Images of Transformers: Prime characters

[FFN]

Remember when this forum raged about Animated and then looked silly afterwards?

Good times.

It's being written by Orci and Kurtzman so I think fans have more than enough reason to be sceptical at this point.

They may be writing something or other , but their main job will be executive producing. Besides, without the influence of Michael Bay, they wrote the critically acclaimed Star Trek.

I don't buy that. I think Hasbro is just trying to shoe horn it in for marketing purposes - I don't think Hasbro's marketing or it's more administrative departments fully understand their own brands beyond the commercial aspects. The developers who are the people who created the game have said that War for Cybertron is G1 and when you play the game, everything points to that.

It may not be exactly within any pre-existing G1 continuity like Sunbow, Marvel, DW or IDW but it is certainly within it's own take on a 'pre-Earth' G1 continuity.

Well, the WFC Exodus book is based on Hasbro's own Transformers "bible", which serves as backstory for Prime and presumably future Transformers series. The game doesn't fit in too well into this, but there you go, it's just a game with a bare minimum of storyline and characterisation.

From Hasbro's perspective, Exodus/their bible is the pre-Earth storyline for this new franchise, with the game being the mass market media to represent it.

As for whatever High Moon Studios and Activision think - they say what is needed to sell the game to the millions of people who aren't really Transformers fans (in the sense that you and me are fans) but remember "the cartoon from the 80s". So they've said a load of rubbish in videos, podcasts and interviews about it being the prequel to the Sunbow cartoon, which is of course, totally untrue.

Most disappointing part of their promo statement highlighted in case anyone missed it.

More evidence that the Hasbro corporate staff have no freaking clue. I am sure that kids watch Transformers because Transformers are in it, not primarily to watch "More Human Drama".

I think you people are taking that a little too literally.

The way I read human drama is a marketing buzzword for "more complex and developed stories/characterisation" or something to that effect. Saying "more robot drama than ever before!" doesn't make any sense.