Michael Ballog

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"Hey Bandai, you and your Power Rangers better BRING IT ON! Can you smell what the Bro is cookin'?!"

Michael "Mike" Ballog was a marketer ("Brand Manager") at Hasbro for the various Transformers toylines around the time of Transformers Animated. He was on Beyblade at HasCon 2017 and became a "Vice President of Global Brands" (presumably global brand marketing) at Hasbro in February of 2021.

He's probably an okay guy, but he sure knows his marketing speak.

Also, while the style of the new series is dramatically different from the live action movie, a number of the characters and their roles within the story are similar. As I mentioned, it is our goal to build iconic characters that can live across multiple expressions.On shared character archetypes, from a FunPub interview

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2011
• Cybertron Con 2010