Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
The new Volkswagen commercial playing on TV here in the last week... with a boy in a party costume that transforms into a yellow VW sedan... is just the right yellow to make me think of Bumblebee - which might not be a coincidence, as there was probably some cross-promotional agreements with their involvement in the Bumblebee movie. So even though there is no mention of Transformers or the Movie in the commercial, the concept and colours were probably intentional so that it was in people's minds when the Bumblebee movie comes out later this year.
I only just saw this ad, I thought it was great (especially when the kid "transforms") and it immediately made me think of Bumblebee. Very cool and shows how far VW have come from the "no war toys" stuff regarding Transformers.

Sorry if slightly OT but If only Porsche would also come on board like VW have. Seeing the post on TFW2005 makes me think we won't see an MP Jazz which would make my collection feel incomplete.

From poster oku:

Someone above asked for a direct source about Jazz's licensing was an issue. Hope this is direct enough. Here's a report from 2016 convention where Yuki and Hasui mentioned about Jazz during Q&A session:


31号是老幸和莲井访谈，谈到了比如偷胶和第三方的一些问题，另外关于莲井在社内“Mr.红蜘蛛”的外号， 其实好像没有很多人这么叫他，倒是老幸打趣的称莲井为“Mr.MP”关于红蜘蛛先生这个外号的说法，主要是 莲井负责了众多的红蜘蛛玩具，有新的红蜘蛛玩具要出如果不让莲井来做社内也感觉做不好。
然后谈了关于MP的一些问题，比如爵士，在TT社内出爵士的的想法早就有，无奈车商并不给版权，双方协商了 多次也没有谈下来，老幸打趣说要是在座的各位能帮忙谈下车商版权就好了，另外台下有人喊探长，老幸说探长的 版权应该可以谈下来没有问题；另外关于史达和狮王的问题，老幸说只要公司一点头，随时开始准备MP狮王的工 作；
主持人提问说如果没有预算的限制，2位最想做什么样的作品，老幸是说希望做应该全新的角色，而莲井倒是希望 出所有角色的MP
二人分别推荐自己最满意的作品，老幸选择的是BWN的猛犸（提到了是首次能够拿出能源宝的司令官），莲井则 是推荐了真人世的L级红蜘蛛（类似于睁眼的联动机构）


There was discussion about challenges of the MP line like Jazz . The team always wanted to do Jazz in the very beginning. Sadly the car company would not grant their wish. The two parties had gone back-and-forth many times over the past and still no deal.