Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++

[Princess Viola]

This team's been wise to do this on the neutral turf of Instagram instead of picking a forum. As much as I'd love to have them here, I get why that didn't work out for Orson's World and why it wouldn't work out now.

yeah it's called most of the fandom aren't even on forums these days heyooooooo

 

[Platypus Prime]

Hey, I know EVERYTHING there is to know about toy design, and I learned it all on fan forums! Plastic comes from petroleum, which we get from...petrorabbits, I think...and then that gets cast into steel molds made from a resin prototype which was assembled by elves working at the North Pole, and they do it free so any cost cutting is entirely because Hasbro hates fans, and the product should always be whatever I was thinking of when fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft...no, wait, that figure's not out yet, doesn't count. And plasticizer can't melt cardboard.

I should probably admit that due to Transformers not normally impacting my eating/medical situations, I see the whole thing as entertainment and only tend to pay attention during the fun parts. I may have missed a step or two. Whatever. I still am waiting for those Combaticon preorders to go live.

 

[Daith]

yeah it's called most of the fandom aren't even on forums these days heyooooooo

Oh hey! This is still here?!

Joking aside, the older I get the less I want to see people arm chair designing.

Now let me tell you how they screwed up on the new combiner frames!.....

 

[Blot]

Well, tbf to Aaron, he tried. "Orson's World" over on TFW2005 was him interacting with fans and answering questions about the process and how things worked til, as I understand it, Someone bitched about him doing so and he got reprimanded hard, and had to stop doing that and afterwards he became very tight lipped.

It was due to this, as an example, that Armada's faction symbols got fixed from being just blobs (Hasbro trying to save money) to being outlined since he saw how much feedback there was about it and how long it would take to get fixed (Wave 3, since wave 2 at the time was already in production and too late to change things)

Even beyond Orson's World, the Hasbro Q&As where the sites would submit questions for Hasbro to give wishy washy non-answers weren't exactly better either.

 

[Sabrblade]

Now let me tell you how they screwed up on the new combiner frames!.....

Simple: With a screwdriver.