>>11426165>Not in the moment, most had little interest in them, likely due to the fact you already had 5 combiner teams prior and the movie more or less soured the brand i the west. To make matters worse they got sandwich with two more combiner teams, the Terrorcons, and Technobots.They still stood out for their size alone. The Terrorcons and Technobots never overshadowed the Predacons in the fandom at all.
> Also I doubt they were that hot as people of the 90s and 2000s badly wanted the Seacons as they were very low in availability, you can still read articles from the early 2000s about it.There's a reason why Predaking got a Takara reissue, it was in high demand. It sold well enough to get later reissues too.
Thing is, perception changes. The fandom just plain got bigger after 2007 with more initially casual fans who largely remembered Season 1/2, which is why the demand shifted to catering to that. Hasbro designers like Aaron Archer were more concerned with hallmarks of G1 rather than slavish homages. The line was handed off eventually to John Warden, who used his time designing GI Joe with homages to the early years, which is what he ended up doing with TF.
>I don't know how to respond to this weird ignoring of G2, Beast Wars, Beast Machines, RiD, Armada, Energon, Cybertron and Classics that was all about the nostalgia of season 1 and 2 with flirts of season 3 and/or Japanese series. But that's exactly what I mean, in the late 90s and 2000's only a select sample of G1 was standing out. It's not like now where every minor Season 1/2 character has multiple official and 3P updates.
A lot of G1 Season 1 and 2 got overlooked in all the homages and reissues of that era. No Cosmos, no Gears, no Insecticons, mostly just nameslaps for a lot of G1 guys over designs. We had Aerialbots, Constructicons, and Combaticons, but all with different names.
