Quote Originally Posted by Sam View Post
I think being able to design transformations of figures takes conceptual skills to a whole new level...
Indeed. When comparing the concept images from the Hasbro "designers" to what the Japanese designers produce, it's like comparing a pre-school crayon drawing to a Picasso. One maybe giving direction and nice looking animation models of characters and toy gimmicks, but I think TakaraTomy could create Transformers toys without Hasbro (could anyone easily say Hasbro could do the same without TT though?).