>>6435572Yurofag here, I guess interest in Transformers dropped somewhere close to the mid 90s despite how immensely popular Turbomasters and Motorvators were. For some strange reason Beast Wars was practically ignored around here and, while the Unicron trilogy was mildly popular amongst early 2000s kids, the toys still shelfwarmed up to Revenge of the Fallen and beyond.
If you want my two cents, that might be because European kids have more of a "self-referential" interests in toys, the most popular things when I was a kid were Legos, Playmoblis and miniature vehicles instead of actual franchise products based around movies or shows. Turbomasters might have worked because of that, they were large colorful intricate playthings almost completely detached from the rest of the series and therefore they probably sparked the imagination of kids that hadn't even watched Transformers in the first place - although, according to that logic, you would have expected Beast Wars to become just as popular. It doesn't help that the Bay films are almost specifically aimed towards an American audience either, I distinctively remember being the only person who had actually watched the first movie in high school.
