>>6545146>Any franchise that is owned by a massive corporation that doesn't have a singular vision of the fiction or just a single dude handling the fiction will end up rebooting and restarting over and over again every time the interest dies down a bit to keep the profits at a maximum all time>Seeing how it's again owned by a corporation every new iteration of the franchise will have the same characters doing the same things but a little bit different to maintain copyright and trademarkGod tier post here, my N-words. There's almost a consensus of sorts that Beast Wars was both the most well-written show and the most revolutionary toyline, which is interesting because that entire franchise basically sprung out of Hasbro's discontent with the market fatigue of traditional Transformers and, instead of rehashing the same old garbage, the creative minds behind the series went ahead and tried doing something completely new. They retained the core basis of two battling factions of robots and added some hints and plot points to explain how it was loosely canon with the original cartoon but instead told a completely different story in a completely different setting with entirely self referential characters and themes. Seeing how it basically brought the franchise back to life and formed an entire new fandom around it that still sticks around up until today, it's probably fair to say it worked incredibly well.
It's sad because nowadays modern Hasbro would never have the balls to attempt something as bold as Beast Wars. Do you think they would ever gives us a series consisting entirely of new characters in an entirely new setting? Jesus fucking christ, of course not! How are we going to entice our neckbeard fandom without the same GeeWun story rehashed? And it's not just the old farts, how are the kids going to buy the toys if there are no Primes of Bumblebees?! People would fucking riot!
