>>101112361>Well, it had three seasons, I'd call it a success.Prime season 1 had 26 episodes, season 2 was greenlight before the show ended up a ratings bomb, with 26 episodes but now they had a 26 episode season 2 to do with a weak performing show. So the prime season 2 had like only 2 new characters thru 26 episodes and CLIP SHOW episodes to save money and an entire episode where its just Optimus and a Decepticon talking in the ice and the ice is clearly a desert recolored blue. It was a hilarious mess.
The original plan for the Prime producer was 5 seasons but now he had one, and a budget-cut season 2 that ends on a cliffhanger. So he begged and Hasbro let them do a season 3 to wrap it all up in 15 episodes, but again, the budget got cut due to it being a bomb. So the season 3 plot is... basically season 2 redone so they could reuse a lot of locations.
The only reason it got a movie was Hasbro was making Direct to TV movies that year to bolster their studio portfolio, that's literally it. The Prime guy lucked out. The same year had the Prime movie, a pony movie and a movie based on BIG HERO SIX, as in the original Marvel comic not the Disney version of it. I recall Prime staff saying the movie was pretty much their ideas for a season four if they had gotten one. Also it's really just three episodes. It's three episodes they even last exactly twenty one minutes each part and have different writers for each part. It wasn't even a real movie like pony got. Also I'd keep in mind the fact that Prime was ending while Hasbro staff was having a generation shift so its possible new brand manager, while he didn't want to keep it going for financial reasons, didn't want to just kill it on the spot either. This is the same brand manager that let IDW have transsexual robots and kill Bumblebee so he clearly has a level of respect for storytelling.
So it wasn't really a success. Again, no comment on the story content here.
