Hasbro Q&A/July 2009: Question submission
Transformers Wiki participates in Hasbro's roughly-every-other-month Question & Answer session. Our site will be allowed to submit three questions to Hasbro's Transformers team for answering. If you're a registered user at our site, please add your question below!
Keep in mind that Hasbro is not likely to tell us about future product they are not ready to reveal, so keep those sorts of questions to a minimum. Please be as thoughtful about your question as possible! We will similarly reject questions like, "Hasbro, why do you suck so much?" The better and more useful the question, the more likely the admins will choose it to be one of the three submitted. We also reserve the right to edit your question for clarity if need be.
Each registered user can ask one question at this time. Please bullet and sign your question. The deadline for your questions is the evening of Sunday, July 12th, and answers will be sent back on July 31st. If you're a registered member and for some reason you can't edit this page, ask your question on the discussion page, then I or Walky will move it here.
Thanks! --Monzo 22:10, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
July 2009 questions
- Forest Lee stated at BotCon 2009 that The Fallen is a multiversal singularity, meaning that there is only one of him across all Transformers stories, and there are no variant or alternate universe versions of him. How is this reconciled with the version of The Fallen from the live-action film? After all, there are umpteen versions and adaptations of the events of the live-action film, from storybooks to comic books to coloring books, all which are different and conflict in various ways. Does The Fallen experience each of these universes in sequence, reappearing in a new universe every time he is defeated in the previous universe? What about the Decepticon campaign happy endings in the Revenge of the Fallen video games, where The Fallen is victorious? Is there an in-house theory on this, and if there is can we hear about it, or should we just assume it all works out somehow and the details aren't important at the moment?
- Are the recently-released Target exclusive Transformers Universe Titanium Thrust and Optimus Prime the Generation 1 characters? Also, is the Hot Zone from the same assortment Generation 1 Hot Spot, the alternate-universe Hot Spot/Defensor planned for the original Universe line as an OTFCC 2005 exclusive redeco of the Super class Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime? --FortMax 22:22, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
- Since the Universe Robot Heroes line has been put on hold to make room for movie Robot Heroes, the U.S. did not get the next four two-packs, Inferno/Tigatron, Predaking/Ricochet, Laserbeak/Prowl, or RID Megatron and Super Optimus Prime. However, Inferno/Tigatron and Predaking/Ricochet were obviously produced as they are available in other international markets. Were the Laserbeak/Prowl and/or RID Megatron/Super Optimus Prime packs produced in any amounts, and if so, might they be released in international markets as well? Also, since the general trend is that if a mold is made, it will be released SOMEHOW, is there an active desire by the Hasbro team to get the figures from these packs released in the U.S. in some form?
- Aside from the toys for the live-action movies and 'Transformers Animated' series, most Transformers products seem to herald back to the G1 generation. Any possibility that we may see more post-G1 products and less toys inspired by the 1984-1989 toyline, seeing how the children who played with post-G1 figures are grown or are growing up? - Zadok Rox 22:29, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
July 2009 answers
