Opinion: Bottom 5 Moments of IDW's Transformers Run

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There is no similar theory that a species action/reaction can be directly tied to being brought to life by a living planet in order to one day fight another living planet so as to save the universe from being devoured?

Sadly that wasn't their history in the IDWverse

Yeah but I spose by the same token Malebots don't make sense either.

Agreed. If they didn't have voices in the cartoons they likely would all be gender neutral.

But from the perspective that Transformers are a toyline and all the related media such as comics and cartoons are to sell those toys, having malebots and fembots makes perfect sense. It really opens up a plethora of options for both new toys and storylines, and increases the range of the franchises appeal to various markets. For instance, my daughter took all my Autobot Fembots the other day and made them have a tea party. She loved the fact that they had working knees so she could make them sit on her dollhouse chairs! It was so cute! She wouldn't have been remotely interested in playing with my Transformers if they were all boys that turned into tanks. And because she loves playing with my Fembots, I have at least a half-dozen different ones stashed away to give her when she gets older. So ergo, having Fembots means more sales for Hasbro

Is that an association with them being fembots, colour or alt mode? Did you tell her they were the female ones? What does she think of Missfire?