Rumour on multiple toy/cheat mode.

[Bartrim]

I don't know what all the fuss is about. Most people I know that have combiner teams have them displayed in their combined form anyway.

[Golden Phoenix]

I don't know what all the fuss is about. Most people I know that have combiner teams have them displayed in their combined form anyway.

I think it is because people were expecting an gestalt. That would have been awesome. But based on the figures we go from the last movie, in terms of what they had to look like in 2 modes, throwing in a combined form, especially a gestalt, would probably look horrendous.
Oh well. We can all still dream

[griffin]

But based on the figures we go from the last movie, in terms of what they had to look like in 2 modes, throwing in a combined form, especially a gestalt, would probably look horrendous.

That's certainly the point here. Which option is gonna upset the least amount of people and generate the most sales - a set of toys that can combine but look really bad in all modes because of the movie toys' complexity of design, or accurate looking toys to the movie designs that can't combine.

People who play with their toys a lot would prefer it to combine, but for those who have them stored away or on display most of the time, should be okay with a better looking figure that doesn't combine.

[kup]

I also believe that its all about laziness. Many of the modern toy designs reflect that lazy design philosophy too.

Come on, we could do it back in the 80s, yes we had extra addon bits but toy technology has progressed enough for us to be able to incorporate those extra bits into the figure.

Hell! Liokaiser can do it!

[i_amtrunks]

Oh the stench of laziness.

But from a marketing perspective it's brilliant.

[GoktimusPrime]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa... there's going to be a gestalt in the next movie?? I didn't know this! I'm trying to avoid any spoilers, so if this is true, could there please be a spoiler tag in the topic!!

Edit: I just clicked on that link. BBWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGH!
TIME FOR A KICK TO THE JANGLIES!!!

[kup]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa... there's going to be a gestalt in the next movie?? I didn't know this! I'm trying to avoid any spoilers, so if this is true, could there please be a spoiler tag in the topic!!

Edit: I just clicked on that link. BBWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGH!
TIME FOR A KICK TO THE JANGLIES!!!

Don't worry the link is not confirmed and has been floating on the net for months. It was originally a fan made pic which circulated the net which has been made into a kind of 'example' of what a movie gestalt would look like. The final Gestalt is likely to look nothing like it and it may not even be a gestalt at all as far as what we know to be a gestalt is concerned.

[Bartrim]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa... there's going to be a gestalt in the next movie?? I didn't know this! I'm trying to avoid any spoilers, so if this is true, could there please be a spoiler tag in the topic!!

Well the section is called Prime's Transformers Movie NEWS. What did you expect when you clicked on a thread in here?

[griffin]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa... there's going to be a gestalt in the next movie?? I didn't know this! I'm trying to avoid any spoilers, so if this is true, could there please be a spoiler tag in the topic!!

Everything in the Movie news section is a spoiler if the movie is not yet out, so it is redundant having 'spoilers' on every post. We just have the rule of not having spoilers in topic titles, because they show up on the main table and topic listings. Everything else is hidden in the post itself.

[Pulse]

IF this is true, this just smacks of laziness . I mean, it's 2008/09 and they still can't create 9 deluxes (if the rumours are to believed) that are both stand-alone transformable figures & can combine???

I would tell them to go back to the design drawing board, start again & come back with something good.