Why Toei turned Goku into kid again?

[Let's Go Fearless!]

IMO THey want him to stop acting as grandfather to Pan so she can go to space. :elmo

 

[Six Trails]

They turned him into a kid so that they'd have a reason to go look for the Dragon Balls in space.

 

[GokhanDBZfan]

Because they wanted to rehash early Dragon Ball.

 

[Alex Boss]

Because they suck at creativity.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

I blame Pan.

 

[kriss-]

Because Toei sucks.

 

[Southern Gothic]

Thinking that going back to the old, early Dragon Ball type feel was a good idea was at least part of it, I think. I always saw SSJ4 as partially a way to rectify people not liking kid Goku, because at least this way he could be an adult part of the time, and turn at an instant. But who knows, I could be totally wrong and the audience might have loved Kid Goku at the time.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

He's annoying as hell! He doesn't even look Kid Goku from early DB.