>>53601339And a reason why Charizard sells the most merch of any final stage starter.
The two can be mutually exclusive, people CAN like animalistic starters and not care for my mom's horse/piniped. But that era has passed, they pushed the boundaries, saw the reaction, tried to go back, got burned and then went all-in on the new way to ensure they could keep their market. Fuck they didn't even trust a quadrupedal fire croc (likely as they knew how fucking busy it was), making its sig move and major animation make it stand up, used a bipedal shot of it for the dex picture and most TCG art revealed has it bipedal too. They know rightly quadrupeds don't sell with kids - shit a no-legged creature was more popular by far than everything but an owlball and a pikachu rip-off in Gen 7, Skeledirge was beaten comprehensively by its base stage, mirroring the failure that was Decidueye.
