My impression is that the movie was mostly completed by then and that Paramount was trying to keep as much info about it a secret from the public until then.
I have been saying it was a mistake to use the cartoon's premiere date of September 17 as the date for Transformers Day. Should've been May 8 instead, the actual 40th anniversary of the brand.
EDIT: Just found out that May 8 was also the day Paramount Pictures was first founded back in 1912...
Someone on another board proposed that the reason Star Convoy is being released as a Titan is because it could actually be a three-pack of all three Battlestars together: Star Convoy, Grandus, and Sky Garry (similar to how SS86 Hook and Long Haul are being released together as a single Commander...
Hasbro exec: "So what you're saying is... that we should have premiered the G1 cartoon in some other month 40 years ago! Of course! We need to go back in time and change the cartoon's premiere month so that its 40th anniversary can be in a better month for Transformers One to release in 40 years...
Power Rangers voice actor Campbell Cooley shares his experience auditioning for the voice of Lord Zedd back when the character was first brought back for Dino Fury (he didn't get the part, of course, since Zedd was voiced by Andrew Laing, but still):
Where do you think Aligned got it from? ;)
I don't believe it did. But I do remember the marketing for the movie pushing that idea.
Even before ROTF rolled around, there was also Hasbro trying to push a trend at the time that Unicron himself was Decepticon-affiliated, with both Energon and...
It seems to have originated from the planning stages of ROTF's story production, changing The Fallen from betraying the Thirteen to join Unicron into him betraying the Primes to seize the power of the Matrix for himself (and subsequently becoming the Palpatine to Megatron's Anakin, inspiring him...
It seems they went with September to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the G1 cartoon. But a May release would have better coincided with the actual 40th anniversary of the whole brand.
The only real competition it would have faced had it been released in May would have been Kingdom of the...
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