Animated IS NOT on the verge of cancellation in the UK

This is a disaster... Animated has been one of the best lines ever. And it was the one TF cartoon that actually deserved a more mainstream showing. Especially after the Unicron trilogy.

I dunno, do they have to cancel the toys? Can they not just scale back the quantity?

I think this was the killer blow to be honest. I mean... seriously, who thought putting it on a backwater channel would be a good idea? IIRC you can only get Nicktoons if you get Sky TV's most expensive package. Hell, I didn't even know Nicktoons EXISTED before it was announced that TF:A was gonna be on it.

But yeah, bad bad BAD marketing.

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Balls. I'll agree that the choice of channel hasn't helped, TF:A doesn't exactly seem to be 'mainstream' over here. I was surprised it went to Nicktoons at all, given that CN is more widely available. The lengthy gap between the cartoon's launch and the release of the toys had me worried months ago.

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Well that might be due to the fact that although it's the worst Spider-man movie by far it's still way batter than Transformers. Maybe UK audiences are not as easily won over by explosions, mastibation jokes, robot golden showers and nonsense plots. However I digress.

I suspect TF:A's lack of popularity in the UK can be put down to the same reasons RID, Armada, Energon and Cybertron didn't to so well in the UK, poor/non-existent advertising, figure being missed out, the release of the toys and TV show being months apart and the fact the shows have been broadcast at terrible times or on TV stations you need a premium satellite/cable package to receive. Couple that to the fact that the pegs/shelves in most UK outlets are still packed with the heavily publicized Movie figures there little wonder Animated are not selling so well. Most kids, if they've even seen them in stores, probably have no idea what the figures are and due to the jarring difference in style to the movie figures will more likely go for what they've seen on the big screen over characters from a show they have never seen.

That's just my opinion tho.

If this happens, what do Hasbro UK think they are going to sell for the next 8 or whatever months it is until TF2 movie stuff starts coming in? Leftover movie 1 stuff and millions of Voyager Bulkheads?

Universe won't fare any better with kids as the deluxes are even more expensive and it doesn't even have a TV show.

You guys are hitting it right on the head.
Considering the total lack of effort Hasbro puts into supporting and pushing the line over here, I feel completely justified to get irritated when they jack up the prices.

Sometimes its unavoidable, like the tiny amount Universe was supposed to go up. What was it in the states, $1 or so at most for deluxes? But here, no, £3 extra tacked on?
Not on Hasbro, not on.

I don't think it was a simple mistake as "putting" on NickToons, but the fact that Hasbro US most likely sold the rights to TFA for a lot of money (on the back of the Movie hype), to Entertainment Rights, who had to make that money back by selling it on to various broadcasters all over the world. They're more likely to make more money from selling it to NickToons than the BBC/ITV etc. The annoying thing about all this is that the BBC will be showing the new X-Men cartoon!!

We also have the problem of no adverts for the show or toys on any channel other than Nicktoons, which is probably also due to Hasbro UK not having the budget.

Transformers does have a reasonable fanbase in the UK, the movie made $50, despite being released a month after the US, on the same day as the Simpsons Movie and 2 weeks after harry Potter.

I'm not surprised by any of this, I'm sad to say. We haven't even had the last 2 episodes of Season 2 yet; they keep getting that far and then starting again. Add to that the absolute lack of any kind of advertising puch WHATSOEVER (I have NEVER seen a single TV advert for Animated over here), not to mention a completely ridiculous price hike on the toys, and you end up with a line that even the companies involved with it can't be bothered to sell.
Its pathetic.
Good job, Hasbro UK. Yet again, you've successfully managed to kill the brand over here. You stupid bastards. I'll be importing everything again, I suppose, just like I've had to do with the tail end of pretty much every TF line ever made.

Great. Just great. I doubt they'll even bother with any non movie lines again at this rate.

The problem here is that Hasbro UK just see's itself as a distibution arm for TF's and they have little to no feelings about bothering to market the brand in any way, they just shift the stock they get if they can. Whoever's the brand manager these days really doesn;t give a damn. But maybe they see statistics we don't...

Sorry to hear that UK fans. Hopefully it at least gets the 3rd season in the US and toys keep pumping out here too. Of course you UK TFA fans can always import at a last/only resort