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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 2085874" data-attributes="member: 12706">Frequently, the artists who are given these toy characters to adverstise in cartoon form still try to build a good story and decent characters that would stand alone, even without the toy line - logical enough, since without a story worth coming back for, the advertisement doesn't work. AND, I'm sure the artists have a little desire to not feel like total sell-outs - they are artists, after all.I think with Optimus Prime, they really hit a chord with a lot of people in my generation - I know they did with me. He's like John Wayne and Abraham Lincoln, all rolled up into one, and when I was in junior high and my home life was sucking a lot, Optimus Prime, Kal-El, and Mr. Spock were like family to me. I've had people tell me there's something wrong with that, but they can bite me, because the thing I know about that is that I survived. And I'm better for their influences.That said, I don't really see anything wrong with what Robot Chicken did. On the contrary - much like seeing your favorite music video made fun of on Beavis and Butthead, it is an acknowledgment of and tribute to it, in a way. What does get me horked is the multiple versions of "Optimus Primes" in the newer cartoon series that are both disrespectful and frequently not even proper translations (the Japanese never meant for that firetruck in Transformers: RiD to be named Optimus - he's a different robot altogether) perpetrated on us by the creators of the originals, people who should know better and aren't trying to be funny. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /></blockquote>

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