>>8224460Not American but I feel you. I cannot get into Bayformer stuff and don't like the designs to begin with but when I google toys I want I usually see this stuff first. Even different characters often look the same to me.
I am semi-lucky for joining later, so there are still 3p toys I want to get and look forward to. Personally and scalewise I like MMC the most because I prefer it to be somewhat big and elaborated. But while I am looking forward to some of their and others upcoming releases I have no idea what they will put out once they are done with the backlock we know for years.
Maybe what we and the franchise needs is another popularity push. It's why I am looking forward to all games, series and movies we can get even if I have not much interest consuming some of them.
Maybe the comics will get some hype too at some point though I doubt it because many of the fans of the old idw were social media people and most of the American ones are now spreading the meme that idw2 is toxic for painting violent protestors and terrorists as bad and having a cop and an orange leader as main Autobot characters (fuck my life).