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Message: <blockquote data-quote="garyh" data-source="post: 1148980" data-attributes="member: 6078">Here's my answer.  I'm 24 (25 in two weeks).  Transformers came out in 1984, GI Joe in 1982.  I was born in 1978.  These franchises - toys, comic, cartoons, lunch boxes and the rest - were part of my childhood.  For my entire cohort, these characters made a large impact on us.Maybe you aren't considering me a "grown-up."  I can understand why a 40 year old wouldn't care for TF or Joe games - but that age group is probably all over the Star Wars RPG instead (no knock, I dig the SW:RPG too).  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for the depth of the franchises - both GI Joe and TF's have made large strides in creating legitimate fiction.  The characters (in most permutations...  the TF cartoons since Beast Machines have been terrible, though the comics are good.  But I digress...) change, grow, come into personal conflicts beyond lasers...  everything you want in good fiction.Anyone who's read Snake-Eye's backstory or saw Dinobot give his life to defend humanity can tell you that this is more than just marketing.  This is great story-telling, about characters we care about.</blockquote>