kek. In 1987 there was GI Joe The Movie from the same animation studio as the Transformers movie, and they originally wanted to kill off Duke like they did to Prime to spur demand for toys of other characters. There was such a backlash to the death of Prime that they decided just to put Duke in a coma.
Optimus Prime dies!!!!??? How about a spoiler warning?
Ehhh...right. 1986 spoiler alert. There.
kek. In 1987 there was GI Joe The Movie from the same animation studio as the Transformers movie, and they originally wanted to kill off Duke like they did to Prime to spur demand for toys of other characters. There was such a backlash to the death of Prime that they decided just to put Duke in a coma.
Haha I watched it back then but followed transformers more closely. But yeah same reason was toy sales. Hot Rod = Rodimus Prime.
And did you know Weird Al performed the song when they landed on the Junk Planet?
Yeah Weird Al tried to make it sound like Devo