by Sabrblade » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:46 pm
- Motto: "Can't do a job halfway. What's worth doing is worth doing well, I say."
- Weapon: Saber Blade
Plus, Hasbro most likely would not do anymore GoBot-based toys since doing so would be free advertisement for Bandai's Machine Robo toys. Hasbro wouldn't likely want to advertise their competitor's product. The main reason Movie Fracture happened was cuz Joe Kyde had to find a real world car with that Crasher-esque deco to push for Movie Fracture's getting made, after which he was basically told "We let you do this once, but let's not do it again, 'kay?"
I really wish people would stop bringing up Movie Fracture as a precedent for more GoBot-based Transformers toys when it was an isolated incident. The rights to GoBots are split between Hasbro, Time Warner, and Bandai, and all three parties may not necessarily know who owns what and how much of it, but Bandai at least is known to own the original Machine Robo toys that the likenesses of the Hanna-Barbera GoBots cartoon characters were based on.
Any new toys (Transformers or otherwise) made to resemble the looks of those Bandai-owned toys would be seen as advertising those Bandai-owned toys (regardless of how old they are), so it is highly unlikely that Hasbro would be willing to make any new toys that would bear any direct resemblance to toys belonging to one of their biggest rivals in the toy industry.
Now something like ROTF Deadlift, however, was able to happen since, despite his being a homage to Spoons, the homage wasn't a direct one since, unlike with Fracture and Crasher, Deadlift's deco wasn't laid out like Spoons' deco. He's just an orange forklift and anyone can make an orange forklift toy. The "MR-34" number on him is the only thing that really attempts to tie him to Spoons, but unless one knew about the significance of that number, most folks wouldn't twice about it, making it more of a small wink to the fans than an obvious giveaway.
In the end, Spoons and Deadlift both just happen to be orange forklifts with the number 34 on them, whereas Fracture was an obvious Crasher homage that Joe Kyde had to use a real world car deco to get around that fact.
"When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
I found full color images on toyark. 
Fingers crossed!
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