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When I was a kid, I hand-wrote a letter to Hasbro, suggesting that they make Transformers that were dinosaurs that transformed into robots. When the Dinobots came out, I was SURE it was because of my letter!

GuyIncognito wrote:When I was a kid, I hand-wrote a letter to Hasbro, suggesting that they make Transformers that were dinosaurs that transformed into robots. When the Dinobots came out, I was SURE it was because of my letter!

I did the very same thing with matel and MOTU. I drew pics of the characters I had come up with and submitted them along with names and a breif description of what their gimic would be.
I swear I came up with cyclone, and snout spout. Not just simular characters but the exact same characters. Only names and colors were changed.
Matel sent me a letter stating that they were going to seal my ideas up in a vault along with other child submitted ideas and that while they appriceated my ideas, they were unable to use them.
Well imagine my shock when cyclone came out and yrs later twards the end of the line snout spout. I even remember the name I gave him. "Nose hose" was what I called him. I cannot recal what I called cyclone.
I also submitted a character slightly simular in look to dragstor but the gimic was that he had two wheels on his chest. I guess matel tweaked dragstor enough to call it their own but I was completely ripped off of the other two.
I have never told anyone but my wife about that simply because it sounds so unbelievable. I even neglected to talk of it when I was a member on he-man.org.
My granny knows because I showd her my creations and she was extreemly into MOTU with me. She remembered my pics when the toys came out and she was shocked along with me. She knew all their names and which I did and did not have. She had an equal passion for transformers.
I miss my granny so. She just passed a yr ago this sept 18th. All well thats not got anything to do with toys.
Yeah tho. Thought Id share that.

COME ON FOLKS!!!! LETS GET SOME PLAY STORIES IN HERE, OR WOULD YOU HAVE US BELIEVE THERE ARE ONLY 20 SOMETHING OF US FANS WHO EVER PLAYED WITH OUR FIGS???