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Jeez. I tought it would be an anime with Lazer Prime battling with Tank Megatron with everyone being in fabulous colors.

Instead, we get heavily edited G1 episode with a vomit-inducting prehistoric CG intro...

Sigh...

NOS wrote:@KUMA-NIN:

Thanks. I actually could have gone with Space Balls. But I felt like that reflects how some feel about me when I respond to what some members say, and others might not get the humor. Namely... Poster #1: "KUMA-NIN is responding to something Sabrblade said?" Poster #2: "Oh sh*t, there goes the topic."

But even then, while expecting Beast Wars, portions of the Unicron Trilogy, just anything else... We get this. And that is the first initial feeling that came to my mind. But you know what? Lets go with some Space Balls.

Fan #1: But, Hasbro, what is this channel? What is that you do on it?

HASBRO: Merchandising.

Fan #2: Merchandising? What's that?

HASBRO: Merchandising. Come. I'll show. Open up this door.

[An employee open a slab in the wall. In it, is a whole bunch of "Transformers: The Merchandise" merchandise.]

HASBRO: Ha, ha, ha, come. Walk this way. Take a look. We put the pictures name on everything. Merchandising. Merchandising. Where the real money from the franchise is made. Transformers: The Merchandise: The t-shirt, Transformers: The Merchandise: The Coloring Book, Transformers: The Merchandise: the Lunch box, Transformers: The Merchandise: The Breakfast Cereal, Transformers: The Merchandise-the Flame Thrower. [turns it on]

HASBRO: The kids love this one. Last, but not least, Transformers: The Merchandise: The Doll. [holds up the doll] Michael Bay. [pulls on the string]

Michael Bay Doll: May the plot be with this sequel.

HASBRO: Adorable.

Maybe they're worried that fans aren't watching the G1 and ARAH reruns at midnight anymore because we've come to take them for granted, and this is just to scare us into watching again to make sure the original cartoon hasn't been replaced.

Or maybe enough kids are just confused enough about promos/bumpers calling it "Transformers Generation One" that there was some demand to see just what "Generation Two" was? If so, that could backfire, as the logic behind the G2 'toon barely made sense back in '93, and I think what they were even going for is incomprehensible now. On a youtube clip of the first third of G2 MTMTE Part 1, I remember seeing the comment: "What...is this? Some sort of DVD menu?"

Or maybe the HUB's been bombarded with requests from Geewunners to "Stop showing those awful G2 episodes!" incorrectly referring to Season 3 and The Rebirth, and this is just to set them straight on what "G2" means. Sorry guys, but only a whopping 3 of those episodes were ever G2; most of what you're unfavorably comparing them to, on the other hand, DID end up being G2. None of those "GeeToo" guys like Pretenders and Powermaster Optimus were actually G2...though some Targetmasters showed up briefly via commercial footage in Spacecube windows in the first episode, probably because they were also in the Season 5 intro...

Yeah, showing Season 5 would seriously make more sense than this, and that's actually a possibility now that the guy who played Tommy Kennedy popped up, though he did so pretty recently, and this move was probably in the legal works before then. If they did, the Movie could at least technically be in regular rotation instead of just occasionally popping up as a "HUB Family Movie". I never saw those eps personally, so I'd actually tune in for that.

Ah, if only the G2 cartoon actually had been new content with some relation to the comics. Then kids could learn what the Hub actually was back in '94...and maybe be interested enough to demand 'Alignment' be canonized. Yeah, it could happen...as soon as that actual official G1 Arcee toy shows up, and the Hub starts airing Japanese G1. sigh

KUMA-NIN Maximus wrote:

NOS wrote:@KUMA-NIN:

Thanks. I actually could have gone with Space Balls. But I felt like that reflects how some feel about me when I respond to what some members say, and others might not get the humor. Namely... Poster #1: "KUMA-NIN is responding to something Sabrblade said?" Poster #2: "Oh sh*t, there goes the topic."

But even then, while expecting Beast Wars, portions of the Unicron Trilogy, just anything else... We get this. And that is the first initial feeling that came to my mind. But you know what? Lets go with some Space Balls.

Fan #1: But, Hasbro, what is this channel? What is that you do on it?

HASBRO: Merchandising.

Fan #2: Merchandising? What's that?

HASBRO: Merchandising. Come. I'll show. Open up this door.

[An employee open a slab in the wall. In it, is a whole bunch of "Transformers: The Merchandise" merchandise.]

HASBRO: Ha, ha, ha, come. Walk this way. Take a look. We put the pictures name on everything. Merchandising. Merchandising. Where the real money from the franchise is made. Transformers: The Merchandise: The t-shirt, Transformers: The Merchandise: The Coloring Book, Transformers: The Merchandise: the Lunch box, Transformers: The Merchandise: The Breakfast Cereal, Transformers: The Merchandise-the Flame Thrower. [turns it on]

HASBRO: The kids love this one. Last, but not least, Transformers: The Merchandise: The Doll. [holds up the doll] Michael Bay. [pulls on the string]

Michael Bay Doll: May the plot be with this sequel.

HASBRO: Adorable.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL... I just posted yesterday that Optimus Prime is in fact on the cover of Spaceballs the coloring book. WAHHHHHHHH HHAA HHAA HHA! I'm dyin ova here!

Who even gets the Hub anyways ???

Rated X wrote:Who even gets the Hub anyways ???

...me?

My childhood... is back? On the hub?!

F**K THE HATERS! Imma watch this show liberally until my eyes bleed!

Hopefully after they wear out the tapes of this abomination they'll start showing RID.

I don't actually mind about G2 being a rerun, or it's "cruddy" CGI, but what I do complain about is that why put it again on TV if it's a repackage of G1, but with annoying transitions and a talkative narrator!? Even my son (who knows ald likes G1 like me) could tell the difference and say, "It's only G1 but with some random 3-D in it! Why can't Takara make it based on their manga or the G2 Marvel Comics?"



Yes Arcee, you not only complain with whatever is going on, but you feel the same way like me. Maybe she should have spent more time with CJ instead!

PrymeStriker wrote:

Rated X wrote:Who even gets the Hub anyways ???

...me?

Ooh! Ooh! And me! However, I must regretfully note that I have been neglecting the channel. Mostly because Granzella has decreed that I must spend every day (up to the 27th) trying to stay in the top 100 if I want to obtain all the clothing items. That, and I have officially seen every episode. Ironically, around 25-26 years after The Rebirth first aired.

However, and I think Sabr and Pryme and others might agree with me on this, the only thing worse than the concept of the "Generation 2" series was The Rebirth. Because the difference is that while Generation 2 was poorly planned (it should have used episodes centered on Optimus Prime and end with the movie), The Rebirth was poorly done overall. So between the two evils, I would choose this one to be such.

So in contrast, I think them skipping Beast Wars and put on Beast Machines would be worse than this.