What's Takara Tomy's and Hasbro's stance on 3rd party bots?

[griffin]

Hasbro aren't ingratiating themselves with the fandom with this. Even if you weren't into third party stuff, you just lost your biggest online community. Hasbro, instead of being dicks, could have had a quiet word behind the scenes to the TFW owners and they would have lowered the profile of non-official stuff instantly. Instead, as you said Griffman, they shut down one of, if not the biggest TF resource on the web.

This doesn't make me want to rush out to support Hasbro.

Who is starting the petition to send to Hasbro to bring back TFW?

The other thing is that Hasbro and TFW have had a good relationship, they had direct interviews with them when they brought out this quarters financial report. whether it was just TFW or they were part of a larger teleconference, it's still clearly a good releationship if they are invited/allowed to engage at that level.

That's the unusual thing about this.
It's as if someone high up has forced the issue, without giving a warning first. As a warning would have resulted in TFW side-lining the unauthorised stuff like we do... which would still appease the fans, without headlining it as news (getting to the point of 1 out of 3 or 4 news postings being non-Transformers items) and upsetting someone at Hasbro.

I've looked around and none of the other major American sites or dealers have been shut down, so there has to be some specific reason or ulterior motive in play (hence the possible FunPub factor, trying to shut down their competition of TFCon by forcing Hasbro to shut down its operator TFW2005).