Fan-Fest April 9th official images and info

[JJJ]

The first question of the round table was asked by Colin Douglas (TFCon) – What determines if a figure is going to receive a second production run, and more specifically he asked about the Amazon Exclusive conehead. Colin said, “A lot of people are asking what’s happening with this. Want to know if a second production run on this. A lot of orders haven’t been [fulfilled] and no one in Canada has gotten theirs yet.”

As a note, I don’t know if the question was fully resonating with the Hasbro team. Ran Sun (Hasbro Marketing) said that they want characters to be in market and to be sure everyone gets one. She also mentioned if a character gets re-released whether they bring it back in the exact same form or a different format. But when doing this there is always a lead time in releasing new characters.
Leonar Panzica (Design) mentioned that they weren’t aware with people having a problem getting that character, but generally they keep an eye out for demand and take care of it.

Colin followed up to reiterate that it’s more about the outstanding orders than anything but there was no confirmation of any sort of second runs on these figures.

People tell me that Hasbro is aware of how things look from our perspective, and then they say things like this.

Khalil Quotap (Kastor’s Korner) followed up with the question of scale in regards to how the Transformers scale with one another. Specifically he wanted to know if the next segment will continue with the philosophy of scale as they have with the WFC trilogy. Leonard confirms that the intention is to remain keeping the characters in scale and not doing so would be detrimental to the line.

Good. A mish-mash of sizes of toys is no good for anyone, and always bugged the hell out of me as a kid.

Alex (TFW2005) has asked about the possibility of getting the entire G1 cast produced and in scale, noting there are about 19 characters to fill that role out. But the big question is will Hasbro create the remaining characters in scale? Leonard says they intend to get there eventually.

Yay But how on earth did someone land on this figure of about 19 characters left?

[nalops]

Yay But how on earth did someone land on this figure of about 19 characters left?

They mentioned it in the TFW page Griffin linked. It's something about on-screen pre-movie characters.

[DELTAprime]

But how on earth did someone land on this figure of about 19 characters left?

They said G1 cast in scale. So that's probably US G1 cartoon characters that had toys in G1 in whatever they deem to be the correct scale. No toy only, comic only, TV only, JP only or EU only characters.

Where's my Generations Thunderclash, Hasbro???

[nalops]

Here's the quote from the TFW page.

And, here?s my list of needed WFC scale/style bots needed to complete on-screen, pre-movie guys. In case anyone over there needs it to ?stick the landing? 🙂

G1 S1
Brawn
Gears
Windcharger
Slag
Snarl
Sludge
Swoop
Buzzsaw
Shrapnel
Bombshell
Kickback

G1 S2
Seaspray
Cosmos
Beachcomber
Powerglide
Blaster
Perceptor
Skids
Blitzwing

Combiners ? Redo. Devastator ok .

86 Movie forward ? as you guys see fit

https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/04/15/...an-fest-431820

[DELTAprime]

Here's the quote from the TFW page.

lol. The only ones I agree with are Blaster, the Dinobots and Buzzsaw.

Also, I hate it when people ignore anything post-season 2.

[JJJ]

I hate it when they ignore the Deluxe Insecticons. Come oooooooon Hasbro, make them!

Also, why is Blitzwing on that list without Octane?

Other than that, yep, would love to see that list turned out as modern deluxes and voyagers over the next couple of years.

[Paulbot]

That list is the remaining pre-movie characters from the cartoon, and Octane wasn't in the cartoon before the movie, and the deluxe Insecticons weren't in the cartoon ever.

I think some that list ignores that all of those characters were released in Generations form, and most of them in the Prime Wars trilogy, so there are options 'for the shelf' at the moment - although your scale and cartoon accuracy mileage may vary.

I'd like to see all of the deluxe Insecticons too, outside of the Chop Shop version of Shrapnel, the other three are the never "CHUG'd" orphans of the 1984-85 lines.

(And yeah the Omnibots too but mailaways sort of exist over to the side there)

[DELTAprime]

(And yeah the Omnibots too but mailaways sort of exist over to the side there)

We got the Powerdashers, so Omnibots isn't impossible to see Hasbro doing.