hinomars19 wrote:xyl360 wrote:As for Takara's intentions with the line, are you employed by Takara? I ask because I've never heard them say anything about what their precise 'intentions' were with the MP line, at least nothing stating specifically that they planned on bringing every single G1 character, complete with accurate and licensed alt mode, into it.
Can't remember where I read it (somewhere here, I know that much) But the current designer of the MP line, the man responsible for re-focusing it, pretty much said his intentions were to do all season 1 G1 characters. I asked a friend of mine (Japanese) if she knew where/ if he had said that, but she wasn't sure where to find it either. Bear in mind he is the guy who desperately wants to do Ultra Magnus to the point he made that proof of concept and built engineering (his words more or less) into the Convoy mold to allow for it, so he is definitely wanting to carry the line on in the way it is heading, all the way to season 3 it seems.
This doesn't mean the Takara boffins will let him have his way, nor does it guarantee the needed licenses for every character can be obtained, but I think that says quite a lot for us to assume we know it's the intended goal
That's his intended goal, sure. And I'm certain that if Takara can do this, they certainly will (at least for the characters whom they believe will sell in sufficient numbers), but that doesn't mean that if they suddenly discover they can't do one because the car maker won't let them license it, or a particular character is too difficult/impossible to properly engineer, that they'll simply call it quits with the whole line. They will indeed start something even if the cannot 'finish' it as you said earlier, just as long as it's profitable to do so. That's all I'm saying.