>>8472248>Never gained tractionThey got plenty of releases, though, they even imported them to Walgreens.
What changed things was this little fucker here. Now you could have near cartoon accuracy on a Transforming toy. And its only improved since.
If you paid attention to stuff outside Transformers you'd notice this sort of thing is popular in Japan, too. Notice the first really toon MPs came out around the time Bandai started doing the ANIME line in RD, for example.
