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Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

I have a feeling that the user in question is quite aware of that.

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

Why not? It's a rad 80s car.

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

Why not? It's a rad 80s car.

You might want to check in with the news about a certain flag.....

Mindmaster wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

Why not? It's a rad 80s car.

You might want to check in with the news about a certain flag.....

What's the issue with the flag? I'm not American.

Prowl4 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

Why not? It's a rad 80s car.

You might want to check in with the news about a certain flag.....

What's the issue with the flag? I'm not American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

Why not? It's a rad 80s car.

You might want to check in with the news about a certain flag.....

What's the issue with the flag? I'm not American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag

Don't see an issue with it as it was in the tv series tbh.

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

Why not? It's a rad 80s car.

You might want to check in with the news about a certain flag.....

What's the issue with the flag? I'm not American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag

Don't see an issue with it as it was in the tv series tbh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag#Retailer_bans

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

Why not? It's a rad 80s car.

You might want to check in with the news about a certain flag.....

What's the issue with the flag? I'm not American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag

Don't see an issue with it as it was in the tv series tbh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag#Retailer_bans

Again, I don't see the issue with it other than some people got offended.

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

Why not? It's a rad 80s car.

You might want to check in with the news about a certain flag.....

What's the issue with the flag? I'm not American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag

Don't see an issue with it as it was in the tv series tbh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag#Retailer_bans

Again, I don't see the issue with it other than some people got offended.

That will be enough, thank you. Read the wiki again if you don't get it. It spells it out pretty clearly. You yourself said in a post in another thread that you don't think these kind of topics belong on this site, so no need to stir the pot here.

Cobotron wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I want to see a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee transformer next.

Yeah, no. That is never going to happen.

Why not? It's a rad 80s car.

You might want to check in with the news about a certain flag.....

What's the issue with the flag? I'm not American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag

Don't see an issue with it as it was in the tv series tbh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag#Retailer_bans

Again, I don't see the issue with it other than some people got offended.

That will be enough, thank you. Read the wiki again if you don't get it. It spells it out pretty clearly. You yourself said in a post in another thread that you don't think these kind of topics belong on this site, so no need to stir the pot here.

Thanks for being a fan but I don't believe a car from the 80s is a problem at all. Very different scenarios.

Prowl4 wrote:Thanks for being a fan but I don't believe a car from the 80s is a problem at all. Very different scenarios.

Doesn't matter to them, really. The confederate (war) flag refers to a pivotal period in the history of the US, and one that was started, among other things, by disagreements over slavery. In fact, the flag refers to the side promoting it, and these days with the whole black lives matter and debates on racism going on, showing it on anything is a no go. In fact, the flag has now been banned in NASCAR, and even more importantly, the state of Mississippi passed a change to their flag to remove the confederate design that was on it.

Could they remove the flag from the General Lee? Sure, some would applause it, but others would condemn it. Screwed if you do, screwed if you don't...

Now, Back to the Future!

Gigawatt I have to keep an eye on, if anything my wife and I love the trilogy.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:Thanks for being a fan but I don't believe a car from the 80s is a problem at all. Very different scenarios.

Doesn't matter to them, really. The confederate (war) flag refers to a pivotal period in the history of the US, and one that was started, among other things, by disagreements over slavery. In fact, the flag refers to the side promoting it, and these days with the whole black lives matter and debates on racism going on, showing it on anything is a no go. In fact, the flag has now been banned in NASCAR, and even more importantly, the state of Mississippi passed a change to their flag to remove the confederate design that was on it.

Could they remove the flag from the General Lee? Sure, some would applause it, but others would condemn it. Screwed if you do, screwed if you don't...

Now, Back to the Future!

Gigawatt I have to keep an eye on, if anything my wife and I love the trilogy.

As a non American I can understand that but the car unaltered is a big part of culture and a part of people's childhoods imo regardless of what people who have no interest in these things think. I find most people that find issue with these things A) aren't fans and B) are just constantly offended and never happy.

Look at the silliness surrounding the syrup stuff and coco pops for example.


I know marvel invented Hydra to skirt around the Yahtzees but if a storyline came out with a character or a con wearing a Yahtzee symbol, or something akin, I think a lot of people would still buy it in spite of the terrible atrocities they carried out. To be clear I'm vehemently opposed to the Yahtzees.

Iirc drift wore a rising sun on his alt mode which can be construed as offensive but it's there and people bought it. I know Asia don't particularly bend to the cancel culture.

It's about where the book stops like there's countries that could probably be annoyed at Sky Lynx as he bears the USA flag but I'm curious if that would actually stop someone from buying it.

It's a fascinating conversation.

I'm looking forward to this BTTF crossover and I hope we get many more like The General Lee, The A Team van, Starsky and Hutch, The Mystery Machine, TMNT party wagon and the Batmobile (huge possibility from Adam West, 89, Animated series, Bale Batman and Batfleck). I believe the demand is there for sure.

Oh and I think we should get the Knight Rider crossover too and I know he's got his own name but the transformer name would be awesome if it was Knight Rider lol.

a Megatron that turns into Barney -some one needs to sneak a Barney soundchip into MP43 Megatron.

All those ideas could happen (other than the general Lee, just make peace with it that HasTak is never touching it) though actually, the batman stuff could be a bit harder as Mattel hold the batman/dc toy licence so may involve more complex negotiations.

Don't know how fiction would work for it but transformers based on the vehicles from the Aliens movie would rock.

blackeyedprime wrote:a Megatron that turns into Barney -some one needs to sneak a Barney soundchip into MP43 Megatron.

Haha that would be brilliant I'd buy it.

ZeroWolf wrote:Don't know how fiction would work for it but transformers based on the vehicles from the Aliens movie would rock.

I’ll do you one better; Halo crossovers

ZeroWolf wrote:All those ideas could happen (other than the general Lee, just make peace with it that HasTak is never touching it) though actually, the batman stuff could be a bit harder as Mattel hold the batman/dc toy licence so may involve more complex negotiations.

Don't know how fiction would work for it but transformers based on the vehicles from the Aliens movie would rock.

One can live in hope lol and if more people vocally support it they'd see the numbers and produce it which is why this BTTF has come about imo.

DC is with McFarlane now and spinmaster so not sure how it works there.

Disney now own predator and aliens through the fox merger so anything is possible there as they've close ties with Hasbro.

I think a Star Trek enterprise could be really cool too.

Mindmaster wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Don't know how fiction would work for it but transformers based on the vehicles from the Aliens movie would rock.

I’ll do you one better; Halo crossovers

Hound from siege is pretty close to a warthog imo.

Prowl4 wrote:I think a Star Trek enterprise could be really cool too.

If we get the Enterprise, we need two versions: One that's it's own character, and one based on Fort Max from the comic crossover. Or maybe just make it a "Headmaster" in the vein of Nitro Zeus and have the Enterprise's standard head be like Nitro Zeus' with it being non-transforming and include a Cerebros head that transforms and can be used as Fort Max's head

Prowl4 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:All those ideas could happen (other than the general Lee, just make peace with it that HasTak is never touching it) though actually, the batman stuff could be a bit harder as Mattel hold the batman/dc toy licence so may involve more complex negotiations.

Don't know how fiction would work for it but transformers based on the vehicles from the Aliens movie would rock.

One can live in hope lol and if more people vocally support it they'd see the numbers and produce it which is why this BTTF has come about imo.

DC is with McFarlane now and spinmaster so not sure how it works there.

Disney now own predator and aliens through the fox merger so anything is possible there as they've close ties with Hasbro.

I think a Star Trek enterprise could be really cool too.

I don't think numbers will save it, unless they just removed the flag.

As for star trek, people do want the Tiberus Maximus from the cross over comic but that transformation is going to be really hard to replicate, they'd be better off going for a new design that works with the ship parts as is.

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I think a Star Trek enterprise could be really cool too.

If we get the Enterprise, we need two versions: One that's it's own character, and one based on Fort Max from the comic crossover. Or maybe just make it a "Headmaster" in the vein of Nitro Zeus and have the Enterprise's standard head be like Nitro Zeus' with it being non-transforming and include a Cerebros head that transforms and can be used as Fort Max's head

Very cool ideas. Would you be opposed to it being a brand new character? I've noticed we've gotten all new characters for these crossovers. Would be cool if a Klingon ship was used as a decepticon or maybe a Romulan ship seeing as how it's more in recent memory I suppose. The possibilities for this line are endless.

Aaron Archer said last night on a Livestream that he floated this idea in 2006.

To be clear Aaron floated the crossover collaboration idea.

Prowl4 wrote:To be clear Aaron floated the crossover collaboration idea.

The collaboration with bttf or star trek proposal

Prowl4 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I think a Star Trek enterprise could be really cool too.

If we get the Enterprise, we need two versions: One that's it's own character, and one based on Fort Max from the comic crossover. Or maybe just make it a "Headmaster" in the vein of Nitro Zeus and have the Enterprise's standard head be like Nitro Zeus' with it being non-transforming and include a Cerebros head that transforms and can be used as Fort Max's head

Very cool ideas. Would you be opposed to it being a brand new character? I've noticed we've gotten all new characters for these crossovers. Would be cool if a Klingon ship was used as a decepticon or maybe a Romulan ship seeing as how it's more in recent memory I suppose. The possibilities for this line are endless.

Aaron Archer said last night on a Livestream that he floated this idea in 2006.

I wouldn't be opposed to an entirely new character (part of why the reason I love this line is because it's new characters). I probably could have worded it better, but I was suggesting a head that would serve as the new character and never need to be removed for transformation because that specific character doesn't do the headmaster thing, but then Hasbro would include the option of doing the Fort Max from the comic by including a Titanmaster that would replace the standard head. Sorta like how the include alternate heads with the Marvel Legends figures.

To continue the comparison to Nitro Zeus, it'd be like this is the Enterprise: But this would be Fort Max: