Talk:Mbilia Studios

So according to a TFW2005 poster Mbilia might have a deeper history than what we know. A version of their website from February of 2025 had similar vapourware product on it. --Wunkolo (talk) 09:34, 31 October 2025 (EDT)

Holy fucking shit, we need a whole "Controversy" section divided by multiple different topics, this is insane (FortressMaxxing (talk) 09:41, 31 October 2025 (EDT))

Alright, here's some information I found after some preliminary digging. For starters:

• The company was first established the 21st of August of 2025 according to RecordOwl (as already mentioned in our article), but the first working snapshot of the website is from the 6th of December of 2024, where it just displays a generic maintenance mode notice suggesting that the page was still under construction. The aforementioned vaporware version of the website was first snapshotted on February 1st, but eventually, this was reverted back to the maintenance mode page by April 7.
• The vaporware products were a different line of Transformers statues designed by French "artist" (more on him later) Vincent Faudemer. Although Mbilia's website seems to have been wiped of all content pertaining to Faudemer's collection, it's not too hard to dig up posts about it. Presumably, these never left the 3D render stage, as there are virtually no images I could find of actual physical copies of the statues. Some relevant discoveries include:
  • A CG animation with all five of the Transformers statuettes that would presumably be part of the Faudemer collection
  • A post on his Facebook page with the Optimus Prime statue
  • An article on his website about the statues, including an image of their packaging
• So, on Vincent Faudemer... Yeah, he basically seems to be a bullshit artist making pieces following the "childish chrome objects" trend that started with Jeff Koons and, nowadays, are more or less just seen in the art world as investment products for people who legitimately do not care or are really into art as a medium rather than serious works that merit institutional appreciation. As you'd probably expect, his online presence is plastered with attempts to get into stuff like NFTs and the metaverse, so the art-as-investment approach is probably not too surprising, but the relevant question for this article is: just how involved is he with Mbilia? Beyond that seemingly non-realized collection, there are some pretty obvious similarities between his online presence and what we know about Mbilia: so, for instance, insert the aforementioned article on his website on any AI detector like GPTZero and... It's a 100% match for being fully made with AI. Here's an English-language article about him (which he was proud enough of to share on his Instagram), and, again, it's also a very clear 100% match. And if you look at his posts on Instagram, it is extremely obvious that the vast majority of comments are just bots repeating the same short pre-written sentences over and over. This leads to the inevitable follow-up question; is Vincent Faudemer also behind Mbilia Studios? And the honest truth is, I don't know, but it is worth nothing that the Mbilia site doesn't seem to actually specificy any CEO or any artists involved with the company, so this is at least not out of the question either.

Clearly this is just the tip of the iceberg and there is probably a lot more to be dug about this very shady company that Hasbro, in their infinite wisdom, decided to partner up with, but hopefully this will be a good starting point. I'll be curious to see more discoveries the rest of you might have, as well as some idea of how to integrate all of this into the article. (FortressMaxxing (talk) 12:12, 31 October 2025 (EDT))

Whoa, that's a lot of restructuring since I went to bed. I'll be honest, your redo of what I started might be leaning too far into "look how stupid this stupid thing is" when I was aiming for "this is a new low for us" in spirit of me editing Transformers (2023) issue 13 and Francesco Mattina earlier this week, following the example set by Transformers (2023) issue 25. While clowning on AI just like how we clowned on NFTs is just as justified, I'd like to dial the page back a little starting with the Rolex comment. Additionally, I have come to discover that they didn't just make a single AI video for Optimus and Bumblebee: they made two for each. One went to their storefront (mirrored here https://imgur.com/a/TADNT6X ), and the others were used for their social media https://www.instagram.com/mbiliastudios/ (mirrored here https://imgur.com/a/pErjh92 ). Note the two different and still wrong transformations for Prime, it's like they never learned how to crop. Willing to bet they have ones for Megs, Soundwave, and Screamer waiting to be uploaded. Singularity (talk) 21:09, 31 October 2025 (EDT)