Bulkhead was literally featured on the very next show they did and cameo'd on the show they did after that. Lugnut is in the current show and toyline. Lockdown was featured in a movie. Existence acknowledged.

Animated pretty much epitomizes the "G1 or G1-inspired" that gets all the bones thrown their way. I don't know what more you can do when they're already going back to the source material that Animated was based so much off of. Outside of possibly giving Prowl a CHiPs redeco or something, I don't really see it.

 

Uh...Not exactly.
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I think it was mainly concepts like the Constructions never getting toys that really bugged fans of the series.

 

Maybe in 2027 when Animated hits its 20th anniversary. And even then I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

Well that's not what I said at all. While it's my personal preference that Hasbro not allocate funding or resources towards anything Animated, no where in my post did I say that "no one deserves this just because I don't like it." I have my opinion on the subject and I voiced it in a civilized manner. Not my fault if you took it the wrong way.

 

I would buy so many figures if they re-issued the Animated line. I wasn’t really interested in toys when it was available.

 

god i hope not, but i do want chug style figures of animated ocs

 

True. Now that I think of it, I actually really want an Earthrise Lugnut and Bullhead now

Don't forget the Takara Legends Slipstream and Slipstream showing in Cyberverse. Also IDK why but I forgot about Bulkhead in Prime, Lockdown in the AOE, and Lugnut in Cyberverse when I wrote that.

 

I have this sneaking suspicion that Cartoon Network would have to give the OK to have the designs reused. Derrick Wyatt did the character designs and they basically got made into toys. I bet Hasbro might even have to pay a royalty to start using the CN/Wyatt styling.

Hasbro and CN probably had a rocky relationship given Hasbro dumped them so they could create The Hub. But maybe time has healed those wounds?

Just a theory though.

 

Ok, I suppose I overreacted. But it seems that way when people say stuff like this:

I just have to wonder why, when someone hates something so much, why even bother to come into a thread discussing it to begin with, when your only intention is to spread negativity?

 

I feel like Cyberverse Deluxe figures are a half step there. What we'd need is just for the next kids line to base its supplemental characters on Animated designs.

Even Prime was close enough for Takara to reuse Animated Swoop and Slug in new decos.

I don't see there as being a big style departure in Cyberverse or RiD from Animated.

The figures took a quality dive but the deluxes are a step back.

 

I've become increasingly convinced that Animated is the apex of Transformers. It's not so much that nothing else can be of such quality, but when you consider all the budget plus stuff they did, from electronics of the transformation sound, expression changing faces, and loads of articulation, along with an ample figure budget so that no corners were cut, I don't think we'll ever see the same level of quality and price again.

That was an issue at one point as I recall, Animated isn't wholly owned by Hasbro, but was a joint partnership. Coupled with the fact that even at the time when Animated was incredibly successful for Hasbro, they still didn't get it and thought it was a fluke or a halo reaction to the film franchise, even once IDW was on board, they still couldn't figure out that fans wanted; in particular one convention turned south on them fast when they teased the audience with a choice between Animated comic (to thunderous applause) vs a new Marvel G1 comic (Crickets) and then embarrassingly announced Regeneration One comic, having expected the complete reverse.

What makes it especially annoying is that the show was so popular and it's characters so strong that they kept migrating to other G1 series, yet they steadfast stand against revisiting Animated and have no so firmly seemed entrenched in G1 that exceptions are the extreme minority nowadays.

 

The show did very well in Japan; well enough for several toys to be released overseas that ended up never making it to the US. Namely, Wingblade Optimus Prime, Hydrodrive Bumbebee, and Leader Class Blackout.

 

I'm not really interested in brand new Animated-style figures but I would love a Hasbro Pulse-oriented release of the completed sculpts and decos for the last few waves. Anything beyond that I'm okay with not happening. The only Animated revival I really want is a new season or a direct-to-home media movie.

 

I still consider the toys to be some of the best they ever made, and I still have most of mine displayed. I'm one of those guys who didn't have a high opinion of Animated when the first character art was revealed at a con- too cartoony, I thought. Once I started watching the show, though, I really enjoyed it, and once I started buying some of the toys, I found most to be really well done. Not every figure was perfect, but many were innovative, solid, and did a great job of capturing the animation aesthetic while still offering a pretty well articulated bot for that time. I still lament the early cancellation of the series; I would have loved for at least one more season to wrap things up. I also wish they'd done Omega Supreme as a final figure, or as a tenth anniversary fig. I was surprised and saddened when HasTak did nothing for the tenth anniversary. And so it does seem like Hasbro has lost any interest in doing any kind of Animated related stuff. I'd still love to have an official Omega Supreme, but with the shift in quality and pricing, I have to agree with Shin Densetsu that it would likely not live up to expectations. I keep hoping that a third party will take a stab, but not many of them have shown interest in Animated either, so it seems like Animated is relegated to nostalgia.

 

admittedly this might be an unpopular opinion, but aside from secondary/tertiary characters like arcee n rodimus, animated really didn't feel like "g1 redone." it felt like classic characters with enough new twists to be notable, but prowl, soundwave, ratchet, bumblebee, blitzwing, n the constructicons (to name a few) are such a far departure that they feel like new enough takes that animated n its larger players are deserving enough of updated toys. like, you can't tell me animated blitzwing n g1 blitzwing can't be separate guys in the same continuity with some fudging. soundwave didn't even feel like soundwave besides "sound based robot with vocoder voice."

it kinda felt like a series full of a bunch of half-assed homages shoved onto older characters. swoop n slag/snarl didn't even get lines n by extent any sort of character, so i don't know how they can even be g1 homages in any way except the most superficial. if transformers is entirely toys to you then you might as well just not partake in the media.

 

as much as I loved the toys from animated. And a lot of the character designs that didn’t get toys

I don’t see it happening.

If we get reissues of the original animated figures they would cost a ton

and there’s no way they’d do new toys in the animated style. Even if they did they would lack the paint-apps, size, etc or classic animated toys. And be more like RiD and Cyberverse figures.

the best we can sadly hope for is for Hasbro to feel generous enough to throw a token animated character homage in a future generation(s) toyline.
But that would just be a repaint of an existing G1 character inspired toy with at best a new head.

hasbro seems dead set on keeping the franchise firmly planted in G1. And pushing their evergreen designs. So any anything that doesn’t fit that concept, likely won’t have much of a chance at getting a toy.

 

Hopefully not. But I'd love to see season 3...

 

Hmmm... Blackout is Voyager Class.

 

I'd like to see a revival of the Animated style or some new translation of it, because whether your appreciated the aesthetic or not, it did something remarkable: it made these very stylized characters able to transform without sacrificing screen accuracy for either mode. Even more visually aspirational media like the Bay movies or Prime had a lot more sacrifices being made between their onscreen depictions and their toys (at least until recently with Studio Series). I remember at the time of Animated's debut we never thought those character designs would actually translate into proper toys of themselves, and look what they pulled off.

 

The only G1-redone aspect of Animated is the designs. Like, for example:

1. G1 OP and Megatron are brothers & the same size. Animated OP and Megs have no relation and Megs is like G1 Jetfire or Devastator size.
2. Megatron doesn't tolerate Starscream's bullshit and kills him for good.
3. Shockwave as a double agent spy.
4. Sentinel Prime. We barely knew him in G1 but all we knew was that he was a good guy. Meanwhile in Animated he was a stupid douchebag.
5. Ultra Magnus was below Prime in G1. In Animated UM is way higher above him. Kind of like the The Fallen of Autobots.
6. Animated Arcee holds the key to the destruction of Earth. G1 Arcee did what?
7. Autobots actually die, and not just so Hasbro can traumatise kids for life to sell new toys.

Anyway guys like them really can't fit into Siege, but Animated also isn't big enough to get a toyline of its own like Studio Series. Even if they did, I know they'll amount to nothing more than downsized, watered down rehashes of the original toyline.

All I think Hasbro can do for them is integrate original, non-G1 looking designs into Cyberverse, Siege, or maybe even Bumblebee 2. We've seen Lockdown and Lugnut (albeit in design only) in Cyberverse, I think we can see more. Like Bulkhead and Team Charr.

Or reissues!