D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Speaking as someone who got into Star Wars thanks to the prequels (still my favorite by far, Empire to me is one of the worst Star Wars films put to screen) and into Transformers thanks to the movies (and actually enjoyed all 6 live action ones to date, even TLK), I think some of you are massively underestimating those respective markets and their impact. All of the movie Bees I have are the reason you guys got a Haslab Unicron and 2 different iterations of your favorite Ark bots between Prime Wars and WFC. It's that simple.
If it weren't for the movies, we probably would have kept on the BW/BM/RiD2001/UT train, with some good series sprinkled in with some subpar, the bots always looking different and no one complaining about the "name slapping" (which to me is ridiculous to say).
Movies brought in fans. Movies made a crap ton of toys that a lot of people bought and brought them on board. My generation exists. We have had a huge impact. And if anything would make people want to jump ship, TLK probably would have the same impact as Prime Wars and WFC, because all 3 of those are of similar quality with a lot of the same issues.
Get off the entitlement horse. It's unbecoming. After 6 movies ya'd think it would have been better.
No doubt, the movies DID bring in fans, I have NEVER argued differently. However, it has also pushed a large number of fans away.. the very same fans that have a large amount of disposable income, when compared to a much younger fan
Wow! Talk about entitlement, your generation also brought us Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, etc. Just because you're here, doesn't mean you have taste
Case in point, your favourite are the prequels? Your opinion of the Star Wars speaks volumes
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it.."