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[Autobot Megatron]

Nice to see Transfans being taken seriously. I do feel kinda bad for Bronies after that though, they kinda got crushed in the thing for stuff even we do. (Not trying to restart the argument, just expressing my opinion.)
Hopefully this will show the public we're not crazy toy-obsessed adults. Probably not, but oh well.

[Va'al]

Hopefully this will show the public we're not crazy toy-obsessed adults. Probably not, but oh well.

There is a point to that, yes. The article is framed in such as way that adult collectors do feature, but Ryan is mentioning trying to get his daughter into the figures.

Which might do what you're saying.

[CaptainMagic]

This appears to be a terribly volatile thread, so I'm hesitant to bring up the part about the movies, but let's talk about the part about the movies!

I think they make a good point about why opinions are always so divided on the movies. I don't like the movies, but that shouldn't matter because I don't like a lot of movies. Most of the time, if something comes out that doesn't interest me I just don't go see it. The problem here is that they shut every other aspect of the brand down for almost an entire year and then try to scrape something back together during the downtime between movies.

I hope they learned a thing or two from the way they mishandled the toy lines during and after DotM. The stuff they showed from next year's toy line gives me hope, but the fact that they killed Prime does not, so who knows?

[Seibertron]

I've seen other members of other fan sites get mentioned in famous news articles, but had never imagined it would happen to Ryan. Cool for him, right?

Seibertron.com and myself have been in about 1/2 dozen or so articles over the years with various media outlets. Quick ones that come to mind ...

New York Times: Classic Toys Redesigned to Traverse Generations
Published: March 1, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/busin ... l?hpw&_r=0

CNN: Dinobots’ triumphant return!
June 21st, 2012 02:35 PM ET
http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/21/dinobots-triumphant-return/

Chicago Tribune's Red Eye: Transformers Fans Hail the arrival of Japanese Headmasters
Monday, July 11, 2011 11:00pm
http://blogs.redeyechicago.com/geek-to- ... admasters/

CNN: The lost 'Transformers' hits American shores
July 7, 2011 9:32 a.m. EDT
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/06/transformers.anime.go/index.html

CNN: Good and evil: The voices of 'Transformers'
June 24, 2011 1:56 p.m. EDT
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/2 ... index.html

Seibertron.com Referenced On G4's 'Attack of the Show'!
September 13th, 2008 4:53PM EDT
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... how/13942/

USA Today: Final shape of 'Transformers' makes debut today
Posted 2/12/2007 10:09 PM ET
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/mov ... mers_x.htm

USA Today: Fan buzz: Flesh out those 'bots
Posted 7/12/2007
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/printedi ... 12.art.htm

Boston Globe: The bots are back - An '80s phenomenon is hurling toward a new wave of popularity
October 11, 2006
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/articles ... ?page=full

And oddly enough, I made it onto WGN news the day before Toy Fair this year when I was flying out from O'Hare ... this was my first non-Seibertron.com/Transformers associated interview.

Northeast blizzard cancels flights in Chicago
02/08/13
http://wgntv.com/2013/02/08/northeast-blizzard-cancels-flights-in-chicago/

Kind of fun seeing all of this stuff again! Good times.

[Seibertron]

Hopefully this will show the public we're not crazy toy-obsessed adults. Probably not, but oh well.

There is a point to that, yes. The article is framed in such as way that adult collectors do feature, but Ryan is mentioning trying to get his daughter into the figures.

Which might do what you're saying.

The writer of the article, Gregory Schmidt, interviewed me for about 5 to 10 minutes. We talked about plenty more than Rescue Bots and my daughter. I think he asked me about my opinions about Beast Hunters, what Hasbro is doing to constantly change up the brand to stay relevant, asked me about my thoughts about (these are my words) Hasbro cracking down on MLP infringements to which I replied that I hadn't heard anything about it, told him I thought it was interesting to hear that they've been cracking down on MLP issues while Hasbro has its own problems with Transformers in regards to the 3rd party products (which we talked about for a little bit). He asked me a few questions about Seibertron.com, etc.

It was a nice, casual interview. We covered a whole lot of ground. It's interesting how much discussion and work goes into getting quotes that journalists both in print and TV end up using in their stories.

[Burn]

Seibertron.com and myself have been in about 1/2 dozen or so articles over the years with various media outlets. Quick ones that come to mind ...

Don't forget your galleries being used on Madman DVD's!

[Va'al]

Hopefully this will show the public we're not crazy toy-obsessed adults. Probably not, but oh well.

There is a point to that, yes. The article is framed in such as way that adult collectors do feature, but Ryan is mentioning trying to get his daughter into the figures.

Which might do what you're saying.

The writer of the article, Gregory Schmidt, interviewed me for about 5 to 10 minutes. We talked about plenty more than Rescue Bots and my daughter. I think he asked me about my opinions about Beast Hunters, what Hasbro is doing to constantly change up the brand to stay relevant, asked me about my thoughts about (these are my words) Hasbro cracking down on MLP infringements to which I replied that I hadn't heard anything about it, told him I thought it was interesting to hear that they've been cracking down on MLP issues while Hasbro has its own problems with Transformers in regards to the 3rd party products (which we talked about for a little bit). He asked me a few questions about Seibertron.com, etc.

It was a nice, casual interview. We covered a whole lot of ground. It's interesting how much discussion and work goes into getting quotes that journalists both in print and TV end up using in their stories.

Yeah, I was wondering whether that was all you had talked about.

Shame we're not able to see the rest of that discussion, and the same goes for the others beign interviewed or quoted.

[Seibertron]

Seibertron.com and myself have been in about 1/2 dozen or so articles over the years with various media outlets. Quick ones that come to mind ...

Don't forget your galleries being used on Madman DVD's!

Oh yah! The photos from my galleries have appeared in a half dozen or so print publications as well, oddly mostly in other countries such as Mexico and the UK as well as the Madman DVDs.