First off, how is the '86 Movie "GEEWUN"? That was the beginning of GEETOO, when
real Transformers was first ruined forever!
Secondly, if
any TF movie can be studio series, that could also include Predacons Rising to flesh out the Prime toys that weren't up to snuff, and the Beast Wars II movie for a Hasbro release of MP LioConvoy and God Neptune. Unlikely, but if Hasbro's playing a game of SS=any TF movie...?
And D-Max, while I do understand and sympathize with your point, you said yourself:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote: This line has been great for the live action movies, and as i noted a while ago, it only needs a good year to finish off the original trilogy and maybe 2 to catch the rest from the first 6 movies.
...and maybe that actually is the point. Sticking strictly to the Bayniverse and B-Movie designs might have exhausted the possibilities for viable toys based on the existing live-action movies in just two years, from the perspective of whoever's calling the shots at Hasbro.
BUT, if TF:TM toys take over for a year, or even just pad it out a little, that could add another year or two to the Studio Series line, ensuring that it lasts until the the next live action film. Given that the Covid Crisis has left the future theatrical release date of every movie in doubt for at least the rest of this year, who knows what kind of delays the next two announced TF films might have? Synching up corresponding toy releases with any movie might be so difficult from now on that the Studio Series approach of making toys for every TF film, past and present, is more important than ever. Studio Series must survive...by any means necessary. Even if that means defiling the purity of Michael Bay's artistic vision with a little more boring G1 omnipresence.
The immediate torrent of backlash against this one unconfirmed listing reminds me of how we all hated Herp-n-Derp soooooo much in RotF that we railed and RAILED against their ever appearing again, and lo and behold, Bay actually listened to us, proving that he cared about fan concerns more than generic explosion-porn!
And what was our reward?
We denied ourselves the satisfaction of seeing Sentinel slaughter them on the silver screen. I really would've loved that, but hooray for our outrage. We achieved something.
And if we all keep railing against Hasbro's latest insidious move to Ruin Studio Series Forever, based on one abbreviated listing that we know literally nothing about, they might just listen to us and scuttle the whole line, and we'll be back to no new live action toys in the spaces between movies. Instead of waiting a little longer for those 2 years worth of figures, we end up not getting them at all. Just my speculation, but no more unfounded than anything else in this thread.
I don't care much for any Bay film besides AofE, so I've hardly bought any SS figures, yet I love the live action films for injecting so much energy into the franchise since 2007 that we're getting all these awesome G1-inspired figures now, something I never would've thought possible back in '91 as I watched the Marvel comic die, assuming that was truly The End of the Road for all of Transformers, before any of us knew "Generations" would be a thing in any context. If injecting a little of that first generation into Studio Series is what it takes to stretch out the line so that we keep getting a steady stream of live-action TF toys in the long run, then maybe quit bitching just long enough for G1 to return the favor, and we'll all get what we want.
I was ecstatic when I saw this article's thunbnail, because it might mean a few G1 toys that HasTak couldn't quite pull off in any other line, for whatever reason. Say, I dunno', "Sleep Mode" retools of all of TF:TM's casualties, similar to that battle-damaged Gundam subline.
And if it ensures Bayniverse toys keep churning out continuously for all you live action fans, I'll be even happier, even if I never buy a single one.
So they can point back to this and say "look! Animated movies are fine within Studio Series!"
