And this has what to do with a children's cartoon?
Besides, none of those wonderful machines would ever have been anything but a mental whirligig unless someone quit dreaming and picked up a screwdriver. We don't have Optimus Prime to thank for penicillin.
I need to ask, how old are you?
People think the original Star Trek series was childish, but if you go to the local ICU ward of a hospitial, it looks like something out of the medical center in the original Enterprise.
Besides, none of those wonderful machines would ever have been anything but a mental whirligig unless someone quit dreaming and picked up a screwdriver.
Inspiration is a very important thing. First someone dreams or is inspirered by something, then designs it, then builds it.
We don't have Optimus Prime to thank for penicillin.
Stories are originally meant to impart lessons and values to not just children but people in general. Stories are not just meant to entertain.
Fiction stories had been being made since the time BEFORE Homer.
This is not something new.
As fictional characters go, Optimus Prime was a good as it got. He is like a robotic sci-fi version of John (the Duke) Wayne.