF2: Revenge of the Fallen is coming out later this year. So that franchise is far from being over. They are "padding out" the line between movies with repaints and stuff, but yeah - I can understand Hasbro wanting to keep the line running between films.
And while I'm personally not thrilled with all these repaints - because I already have all those moulds - for fans who didn't already have those moulds it gave them an opportunity to grab them if they missed them during Cybertron etc.
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I hope that Animated wont be gone so quickly, it's been a nice change from the A/E/C years, and so vastly different from the movie direction.
It aint the best tf show ever made, but it sure as hell isn't bad, and is far from the worst animated show on the box.
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I think that Animated will stick around for a while after the show is over.
The next cartoon that comes out will also not happen for a while since its probably not even in pre-production yet so they need something happening in between that and the next movie so I don't see Animated completely disappearing once Season 3 is over but lasting for at least 6 months to a year after that. However I wouldn't count in the quality of the releases as they will likely be composed of mostly 'filler' repaints like the last runs of the TF1 movie toys with perhaps a couple of new molds they didn't get a chance to release during the cartoon run.
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Common new moulds, papa needs a new Omega Supreme
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I think it's +4 by now. Permit me to make it +5!
It's been at the top of my want list for months!
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AMEN!
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The other thing that should be remembered is that Animated is released in far greater numbers than Universe so to see them "shelfwarming" means nada, it's just that there's more of them and after Christmas now, toys aren't moving very fast at all.
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Should be interesting at Easter, anyone else noticed in the past few years that kiddies are getting toys and DVD's as well as Eggs?
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