POTP Deluxe Jazz "error"

[griffin]

Tipped off by Paulbot, we could be seeing a running change with POTP Deluxe Jazz (if they make any more, as the first wave stock was manufactured some time ago to already be in America already)... due to a tiny little paint app on the door with the Autobot symbol that has drawn some criticism, and an apology from Hasbro.

The detail on the door has four Cybertronian letters, that spell out MAGA. Now, it's not an actual word, and most people outside America wouldn't even recognise the acronym.... but is said to stand for Trump's main election slogan - Make America Great Again.

There isn't anything obviously Transformers related that MAGA could stand for, and Hasbro have responded to admit that it was the Trump slogan... and that someone snuck it in without permission, because they don't intentionally politicise their toys.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

That seems kind of ironic, what with Jazz's character being kind of the G1 S1 Autobots' '80s token black guy' and the ethno-political affiliation of a lot of Trump's being kind of, well...neo-Nazis. As in, openly so, with the swastikas and everything.

[bowspearer]

So wait, Hasbro hates this message because it's political, yet they've had no issue with the IDW comics heavily pushing an identity politics based agenda so strongly that they've introduced homosexual relationships among characters who don't even sexually reproduce to begin with?????????????

Way to be consistent there Hasbro.

[DELTAprime]

That seems kind of ironic, what with Jazz's character being kind of the G1 S1 Autobots' '80s token black guy' and the ethno-political affiliation of a lot of Trump's being kind of, well...neo-Nazis. As in, openly so, with the swastikas and everything.

I never saw Jazz as a token black guy, I always have seen him as just Jazz.

So wait, Hasbro hates this message because it's political, yet they've had no issue with the IDW comics heavily pushing an identity politics based agenda so strongly that they've introduced homosexual relationships among characters who don't even sexually reproduce to begin with?????????????

Way to be consistent there Hasbro.

Do transformers even technically have gender or is just an outward appearance and attitude? Think about it.

[bowspearer]

Do transformers even technically have gender or is just an outward appearance and attitude? Think about it.

Actually James Roberts has made it clear that it goes far beyond a mere outwards appearance and attitude.

[DELTAprime]

Actually James Roberts has made it clear that it goes far beyond a mere outwards appearance and attitude.

The article does not say anything about that.

Two males (or in this case two robots that we think of as males) in a relationship is deemed by modern culture to be acceptable. Racism, bigotry and neo-nazism is not.

[SharkyMcShark]

So wait, Hasbro hates this message because it's political, yet they've had no issue with the IDW comics heavily pushing an identity politics based agenda so strongly that they've introduced homosexual relationships among characters who don't even sexually reproduce to begin with?????????????

Way to be consistent there Hasbro.

Homosexual characters existing isn't a political statement.

It's trite to politicise their entire existence.

Transformers romances date back to the original G1 source material.