Sabrblade wrote:Tronus_Rex wrote:That observation is far more relevant than many realize as the Go-Bots were a creation of Tonka and then Hanna Barbara which developers at Hasbro/Tomy, & Mainframe Studios were influenced by. It led to the BM series TV show & toyline vehicon asthetic. They counted others influences as well, but that's another discussion for another day.
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Well, poop, after thinking about where I first heard that I finally remembered. It was actually over a decade ago, from either Phil Mitchell or Kelly Daniels, themselves being important people for Mainframe. In 2002/3 I was attending a school, and at a class, we had a guest speaker. The class was either a marketing class, (headed by a former CEO of Swiss Army Watches, no less), or, one of my film related classes, (for a long gone editing application). The speaker had been a key player from Mainframe (& possibly worked at Pixar). I wish I remembered the name, because his face is blurred by memory. It was either Daniels or Mitchell.
One of the topics that, obviously, was addressed was Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Sadly, I don't remember much from the visit. I don't even remember if he worked for Mainframe beyond the founding in the 80's, he did talk about the company founding.
Weather it was Mitchell or Daniels, our speaker knew a good deal about the Reboot TV series, as well as all the TF BW/BM TV production and the relationship to the toy maker. Design decisions did get talked about. Including the mentioning of the Gobots influence on aesthetics for vehicons, Metropolis was another influence on aesthetics, he also talked about what input FoxKids, C.N., and UPN each had on the product.
Thematic influences for the BM show included, (oddly) Der Golem, conformity, fascism, utopias, more than one classic sci-fi author was mentioned, & some other historical bits.
There were also hints at stressful, going-on's with Hasbro & their relationship to the studio, as well as Hasbro's own with Takara.
Licensing was also touched upon.
I have not (yet) found either of these two in any interviews online. My first searches actually started with just looking up Beast Wars & Beast Machines development history. The searches haven't found any hits to verify my insight, but I can try again and revisit this later.
On another note, I am glad that I did not give fenrir72 a hard time for not being to find a reference for his claim about Transformer Prime developers plans to produce only enough for syndication. I was going to argue that 65 episodes is usually not enough for syndication, but network exec's have used shows with even less than 65 episodes before. Anyway, I won't give him a hard time now.
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