Ben Montano

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Ben Montano was the Senior Director of Global Franchise and Product for the Transformers franchise at Hasbro. He's the guy who pitched the Transformers Collaborative line, as well as playing a significant role in the development of the BotBots franchise alongside lead designer Michelino Paolino. He was also the one behind Hasbro's brief attempt to minimize plastic in Transformers packaging from around 2022 to 2024. Points for trying. As of 2023 he's traded toy cars for real ones in a similar position at a muffler company.

Known marketing projects

• Transformers Collaborative
• BotBots

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2014
• BotCon 2015
• Toy Fair 2016
• Toy Fair 2017
• HasCon 2017
• Hasbro PulseCon 2020

External links

• Ben Montano at LinkedIn

Interviews

• 2020 - Transformers BotBots Redefine More than Meets the Eye, Interview on BotBots at Newsweek, with Michelino Paolino