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Autobot + Tank + Blaster + Grumpy + Black/Red = ?

Transformado wrote:Autobot + Tank + Blaster + Grumpy + Black/Red = ?

Grumpath!

Cool idea! I can't wait to see the new figure.
Except this means Transformers are ruined forever because this is a new character, not a G1 character.

Twitchythe3rd wrote:'Con
Choppah
Spear/Harpoon
Purple/Bronze
Wildman

VERY close to what I voted.
Decepticon
Helicopter
Purple/Bronze
Crossbow
Wildman

I would love to see a valiant, crossbow wielding purple and bronze decepticon spaceship

It's occurred to me that Hasbro must have the molds for these prospective figures already made if they're going to release one in time for the 30th anniversary. I wonder if that means we'll see the non-winning designs released in subsequent lines.

I don't see why they *must* have the mold done already. The Anniversary line is still nearly a year off, and will probably last for a year itself, which should be plenty of time for the typical 1-year-or-so development of a toy.


Though I do wonder if they already have specific alt modes in mind. "Construction" and "(Land/Air) Beast" are such vast categories it'd be a shame if 'we' didn't get to specify, but I don't see them having a second round to narrow down the exact design.

Noideaforaname wrote:I don't see why they *must* have the mold done already. The Anniversary line is still nearly a year off, and will probably last for a year itself, which should be plenty of time for the typical 1-year-or-so development of a toy.


Though I do wonder if they already have specific alt modes in mind. "Construction" and "(Land/Air) Beast" are such vast categories it'd be a shame if 'we' didn't get to specify, but I don't see them having a second round to narrow down the exact design.

I'm thinking that's what they're gonna do...

Noideaforaname wrote:I don't see why they *must* have the mold done already. The Anniversary line is still nearly a year off, and will probably last for a year itself, which should be plenty of time for the typical 1-year-or-so development of a toy.


Though I do wonder if they already have specific alt modes in mind. "Construction" and "(Land/Air) Beast" are such vast categories it'd be a shame if 'we' didn't get to specify, but I don't see them having a second round to narrow down the exact design.

The anniversary line starts in the next month, earlier than I think most of us were expecting. Blitzwing and Springer plus Legends Optimus and Bumblebee kick off the festivities.

Noideaforaname wrote:I don't see why they *must* have the mold done already. The Anniversary line is still nearly a year off, and will probably last for a year itself, which should be plenty of time for the typical 1-year-or-so development of a toy.


Though I do wonder if they already have specific alt modes in mind. "Construction" and "(Land/Air) Beast" are such vast categories it'd be a shame if 'we' didn't get to specify, but I don't see them having a second round to narrow down the exact design.

Here's my prospective timeline of Transformers for the next two years.
Beast Hunters shares its spotlight with Generations through the rest of Q2 2013.
Starting in Q3, Beast Hunters gets pushed aside as Generations starts Thrilling 30, with BH releasing the last few figures in late Q3/early Q4 (September-October).
Generations/Thrilling 30 takes center stage through the second half of 2013 and first half of 2014, the actual 30th anniversary year.
In mid-Q2 2014, the new movie line will hit shelves and be the focus line for the rest of 2014. Any remaining Generations/Thrilling 30 figures at this point will probably be redecos and other second string figures.
In the best case scenario, the movie 4 rebranding in early 2015 will be like TF2010, a more all-purpose line where they can put in some more CHUG-style figs and generally fill space until a new TV show comes along, or they just decide to kill time until movie 5.

Bearing that in mind, they'll probably want to release an all-new character at some point before the Movie 4 toys come out. If they're announcing the results at SDCC, then if they were just starting production at that point, we most likely wouldn't see the figure until late 2014/early 2015, since they have a 2 year production cycle. That would be well after Movie 4 had landed, and thus it would be second fiddle to whatever movie toys were on shelf at that point. However, if they already have several prototypes ready to go, they can make small modifications to the tooling and plan out a deco based on the results of the poll in a relatively short period of time, with the figure ready to release in early 2014, right in the middle of the Thrilling 30 celebration and with nothing else to take attention away from it. That's why I think they probably have a series of molds ready to go, and we'll probably see the others used in some capacity down the road, even if it's not acknowledged that they were contenders for the new character.

ALL RIGHT! WITH THIS, I COULD FINALLY HAVE MY SNOW PLOW AUTOBOT WHO CHANGE INTO A AXE AND SHEILD WEILDING PROTECTOR! I WILL SHOW THEM EVERTH.... oh... It's only 5 questions to vote...

Okay...

Even if I voted for a valliant yellow & white that is a construction vehicle with a sword as his weapon, they could come up with anything.

Sigh...
It's better than nothing I guess.

There is a petition to ask Hasbro to include another option, regarding the gender of the character which will eventually be created.
(And, consequently, raise the gender issue in the whole franchise.)

https://www.change.org/petitions/hasbro-inc-please-include-more-female-characters-into-your-transformers-properties#

Please sign it if you agree, or email Hasbro directly!

Va'al wrote:There is a petition to ask Hasbro to include another option, regarding the gender of the character which will eventually be created.
(And, consequently, raise the gender issue in the whole franchise.)

https://www.change.org/petitions/hasbro-inc-please-include-more-female-characters-into-your-transformers-properties#

Please sign it if you agree, or email Hasbro directly!

I was going to sign, but they wanted my address, zip, etc. I refuse to hand out personal info.

Seibertron wrote:The anniversary line starts in the next month, earlier than I think most of us were expecting. Blitzwing and Springer plus Legends Optimus and Bumblebee kick off the festivities.

...What?

Mindmaster wrote:

Va'al wrote:There is a petition to ask Hasbro to include another option, regarding the gender of the character which will eventually be created.
(And, consequently, raise the gender issue in the whole franchise.)

https://www.change.org/petitions/hasbro-inc-please-include-more-female-characters-into-your-transformers-properties#

Please sign it if you agree, or email Hasbro directly!

I was going to sign, but they wanted my address, zip, etc. I refuse to hand out personal info.

That's peculiar, all they wanted from me was my city/town, nothing else.

Va'al wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Va'al wrote:There is a petition to ask Hasbro to include another option, regarding the gender of the character which will eventually be created.
(And, consequently, raise the gender issue in the whole franchise.)

https://www.change.org/petitions/hasbro-inc-please-include-more-female-characters-into-your-transformers-properties#

Please sign it if you agree, or email Hasbro directly!

I was going to sign, but they wanted my address, zip, etc. I refuse to hand out personal info.

That's peculiar, all they wanted from me was my city/town, nothing else.

Probably because they figured out you're outside the United States, and were all like "LOL that dude's not in America, he isn't worth it" and let you get away with just putting your city/town.

Mindmaster wrote:Probably because they figured out you're outside the United States, and were all like "LOL that dude's not in America, he isn't worth it" and let you get away with just putting your city/town.

Sigh. Although it seems that a lot of the signatures so far are from outside the US, for one reason or another.

Seibertron wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:I don't see why they *must* have the mold done already. The Anniversary line is still nearly a year off, and will probably last for a year itself, which should be plenty of time for the typical 1-year-or-so development of a toy.


Though I do wonder if they already have specific alt modes in mind. "Construction" and "(Land/Air) Beast" are such vast categories it'd be a shame if 'we' didn't get to specify, but I don't see them having a second round to narrow down the exact design.

The anniversary line starts in the next month, earlier than I think most of us were expecting. Blitzwing and Springer plus Legends Optimus and Bumblebee kick off the festivities.

Springer + Blitzwing, along with Legends Optimus/BB are already released in Hong Kong.

RBkingdom has already started shipping their orders too, I know some who have already gotten the triple changers.

Also, the Toysrus in Singapore already have the Transformers area stickered up with the "generations" "30th anniversary" wallpaper. It features the boxart of Legends Prime too... It's coming.

Va'al wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Va'al wrote:There is a petition to ask Hasbro to include another option, regarding the gender of the character which will eventually be created.
(And, consequently, raise the gender issue in the whole franchise.)

https://www.change.org/petitions/hasbro-inc-please-include-more-female-characters-into-your-transformers-properties#

Please sign it if you agree, or email Hasbro directly!

I was going to sign, but they wanted my address, zip, etc. I refuse to hand out personal info.

That's peculiar, all they wanted from me was my city/town, nothing else.

Unfortunately, he's right. This is the screen I received when I clicked the link (I'm located in the US, btw.)

Mindmaster wrote:

Seibertron wrote:The anniversary line starts in the next month, earlier than I think most of us were expecting. Blitzwing and Springer plus Legends Optimus and Bumblebee kick off the festivities.

...What?

The new Generations figures, remember?

Autobot032 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Va'al wrote:There is a petition to ask Hasbro to include another option, regarding the gender of the character which will eventually be created.
(And, consequently, raise the gender issue in the whole franchise.)

https://www.change.org/petitions/hasbro-inc-please-include-more-female-characters-into-your-transformers-properties#

Please sign it if you agree, or email Hasbro directly!

I was going to sign, but they wanted my address, zip, etc. I refuse to hand out personal info.

That's peculiar, all they wanted from me was my city/town, nothing else.

Unfortunately, he's right. This is the screen I received when I clicked the link (I'm located in the US, btw.)

Good, that reassures me. Thought I was slowly going mad.

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Seibertron wrote:The anniversary line starts in the next month, earlier than I think most of us were expecting. Blitzwing and Springer plus Legends Optimus and Bumblebee kick off the festivities.

...What?

The new Generations figures, remember?

No durr, but what I'm talking about is weren't they supposed to be released later this year?

Mindmaster wrote:No durr, but what I'm talking about is weren't they supposed to be released later this year?

Well, we're nearing that point in time pretty shortly.

Just need the FOC Wreckers to come out to end the FOC figures, and then we can move into the IDW toys.

Every day, I'm voting for a Decepticon construction vehicle. I don't care so much about the other things; I just want a new Constructicon!

Mindmaster wrote:

Va'al wrote:There is a petition to ask Hasbro to include another option, regarding the gender of the character which will eventually be created.
(And, consequently, raise the gender issue in the whole franchise.)

https://www.change.org/petitions/hasbro-inc-please-include-more-female-characters-into-your-transformers-properties#

Please sign it if you agree, or email Hasbro directly!

I was going to sign, but they wanted my address, zip, etc. I refuse to hand out personal info.

I signed a petition once. Now I have at least 2 or 3 junkmail everydays to support every causes ever. THE POLAR BEARS CAN ALL DIE FOR ALL I CARE!!!

Never again.

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:No durr, but what I'm talking about is weren't they supposed to be released later this year?

Well, we're nearing that point in time pretty shortly.

Just need the FOC Wreckers to come out to end the FOC figures, and then we can move into the IDW toys.

The Wreckers aren't even released yet? Wow.

Could have sworn that the Thrilling 30 toys were to be released around the fall/winter, not late spring/early summer.

-Kanrabat- wrote:THE POLAR BEARS CAN ALL DIE FOR ALL I CARE!!!

I don't know why, but this made me laugh.