Wouldnt it be good if there is a die hard TF fan working for hasbro???

[SuspectimusPrime]

if you were really popular, good looking and sassy i think you'd eventually promoted to the board of directors and able to assign resources accordingly.

Sounds like that journey should start in the executive bedroom

[liegeprime]

Wouldn't it be good if there was a die-hard TF fan making the live-action movies?

He'd probably be fired by Michael Bay immediately anyways for being such a whiny %$#% on the set.... mumbling and grumbling how ugly the TFs look and complaining about certain aesthetics

[5FDP]

Last time I heard, Benson Yee was on the fan advisory board with a few other members hand picked by Hasbro.

They basically meet (not physically) and give feedback / suggestions on future product.

Benson was featured on a Canadian show called Fanatical (you should be able to find it on Youtube) explaining his involvement with this.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, but these are fans who Hasbro consult with for advice. They're not actually employed by Hasbro. Correspondence is done through email.

Still... it's good to have that kind of relationship with Hasbro. It turned out to be beneficial for me 10 years ago when the Ultra Transmetal 2s were obscenely hard to find; I never found them in stores (they were only released in Toyworlds and even then in limited quantities) and I whinged about it to Ben Yee, who then mentioned it to Hasbro, who then sent me TM2 Megatron and Tigerhawk for free! Yay!

So in answer to this thread's question, yes, it is good to have a TF fan working forwith Hasbro! I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but some of the guys currently working for Hasbro like Eric Siebenaler are also fans of Transformers. (^_^)
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[5FDP]

When did Eric come out to the Parra Fair? I thought he was only here briefly for a signing at Ultimo...

[GoktimusPrime]

November 2008. Eric was living in Sydney for about a year working at the Hasbro office in Eastwood (hence why he didn't attend BotCon last year; there was a cardboard version of him instead). His appearance in Ultimo and Melbourne were advertised public events, but he attended the Parramatta Fair as an ordinary private fan (just like the rest of us), so naturally it wasn't advertised.

[Sky Shadow]

I was thinking that would be so cool cos then we'd get all this cool releases we would never have from someone who just works for Hasbro. Sadly only a dream

What? No, it wouldn't be cool - it would still suck every bit as hard as it does at the moment - we already have fans working at Hasbro. And, ironically, (in my opinion) Transformers toys were better before they had 'fans' working on them.

[kup]

I think that although fans work for Hasbro they still have to compromise to corporate product demands. They may have some awesome new design but they still have to adapt it to ever decreasing production costs and odd ideas like 'Make this character unique mold into x character in a repaint' or 'This toy should look more realistic, make it grey instead of red but keep bright electronics visible so it stands out in the box'

[GoktimusPrime]

Like many things I think there needs to be a careful balance between when dealing with fans. If Hasbro completely catered to fan sentiments, then I think the line would never have evolved past "Gee Wun." On one hand it's nice to see G1 homages, but on the other hand I can't help but wonder if it's holding Transformers back.

I would really love to see a Transformers series whose leaders are NOT called "Optimus" or "Megatron." The current movie franchise is keeping the Optimus Prime and Megatron trademarks in use, so there's no need to have other incarnations of them in the next TF series between now and TF3. We've seldomly seen anything terribly fresh and innovative done with Transformers since Beast Wars. After Beast Wars finished we had Transformers return to becoming licensed vehicles with Car Robot, which in turn led to all the "G1 reboots" starting with Armadaverse. That was nearly seven years ago... could we have something new now?

[G1Optimal]

i don't know if this Promotional video from Paramount helps or not...

25 Years of Transformers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhlSI...layer_embedded