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News Credits: 1 · by **mattyc1007** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:06 am

how many transformers is their actually been mde because seibs has 1300+ but hasnt got all of them but heres a sentence that put this question in my head

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News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:11 am

That's a good question. I'd like to know the answer to this as well. Also, is Transformers one of the biggest toy franchises based on numbers alone (as opposed to profits, popularity, etc.)?

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:44 am

I'm gonna say something crazy like 4000+

News Credits: 3 · by **Stormwolf** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:51 am

Toys are probably around 3000 to 4000 I guess.

Storywise you'd be looking at trillions.

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:29 pm

42.

by **Thanatos Prime** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:33 pm

Stormwolf wrote:Toys are probably around 3000 to 4000 I guess.

Storywise you'd be looking at trillions.

Yeah, for so many toys the sheer number of characters is even more astounding.

The Hub alone probably had trillions of transformers, I can't imgaine how many there would be all together.

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:02 pm

This is one of those tricky questions that we will probably never get a real answer from, for I bet not even Hasbro or Takara/Tomy know the true number of figures they have released.

Does this question mean how many molds have been released? Because that would be a much lower number than actual Characters that have been released, which again would be far lower than actual toys that have been released.

Example: G1 Grapple
Was released in G1, retooled for Inferno and Artfire (?) then the subsequent re-releases of those figures...
How many do we count that as???

This is doing my head in...

by **autobot commander** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:50 pm

millions maybe

News Credits: 1 · by **mattyc1007** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:45 am

This is one of those tricky questions that we will probably never get a real answer from, for I bet not even Hasbro or Takara/Tomy know the true number of figures they have released.

Does this question mean how many molds have been released? Because that would be a much lower number than actual Characters that have been released, which again would be far lower than actual toys that have been released.

Example: G1 Grapple
Was released in G1, retooled for Inferno and Artfire (?) then the subsequent re-releases of those figures...
How many do we count that as???

This is doing my head in

i think you would count them seprately due to they have seperate bios and names.

by **Dagon** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:46 am

The Master Blaster wrote:I'm gonna say something crazy like 4000+

Bah, crazy would be saying something like 1,000,000. So, I will say 1,000,000.

by **ThunderThruster** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:45 am

i_amtrunks wrote:This is one of those tricky questions that we will probably never get a real answer from, for I bet not even Hasbro or Takara/Tomy know the true number of figures they have released.

Does this question mean how many molds have been released? Because that would be a much lower number than actual Characters that have been released, which again would be far lower than actual toys that have been released.

Example: G1 Grapple
Was released in G1, retooled for Inferno and Artfire (?) then the subsequent re-releases of those figures...
How many do we count that as???

This is doing my head in...

dont forget the character repaints of the same character, such as gold jazz!

News Credits: 2 · by **Justicity** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:04 pm

Sledge wrote:42.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:18 pm

lets see:
Heroic, stoic good guy leader.
Evil, scheming, a bit mad badguy leader.
Young, plucky underdog hero.
Traitorous coward 2nd in command.
Worryingly violent goodguy.
Really stupid henchman robot.
Good guy who can fly.
Bad guy who gets trashed a lot.
The dinosaur.

that makes about 10 probably, as there's always some sort of mix/remix of these characters.

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:40 pm

mattyc1007 wrote:
This is one of those tricky questions that we will probably never get a real answer from, for I bet not even Hasbro or Takara/Tomy know the true number of figures they have released.

Does this question mean how many molds have been released? Because that would be a much lower number than actual Characters that have been released, which again would be far lower than actual toys that have been released.

Example: G1 Grapple
Was released in G1, retooled for Inferno and Artfire (?) then the subsequent re-releases of those figures...
How many do we count that as???

This is doing my head in

i think you would count them seprately due to they have seperate bios and names.

But then do you count the re-issues of the same character? Do you count the same character in a different figure? ie: Jazz and Actiomaster Jazz???