Talk:Reveal the Shield

Generations too?

What?

"Reveal the Shield is a promotion of both the Transformers and Generations toylines"?

I thought it was just a subline imprint of the 2010 Transformers line that runs concurrently with Generations, but doesn't overlap with it.--Nevermore 09:21, 12 December 2010 (EST)

That's what I thought it was, too. At least that, if not a line of its own. I certainly don't think it's just a "promotion." --KilMichaelMcC 10:31, 12 December 2010 (EST)

Toys have been released

Some of the 'not yet released' images can be removed now. Iyato.

"Subline imprint"?

What makes RtS a "subline imprint" while Generations and Power Core Combiners are their own toylines separate from TF 2010? The functional effect is that RtS toys are included on the TF 2010 page while the other two lines aren't, plus "(PCC)" is used as a disambig while "(RTS)" isn't. I don't understand the reasoning. - Jackpot 17:58, 19 March 2011 (EDT)

Power Core Combiners are verifiably their own continuity, which is why they get their own disambig. Reveal the Shield is less straightforward, in that its characters are drawn largely from existing continuities. Beyond this, both Generations and Power Core Combiners ran parallel to Hunt for the Decepticons and Reveal the Shield, had their own case assortments, etc. Thus, we've so far treated them as more comparable to Classics/Universe in their distinctness. Meanwhile, Reveal the Shield has all the telltales of a subline imprint, and indeed is just the latest in several in the toyline it occupies.--Rosicrucian^Talk 18:49, 19 March 2011 (EDT)

PCC's continuity isn't "verifiably" anything, especially in contrast to the rest of the 2010 offerings. It's a wad of contradictory clues, and Hasbro is explicitly agnostic about it. And ultimately I'm not even sure why that would matter, since we don't disambig by continuity, only franchise.

I don't understand what you mean by "ran parallel to". They... all came out at the same time? Okay, so why are HftD and RtS lumped together and the other two aren't? What are the "telltales of a subline imprint" that RtS has?

- Jackpot 19:02, 19 March 2011 (EDT)