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BerylRoll: /* Toys */

2026-01-31T23:09:22Z

Toys

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	* [[Farsight T-20]]		* [[Farsight T-20 (Movie)\|Farsight T-20]]
	* [[Longview (Movie)\|Longview]]		* [[Longview (Movie)\|Longview]]
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Saix at 14:51, 28 July 2025

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	~~:''Real Gear Robots are [[AllSpark Mutation]]s from the [[Movie continuity family]].''~~

	[[File:Mov-toy RGR SpyShot6.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.67\|Spy Shot 6]]		[[File:Mov-toy RGR SpyShot6.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.67\|Spy Shot 6]]
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	{{quote\|Uncover one of the most closely held secrets on Earth, known only to very few humans. The power of the Allspark{{sic}} has been unleashed, and machines all over the world have come alive. Unlock their secrets and join the battle!\|Real Gear Robots toyline summary}}		{{quote\|Uncover one of the most closely held secrets on Earth, known only to very few humans. The power of the Allspark{{sic}} has been unleashed, and machines all over the world have come alive. Unlock their secrets and join the battle!\|Real Gear Robots toyline summary}}

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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==

TitaniumToughGuy: /* Notes */

2025-01-18T15:46:15Z

Notes

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	* The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline is the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original [[Soundwave (G1)\|Soundwave]], [[Perceptor (G1)\|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector (G1)\|Reflector]], whose [[Alternate mode\|altmodes]] are all common hand-held electric devices.		* The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline was the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original [[Soundwave (G1)\|Soundwave]], [[Perceptor (G1)\|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector (G1)\|Reflector]], whose [[Alternate mode\|altmodes]] are all common hand-held electric devices.
	* For some bizarre reason, despite being a movie tie-in line, some of the earlier Real Gear Robots have stickers for displays showing characters from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)\|Transformers: Cybertron]]''. Later [[redeco]]es of those molds received different stickers with movie characters on them, while the Japanese versions released by [[TakaraTomy]] all had stickers showing movie characters from the get-go. There are two conflicting accounts of the conception of the Real Gear Robots line, which shed light on this oddity:		* For some bizarre reason, despite being a movie tie-in line, some of the earlier Real Gear Robots have stickers for displays showing characters from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)\|Transformers: Cybertron]]''. Later [[redeco]]es of those molds received different stickers with movie characters on them, while the Japanese versions released by [[TakaraTomy]] all had stickers showing movie characters from the get-go. There are two conflicting accounts of the conception of the Real Gear Robots line, which shed light on this oddity:
	** According to a user of this wiki at the time, a [[Hasbro]] representative at [[BotCon 2007]] claimed that the Real Gear Robots toys were created in line with the designs of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' toyline, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the [[Transformers (2007 franchise)\|movie]]'s marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film. For years, this was the accepted story behind the line's creation. Coverage of this convention's panels from the time is spotty, but in the two extant comprehensive recaps of the relevant panel, no mention is made of this titbit, with both instead supporting the idea that development of these toys only kicked off after inspiration from the movie itself.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Asked what heritage characters they would have put in the movie, Hasbro sidestepped and said they had been focused on developing toy concepts using the G1-type models before the movie went into production. Once word was received about the movie, the company started working on Robot Heroes, CyberStompers, and Real Gear to see how broad they could make the brand once they received the green light.\|link=https://tformers.com/BotCon-Hasbro-and-Paramount-Parnership-Panel/8001/news.html\|name=BaCon\|site=TFormers\|title=BotCon Hasbro and Paramount Parnership Panel\|year=2007\|month=07\|day=01}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote='''Real gear subline is great!'''<br>In doing the movie in a realistic setting, a great opportunity to bring the connection home, bring the robots in disguise to a personal level with technology... lots of fun to work on, new characters, new asthetic<br>'''Design team was working before movie got off the ground, if you were in full creative control, who else would you have put in the movie?'''<br>Weren't thinking about the movie until it started to happen - don't know about other characters, just thrilled that the right people were making the movie; were not developing new designs for the movie, but were designing robot heroes, real gear, the helmet-- to figure out how broad we could get the brand\|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/botcon-2007-panel-hasbro-transformers-movie-partnership.139263/\|name=ams\|site=TFW2005\|title=BOTCON 2007 - PANEL: HASBRO TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PARTNERSHIP\|year=2007\|month=06\|day=30}}</ref> Another wiki user who attended the convention [[Talk:Real Gear Robot#Chevy Autobots\|explicitly stated]] that they heard no such comment.		** According to a user of this wiki at the time, a [[Hasbro]] representative at [[BotCon 2007]] claimed that the Real Gear Robots toys were created in line with the designs of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' toyline, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the [[Transformers (2007 franchise)\|movie]]'s marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film. For years, this was the accepted story behind the line's creation. Coverage of this convention's panels from the time is spotty, but in the two extant comprehensive recaps of the relevant panel, no mention is made of this titbit, with both instead supporting the idea that development of these toys only kicked off after inspiration from the movie itself.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Asked what heritage characters they would have put in the movie, Hasbro sidestepped and said they had been focused on developing toy concepts using the G1-type models before the movie went into production. Once word was received about the movie, the company started working on Robot Heroes, CyberStompers, and Real Gear to see how broad they could make the brand once they received the green light.\|link=https://tformers.com/BotCon-Hasbro-and-Paramount-Parnership-Panel/8001/news.html\|name=BaCon\|site=TFormers\|title=BotCon Hasbro and Paramount Parnership Panel\|year=2007\|month=07\|day=01}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote='''Real gear subline is great!'''<br>In doing the movie in a realistic setting, a great opportunity to bring the connection home, bring the robots in disguise to a personal level with technology... lots of fun to work on, new characters, new asthetic<br>'''Design team was working before movie got off the ground, if you were in full creative control, who else would you have put in the movie?'''<br>Weren't thinking about the movie until it started to happen - don't know about other characters, just thrilled that the right people were making the movie; were not developing new designs for the movie, but were designing robot heroes, real gear, the helmet-- to figure out how broad we could get the brand\|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/botcon-2007-panel-hasbro-transformers-movie-partnership.139263/\|name=ams\|site=TFW2005\|title=BOTCON 2007 - PANEL: HASBRO TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PARTNERSHIP\|year=2007\|month=06\|day=30}}</ref> Another wiki user who attended the convention [[Talk:Real Gear Robot#Chevy Autobots\|explicitly stated]] that they heard no such comment.

Usfmm at 20:24, 16 August 2024

2024-08-16T20:24:59Z

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	* The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline is the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original [[Soundwave (G1)\|Soundwave]], [[Perceptor (G1)\|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector (G1)\|Reflector]], whose [[Alternate mode\|altmodes]] are all common hand-held electric devices.		* The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline is the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original [[Soundwave (G1)\|Soundwave]], [[Perceptor (G1)\|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector (G1)\|Reflector]], whose [[Alternate mode\|altmodes]] are all common hand-held electric devices.
	* For some bizarre reason, despite being a movie tie-in line, some of the earlier Real Gear Robots have stickers for displays showing characters from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)\|Transformers: Cybertron]]''. Later [[redeco]]es of those molds received different stickers with movie characters on them, while the Japanese versions released by [[TakaraTomy]] all had stickers showing movie characters from the get-go. There are two conflicting accounts of the conception of the Real Gear Robots line, which shed light on this oddity:		* For some bizarre reason, despite being a movie tie-in line, some of the earlier Real Gear Robots have stickers for displays showing characters from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)\|Transformers: Cybertron]]''. Later [[redeco]]es of those molds received different stickers with movie characters on them, while the Japanese versions released by [[TakaraTomy]] all had stickers showing movie characters from the get-go. There are two conflicting accounts of the conception of the Real Gear Robots line, which shed light on this oddity:
	** According to a user of this wiki at the time, a [[Hasbro]] representative at [[BotCon 2007]] claimed that the Real Gear Robots toys were created in line with the designs of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' toyline, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the [[~~Movie~~ (franchise)\|movie]]'s marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film. For years, this was the accepted story behind the line's creation. Coverage of this convention's panels from the time is spotty, but in the two extant comprehensive recaps of the relevant panel, no mention is made of this titbit, with both instead supporting the idea that development of these toys only kicked off after inspiration from the movie itself.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Asked what heritage characters they would have put in the movie, Hasbro sidestepped and said they had been focused on developing toy concepts using the G1-type models before the movie went into production. Once word was received about the movie, the company started working on Robot Heroes, CyberStompers, and Real Gear to see how broad they could make the brand once they received the green light.\|link=https://tformers.com/BotCon-Hasbro-and-Paramount-Parnership-Panel/8001/news.html\|name=BaCon\|site=TFormers\|title=BotCon Hasbro and Paramount Parnership Panel\|year=2007\|month=07\|day=01}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote='''Real gear subline is great!'''<br>In doing the movie in a realistic setting, a great opportunity to bring the connection home, bring the robots in disguise to a personal level with technology... lots of fun to work on, new characters, new asthetic<br>'''Design team was working before movie got off the ground, if you were in full creative control, who else would you have put in the movie?'''<br>Weren't thinking about the movie until it started to happen - don't know about other characters, just thrilled that the right people were making the movie; were not developing new designs for the movie, but were designing robot heroes, real gear, the helmet-- to figure out how broad we could get the brand\|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/botcon-2007-panel-hasbro-transformers-movie-partnership.139263/\|name=ams\|site=TFW2005\|title=BOTCON 2007 - PANEL: HASBRO TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PARTNERSHIP\|year=2007\|month=06\|day=30}}</ref> Another wiki user who attended the convention [[Talk:Real Gear Robot#Chevy Autobots\|explicitly stated]] that they heard no such comment.		** According to a user of this wiki at the time, a [[Hasbro]] representative at [[BotCon 2007]] claimed that the Real Gear Robots toys were created in line with the designs of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' toyline, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the [[Transformers (2007 franchise)\|movie]]'s marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film. For years, this was the accepted story behind the line's creation. Coverage of this convention's panels from the time is spotty, but in the two extant comprehensive recaps of the relevant panel, no mention is made of this titbit, with both instead supporting the idea that development of these toys only kicked off after inspiration from the movie itself.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Asked what heritage characters they would have put in the movie, Hasbro sidestepped and said they had been focused on developing toy concepts using the G1-type models before the movie went into production. Once word was received about the movie, the company started working on Robot Heroes, CyberStompers, and Real Gear to see how broad they could make the brand once they received the green light.\|link=https://tformers.com/BotCon-Hasbro-and-Paramount-Parnership-Panel/8001/news.html\|name=BaCon\|site=TFormers\|title=BotCon Hasbro and Paramount Parnership Panel\|year=2007\|month=07\|day=01}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote='''Real gear subline is great!'''<br>In doing the movie in a realistic setting, a great opportunity to bring the connection home, bring the robots in disguise to a personal level with technology... lots of fun to work on, new characters, new asthetic<br>'''Design team was working before movie got off the ground, if you were in full creative control, who else would you have put in the movie?'''<br>Weren't thinking about the movie until it started to happen - don't know about other characters, just thrilled that the right people were making the movie; were not developing new designs for the movie, but were designing robot heroes, real gear, the helmet-- to figure out how broad we could get the brand\|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/botcon-2007-panel-hasbro-transformers-movie-partnership.139263/\|name=ams\|site=TFW2005\|title=BOTCON 2007 - PANEL: HASBRO TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PARTNERSHIP\|year=2007\|month=06\|day=30}}</ref> Another wiki user who attended the convention [[Talk:Real Gear Robot#Chevy Autobots\|explicitly stated]] that they heard no such comment.
	** In [[2023]], Hasbro designer [[Aaron Archer]] would give the contradictory account that the Real Gear Robots were conceived from the very start as an opportunistic movie tie-in assortment inspired by [[Frenzy (Movie)\|Frenzy]], which were never part of the ''Cybertron'' toyline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote="'I've been wondering what the original intent for the ''Real Gear Robots'' toyline was. Were they meant for ''Transformers Cybertron''? How could they have fit in the toyline's ecosystem?' So when you do a movie, you have an opportunity to sell to more retailers, because you're going to get the buzz, the lift of the movie, and the marketing campaign is going to lift that property up over one that doesn't have it—or just has basic TV animation or something—so a wider group of buyers across the wider spectrum of stores are going to buy product. So in order for you not to get overrun with the same stuff everywhere, or maybe making bigger molds in doubling them up than you want to, you're going to offer different assortments, different types of assortments different price points. So ''Real Gear'' gave us an opportunity to quote-unquote make a "movie" assortment, take the Frenzy concept of gear and kind of blow that out, like, what if there was more of that in the film? And we can offer a low price point that the movie otherwise didn't really have, and take that as permission to do a whole line of game controllers and watches and all that stuff. So that's really what ''Real Gear'' was, it was not part of ''Cybertron'', it was an opportunistic assortment to put more stuff out into the market, and that's what it was. And it was in the movie vernacular, but also we were able to say, Soundwave and Megatron and Perceptor and Blaster and characters before that had this... it's an element of ''Transformers'' the the "gear" bots, if you look at the car bots and the army bots or whatever, gear was also an element of the G1 experience, so we wanted to blow that out. Simple as that, it was an opportunity.\|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXaInBmtIk&t=3401s\|name=Aaron Archer\|site=''The Toy Armada''\|title=Toy Armada Friday night LIVE: Toy Talk Q&A\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=12}}</ref>		** In [[2023]], Hasbro designer [[Aaron Archer]] would give the contradictory account that the Real Gear Robots were conceived from the very start as an opportunistic movie tie-in assortment inspired by [[Frenzy (Movie)\|Frenzy]], which were never part of the ''Cybertron'' toyline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote="'I've been wondering what the original intent for the ''Real Gear Robots'' toyline was. Were they meant for ''Transformers Cybertron''? How could they have fit in the toyline's ecosystem?' So when you do a movie, you have an opportunity to sell to more retailers, because you're going to get the buzz, the lift of the movie, and the marketing campaign is going to lift that property up over one that doesn't have it—or just has basic TV animation or something—so a wider group of buyers across the wider spectrum of stores are going to buy product. So in order for you not to get overrun with the same stuff everywhere, or maybe making bigger molds in doubling them up than you want to, you're going to offer different assortments, different types of assortments different price points. So ''Real Gear'' gave us an opportunity to quote-unquote make a "movie" assortment, take the Frenzy concept of gear and kind of blow that out, like, what if there was more of that in the film? And we can offer a low price point that the movie otherwise didn't really have, and take that as permission to do a whole line of game controllers and watches and all that stuff. So that's really what ''Real Gear'' was, it was not part of ''Cybertron'', it was an opportunistic assortment to put more stuff out into the market, and that's what it was. And it was in the movie vernacular, but also we were able to say, Soundwave and Megatron and Perceptor and Blaster and characters before that had this... it's an element of ''Transformers'' the the "gear" bots, if you look at the car bots and the army bots or whatever, gear was also an element of the G1 experience, so we wanted to blow that out. Simple as that, it was an opportunity.\|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXaInBmtIk&t=3401s\|name=Aaron Archer\|site=''The Toy Armada''\|title=Toy Armada Friday night LIVE: Toy Talk Q&A\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=12}}</ref>

Eyacorkett: /* Toys */

2024-06-06T10:36:53Z

Toys

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	* [[High Score 100]]		* [[High Score 100]]

Eyacorkett at 10:33, 6 June 2024

2024-06-06T10:33:22Z

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	[[File:Mov-toy RGR SpyShot6.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.67\|Spy Shot 6]]		[[File:Mov-toy RGR SpyShot6.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.67\|Spy Shot 6]]
	'''Real Gear Robots''' are a subgroup of [[AllSpark Mutation]]s—machinery brought to life as [[Transformer]]s by the [[AllSpark]]		'''Real Gear Robots''' are a subgroup of [[AllSpark Mutation]]s—machinery brought to life as [[Transformer]]s by the [[AllSpark]].

	{{quote\|Uncover one of the most closely held secrets on Earth, known only to very few humans. The power of the Allspark{{sic}} has been unleashed, and machines all over the world have come alive. Unlock their secrets and join the battle!\|Real Gear Robots toyline summary}}		{{quote\|Uncover one of the most closely held secrets on Earth, known only to very few humans. The power of the Allspark{{sic}} has been unleashed, and machines all over the world have come alive. Unlock their secrets and join the battle!\|Real Gear Robots toyline summary}}

Fritz: clean up, replaced: autobotfilm → autobot; decepticonfilm → decepticon

2024-01-16T14:51:19Z

clean up, replaced: autobotfilm → autobot; decepticonfilm → decepticon

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	:''Real Gear Robots are [[AllSpark Mutation]]s from the [[Movie continuity family]].''		:''Real Gear Robots are [[AllSpark Mutation]]s from the [[Movie continuity family]].''

Saix: /* References */

2023-05-16T05:13:27Z

References

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	==References==		==References==
	{{Reflist}}		{{Reflist\|2}}

	[[Category:Movie]]		[[Category:Movie]]
	[[Category:Real Gear Robots\| ]]		[[Category:Real Gear Robots\| ]]
	[[Category:Subgroups]]		[[Category:Subgroups]]

GobotsFanForever at 14:45, 15 May 2023

2023-05-15T14:45:56Z

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	:''Real Gear Robots are [[AllSpark Mutation]]s from the [[Movie ~~(franchise)\|Transformers]] portion of the [[Live-action film series\|live-action film]] [[~~continuity family]].''		:''Real Gear Robots are [[AllSpark Mutation]]s from the [[Movie continuity family]].''

	[[File:Mov-toy RGR SpyShot6.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.67\|Spy Shot 6]]		[[File:Mov-toy RGR SpyShot6.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.67\|Spy Shot 6]]

The Wadapan at 10:12, 15 May 2023

2023-05-15T10:12:06Z

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	* The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline is the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original [[Soundwave (G1)\|Soundwave]], [[Perceptor (G1)\|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector (G1)\|Reflector]], whose [[Alternate mode\|altmodes]] are all common hand-held electric devices.		* The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline is the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original [[Soundwave (G1)\|Soundwave]], [[Perceptor (G1)\|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector (G1)\|Reflector]], whose [[Alternate mode\|altmodes]] are all common hand-held electric devices.
	* A [[Hasbro]] representative at [[BotCon 2007]] claimed that the ''Real Gear Robots'' toys were created in line with the designs of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (~~franchise~~)\|Cybertron]]'' ~~franchise that ran through 2005 into the first half of 2006~~, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the [[Movie (franchise)\|movie]]'s marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film.<ref>Hasbro ~~representative~~, [[BotCon 2007~~]].~~</ref> ~~Evidence~~ of ~~this can be seen~~ on the ~~stickers of several "first-use" molds~~, ~~which~~ have ''~~Cybertron~~''-~~series~~ characters ~~on them~~. ~~(Later~~ [[~~Redeco~~\|~~redecoes~~]] ~~of these molds were given different stickers, with movie characters on them~~. ~~The Japanese versions released by~~ [[~~TakaraTomy~~]], ~~on the other hand, had the ''Cybertron''-based stickers replaced with Movie-based stickers from the get-go.) However,~~ designer [[Aaron Archer]] would ~~years later~~ give the contradictory account that the ''Real Gear Robots'' were conceived from the very start as an opportunistic movie tie-in assortment inspired by [[Frenzy (Movie)\|Frenzy]], which were never part of the ''Cybertron'' toyline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote="'I've been wondering what the original intent for the ''Real Gear Robots'' toyline was. Were they meant for ''Transformers Cybertron''? How could they have fit in the toyline's ecosystem?' So when you do a movie, you have an opportunity to sell to more retailers, because you're going to get the buzz, the lift of the movie, and the marketing campaign is going to lift that property up over one that doesn't have it—or just has basic TV animation or something—so a wider group of buyers across the wider spectrum of stores are going to buy product. So in order for you not to get overrun with the same stuff everywhere, or maybe making bigger molds in doubling them up than you want to, you're going to offer different assortments, different types of assortments different price points. So ''Real Gear'' gave us an opportunity to quote-unquote make a "movie" assortment, take the Frenzy concept of gear and kind of blow that out, like, what if there was more of that in the film? And we can offer a low price point that the movie otherwise didn't really have, and take that as permission to do a whole line of game controllers and watches and all that stuff. So that's really what ''Real Gear'' was, it was not part of ''Cybertron'', it was an opportunistic assortment to put more stuff out into the market, and that's what it was. And it was in the movie vernacular, but also we were able to say, Soundwave and Megatron and Perceptor and Blaster and characters before that had this... it's an element of ''Transformers'' the the "gear" bots, if you look at the car bots and the army bots or whatever, gear was also an element of the G1 experience, so we wanted to blow that out. Simple as that, it was an opportunity.\|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXaInBmtIk&t=3401s\|name=Aaron Archer\|site=''The Toy Armada''\|title=Toy Armada Friday night LIVE: Toy Talk Q&A\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=12}}</ref>		* For some bizarre reason, despite being a movie tie-in line, some of the earlier Real Gear Robots have stickers for displays showing characters from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)\|Transformers: Cybertron]]''. Later [[redeco]]es of those molds received different stickers with movie characters on them, while the Japanese versions released by [[TakaraTomy]] all had stickers showing movie characters from the get-go. There are two conflicting accounts of the conception of the Real Gear Robots line, which shed light on this oddity:
			** According to a user of this wiki at the time, a [[Hasbro]] representative at [[BotCon 2007]] claimed that the Real Gear Robots toys were created in line with the designs of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' toyline, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the [[Movie (franchise)\|movie]]'s marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film. For years, this was the accepted story behind the line's creation. Coverage of this convention's panels from the time is spotty, but in the two extant comprehensive recaps of the relevant panel, no mention is made of this titbit, with both instead supporting the idea that development of these toys only kicked off after inspiration from the movie itself.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Asked what heritage characters they would have put in the movie, Hasbro sidestepped and said they had been focused on developing toy concepts using the G1-type models before the movie went into production. Once word was received about the movie, the company started working on Robot Heroes, CyberStompers, and Real Gear to see how broad they could make the brand once they received the green light.\|link=https://tformers.com/BotCon-Hasbro-and-Paramount-Parnership-Panel/8001/news.html\|name=BaCon\|site=TFormers\|title=BotCon Hasbro and Paramount Parnership Panel\|year=2007\|month=07\|day=01}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote='''Real gear subline is great!'''<br>In doing the movie in a realistic setting, a great opportunity to bring the connection home, bring the robots in disguise to a personal level with technology... lots of fun to work on, new characters, new asthetic<br>'''Design team was working before movie got off the ground, if you were in full creative control, who else would you have put in the movie?'''<br>Weren't thinking about the movie until it started to happen - don't know about other characters, just thrilled that the right people were making the movie; were not developing new designs for the movie, but were designing robot heroes, real gear, the helmet-- to figure out how broad we could get the brand\|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/botcon-2007-panel-hasbro-transformers-movie-partnership.139263/\|name=ams\|site=TFW2005\|title=BOTCON 2007 - PANEL: HASBRO TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PARTNERSHIP\|year=2007\|month=06\|day=30}}</ref> Another wiki user who attended the convention [[Talk:Real Gear Robot#Chevy Autobots\|explicitly stated]] that they heard no such comment.
			** In [[2023]], Hasbro designer [[Aaron Archer]] would give the contradictory account that the Real Gear Robots were conceived from the very start as an opportunistic movie tie-in assortment inspired by [[Frenzy (Movie)\|Frenzy]], which were never part of the ''Cybertron'' toyline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote="'I've been wondering what the original intent for the ''Real Gear Robots'' toyline was. Were they meant for ''Transformers Cybertron''? How could they have fit in the toyline's ecosystem?' So when you do a movie, you have an opportunity to sell to more retailers, because you're going to get the buzz, the lift of the movie, and the marketing campaign is going to lift that property up over one that doesn't have it—or just has basic TV animation or something—so a wider group of buyers across the wider spectrum of stores are going to buy product. So in order for you not to get overrun with the same stuff everywhere, or maybe making bigger molds in doubling them up than you want to, you're going to offer different assortments, different types of assortments different price points. So ''Real Gear'' gave us an opportunity to quote-unquote make a "movie" assortment, take the Frenzy concept of gear and kind of blow that out, like, what if there was more of that in the film? And we can offer a low price point that the movie otherwise didn't really have, and take that as permission to do a whole line of game controllers and watches and all that stuff. So that's really what ''Real Gear'' was, it was not part of ''Cybertron'', it was an opportunistic assortment to put more stuff out into the market, and that's what it was. And it was in the movie vernacular, but also we were able to say, Soundwave and Megatron and Perceptor and Blaster and characters before that had this... it's an element of ''Transformers'' the the "gear" bots, if you look at the car bots and the army bots or whatever, gear was also an element of the G1 experience, so we wanted to blow that out. Simple as that, it was an opportunity.\|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXaInBmtIk&t=3401s\|name=Aaron Archer\|site=''The Toy Armada''\|title=Toy Armada Friday night LIVE: Toy Talk Q&A\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=12}}</ref>

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	* The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline is the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original [[Soundwave (G1)\|Soundwave]], [[Perceptor (G1)\|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector (G1)\|Reflector]], whose [[Alternate mode\|altmodes]] are all common hand-held electric devices.		* The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline is the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original [[Soundwave (G1)\|Soundwave]], [[Perceptor (G1)\|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector (G1)\|Reflector]], whose [[Alternate mode\|altmodes]] are all common hand-held electric devices.
	* For some bizarre reason, despite being a movie tie-in line, some of the earlier Real Gear Robots have stickers for displays showing characters from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)\|Transformers: Cybertron]]''. Later [[redeco]]es of those molds received different stickers with movie characters on them, while the Japanese versions released by [[TakaraTomy]] all had stickers showing movie characters from the get-go. There are two conflicting accounts of the conception of the Real Gear Robots line, which shed light on this oddity:		* For some bizarre reason, despite being a movie tie-in line, some of the earlier Real Gear Robots have stickers for displays showing characters from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)\|Transformers: Cybertron]]''. Later [[redeco]]es of those molds received different stickers with movie characters on them, while the Japanese versions released by [[TakaraTomy]] all had stickers showing movie characters from the get-go. There are two conflicting accounts of the conception of the Real Gear Robots line, which shed light on this oddity:
	** According to a user of this wiki at the time, a [[Hasbro]] representative at [[BotCon 2007]] claimed that the Real Gear Robots toys were created in line with the designs of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' toyline, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the [[~~Movie~~ (franchise)\|movie]]'s marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film. For years, this was the accepted story behind the line's creation. Coverage of this convention's panels from the time is spotty, but in the two extant comprehensive recaps of the relevant panel, no mention is made of this titbit, with both instead supporting the idea that development of these toys only kicked off after inspiration from the movie itself.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Asked what heritage characters they would have put in the movie, Hasbro sidestepped and said they had been focused on developing toy concepts using the G1-type models before the movie went into production. Once word was received about the movie, the company started working on Robot Heroes, CyberStompers, and Real Gear to see how broad they could make the brand once they received the green light.\|link=https://tformers.com/BotCon-Hasbro-and-Paramount-Parnership-Panel/8001/news.html\|name=BaCon\|site=TFormers\|title=BotCon Hasbro and Paramount Parnership Panel\|year=2007\|month=07\|day=01}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote='''Real gear subline is great!'''<br>In doing the movie in a realistic setting, a great opportunity to bring the connection home, bring the robots in disguise to a personal level with technology... lots of fun to work on, new characters, new asthetic<br>'''Design team was working before movie got off the ground, if you were in full creative control, who else would you have put in the movie?'''<br>Weren't thinking about the movie until it started to happen - don't know about other characters, just thrilled that the right people were making the movie; were not developing new designs for the movie, but were designing robot heroes, real gear, the helmet-- to figure out how broad we could get the brand\|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/botcon-2007-panel-hasbro-transformers-movie-partnership.139263/\|name=ams\|site=TFW2005\|title=BOTCON 2007 - PANEL: HASBRO TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PARTNERSHIP\|year=2007\|month=06\|day=30}}</ref> Another wiki user who attended the convention [[Talk:Real Gear Robot#Chevy Autobots\|explicitly stated]] that they heard no such comment.		** According to a user of this wiki at the time, a [[Hasbro]] representative at [[BotCon 2007]] claimed that the Real Gear Robots toys were created in line with the designs of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' toyline, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the [[Transformers (2007 franchise)\|movie]]'s marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film. For years, this was the accepted story behind the line's creation. Coverage of this convention's panels from the time is spotty, but in the two extant comprehensive recaps of the relevant panel, no mention is made of this titbit, with both instead supporting the idea that development of these toys only kicked off after inspiration from the movie itself.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Asked what heritage characters they would have put in the movie, Hasbro sidestepped and said they had been focused on developing toy concepts using the G1-type models before the movie went into production. Once word was received about the movie, the company started working on Robot Heroes, CyberStompers, and Real Gear to see how broad they could make the brand once they received the green light.\|link=https://tformers.com/BotCon-Hasbro-and-Paramount-Parnership-Panel/8001/news.html\|name=BaCon\|site=TFormers\|title=BotCon Hasbro and Paramount Parnership Panel\|year=2007\|month=07\|day=01}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote='''Real gear subline is great!'''<br>In doing the movie in a realistic setting, a great opportunity to bring the connection home, bring the robots in disguise to a personal level with technology... lots of fun to work on, new characters, new asthetic<br>'''Design team was working before movie got off the ground, if you were in full creative control, who else would you have put in the movie?'''<br>Weren't thinking about the movie until it started to happen - don't know about other characters, just thrilled that the right people were making the movie; were not developing new designs for the movie, but were designing robot heroes, real gear, the helmet-- to figure out how broad we could get the brand\|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/botcon-2007-panel-hasbro-transformers-movie-partnership.139263/\|name=ams\|site=TFW2005\|title=BOTCON 2007 - PANEL: HASBRO TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PARTNERSHIP\|year=2007\|month=06\|day=30}}</ref> Another wiki user who attended the convention [[Talk:Real Gear Robot#Chevy Autobots\|explicitly stated]] that they heard no such comment.
	** In [[2023]], Hasbro designer [[Aaron Archer]] would give the contradictory account that the Real Gear Robots were conceived from the very start as an opportunistic movie tie-in assortment inspired by [[Frenzy (Movie)\|Frenzy]], which were never part of the ''Cybertron'' toyline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote="'I've been wondering what the original intent for the ''Real Gear Robots'' toyline was. Were they meant for ''Transformers Cybertron''? How could they have fit in the toyline's ecosystem?' So when you do a movie, you have an opportunity to sell to more retailers, because you're going to get the buzz, the lift of the movie, and the marketing campaign is going to lift that property up over one that doesn't have it—or just has basic TV animation or something—so a wider group of buyers across the wider spectrum of stores are going to buy product. So in order for you not to get overrun with the same stuff everywhere, or maybe making bigger molds in doubling them up than you want to, you're going to offer different assortments, different types of assortments different price points. So ''Real Gear'' gave us an opportunity to quote-unquote make a "movie" assortment, take the Frenzy concept of gear and kind of blow that out, like, what if there was more of that in the film? And we can offer a low price point that the movie otherwise didn't really have, and take that as permission to do a whole line of game controllers and watches and all that stuff. So that's really what ''Real Gear'' was, it was not part of ''Cybertron'', it was an opportunistic assortment to put more stuff out into the market, and that's what it was. And it was in the movie vernacular, but also we were able to say, Soundwave and Megatron and Perceptor and Blaster and characters before that had this... it's an element of ''Transformers'' the the "gear" bots, if you look at the car bots and the army bots or whatever, gear was also an element of the G1 experience, so we wanted to blow that out. Simple as that, it was an opportunity.\|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXaInBmtIk&t=3401s\|name=Aaron Archer\|site=''The Toy Armada''\|title=Toy Armada Friday night LIVE: Toy Talk Q&A\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=12}}</ref>		** In [[2023]], Hasbro designer [[Aaron Archer]] would give the contradictory account that the Real Gear Robots were conceived from the very start as an opportunistic movie tie-in assortment inspired by [[Frenzy (Movie)\|Frenzy]], which were never part of the ''Cybertron'' toyline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote="'I've been wondering what the original intent for the ''Real Gear Robots'' toyline was. Were they meant for ''Transformers Cybertron''? How could they have fit in the toyline's ecosystem?' So when you do a movie, you have an opportunity to sell to more retailers, because you're going to get the buzz, the lift of the movie, and the marketing campaign is going to lift that property up over one that doesn't have it—or just has basic TV animation or something—so a wider group of buyers across the wider spectrum of stores are going to buy product. So in order for you not to get overrun with the same stuff everywhere, or maybe making bigger molds in doubling them up than you want to, you're going to offer different assortments, different types of assortments different price points. So ''Real Gear'' gave us an opportunity to quote-unquote make a "movie" assortment, take the Frenzy concept of gear and kind of blow that out, like, what if there was more of that in the film? And we can offer a low price point that the movie otherwise didn't really have, and take that as permission to do a whole line of game controllers and watches and all that stuff. So that's really what ''Real Gear'' was, it was not part of ''Cybertron'', it was an opportunistic assortment to put more stuff out into the market, and that's what it was. And it was in the movie vernacular, but also we were able to say, Soundwave and Megatron and Perceptor and Blaster and characters before that had this... it's an element of ''Transformers'' the the "gear" bots, if you look at the car bots and the army bots or whatever, gear was also an element of the G1 experience, so we wanted to blow that out. Simple as that, it was an opportunity.\|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXaInBmtIk&t=3401s\|name=Aaron Archer\|site=''The Toy Armada''\|title=Toy Armada Friday night LIVE: Toy Talk Q&A\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=12}}</ref>