You know, it was really unclear.
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altphoto@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Wait, is prime dead?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
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altphoto@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Wait, is prime dead?
You know, it was really unclear.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
He died in Transformers The Movie. One of the dumbest moves in any franchise history. Toy sales tanked. Viewership tanked. So they walked it back but the damage was done.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 months ago
For context, though, they were trying to sell new toys and give an in-universe explanation. It wasn’t thoughtless, just severely miscalculated.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Except one of those new toys they were trying to sell was just Optimus Prime with a new paint job and a new trailer. They made him a different character (Ultra Magnus) instead.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That was one. He, uh, rather made a habit out of it going forward after that.
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Prime example of how to kill a franchise
Hawke@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But they made a great, impactful movie!
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Pun intended?
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 months ago
Alternative view: this is the best Transformers movie to date. I still have it on Jellyfin and watch it once in a while. Spent my whole childhood watching this tape over and over. I would still recommend it today.
I haven’t gone back to watch the TV show, but I remember the TV show being much after the movie. Early Transformers show seasons were very basic and over time the stories got more mature and improved.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
The tv show was way before the movie though…?
Odo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
First 2 seasons were before the movie, 3 and 4 were after.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
This movie is one of my first core memories. I distinctly remember standing on the movie theater seats cheering with my brother when they played the “The Touch” and my mom smacking us and telling us to sit down.
I also remember Optimus Prime cussing in that movie (“damn”?) and being shocked - but now I can’t find it when searching. So maybe I made that part up?
Odo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That was Ultra Magnus trying to open the Matrix.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How dare you sir! The transformers movie was an incredible masterpiece showing what happens when a bunch of toy execs do massive amounts of cocaine.
Dicska@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I would love to link the English version of the article, but it doesn’t exist. I guess page auto-translation might work, but: back when I was a kid, the quite popular Duck Tales got interrupted due to the death of the prime minister of the time. One minute you were watching uncle Scrooge, the other it was a bunch of people carrying a coffin.
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 months ago
I don’t think you truly understood the importance of the sacrifice of what that cartoon was trying to teach you, despite it being right there in the song lyrics:
“Everyday, they’re out there making Ducktales”
Every day. These guys are just out in that unforgiving world, busting their asses trying to make these duck tales for you, and no one appreciates it.
Perhaps your prime minister dying was the only way for you to truly grasp the sheer seriousness of the sacrifice being made for you when you watched that show.