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April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector

Posted by william-james88 Apr 1, 2015 at 9:38am CDT 26,189 views
Big News from Hasbro's official Transformers page on Facebook! They have just posted an image linked to the current Combiner Wars line of what appears to be reflector (see below). This release will supposedly be replacing the fan built combiner, as stated in the following message they wrote:

Due to issues with the voting mechanism, we have to make some executive decisions on the Fan-Built Combiner. Here’s a sneak peek at what we’re thinking!


Transformers News: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector

As many of you know by now, this was just Hasbro having a little fun on April Fool's Day. But who knows, maybe they're secretly gauging fan reaction to see if a Combiner Wars Reflector figure should indeed be in the works. Only time will tell!

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Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by Wheeljack808 Apr 1, 2015
This is exciting but people remember what day it is today. No announcements can be taken too seriously. :KREMZEEK:
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by RiddlerJ Apr 1, 2015
Wheeljack808 wrote:This is exciting but people remember what day it is today. No announcements can be taken too seriously. :KREMZEEK:


Yeah, it even says "April Fools" in the corner.

Poor Reflector gets no respect :-(
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by ScouseGit Apr 1, 2015
Kinda loses the point when they blatantly put an April Fools hashtag in the corner of the pic. Dear Hasbro, we love you but you're trying too hard.
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by YoungPrime Apr 1, 2015
Pfff! You can see the April Fools logo in the corner of the picture. But the real fool here is Hasbro for taking so long to update these guys while 3P's were capitalizing.
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by Crosscheck Apr 1, 2015
Did you ever stop and think that the April Fool's is, in fact, the prank? It's prankception and the joke is the joke.
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by wolverinetodd Apr 1, 2015
I'm still trying to figure out what "apepars" or "ape pars" is/are.

LOL!
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by YoungPrime Apr 1, 2015
RiddlerJ wrote:
Wheeljack808 wrote:This is exciting but people remember what day it is today. No announcements can be taken too seriously. :KREMZEEK:


Yeah, it even says "April Fools" in the corner.

Poor Reflector gets no respect :-(



You'd think making an "updated" Legends class version of their very first combiner would make more sense than releasing crappy looking guns modes and chess plates that don't even fit.

But that's an April fool for the rest of the year.
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by william-james88 Apr 1, 2015
Crosscheck wrote:Did you ever stop and think that the April Fool's is, in fact, the prank? It's prankception and the joke is the joke.


HAHA, I WISH! I was trying so hard to continue this april fools joke by not linking to the facebook page where the first post reads "APRIL FOOLS" but they really made that hard with the obvious writing in the bottom corner.
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by Nemesis Maximo Apr 1, 2015
But it also says "Look to the Future", which gives me salt-grain flavored hope that maybe once April Fool's Day is over, they'll make Reflector; he just won't be replacing the Fan-Built combiner.

Issues with the voting process? I'm not so sure...
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by Kyleor Apr 1, 2015
Nemesis Maximo wrote:But it also says "Look to the Future", which gives me salt-grain flavored hope that maybe once April Fool's Day is over, they'll make Reflector; he just won't be replacing the Fan-Built combiner.

Issues with the voting process? I'm not so sure...


The "issues with the voting process" would be that fans didn't vote in line with what Hasbro already decided they were going to make.
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by Crosscheck Apr 1, 2015
william-james88 wrote:
Crosscheck wrote:Did you ever stop and think that the April Fool's is, in fact, the prank? It's prankception and the joke is the joke.


HAHA, I WISH! I was trying so hard to continue this april fools joke by not linking to the facebook page where the first post reads "APRIL FOOLS" but they really made that hard with the obvious writing in the bottom corner.

So the image says April Fools and the post about said image says April Fools, therefore the April Fools cancel out and we are left with actual news! It's simple mathematics, really.
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by Dead Metal Apr 1, 2015
The site has changed it's April Fools policy? Awesome, that's an improvement! :D

God, if I think back at all the awesome April Fools stuff I wanted to post over the years XD
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Apr 1, 2015
Crosscheck wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Crosscheck wrote:Did you ever stop and think that the April Fool's is, in fact, the prank? It's prankception and the joke is the joke.


HAHA, I WISH! I was trying so hard to continue this april fools joke by not linking to the facebook page where the first post reads "APRIL FOOLS" but they really made that hard with the obvious writing in the bottom corner.

So the image says April Fools and the post about said image says April Fools, therefore the April Fools cancel out and we are left with actual news! It's simple mathematics, really.


That's like saying two wrongs make a right. Which they don't :P

Pretty weak joke IMO, and why poor Reflector? :sad:
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by shockblast2 Apr 1, 2015
I would definitely take a Reflector over the abomination that will be the "fan" built combiner.

Furthermore, I do not see how this is a April fools joke. Why would you create this and think it is funny?
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by shockblast2 Apr 1, 2015
Kyleor wrote:
Nemesis Maximo wrote:But it also says "Look to the Future", which gives me salt-grain flavored hope that maybe once April Fool's Day is over, they'll make Reflector; he just won't be replacing the Fan-Built combiner.

Issues with the voting process? I'm not so sure...


The "issues with the voting process" would be that fans didn't vote in line with what Hasbro already decided they were going to make.



Yep. That and the fact that true voting does not mean you choose between four or five pre-created attributes. The "voting" system they used on this and Windblade reminds me of the Presidential election. They choose two people and you get to chose which one, even if both are crooks. Or in this case, lumps of plastic sh*t.
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by william-james88 Apr 1, 2015
Dead Metal wrote:The site has changed it's April Fools policy? Awesome, that's an improvement! :D

God, if I think back at all the awesome April Fools stuff I wanted to post over the years XD


We do make an effort to publish all TF related official statements from Hasbro. Regardless of the nature of this announcement, it was from Hasbro and TF related. If you have any other news that would only work this day, please reveal it in this thread :)
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by william-james88 Apr 1, 2015
shockblast2 wrote:I would definitely take a Reflector over the abomination that will be the "fan" built combiner.

Furthermore, I do not see how this is a April fools joke. Why would you create this and think it is funny?


Why dont you ask them directly?
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by Dead Metal Apr 1, 2015
william-james88 wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:The site has changed it's April Fools policy? Awesome, that's an improvement! :D

God, if I think back at all the awesome April Fools stuff I wanted to post over the years XD


We do make an effort to publish all TF related official statements from Hasbro. Regardless of the nature of this announcement, it was from Hasbro and TF related. If you have any other news that would only work this day, please reveal it in this thread :)

Oh no, I was referring to when I used to be News Crew, every year I saw all these awesome April Fools things by stores and such, I think Takara even had a ridicules announcement regarding MP Grimlock once. But posting such jokes was against site policy, because Ryan hates April Fools day, and doesn't want it to mix in with our performance as a news site.
Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by ScottyP Apr 1, 2015
It's going to be amazing when the feedback from this makes them go "oh, wait, they really do want a combining set of three bots that makes Reflector? Well, ok then!"


Or it leads to a reissue of the G1 Reflector toy in cartoon accurate colors. Let's see it happen, Platinum Series. I'm watching you.


Re: April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector (view post)
Comment by RiddlerJ Apr 1, 2015
At least, they could've released the RTS Perceptor retool they talked about way back.

Doesn't matter. The Perfect Effect version works well enough for me.
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