'Prime' Bulkhead VS 'Animated' Bulkhead

[Hero]

Like the title says.

I like Ani Bulkhead, but the Prime version now has the edge.

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[Deleted]

I like the Prime Bulkhead - but haven't watched enough Animated to have an opinion on him in that show, so have abstained from voting atm, =).

[Toph]

Animated Bulkhead endeared me. I loved his sweet and gentle nature.
Prime Bulkhead, I get tired of. He's much more... I dunno... generic. There are dozens of characters exactly like him (And they all seem to be voiced by Kevin Michael Richards, oddly enough). I don't hate Prime Bulkhead... but he was one of the few things about Prime I liked at the beginning of the series... now whenever he takes a leading role in an episode it makes me want to shut it off.
But that's more the fault of the writers than the character.

So I vote Animated.

[blueshift]

Prime Bulkhead doesn't really HAVE a character, he's the generic 'bruiser'. Any character people infer on him comes from his Animated persona. At best he's a pale imitation of his lovable Animated self.

It's like how people raved about Movie Starscream despite him barely being in the movie and not doing anything. Because they liked G1 Starscream and mentally mapped him onto movie Starscream. Bulkhead is easier to do because he looks the same.

[Hero]

I see what you're saying. I'm in the minority who prefers that generic wrecker Bruiser to the clumsy farmbot that came before him.

Animated came and went in a year and Prime hasn't. This newer Bulkhead will eventually have more exposure than his predecessor.

[Toph]

The reasons Animated went, are because Hasbro cancelled it so it wouldn't take attention away from RotF (Idiotic, since Animated was perfect for kids, and I wouldn't take a child to see RotF if my life depended on it). They've done the same thing with GI Joe: Renegades. As well as partly because Cartoon Network had partial ownership over the show, at a time when Hasbro was getting ready to lauch the Hub. That doesn't mean much to other countries, but it's huge politics, here.

Prime may well suffer the same fate Animated and Renegades have, when TF4 comes around.

[Hero]

So far, show wise Prime has lasted longer. However, its taken a year for any figures to show up.

Dug out Ani-Leader-class Bulkhead today. Still prize toy in the collection.

[blueshift]

Mar 6, 2012 21:42:43 GMT Toph said:

The reasons Animated went, are because Hasbro cancelled it so it wouldn't take attention away from RotF (Idiotic, since Animated was perfect for kids, and I wouldn't take a child to see RotF if my life depended on it). They've done the same thing with GI Joe: Renegades. As well as partly because Cartoon Network had partial ownership over the show, at a time when Hasbro was getting ready to lauch the Hub. That doesn't mean much to other countries, but it's huge politics, here.

Prime may well suffer the same fate Animated and Renegades have, when TF4 comes around.

I believe the Cartoon Network rights issues was the biggie actually. Hasbro wanted a show for the Hub which they owned 100%, which is fair. Also I know the Animated line didn't do amazingly, they struggled to find retailers for some of the core figures near the end remember.

[Toph]

Animated sold amazingly well, toywise, for a brief time. The problem was Hasbro shot themselves in the foot, by delaying the line for six months so they could stretch out the first movie line. Animated was set to launch Christmas 2007, when the show launched. But due to retailer pressure, they pushed it back for six months, so they could squeeze out a few more movie repaints (Even Universe suffered for this, as a lot of the bulk of it's early waves went into Movie instead, causing it's first few waves to be anemic.)
Then, Cartoon Network decided to air season two back to back with season one, with zero repeats. So by the time Hasbro finally got off their collective asses and put the toyline out, the entire series was more than halfway finished.
The toyline sold really well from when it launched, until the end of Season 3, when CN promptly yanked it as soon as it was done, and damned it to Cybertron's timeslot of 5am.
All the while other simular series got airings on Friday evenings, as well as saturday mornings. That didn't help much, either.

So... when there was that all too brief window where the toys were on shelves, while the show was on air at accessible times, it did *really* well. Once the show was stopped, the toys stopped moving as well.

At least that's the way it happened here.

And your avatar makes me want to squeeze her, she's so cute.

[blueshift]

Animated was pretty much always on heavy discount over here. It moved fast but was half the price, I don't know if that meant retailers took a risk and it paid off, or they wanted to get rid of it all.