FansProjectFan178 wrote: However, a rumor (key word rumor) that I heard through the Cybertronian grapevine was that new designers had recently been hired. .
Common knowledge, my friend. It's reasonably well known that one of the head designers (whose name I can't recall offhand) left Hasbro after the Prime FE series were designed.
It definitely shows that the new team has finally gotten their stuff together with the IDW molds though.