Rated X wrote:RID is such a joke. Do really need another cartoony line of robots that have no noses but have creepy eyebrows that make them look like pedophiles ? Couldnt Hasbro just turn the generations line into a cartoon instead ? I would love to see an end to all these Bay inspired cartoon spoofs.
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YOU think it's a joke. I for one look forward to it, and I'm sure they'll be plenty of kids who enjoy it, just like there were plenty of kids who enjoyed G1, Beast Wars, the Unicron Trilogy and Animated. Collectors aren't the target demographic for this series.
Also, an animated Generations series would be way too cost-prohibitive. The IDW comics can get away with being more adult-orientated because, well, they're comics, and thus are much less expensive to make. Animation costs a fortune to produce, and the target demographic of, say, and animated adaptation of the IDW comics, would be too small to justify the immense costs of animating it. It might work in Japan, where animation is much more widely accepted and the animation age ghetto doesn't really exist, but in the US it just wouldn't work.