toddly6666
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I've got some complicated questions about the little details:
It's great that different Transformers series have come about from 1984 til now, but why did the G1 TRANSFORMERS show end after 4 seasons? It was more like 3 seasons with a short 4th season. What happened in ratings? Did some other cartoon get more popular? I can understand the generation of youth getting sick of a cartoon if they started to watch it from the very first episode. But wasn't there a generation of youth that got exposed to the show at the start of the 4th season? (For example, a kid turns a certain age and watches cartoons instead of Sesame Street). I'm not being very objective, but who could not love the Transformers show/toys even jumping into it at the 3rd and 4th seasons (which I think are equally awesome as the first two seasons)? Furthermore, I'm assuming that, after the Transformers cartoon movie, the show wasn't that popular anymore in the USA. But what about in Europe and Japan? Did they have the same youth trends as USA? For example, is it possible that ratings were high in Europe, and then all of a sudden, no more Transformers, and European kids are heartbroken because the show got canceled in the USA?
Also, was the original G1 TRANSFORMERS cartoon playing during the same time period it played in Japan and Europe? In Japan, Transformers continued to be popular with the TAKARA series. It's been known that the TAKARA series is not as good as G1, but does anybody know if the Japanese kids loved this TAKARA series as much as G1?
Just trying to understand why! Thanks for any help!
It's great that different Transformers series have come about from 1984 til now, but why did the G1 TRANSFORMERS show end after 4 seasons? It was more like 3 seasons with a short 4th season. What happened in ratings? Did some other cartoon get more popular? I can understand the generation of youth getting sick of a cartoon if they started to watch it from the very first episode. But wasn't there a generation of youth that got exposed to the show at the start of the 4th season? (For example, a kid turns a certain age and watches cartoons instead of Sesame Street). I'm not being very objective, but who could not love the Transformers show/toys even jumping into it at the 3rd and 4th seasons (which I think are equally awesome as the first two seasons)? Furthermore, I'm assuming that, after the Transformers cartoon movie, the show wasn't that popular anymore in the USA. But what about in Europe and Japan? Did they have the same youth trends as USA? For example, is it possible that ratings were high in Europe, and then all of a sudden, no more Transformers, and European kids are heartbroken because the show got canceled in the USA?
Also, was the original G1 TRANSFORMERS cartoon playing during the same time period it played in Japan and Europe? In Japan, Transformers continued to be popular with the TAKARA series. It's been known that the TAKARA series is not as good as G1, but does anybody know if the Japanese kids loved this TAKARA series as much as G1?
Just trying to understand why! Thanks for any help!