It's okay for you to say that you prefer G1 Transformers over all else; that is an opinion that you are entitled to have.
However, you might want to consider that you don't speak for Transformers fans in general. There is a huge variety of fans within the Transformers community, and not all of...
That...makes a sort of corporate sense. Except Tarzan is probably the only Edgar Rice Burroughs character you could get away with that in a movie title. John Carter just isn't that well known. From a moviegoers standpoint, that would be like remaking The Land That Time Forgot but just calling it...
I think if they had called it "John Carter of Mars", it would have maybe gained more attention. That said, didn't it go up against the first Avengers movie? That probably didn't help, either.
IDW published a Hasbro-approved Gobots comic just a few years ago. (And Gobots got mentioned in the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special). And Crasher and Road Ranger have both recently received new figures in Transformers lines (not the first Gobots references in Transformers, either, just...
Gobots was older Hanna Barbera animation, while Transformers Toei animation was newer and more dynamic. The stories themselves were often written by the same people, and Gobots was really no more or less childish than Transformers.
That would be cool! I always thought someone should make power effects or attachments to fit onto the Power Suits to give Courageous or Grungy powers based on the Gobots inside. (Such as a drill hand for Screwhead, or force field for Leader-1, or rotor blades for Coptur, etc). The other thing...
There's also the blue and red Optimus lookalike that fought alongside the Decepticons in Marvel #1.
And Hauler-bot from the Playskool GoBots line.
And Staks, the GoBot. (Just leave the usual Optimus head retracted! No retool necessary!)
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