How Transformers will explode

[ROSEDOGGYDOG]

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PN, I had a good laugh your name.  Was that by design?

[peteynorth]

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PN, I had a good laugh your name.  Was that by design?

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A nickname I picked up in college; unfortunately not due to physical similarities with the guy, but due to the fact that I lived in a frat house, had an alcoholic roommate who had busted our door in a drunken rage, so every time I brought a girl home I had an audience.  I've never been very bashful, and was too lazy to fix the door, so I became the house porn star.  That, and I actually spent an inordinant amount of time watching porn.

 

I then used it as a handle for these boards, thinking it would be funny. 

[Emerje]

Seems to me like one of the major factors in this movie's success is going to be nostalgia. I would imagine there are still hundreds of thousands of closet fans out there that have avoided the toys and cartoons since they were kids in the 80s unlike those of us here. With the superhero movies breaking the boundaries between comic geeks and everyone else, and this movie being geared towards older viewers and not just kids, I think a lot of people will be swarming to the theaters that haven't been hitting up toy stores and comic shops. Add to that those fans with families and this could be the perfect gateway drug to get people into Transformers.

 

As for what will happen next, I'm sure it'll ride a wave from the movie for at least another year, maybe even an animated spin-off. What I would really like to see come along is for Hasbro to maybe take some notes from the DW and IDW comics and do an origin story or Transformers in a different time like Hearts of Steel. Maybe as Greek gods (Unicronus!) or mythological monsters. One of the images I loved the most from HoS was both Autobots and Decepticons as giant monsters. Just something different that we've never seen done before.

 

Emerje

[AutobotMaximal]

Actually, if you look at the amount of Transformers items that are/have been coming out, you may see that it's already begun. I'm excited about it.

[Smokescreened]

Guess it's just a case of waiting till the movie comes out, see how successful it is, or not,  and see what happens.  Since it will likely be marketed to kids, then it would have to have no real story as such, a lot of special effects, a really cheesy ending, plenty of explosions and a lot of noise.  That always seems to work with kids over ten, under ten it's almost the same, except the need to add in cute things.  Like maybe Bumblebee having a love interest, like a toaster, microwave or a USB Port, maybe a love triangle with said USB Port and a mobile phone, and some very annoying catchphrase.

With the toys, Hasbro would have to pratically bribe most of the shops these days to take the toys in since they're already refusing to in this country for the most part.  They would have to actually market the product, with cartoons actually being shown on more than a few channels that not everyone can get, actual adverts at decent times and some really horrible pop tune to it that makes millions, maybe something with Prime singing in a boy band*the horror*.  And that's all if the movie is successful in the box office and if the critics love it.

If it flops, then the TF francise will likely struggle a little longer then slowly die off with no chance of a revival.  It is over 20 years old after all, only Barbie and My Little Pony is likely to last till the next century, probably Power Rangers as well.  So let's just wait and see what happens.

 

-Chuckles

[Hunter Rose]

Actually, if you look at the amount of Transformers items that are/have been coming out, you may see that it's already begun. I'm excited about it.

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:pfx

[rayray]

Has it occurred to anyone that with the onset of the new movie, that Transformers will explode into something the likes we have never seen before? An even greater popularity than the original series brought. Will it leave us long-timers in the dust or spring us to new levels?

 

And I bet you can't wait for the new generation of TF knowledge gurus to spring out of the woodwork. Just think about how the Star Wars fan community changed with the onset of the new movies for them...

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I agree, It's going to be new and exciting. There should be tons of new fans jumping aboard.  I think the old fans will be satisfiel also(I hope).  As for Star Wars the three new Movies sucked out loud. :Dc

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Satisfied, Sorry for the typo.

[Lord Madhammer]

they should leave the line alone for a while, then come back to it 7-10 years later with something absolutely new, like what they did with beast wars (remembers beast war's popularity, a younger generation that had known nothing about transformers were introduced to this brand and it automatically became a massive hit-----> a fad at school was to bring in your  "beasties"--widely popular)

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that hiatus wasn't clever marketing on Hasbro's part, the line wasn't attracting attention like it used to

 

and 7-10 years?? G1 lasted until 1991, G2 picked up from there and went to 1995, then BW started in 1996... unless you were talking about TV shows in which case I will STFU

[Tripredacus]

Satisfied, Sorry for the typo.

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You should be able to edit your post instead of making a new one.

 

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+1!