>>10268743>Not to say we aren't off to a great start getting to evergreen status but there's a big difference between selling people on dated muscle hero nostalgia vs. the endless stream of brightly colored car robot warriorsI partially believe part of transformers' enduring success is a result of how universal the appeal of aliens and robots are. In that respect I think this is also why franchises like the turtles or star wars have also endured. The further you distance your franchise from average people the more easily translated it becomes. So my personal theory is that to some extent, MOTU lacks some of that. If MOTU were to join the ranks of the evergreen brands I mentioned earlier my personal take is that it wouldnt have to appeal to the Chinese market, but the South American and Indian markets instead. And the funny thing is that MOTU is kind of big in both markets.
