Rumour on multiple toy/cheat mode.

[GoktimusPrime]

..but I didn't even know that Devastator was going to be in the next movie (he died!) - whether he'll be a gestalt or not. (T-T) I hope that this is 100% fan speculation. (>_>)

[kup]

..but I didn't even know that Devastator was going to be in the next movie (he died!) - whether he'll be a gestalt or not. (T-T) I hope that this is 100% fan speculation. (>_>)

Good news! it seems that you know very little since what you have written is incorrect according to rumor.

The Gestalt is only being called Devastator by fans and technically we know very little of what it actually is.

[MV75]

Meh, I've largely given up on new lines anyway. I don't see myself buying any movie 2 toys as it is. I shudder to think of the quality.

And yes, this is even lazier than leaving the shopping trolly in the car space NEXT to the return bay.

If I were a kid now, I'd be absolutly psyckd about a combiner, afterall, they had them over 20 years ago.

[Pulse]

* Warning - Possible Spoiler in Link*




Hold on...

So is "this" a scrapped design or a Fan's Artwork?

[kup]

* Warning - Possible Spoiler in Link*




Hold on...

So is "this" a scrapped design or a Fan's Artwork?

It begun life as a fan's unofficial art work. It is now being shown repeatedly next to every combiner rumor.

Hasbro would never translate a fan's work directly into the movie so the pic is just wishful thinking as originally it was widely received when the fan posted it.

[griffin]

Hasbro do need to get some credit here, as the movie toys don't have the 18 month design period of normal TFs toys. They have to be rushed out in about half that time, and even still, some elements that are added to the animations in the movie, aren't in the toys (like Prime's sword). To have to rush out a huge number of toys, with exceptional sculpting and auto-morph features, bonus gimmicks like combining, just have to be sacrificed due to lack of time. It's not because of laziness.

[FFN]

Hasbro do need to get some credit here, as the movie toys don't have the 18 month design period of normal TFs toys. They have to be rushed out in about half that time, and even still, some elements that are added to the animations in the movie, aren't in the toys (like Prime's sword). To have to rush out a huge number of toys, with exceptional sculpting and auto-morph features, bonus gimmicks like combining, just have to be sacrificed due to lack of time. It's not because of laziness.

Don't bother man. Some people in this forum believe Hasbro bears them personal ill will.

[TheDirtyDigger]

Don't bother man. Some people in this forum believe Hasbro bears them personal ill will.

Me for one.
A. Archer still hasn't forgiven me for that terrible joke that went wrong at our high school prom.
How were we to know he'd go crazy after we drenched his gf in pig's blood?


I'm sorry Aaron!!! God...how many times do you want me to say it???

[GoktimusPrime]

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.

No plot details are to be posted in non-spoiler topics until after each movie is released.

My understanding of this rule was that plot spoilers couldn't be posted in threads that weren't marked as containing spoilers. Has that only been my interpretation? If not, could that rule be re-worded better to make it clear that even topics not marked with a spoiler warning can still contain spoilers? *shrug*

[dirge]

Hasbro do need to get some credit here, as the movie toys don't have the 18 month design period of normal TFs toys. They have to be rushed out in about half that time, and even still, some elements that are added to the animations in the movie, aren't in the toys (like Prime's sword). To have to rush out a huge number of toys, with exceptional sculpting and auto-morph features, bonus gimmicks like combining, just have to be sacrificed due to lack of time. It's not because of laziness.

Fair enough - I wouldn't call it laziness. I would call it trying to do so much in that short timeframe.

Personally, I'd rather see half the junk stripped out of the movie line this time around (Slammers, 2/3 size classes of the leader characters, peripheral stuff like the walkietalkies) so that the designers are able to focus on the core toys. Considering how badly some of this stuff sold last time around (the Slammers only moved when everything else was gone in the leadup to Christmas, the Prime & Megs voyagers took a long time to sell), I'd rather see fewer toys given more designer time each.