I'd believe literally any of that more if you hadn't spent all this time trying to make "Notbots" happen. This personal rejection of the line is fine, whatever, like what you like, but you can just admit these aren't for you and pass on them, without trying to beef up that position with the convenient "oh, but it's not me, it's the culture". With goalposts that go from "not kawai enough" to "they won't understand or like these punny names", which are entirely different reasons.
Name one other non-traditional aesthetic Transformers subline that has been retooled in that specific manner to appeal to the "older collector audience" when being brought over from the US to Japan. Go-Bots? Rescue Bots? Angrt Birds Transformers? Tiny Turbo Changers? There's more precedent for this not happening than there is for it happening. There's more precedent even for a line just not being brought over.
If anything, these could see a similar case to Kre-O where a handful are brought in with zero changes (with some as gashapon fodder, which the blind-packed nature of the line lends itself well to), or as Bot Shots/BeCool where they're repackaged as their own thing (maybe with different groupings or release organization). As with BeCool, color changes are entirely possible, although it's as likely to get a culture-based or "hewing closer to traditional TFs"-based reason for it as not.
Or if the cartoon-faithful aesthetic holds, we may get Netflix-based stuff that is recolored and possibly even retooled to be more in line with the show models. They HAVE a cartoon of their own to be more accurate to now, after all.
Name one other non-traditional aesthetic Transformers subline that has been retooled in that specific manner to appeal to the "older collector audience" when being brought over from the US to Japan. Go-Bots? Rescue Bots? Angrt Birds Transformers? Tiny Turbo Changers? There's more precedent for this not happening than there is for it happening. There's more precedent even for a line just not being brought over.
If anything, these could see a similar case to Kre-O where a handful are brought in with zero changes (with some as gashapon fodder, which the blind-packed nature of the line lends itself well to), or as Bot Shots/BeCool where they're repackaged as their own thing (maybe with different groupings or release organization). As with BeCool, color changes are entirely possible, although it's as likely to get a culture-based or "hewing closer to traditional TFs"-based reason for it as not.
Or if the cartoon-faithful aesthetic holds, we may get Netflix-based stuff that is recolored and possibly even retooled to be more in line with the show models. They HAVE a cartoon of their own to be more accurate to now, after all.
