Quote Originally Posted by MV75 View Post
This is THE reset of the series that will be remembered as we remember g1. And ending at season 3, they arn't following the g1 mistake of going too long past the used by.
I love Animated and hope so (except that the G1 toons I remember so fondly aren't actually that good in restrospect), but BW will probably still be more influential in the long run. Animated is a reinterpretation of the 'classic' G1 storyline, while BW started pretty much a complete do-over both toy- and fiction-wise and only later included as part of G1 canon - BW is ground-breaking by it's very nature, whereas to a large extent TFA is following classic conventions. In other words, TFA just has a lot more apples-to-apples competition to BWs more orangey tang, which makes it harder to make such a big impact.
Also, there's the RotF factor - it's kinda hard to compete with that level of marketing and hype, not to mention having your toyline put on hiatus. I'd be more upset about this (and still will be if we miss out on any Animated toys over here rather than just having to wait a bit longer) if some of those uprcoming remolds/redecos *cough*B******n*cough* didn't look pretty good.