we are excited to confirm that the Transformers experience is expanding in 2017 with the new Transformers fan club. The new club will replace the existing Transformers Collectors club which ends December 31, 2016. More details will follow in the coming months so be sure to sign up for the new Transformers newsletter to get the latest and to stay up to date on other brand news, promotions, products, fan events and more.
Hasbro Announces New Transformers Fan Club
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Oct 18, 2016 at 9:29am CDT
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Comment by Sabrblade
Oct 18, 2016
Will keep an eye on this.
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Comment by Sigma Magnus
Oct 18, 2016
Well, this is a relief to see. Wonder if it'll work like FunPub used to...
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Comment by Kurona
Oct 18, 2016
I can't decide if Hasbro being directly involved in this means it'll cost less or more money
Still, should be good to see. Hopefully it'll be as gloriously fanwanky as funpub has been.

Still, should be good to see. Hopefully it'll be as gloriously fanwanky as funpub has been.
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Comment by It Is Him
Oct 18, 2016
I wonder if Funpub will have any part in this
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As individuals (i.e. - the fiction writers and creative thinkers the Club used for their toy characters and fiction), one can only hope. The Beast Wars: Uprising fiction needs to keep going. It's too good to stop at its upcoming four-part finale.
Comment by Sabrblade
Oct 18, 2016
As a company, most unlikely.It Is Him wrote:I wonder if Funpub will have any part in this
As individuals (i.e. - the fiction writers and creative thinkers the Club used for their toy characters and fiction), one can only hope. The Beast Wars: Uprising fiction needs to keep going. It's too good to stop at its upcoming four-part finale.
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Comment by It Is Him
Oct 18, 2016
If there's one thing I won't miss, it's the club fiction. The Botcon 2015 was painful to read, and the magazine comics bordered on incoherent. I don't regret letting my membership lapse at all
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Comment by Bed Bugs
Oct 18, 2016
I look forward to this new club! Out with the old, in with the new! 

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Comment by It Is Him
Oct 18, 2016
Why am I so itchy all of a sudden?
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Comment by OptimalOptimus2
Oct 18, 2016
This is weird. A new fan club announced after the death of BotCon?
This all seems fishy. Was there anything wrong with BotCon or is it just me?

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I believe the main thing was that Hasbro will now have complete control over the club rather than working with a separate entity.
Comment by TF-fan kev777
Oct 18, 2016
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:This is weird. A new fan club announced after the death of BotCon?This all seems fishy. Was there anything wrong with BotCon or is it just me?
I believe the main thing was that Hasbro will now have complete control over the club rather than working with a separate entity.
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Comment by leokearon
Oct 18, 2016
Hopefully prices will be more reasonable and they will cater for International fans more.
Oh look if you sign up for the newsletter you can get 20% off TFs at Hasbro's Toy Store which doesn't ship internationally... Not off to the best of starts
Oh look if you sign up for the newsletter you can get 20% off TFs at Hasbro's Toy Store which doesn't ship internationally... Not off to the best of starts
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Perhaps they can actually open a 'Consumer interaction' Department at Hasbro UK that actually has the tiniest of clues about the products they (don't) sell.
If they are smart they will make themselves more flexible and allow themselves to make more of something popular - I hope they don't start wanting bar code clipping or your mobile number and such like.
I would appreciate if they'd have more of a global reach with the club - like for example UK or Canadian Members can sign up in advance then when they make the stuff they can send a portion to those Hub locations to ship out to other places - though post Brexit they might want to draw in one of the European "EU" Hasbro's too.
They'd get way more members if they ran the club on that basis - sort of like how Eaglemoss do their Star Trek Model magazine *only less cackhandedly*
Also they really need to option to ship Magazine less often or only with a toy as who wants to pay a huge premium for a glorified leaflet.
I think if they handle this properly and print some actual leaflets they can make so cool stuff and also offer things directly to club members that they'd not find an easy western retail home for like Metro Titan or a G2 CW Devastator even things from Japan.
They can do shared Exclusives with Takara/E-hobby too - huge potential to get this VERY right - or VERY meh.
I wonder if they were holding back G2 Defensor to use as a club or show exclusive - that he's not on the cards is suspicious as heck to me.
Anyway fingers cross - "Please don't screw it up Hasbro".
Comment by RAR
Oct 18, 2016
leokearon wrote:Hopefully prices will be more reasonable and they will cater for International fans more.
Oh look if you sign up for the newsletter you can get 20% off TFs at Hasbro's Toy Store which doesn't ship internationally... Not off to the best of starts
Perhaps they can actually open a 'Consumer interaction' Department at Hasbro UK that actually has the tiniest of clues about the products they (don't) sell.
If they are smart they will make themselves more flexible and allow themselves to make more of something popular - I hope they don't start wanting bar code clipping or your mobile number and such like.
I would appreciate if they'd have more of a global reach with the club - like for example UK or Canadian Members can sign up in advance then when they make the stuff they can send a portion to those Hub locations to ship out to other places - though post Brexit they might want to draw in one of the European "EU" Hasbro's too.
They'd get way more members if they ran the club on that basis - sort of like how Eaglemoss do their Star Trek Model magazine *only less cackhandedly*
Also they really need to option to ship Magazine less often or only with a toy as who wants to pay a huge premium for a glorified leaflet.
I think if they handle this properly and print some actual leaflets they can make so cool stuff and also offer things directly to club members that they'd not find an easy western retail home for like Metro Titan or a G2 CW Devastator even things from Japan.
They can do shared Exclusives with Takara/E-hobby too - huge potential to get this VERY right - or VERY meh.
I wonder if they were holding back G2 Defensor to use as a club or show exclusive - that he's not on the cards is suspicious as heck to me.
Anyway fingers cross - "Please don't screw it up Hasbro".
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Oct 18, 2016
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Comment by Munkky
Oct 18, 2016
This certainly sounds interesting. I never bothered with the Collector's Club or Subscription Service because of the high prices, even though there were some figures I would've liked to own. Hopefully this new club will be cheaper than the previous one, but it's definitely piqued my interest.
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Comment by Emerje
Oct 18, 2016
With this being done directly by Hasbro I wonder if it'll be free to join? I could see that being the case with all content like articles and comics being posted online rather than in print (something I feel Fun Pub should have switched over to years ago if they weren't so paranoid about it being posted off-site).
I would imagine pricing will be similar to that of their Comic Con exclusives rather than inflated third-party pricing. Exclusives should be done in the "made to order" format popular in Japan where a limited pre-order window is opened for an exclusive and then figures are produced according to those numbers. This way they wouldn't run into the same issue of unsold exclusives sitting on the TFCC store or SDCC Fort Max still being available on HTS.
It'd be nice if we got our own convention, but I doubt it now.
Emerje
I would imagine pricing will be similar to that of their Comic Con exclusives rather than inflated third-party pricing. Exclusives should be done in the "made to order" format popular in Japan where a limited pre-order window is opened for an exclusive and then figures are produced according to those numbers. This way they wouldn't run into the same issue of unsold exclusives sitting on the TFCC store or SDCC Fort Max still being available on HTS.
It'd be nice if we got our own convention, but I doubt it now.
Emerje
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This!
While it's understandable to cater to the US (and by extension Canada) fan base, because it's the largest, they need to find a way to make it more accessible for international fans.
One thing I never understood is why in this day and age, even when I was a member years ago, that I'd have to wait a month after everyone else to receive my magazine, when it could have simply been delivered electronically.
Comment by Burn
Oct 18, 2016
leokearon wrote:Hopefully prices will be more reasonable and they will cater for International fans more.
This!
While it's understandable to cater to the US (and by extension Canada) fan base, because it's the largest, they need to find a way to make it more accessible for international fans.
One thing I never understood is why in this day and age, even when I was a member years ago, that I'd have to wait a month after everyone else to receive my magazine, when it could have simply been delivered electronically.
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Comment by ScottyP
Oct 18, 2016
If it isn't run by Dr. Va'al, we I riot.
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Comment by Delicon
Oct 18, 2016
I'll reserve strong opinion until we have more details. Did they even actually say Hasbro is directly running the new club?
Hopefully a TF only convention comes with it.
Hopefully a TF only convention comes with it.
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Comment by Bumblebee21
Oct 18, 2016
hopefuly it will have reasonable prices.
maybe even free membership.
one can only hope
maybe even free membership.



