April Fool's: Hasbro hints at Combiner Wars Reflector

This is exciting but people remember what day it is today. No announcements can be taken too seriously.

Wheeljack808 wrote:This is exciting but people remember what day it is today. No announcements can be taken too seriously.

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

Poor Reflector gets no respect

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.

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.

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.

I'm still trying to figure out what "apepars" or "ape pars" is/are.

LOL!

RiddlerJ wrote:

Wheeljack808 wrote:This is exciting but people remember what day it is today. No announcements can be taken too seriously.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

The site has changed it's April Fools policy? Awesome, that's an improvement!

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

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

Pretty weak joke IMO, and why poor Reflector?

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?

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.

Dead Metal wrote:The site has changed it's April Fools policy? Awesome, that's an improvement!

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

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?

william-james88 wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:The site has changed it's April Fools policy? Awesome, that's an improvement!

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.

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!"

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.

william-james88 wrote:Big News from Hasbro's official Facebook page. 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!

I got all excited before I read the whole poster. So sad, its a shame because this is a character who really needs an update. Like I said before Reflector needs to redone so that they have both a combined vehicle/object as well as humanoid mode as well as their individual robot modes.

Dead Metal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:The site has changed it's April Fools policy? Awesome, that's an improvement!

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.

I agree with that policy. Posting false news is not funny nor it is a joke of any kind.

Not that I am mad at William or anything for posting this.

william-james88 wrote:

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?

Sorry William. What I should have said was " why would one create this" rather than saying you. I never blamed you for this farce.

shockblast2 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

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?

Sorry William. What I should have said was " why would one create this" rather than saying you. I never blamed you for this farce.

I know and I understood. You got that I was merely the messenger playing along with Hasbro. But click the link I put in that message (this one), it brings you back to the official facebook post by Hasbro. And you are free to ask them idrectly why they thought it would be funny to post this fake news.

Personally, I feel Hasbro is testing the waters and I am glad to have this article up in the archives with the hope of needing to unearth it one day to refer to it in light of a new reveal

shockblast2 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

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?

Sorry William. What I should have said was " why would one create this" rather than saying you. I never blamed you for this farce.

I know and I understood. You got that I was merely the messenger playing along with Hasbro. But click the link I put in that message (this one), it brings you back to the official facebook post by Hasbro. And you are free to ask them drectly why they thought it would be funny to post this fake news.

Personally, I feel Hasbro is testing the waters and I am glad to have this article up in the archives with the hope of needing to unearth it one day to refer to it in light of a new reveal

If HasTak released a CHUG Voyager class, Three pack of Legends toys that formed Reflector, I'd buy it. Must admit these characters toys are not high on my updates wants buying list.

In all honesty, I'd be far more interested in 3 bots that combine into 1 alt mode than a "fan" repaint of figures we already got 2-3 of.

"The fact this is the first April Fools joke to ever fool me"













(pardon the language)

ScottyP wrote: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.

Actually, I think that's the point of a company taking part in April Fools. It's the cheapest, lowest risk form of test marketing possible.

Caelus wrote:

ScottyP wrote: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.

Actually, I think that's the point of a company taking part in April Fools. It's the cheapest, lowest risk form of test marketing possible.

I think the same thing. I totally forgot it was even April Fools when I read this (even though I just watched ProJared's april fools video), hopefully they will release reflector after they see our forums exploding. (do Hasbro marketing people look on forums? I hope so.)

Hasbro's P.R department must be run by sadists. Anyhow, I don't think there was ever a problem with the fan built poll, they just haven't finished whatever they were doing, and they know taking their sweet ass time, was starting to piss some people off.

My guess is the next Reflector will combine into a Copy/Scanner/Fax machine. He will be a Staples and OfficeMax shared exclusive.

This isn't a prank. It's a lie.

Moosey wrote:(do Hasbro marketing people look on forums? I hope so.)

Short answer: Hasbro people, yes. Hasbro Marketing Dept. people, I don't know.

Longer answer: The brand team folks, at minimum, indeed check out the major fansites. Some of them even listen to podcasts (like ours, which was shocking to me) and check out other fan-made media on Youtube and the like. The extent of this activity in regards to frequency, depth (just checking keywords/buzzwords and doing a cursory search, or really digging in to do research), and level of personnel that do this (rank or otherwise, for instance no idea if a marketing or sales do), I don't have any clue.

redoutlander wrote:My guess is the next Reflector will combine into a Copy/Scanner/Fax machine. He will be a Staples and OfficeMax shared exclusive.

And would hopefully not suffer the same end-of-line, "can't find it anywhere except for a lot of money online" fate as the Waste Management Synergistic Failure Bot For Great Profits, aka Age of Extinction Power Battlers Claw Crush Junkheap.

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.

I don't believe there were any issues. That's what I meant.

#Aprilfools.

LOL. Today, I love Hasbro.

ScottyP wrote:

redoutlander wrote:My guess is the next Reflector will combine into a Copy/Scanner/Fax machine. He will be a Staples and OfficeMax shared exclusive.

And would hopefully not suffer the same end-of-line, "can't find it anywhere except for a lot of money online" fate as the Waste Management Synergistic Failure Bot For Great Profits, aka Age of Extinction Power Battlers Claw Crush Junkheap.

Point! It's only becuase those Earth Day guys are scalpers.

I'm just glad Combiner wars as a whole did not fall into the Jokes of previous years. ie. FOC Bruticus, ROF Devastator, any Powercore combiner ever. Hasbro stepped up their game.

redoutlander wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

redoutlander wrote:My guess is the next Reflector will combine into a Copy/Scanner/Fax machine. He will be a Staples and OfficeMax shared exclusive.

And would hopefully not suffer the same end-of-line, "can't find it anywhere except for a lot of money online" fate as the Waste Management Synergistic Failure Bot For Great Profits, aka Age of Extinction Power Battlers Claw Crush Junkheap.

Point! It's only becuase those Earth Day guys are scalpers.

HAHAHA

I want a Reflector so bad...

Its funny because it wont happen. Ever. We want a reflector team damn it.

Well, go buy yourselves a Skrapnell and cry in your tea.

hey look we're scrapping repaints that no one wants & will probably clog shelves in order to make something people have wanted for years & will sell out instantly, ha ha april fools. This just proves hasbro are dicks & really really stupid. Im all for trolling & pranks but dont be a douchebag about it. Not cool hasbro not cool

Megatron Wolf wrote:hey look we're scrapping repaints that no one wants & will probably clog shelves in order to make something people have wanted for years & will sell out instantly, ha ha april fools. This just proves hasbro are dicks & really really stupid. Im all for trolling & pranks but dont be a douchebag about it. Not cool hasbro not cool

The only ones that are being Doucebags are the ones who are the ones complaining and can't learn to lighten up.







(As long as I don't say names is that alright?)

Megatron Wolf wrote:hey look we're scrapping repaints that no one wants & will probably clog shelves in order to make something people have wanted for years & will sell out instantly, ha ha april fools. This just proves hasbro are dicks & really really stupid. Im all for trolling & pranks but dont be a douchebag about it. Not cool hasbro not cool

What makes you think it will clog up shelves because you don't want it or are you just complaining because Hasbro is not making what you want?




There's nothing special about Reflector anyways disappeared after the first season of the cartoon and if they were in season 2 they weren't important enough to be worth mentioning.



The only thing unique about them is that they combine into a old camera.

Doubledealer93 wrote:Its funny because it wont happen. Ever. We want a reflector team damn it.

Never say never. People thought they would never get a gun G1 megatron before MP -05 came out, or a G1 Arcee, or a giant Metroplex, or a reissue of Fort Max, or DOTM Megatron's shotgun. But everything came out in due time. Oh and if that G1 reissue of the Dinobots comes out this year, then Hasbro will have done something thought far more unlikely than a Generations Reflector 3 part combiner.

Here are the things Hasbro will never ever do: A reissue of G1 Jetfire, Shockwave, Whirl, Roadbuster, and the deluxe insecticons. Anything else is fair game as far as I am concerned, we just might have to wait a while.

RhA wrote:Well, go buy yourselves a Skrapnell and cry in your tea.

Been there, done that.

william-james88 wrote:

Here are the things Hasbro will never ever do: A reissue of G1 Jetfire, Shockwave, Whirl, Roadbuster, and the deluxe insecticons. Anything else is fair game as far as I am concerned, we just might have to wait a while.

Is that because they were made by different companies and then repainted and sold by Hasbro?


Would explain Whirl's non-human nature compared to other Autobots.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Here are the things Hasbro will never ever do: A reissue of G1 Jetfire, Shockwave, Whirl, Roadbuster, and the deluxe insecticons. Anything else is fair game as far as I am concerned, we just might have to wait a while.

Is that because they were made by different companies and then repainted and sold by Hasbro?


Would explain Whirl's non-human nature compared to other Autobots.

Yup, they werent made by Takara or Tomy and now the rights to those toys are no longer in their hands (they are mostly with Bandai, who also have all the rights to the gobot toys). I wrote a top 5 list about those, I will be releasing it in 3 weeks.

shockblast2 wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:The site has changed it's April Fools policy? Awesome, that's an improvement!

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.

I agree with that policy. Posting false news is not funny nor it is a joke of any kind.

Not that I am mad at William or anything for posting this.

It is if you don't have a sense of humor.

The stuff I was referring to was ridicules things like a dress for MP Grimlock, utterly obvious from the title and description that it was a joke. Especially seeing how the threads were pretty popular.

Dead Metal wrote:The stuff I was referring to was ridicules things like a dress for MP Grimlock, utterly obvious from the title and description that it was a joke. Especially seeing how the threads were pretty popular.

Ha! Remember when takara announced the apron edition was coming out, haha, what a laugh we all had, that would never happen... wait...