Yup. It's a symptom of the infinite growth mentality. Niche products have to change what they are to appeal to the ever elusive broader audience, so the product gets diluted and the original audience loses interest and moves on, and the new audience's interest is fleeting at best.
It's the...
I mean, it was only a couple of years ago that Hasbro finally figured out that their 'collector' TF line (ie non-movie/cartoon) didn't have to be all G1 retreads all the time.
I think just from a statistical perspective that if you were trying to find 16-18 Americans totally disconnected from Trump and national politics one of the easiest places to look would be NYC.
Hey, you guys remember Madison Cawthorn? The youngest Republican ever elected to the House until the party dropped him like a hot potato for blabbing about the GOP DC cocaine orgies?
Apparently he just rear-ended a Florida state trooper:
It was the '80's, there was a lot less concern about the trademarkability of character names. (Hence the *blasts and the characters with their factions added in front of their names in recent years) I'd guess that the space was just added to emphasize the pun. Hyphens in GoBot names seemed to be...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/robert-macneil-co-founder-of-newshour-dies-at-93
I'm old enough to remember when he retired and the title of the show changed from The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour to The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.
"There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth." -- Victor Borge.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/04/trump-clarifies-abortion-stance-as-whatever-will-convince-you-personally-to-vote-for-me/