SlyTF1 wrote:Because the general audience who were asking for Hot Rod to be in the movie don't care about the Marvel Comics. They probably don't even know they exist.
And once again, you're talking out of your ass. Any fan old enough to have seen the movie to care about Hot Rod would have at least
heard of the comics, if not read them firsthand. And the ignorance of a minority does not negate the Marvel comics' impact on the franchise, like the fact that
the Marvel comics created the franchise as we know it.
william-james88 wrote:Did I miss something, I dont see what doesnt make sense about that comment. The 80s TF movie was super popular amongst kids (its the reason many of us are here on the boards, I am sure) while the Marvel TF comics were not read as much. They were also primarily in the UK right? And the series proved unpopular by the end that the runs were very limited to the point where the most expensive Marvel TF issues are the last ones and not he earliest ones.
So yeah, I am pretty sure that many hot rod fans out there who were hoping to see him in the movies had not read the Marvel UK comics.
The Marvel comics were
not primarily UK-based; Marvel UK just put out comics of their own in between the US issues, creating a much more fleshed-out (and sometimes more convoluted) continuity than the US issues alone. But they were popular enough that Simon Furman was brought over from the UK to take over the US comics when Budiansky stepped down.
As for their popularity, the Transformers comics were originally planned to be just a 4-part miniseries, but the larger-than-expected sales turned it into an ongoing comic that lasted
eighty issues, as in seven years. It outlived the cartoon by
four years.