>>8827736I can understand where the Thomas fans are coming from though over that reboot
>Take a 75 year old book series whose stories were based on real life railroad accidents/events that also paid great attention to railroad-related details >Make a model-based Television series that remained faithful to the books for a period while making sure the trains acted like trains>Start transitioning to a CGI-based series since making digital models in Maya is a lot cheaper than making working model trains. >Since you're in CGI now you're able to have the trains bob up and down as they talk while also being able to repaint/retexture models in different colors to sell as variants>Mattel buys the license, more and more toyetic elements get introduced in the show so they can make toys of them to sell>Changes to the TV series forced by Mattel (BWBA, writing off Edward/Henry to fill a diversity quota) fail to increase toy sales, decide that a hard reboot is what the franchise needs>Go with a cartoon animated in ToonBoom or whatever cause it's cheaper than rendering CGI, go full retard on practically every element relating to the show between character designs/movements, set pieces, and what the reboot is about (Some sort of train school where Thomas and other tank engines learn to be really useful engines by being taught by tender engines with no human characters at all)I don't think I've seen another franchise burn out this fast once someone got a hold of the ownership of it (And before you say Disney Star Wars, at least people liked The Mandalorian/Clone Wars).
