@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Welp, then I’m stumped. And yeah, Spike tried, at least.

@Solitude  
Nope. Also being a living version of something easily replaceable is kind of useless.  
Well, I’m sure they had an explanation for why they couldn’t build their own sensor, but it still smacks of convenient contrivance. Spike was a totally normal kid working with his totally normal dad, but as an example, when Optimus was disarmed in one fight, they actually picked up and aimed Optimus’ cannon like an ancient Bombard and fired at the ’cons to cover for him.

At least Luna is blue

@Itsthinking
 
Thanks, now i feel depressed now.
 
Frickn Bayformers

It gets worse.

@Solitude  
Wait, crap. Forgot Sari’s only half human. That still count?

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  

 
Well…  
 
I mean, mentally scarring Autobots has to count for something.  
 
Then there’s mister living energon sensor.  
 
For a given meaning of ‘served a purpose.’

@Background Pony  
Name a human since the original Witwickies that served a purpose and was not a Headmaster. And no finding them fappable doesn’t count.
 
 
@Itsthinking  
Well, the appeal of board games seems to have largely faded with the newer generations outside of the P&P RPG types, and they aren’t all that good at keeping appeal and interest high once a licensed property goes off the air. They’re in that odd spot where they’re too derp to succeed as well as they should, but too big to fail.
 
 
@Itsthinking  
Ouch then. Transformers line is really gonna take a beating then. All I know of that they’re currently engaging in is that laughable Rescue Bots nonsense. And the pure movie line never really captured the universal appeal of the regulars anyway.

@SaburoDaimando  
How Hasbro isn’t the biggest toy company in the world, I have no clue. They own the rights to pretty much every single board game, two of the biggest toy franchises, and constantly and consistently get licenses to produce the toys for popular series.
 
Do Barbie and Hot Wheels really compete that much? I mean, I guess they do. The sheer volume of properties they own must not be proportional to their profits.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
>Useless Douchebag humies or not.
 
U srs nigga?

@Itsthinking  
I’m afraid to ask who Hasbro’s biggest competitor is.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Prime had its series finale a few weeks ago. After a final movie this fall, there’s no Transformers cartoon announced.

@Takashi.0  
Prime is actually the only thing going with universal appeal, useless douchebag humies or not. The movies just aren’t good enough to demand constant rewatches (especially because of those two ridiculous stereotype bots and the worst actress currently working in hollyweird) so most are electing to rewatch on cable or syndicated for free, rather than buy DVDs. Plus, Michael Bay.  
Well, the games do quite well too, but they take quite awhile to come out with a new one, so they can’t bank on those specifically.  
The comics are swell, but the ‘toon is just written so much better that a lot of oldschoolers subsist on the ‘toon and games.  
And the toys have quite a broken base about them since they don’t look quite so humanoid as prior gens and when you have them fighting with each other it’s hard as shit to tell whose part is whose. (Hell even the movie has that problem, just check out the Bumblebee/Blockade fight in the first one.)

@Takashi.0  
Here’s the funny/sad part: Hasbro’s main competitor is currently worth almost three times as much as Hasbro.
 
It’s five billion versus fourteen billion, but still.

@Itsthinking  
Oh my God.
 
Well I guess that’s what happens when you let Micheal Bay taint your biggest IP.
 
At least Prime and the Cybertron games were good.

@Background Pony  
See here.

@Itsthinking  
Down to 60% of how much money? 115% of how much money?

@Takashi.0  
Not kidding, their profits in everything but pony dropped 40% in just a year. Pony went up by 15%.

@Background Pony  
The competitors that apparently forced Hasbro to throw its hat into the ring.

@Itsthinking
 
>MLP is the only thing that’s made them money.
 

@Itsthinking  
The fact that Hasbro hasn’t realized that making the Hub a basic cable channel instead of a premium channel would make it profitable doesn’t excuse putting so much less effort into its toys than the competitors.

@Background Pony  
Eh, I really don’t think that EqG pulled off the animation parts of their franchise nearly as bad as its competitors. That’s where they spent all of their money. Honestly, the toys don’t really matter. I just want to watch the animation anyway. Not a toy fan.
 
Oh, and MLP is the only thing that has made them money for several years and the network that they own half of has a pitiful portion of viewership and is hemorrhaging money.

@Background Pony  
Especially not in such a halfassed way.

@Itsthinking  
Nothing and no one forced Hasbro to join the fad.

@Background Pony  
Excuse me for hating poison that has somehow managed to create a massive fad that won’t go away.