Fan polls
Fan Built Bots are characters created by Hasbro by polling fandom. Thus far two sets of polls have been held, resulting in the creation of a single bot, Windblade, in 2013 and a combiner, Victorion, in 2015.
2013 polls
For the first Fan Built Bot, polls were conducted on transformers.com over the course of a week each. The first round was held between April 18th and May 5th, and included the following questions:[1]
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The second round was held between May 10th and May 17th, and included four more questions:[2]
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The result, Windblade, was revealed first in art form at San Diego Comic-Con 2013, and then her toy was revealed at Toy Fair 2014. As well as having her own comic, a different incarnation of Windblade is also featured in the Transformers: Robots in Disguise cartoon.
2015 polls
The second set of poll was announced on January 15, 2015, this time to create a whole new combiner. The polling was done via the Transformers mobile app. The first set of polls began on January 25. Each limb was voted on individually.
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Round 2 began on February 11 and including picking more specific modes for the limbs, two of which had been selected as aerial vehicles, and two as cars.
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A round also took place via the Toys"R"Us Twitter between February 17 and 28 to select which power the combiner would have.
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The final round of voting began on February 26:
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Victorion, the resulting female combiner, was featured in IDW Publishing's Combiner Hunters comic as well as getting a toy.
References
- ↑ http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-fan-built-bot-poll/27089/
- ↑ http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-fan-built-bot-poll-second-round/27272/
- ↑ This aspect of the character notably did not come through in her comic appearances, due to the prior lack of female Transformers in the IDW Generation 1 continuity; instead, the comic focused on her portrayed her as being from the colony Caminus.
