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>I couldn't tell from the way people online hate it so much
That's the thing..it succeeded with kids, which is what mattered. It doesn't matter if the older fans online didn't like it, ultimately it sold kids the Yellow Car robot and Green Dinosaur robot and entertained them well enough.
I do think it was probably aimed at a younger crowd, and that was part of the strategy around this time. Hasbro basically figured it wasn't worth making higher quality figures for new shows for kids, they could just make updates in 10 years when the kids who saw it grew up.
Something we started seeing with Strongarm getting a Generations toy