History Main / TheyChangedItNowItSucks

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* While not exactly a "minor" change, Disney announced at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con that they were planning to turn California Adventure's Ride/TheTwilightZoneTowerOfTerror into a ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''-themed ride which prompted an online petition to keep it as it is. (The ride itself ... as opposed to the theme ... was also revised slightly, but the general consensus is that the changes to the mechanics of the ride proper were an improvement.)

** ''TheyChangedItNowItSucks/MsMarvel2022''

** Happened in 2005 when oldies station [=WCBS=] in New York was rebranded to [=JackFM=]. The backlash was so intense that [=WCBS=] got its oldies format back two years later. [=WCBS=] even got in on the bashing, playing songs such as "Hit the Road Jack" by Music/RayCharles before and after the change.

* The 2020 redesign of Froot Loops mascot Toucan Sam got a ''massive'' {{hatedom}} as soon as it was revealed. Common complaints about Sam's new redesign include his beak being overlayered with a rainbow gradient instead of having individual stripes and his mouth ''overlayering'' the edge of the beak, his eyes being overly large and sparkly, looking like he is constantly on some sort of FantasticDrug, and being extremely lazily designed in general. It's pretty clear that Kellogg's is trying to [[WereStillRelevantDammit emulate modern cartoon styles]], while having [[ShallowParody absolutely no idea what made those work]] and falling deep into the UncannyValley instead. Plenty of artists on Twitter have made their own redesigns in response. The ad campaign didn't last a year before Kellogg's scrapped it due to the immense backlash and gave Toucan Sam and his associated ads a second redesign in a much less obnoxious artstyle that was much more warmly-received.

* The 2020 redesign of Froot Loops mascot Toucan Sam got a ''massive'' {{hatedom}} as soon as it was revealed. Common complaints about Sam's new redesign include his beak being overlayered with a rainbow gradient instead of having individual stripes and his mouth ''overlayering'' the edge of the beak, his eyes being overly large and sparkly, looking like he is constantly on some sort of FantasticDrug, and being extremely lazily designed in general. It's pretty clear that the Kellogg's marketing team is trying to [[WereStillRelevantDammit emulate modern cartoon styles]], while having [[ShallowParody absolutely no idea what made those work]] and falling deep into the UncannyValley instead. Plenty of artists on Twitter have made their own redesigns in response. The ad campaign didn't last a year before Kellogg's scrapped it due to the immense backlash and gave Toucan Sam and his associated ads a second redesign in a much less obnoxious artstyle.

* The 2022 redesign of the Advertising/MAndMs spokescandy, Ms. Green, received some backlash because it made her less "sexy," which included replacing her go-go boots with sneakers. The hate for an "un-sexy" candy got so pronounced that even political pundit Tucker Carlson devoted a whole segment on his show to complaining about it.

* The 2022 redesign of the Advertising/MAndMs spokescandy, Ms. Green, received some hate because they replaced her iconic go-go boots with sneakers.

* The 2022 redesign of the M&M's spokescandy, Ms. Green, received some hate because they replaced her iconic go-go boots with sneakers.

* The 2022 redesign of the M&M's spokescandy, Ms. Green, received some hated because they replaced her iconic go-go boots with sneakers.

* When producers make drastic changes just for the heck of it, it can get rid of any redeeming qualities the property had. An established franchise making sudden, drastic and often unnecessary changes usually heralds the beginning of RunningTheAsylum and/or a DorkAge.

* Planters' decision to replace Mr. Peanut with Baby Nut to cash in on the whole [[Series/TheMandalorian Baby Yoda]] craze drew ''massive ire'' from fans. And then Baby Nut evolved into Peanut Jr., leading to even more hostility towards the campaign. Things hit rock bottom following the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash in late January, 2020 becuase the original ad in the campaign featured Mr. Peanut sacrificing himself in a helicopter crash.

* In 2009, Kraft Foods changed its logo from the iconic red "racetrack" with dark blue block letters from the Kraft brand to a "smile-and-splash" logo with a light blue (originally red) curve and a different font. This and a revised version of the logo were named the sixth-worst and fifth-worse logos of 2009, respectively by Brand New with detractors saying it had too many changes all at once. Thankfully, the "racetrack" logo returned in 2012, when Kraft split up, albeit with different lettering and having "Kraft" in title case instead of uppercase.

* Long John Silver's had a vibrant logo with a jumping orange fish over staggered letters on wavy ocean-like lines introduced in 2002. In February 2011, this was replaced by a much simpler logo consisting of dark blue fish with yellow and green droplets, plain "Long John Silver's" text and an equally uninspiring slogan of "We speak fish". Long John Silver's abandoned this in September 2012 in favor of a slight redesign of the 2002 logo.

* In 2009, Kraft changed its logo from the iconic red "racetrack" with dark blue block letters to the "smile-and-splash" logo with a light blue (originally red) curve and an altered font that added "foods" to the brand name. This was named the sixth-worst logo of 2009 by Brand New with detractors saying it had too many changes all at once. Thankfully, the "racetrack" logo returned in 2012, albeit with different lettering which had the "K" in uppercase only.

* Olive Garden changed its logo in 2014. It formerly looked like a sign one might find outside a fancy Italian restaurant with grapes on a vine. The new logo changed the background to an uninviting brown and used a boring 2D script font and a crude olive branch graphic.

* The 2020 [=PetCo=] logo received much scorn for removing the iconic blue cat and red dog in favor of a bland minimalist logo.

** Their 2015 logo got this reaction from people due to the font changing from something more unique to a bland serif font, making it lose its character.
** Worse off are the new icons introduced in 2020 for all unnecessarily implementing the Google colors in them, making them look less unique from one another.

* Olive Garden changed its logo in 2014. It formerly looked like a sign one might find outside a fancy Italian restaurant with grapes on a vine. The new logo changed the background to an uninviting brown and used a boring 2D script font and with an olive leaf.

* Long John Silver's had a vibrant logo with staggered letters on wavy ocean-like lines introduced in 2002. In February 2011, this was replaced by a simple dark blue fish with yellow and green droplets on top of plain "Long John Silver's" text over an equally uninspiring slogan of "We speak fish". Long John Silver's abandoned this in September 2012 in favor of a slight redesign of the 2002 logo.

* In February 2011, Long John Silver's changed its vibrant logo with staggered letters on wavy ocean-like lines introduced in 2002. What replaced it was a simple dark blue fish with yellow and green droplets on top of plain "Long John Silver's" text over an equally uninspiring slogan of "We speak fish". Long John Silver's abandoned this in September 2012 in favor of a slight redesign of the 2002 logo.

* In February 2011, Long John Silver's changed its vibrant logo in use since 2002 with staggered letters on wavy ocean-like lines. What replaced it was a simple dark blue fish with yellow and green droplets on top of boring "Long John Silver's" text over an equally uninspiring slogan of "We speak fish". Long John Silver's abandoned this in September 2012 in favor of a slight redesign of the 2002 logo.

* In 2009, Kraft changed its logo from the iconic red "racetrack" with dark blue block letters to the "smile-and-splash" logo with a light blue (originally red) curve and an altered font that added "foods" to the brand name. This was named the sixth-worst logo of 2009 by Brand New with detractors saying it had too many chances all at once. Thankfully, the "racetrack" logo returned in 2012, albeit with different lettering which had the "K" in uppercase only.

* The long-running Hershey's "Christmas Bells" commercial (with Kisses ringing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas") was altered in 2020: it starts off as normal, then suddenly a hand picks up one of the Kisses and it instantly changes to a father and daughter decorating cookies with Kisses set to a remix of the music, which is what Hershey's claimed was the real icon of the Christmas season. Fans were not happy about this change, and backlash was immediately posted online. The controversy was so much that Hershey's cancelled plans to replace the original "Christmas Bells" ad with the new one and began airing both versions interchangeably, before [[TakeAThirdOption debuting a third version in which the bell that was taken returns to finish the ad as normal]]. This didn't stop the original 2020 commercial from airing during the 2021 holiday season, and fans still didn't take kindly to it.

* Planters' decision to replace Mr. Peanut with Baby Nut to cash in on the whole [[Series/TheMandalorian Baby Yoda]] craze drew ''massive ire'' from fans. And then Baby Nut evolved into Peanut Jr., leading to even more hostility towards the campaign. Things hit rock bottom following the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash in late January, 2020 becuase the original ad in the campaign featured Mr. peanuts sacrificing himself in a helicopter crash.
* The long-running Hershey's "Christmas Bells" commercial (with Kisses ringing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas") was altered in 2020: it starts off as normal, then suddenly a hand picks up one of the Kisses and it instantly changes to a father and daughter decorating cookies with Kisses set to a remix of the music, which is what Hershey's claimed was the real icon of the Christmas season. Fans were not happy about this change, and backlash was immediately posted online. The controversy was so much that Hershey's cancelled plans to replace the original "Christmas Bells" ad with the new one and began airing both versions interchangeably, before debuting a third version in which the bell that was taken returns to finish the ad as normal. As of now, it's unknown if the new commercial will be taken off the air or better yet, create a separate commercial with the father and daughter as mentioned in one of the comments.

* Planters' decision to replace Mr. Peanut with Baby Nut to cash in on the whole [[Series/TheMandalorian Baby Yoda]] craze drew ''massive ire'' from fans. And then Baby Nut evolved into Peanut Jr., leading to even more hostility towards the campaign.

* The long-running Hershey's "Christmas Bells" commercial (with Kisses ringing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas") was altered in 2020: it starts off as normal, then suddenly a hand picks up one of the Kisses and it instantly changes to a father and daughter decorating cookies with Kisses set to a remix of the music, which is what Hershey's claimed was the real icon of the Christmas season. Fans were not happy about this change, and backlash was immediately posted online. The controversy was so much that Hershey's cancelled plans to replace the original "Christmas Bells" ad with the new one and began airing both versions interchangeably, before debuting a third version in which the bell that was taken returns to finish the ad as normal.

* The long-running Hershey's "Christmas Bells" commercial (with Kisses ringing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" as peaceful bells) was altered in 2020: it starts off as normal, then suddenly a hand picks up one of the Kisses and it instantly changes to a father and daughter decorating cookies with Kisses set to a remix of the music, which is what Hershey's claims is the real icon to its Christmas season. Fans were not happy about this commercial change, and backlash was immediately posted online. The controversy was so much that Hershey's cancelled plans to replace the original "Christmas Bells" ad with the new one and began airing both versions interchangeably.

* Ride/SixFlags Magic Mountain's fourth dimension coaster ''ComicBook/GreenLantern: First Flight'', which allowed ride vehicles to rotate along the twisting track, had a positive reception during its early operation in 2011. However, after incidents where riders ended up stuck upside down or otherwise disoriented on certain parts of the ride, the vehicle was weighted to reduce the number of rotations. This, ironically, resulted in a more uncomfortable and even painful ride, since the rotations countered the whiplash of the coaster track. ''First Flight'' became regarded as the worst coaster at Six Flags by both hardcore and casual fans, and it shut down six years later.