Animated now cancelled by Hasbro US, not just here?

[G1Optimal]

Although i am not into the Animated line...

But maybe Hasbro will "or could" release them under the Generations Line?

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Doh, I forgot about Wingblade Prime and Underwater Bumblebee.

I also dont have Electro Soundwave yet

PANIC TIME

I there Much chance these will get released under the Universe banner? Or is the end of the toys themselves, not just the packaging?

[GoktimusPrime]

Sharky: Yeah, I know what you mean. The problem with Animated is that a lot of the Transformers are more just archetypes rather than actual characters, with little character depth and development. It is character development that is the engine that drives stories. But to their credit, they did try to introduce more character development and better story writing in the later episodes. A lot of the better moments in Animated occured in its later eps. It irks me that Season 3 isn't coming out on DVD here as it's the best part of Animated IMO.

Interesting that you said you liked the Dreamwave comics, because initially I really did NOT like DW's G1 series. The first volume of their G1 reboot was just big robots bashing each other about with little story substance to engage me. Bleh. But then the writing started getting better (like the Magnus/Shockwave alliance you mentioned) -- like Animated, I felt that Dreamwave was cut just as it was showing signs of promise (although in this case it was Dreamwave's own fault, oh yeah, I can't _stand_ Pat Lee's "art" <shudder> -- but I can easily forgive crap art if the story is good).