Official Hasbro Statement Clarifying Comments about TRANSFORMERS games by Activision
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Aug 2, 2023 at 1:08am CDT
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Here is the official statement on behalf of Hasbro (below).
“To clarify, comments that suggest TRANSFORMERS games have been lost were made in error. We apologize to Activision and regret any confusion; they’ve been great partners, and we look forward to future opportunities to work together.”
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Comment by chuckdawg1999
Aug 2, 2023
Ya think somebody at Hasbro is got bitched out?
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Probably, but I think this is more about sharing inside info and using negative language when referring to a company they want to work with (the whole companies eating companies thing). This sounds less like a correction and more like a public apology.
Emerje
Comment by Emerje
Aug 2, 2023
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Ya think somebody at Hasbro is got bitched out?
Probably, but I think this is more about sharing inside info and using negative language when referring to a company they want to work with (the whole companies eating companies thing). This sounds less like a correction and more like a public apology.
Emerje
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Comment by TK415
Aug 2, 2023
Who originally said it?
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Evan, the designer who works on the legacy core class figures.
Yes, more an apology than a correction
Comment by william-james88
Aug 2, 2023
TK415 wrote:Who originally said it?
Evan, the designer who works on the legacy core class figures.
Emerje wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Ya think somebody at Hasbro is got bitched out?
Probably, but I think this is more about sharing inside info and using negative language when referring to a company they want to work with (the whole companies eating companies thing). This sounds less like a correction and more like a public apology.
Emerje
Yes, more an apology than a correction
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Since it's Twitter I don't know if the intended tone is one of annoyance or just matter-of-fact, but the CCO at Activision got wind of the comments and posted this, which appears to have prompted the Hasbro apology: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status ... xhlNQ&s=19
Comment by ScottyP
Aug 2, 2023
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Ya think somebody at Hasbro is got bitched out?
Since it's Twitter I don't know if the intended tone is one of annoyance or just matter-of-fact, but the CCO at Activision got wind of the comments and posted this, which appears to have prompted the Hasbro apology: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status ... xhlNQ&s=19
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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal
Aug 2, 2023
Megatron and cliffjumper are in stock at Pulse, I ordered mine and they should be here soon.
As for GE figures: do proper Dinobots. But please do the live action dinobots first, let those get finished before we start GE ones, which I really want too
As for GE figures: do proper Dinobots. But please do the live action dinobots first, let those get finished before we start GE ones, which I really want too
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Comment by -Kanrabat-
Aug 2, 2023
Both of the original Activision WFC and FOC games deserves at the very least a Steam port.
I'm sure that many would buy them even if they already have the originals on PS3 or X-360.
Myself included.
I'm sure that many would buy them even if they already have the originals on PS3 or X-360.
Myself included.
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Comment by Rtron
Aug 2, 2023
I hope Evan doesn't get in too much trouble, he's a designer, not a PR guy. And he's always come across as genuine. If anything, it's Activision's fault for not giving them the assets... I wouldn't be surprised if what Evan said was something someone from Activision told the design team so they'd stop asking for the 3D files, and he just parroted it(which I always find funny the Hasbro team calls "CAD", as they'd never call it that in the context of videogames, probably neither they would be in movies).
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Comment by Crillan
Aug 2, 2023
I was wondering about this whole thing myself. Software developers don't generally store their code on "hard drives" that get lost. They use version control tools that store the entire project somewhere remotely. You can't just "lose" that. It's pretty hard to just lose an entire software project.
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Maybe, but he has a continuing streak of lack of brand knowledge on which ever brand they assign him to, definitely needs to be out of the lime light when it comes to talking about products.
Comment by blackeyedprime
Aug 2, 2023
Rtron wrote: And he's always come across as genuine.
Maybe, but he has a continuing streak of lack of brand knowledge on which ever brand they assign him to, definitely needs to be out of the lime light when it comes to talking about products.
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I actually think he's one of the most interesting designers to hear talking about the toys.
Comment by Rtron
Aug 2, 2023
blackeyedprime wrote:Rtron wrote: And he's always come across as genuine.
Maybe, but he has a continuing streak of lack of brand knowledge on which ever brand they assign him to, definitely needs to be out of the lime light when it comes to talking about products.
I actually think he's one of the most interesting designers to hear talking about the toys.
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Comment by o.supreme
Aug 2, 2023
Oddly enough, I skipped that whole era. Went from PS 2 to begrudgingly getting a PS4 when a few import games came out and I couldn't resist.
My son really wanted to play those games though, so he bought himself a PS3 I think he has a total of 5 games including WFC & FOC.
My son really wanted to play those games though, so he bought himself a PS3 I think he has a total of 5 games including WFC & FOC.
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Awesome thanks WJ!
I second this. I hope he doesn't get in trouble, and I hope they don't tell him to say less. I agree Rtron, someone must have told him that from Activision.
Comment by TK415
Aug 2, 2023
william-james88 wrote:TK415 wrote:Who originally said it?
Evan, the designer who works on the legacy core class figures.
Awesome thanks WJ!
Rtron wrote:I hope Evan doesn't get in too much trouble, he's a designer, not a PR guy. And he's always come across as genuine. If anything, it's Activision's fault for not giving them the assets... I wouldn't be surprised if what Evan said was something someone from Activision told the design team so they'd stop asking for the 3D files, and he just parroted it(which I always find funny the Hasbro team calls "CAD", as they'd never call it that in the context of videogames, probably neither they would be in movies).
I second this. I hope he doesn't get in trouble, and I hope they don't tell him to say less. I agree Rtron, someone must have told him that from Activision.
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Can you give an example?
What couldnt you resist? Persona 5?
Comment by william-james88
Aug 2, 2023
blackeyedprime wrote:he has a continuing streak of lack of brand knowledge on which ever brand they assign him to
Can you give an example?
o.supreme wrote:Oddly enough, I skipped that whole era. Went from PS 2 to begrudgingly getting a PS4 when a few import games came out and I couldn't resist.
What couldnt you resist? Persona 5?
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Hasbro pulse thing way back:
Zoids - he said Zoids Wild toys was generation 2 of zoids...erm...90s and chrome was an actual thing, an actual thing called Zoids 2.
Fair enough if he is a designer and doesnt have to do much with toys that another company has designed but at least hype them right and respect the long history.
Most recent with the transformers comment on a super nintendo transformer released in Japan...which semantics aside would have been a super famicom transformer but it would have actually had to exist.
With transformers in the past some of the paint choices and explanations of why a character had to be this or that, cant remember the specifics. I know I havent watched that many pulse things or design talks with him in it but I'm pretty sure in near all of them there has been a lack of knowledge with the subject matter.
Comment by blackeyedprime
Aug 2, 2023
william-james88 wrote:blackeyedprime wrote:he has a continuing streak of lack of brand knowledge on which ever brand they assign him to
Can you give an example?
Hasbro pulse thing way back:
Zoids - he said Zoids Wild toys was generation 2 of zoids...erm...90s and chrome was an actual thing, an actual thing called Zoids 2.
Fair enough if he is a designer and doesnt have to do much with toys that another company has designed but at least hype them right and respect the long history.
Most recent with the transformers comment on a super nintendo transformer released in Japan...which semantics aside would have been a super famicom transformer but it would have actually had to exist.
With transformers in the past some of the paint choices and explanations of why a character had to be this or that, cant remember the specifics. I know I havent watched that many pulse things or design talks with him in it but I'm pretty sure in near all of them there has been a lack of knowledge with the subject matter.
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Comment by BATTLEMASTER IIC
Aug 2, 2023
I believe it's entirely possible that designers like Evan may not even be exposed enough to the brand itself in their positions. They may be told "design this" and that's what they do - they design it. They probably get reference images from other media their designs are supposed to represent, but that doesn't necessarily mean they know the story behind the media or the characters they're working on. That job probably belongs to someone else on the team who specializes in that - you probably wouldn't want that guy actually designing Transformers figures like asking the designers and engineers to write stories 
This comes from my experience as a professional number-cruncher and researcher who feeds the results of my work to other people who can use it better than I can for what the organization does.
I don't have any PR experience, and I don't mind that. That can be pretty scary, and there's also a department in my organization that specializes in that so that no one else has to.
This applies to every career, skill, and talent: If it were so easy, everyone would be doing it!
This comes from my experience as a professional number-cruncher and researcher who feeds the results of my work to other people who can use it better than I can for what the organization does.
I don't have any PR experience, and I don't mind that. That can be pretty scary, and there's also a department in my organization that specializes in that so that no one else has to.
This applies to every career, skill, and talent: If it were so easy, everyone would be doing it!
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Comment by Sabrblade
Aug 2, 2023
I dunno about Evan being all that unfamiliar with the brand, since some of the Hasbro Pulse livestreams have shown him to have a vast personal collection of figures from all across the past 39 years of the brand. One video even saw him hold up to the camera his copy of RID 2001 Landfill fully combined, and saying he'd like to see a new modern version of it made someday.
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Seriously, he once literally had a shelf of his own filled to the brim with various old Optimus toys behind him while showing Ironhide.
And as Battlemaster says, PR is a pretty scary job and the transformers "lore" is super extense, the guy is a designer, which is an extensive enough discipline, if he's a fan on top of that and is even competent in front of a camera, then that's a nice bonus.
Comment by Rtron
Aug 2, 2023
Sabrblade wrote:I dunno about Evan being all that unfamiliar with the brand, since some of the Hasbro Pulse livestreams have shown him to have a vast personal collection of figures from all across the past 39 years of the brand. One video even saw him hold up to the camera his copy of RID 2001 Landfill fully combined, and saying he'd like to see a new modern version of it made someday.
Seriously, he once literally had a shelf of his own filled to the brim with various old Optimus toys behind him while showing Ironhide.
And as Battlemaster says, PR is a pretty scary job and the transformers "lore" is super extense, the guy is a designer, which is an extensive enough discipline, if he's a fan on top of that and is even competent in front of a camera, then that's a nice bonus.
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Ok yes, this rings a bell. And now I remember that in that same interview he said he chose Nacelle to complete a trio, which is an odd thing to say if one is nitpicky.
How is that a flex?
Comment by william-james88
Aug 2, 2023
blackeyedprime wrote:With transformers in the past some of the paint choices and explanations of why a character had to be this or that, cant remember the specifics. I know I havent watched that many pulse things or design talks with him in it but I'm pretty sure in near all of them there has been a lack of knowledge with the subject matter.
Ok yes, this rings a bell. And now I remember that in that same interview he said he chose Nacelle to complete a trio, which is an odd thing to say if one is nitpicky.
Sabrblade wrote:One video even saw him hold up to the camera his copy of RID 2001 Landfill fully combined, and saying he'd like to see a new modern version of it made someday.
How is that a flex?
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Comment by Sabrblade
Aug 2, 2023
Landfill ain't exactly something an ignoramus would know about.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:One video even saw him hold up to the camera his copy of RID 2001 Landfill fully combined, and saying he'd like to see a new modern version of it made someday.
How is that a flex?
