>>9142100>the theme of PoG would have gone a long way in revitalizing MOTU's popularity. Keep in mind the changing tastes amongst boys in the late 80s. Sci-fi and medevil themes were pretty much out the door, and things like mutants, dinosaurs, and cavemen seemed to be on the up and up.Yes. The dinosaur boom around 1987-8 was short-lived, but that wouldn't have mattered: Filmation could have done the maximum number of episodes the industry incentivized in those two years.
If the beginning of PoG had been successful, they would have pivoted to new character concepts, perhaps trying to match the animal people of TMNT with prehistoric aesthetic. Lou Scheimer's retelling of the series pitch (which had the intellectual property filed off into "Hero and the Land of Legend" involved a character named Horrorsaur over the King Hiss equivalent (Sly-Mee) and also a female deuteragonist for He-Ro from "the Road Tribe" with Avatar powers.
