Hasbro Highlights Their Plans For 2019

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by SilverOptimus, Dec 4, 2018.

  1. artiepants

    artiepants Transformers '84!!!

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    yeah, i don't think you can really do the until you get into the 7-figures or more realm.
     
  2. GizmoTron

    GizmoTron Roobaticon Commander

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    It's still a militaristic themed game that boils down to good guy shooting bad guys.

    Besides, depiction of the military on television including during every football commercial break ever shows a lot of favoritism towards the men and women who serve, so saying the military is unpopular is unfounded and just a poor excuse on Hasbro's part for them being unable to figure out a good G.I. Joe story and put out some toys.
     
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  3. Windsweeper II

    Windsweeper II Banned

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    They're not even interested in creating original characters, relationships or arcs.
    Everything is a carbon copy of a carbon copy of a carbon copy. They just mix up the environment and the backstory a bit.
    Companies are convinced people just want the same shit over and over and over again.
    And artists are only interested in homaging what they think was a cool story or movie.
    Thus nothing new is ever created.
     
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  4. Windsweeper II

    Windsweeper II Banned

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    How about if the new GI Joe story took place in the future?
    Post WW3 the world is ruled by a multitude of small-time warlords.
    This is all about to change as a new group is consolidating it's power and aiming to spread their power over the entire former USA.
    At the same time, a ragtag group of specialists are trying to build and support small communities all over the place.
    When several of these communities are being threatened by the tyranny of COBRA the group of specialists decide they have to aim higher in order to protect the people they love and under the name of GI Joe they organize themselves and confront Cobra in their endeavor to reinstate a new lawful government.
     
  5. myrrh

    myrrh Knell-Mown Wember

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    ...let me introduce you to botbots, or heck, rewind the clock just a few years, and rescue bots not only introduced a brand-new aspect to the franchise, but blossomed into one of the best-produced and longest-running transformers series of all time...

    ...sounds a lot like IDW phase two, actually...

    ...yes, there's a big market for repackaged nostagia in this franchise, but there's also some laudably original material on offer in recent years, some of which has set an impressively high bar for creative integrity...
     
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  6. Rodimus Prime

    Rodimus Prime Sola Gratia, Sola Fide TFW2005 Supporter

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    *Steps in* I wonder what the plans ar---
    *Sees political discussion the entire first page*
    :confused2 
     
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  7. Windsweeper II

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    You don't have to introduce me to anything, certainly not in such a passive-aggressive way.
    But I suppose I'm just being harsh again.
    Botbots and Rescue Bots are fairly creative products in our own franchise which I have often praised.
    I can't really comment on Rescue Bots, because I still haven't seen much of it, but I doubt I'll be surprised to be honest.
    I don't see any other products produced by the entertainment industry deviating significantly from regurgitating the same stuff they have been regurgitating for the past several centuries after all.
    Meanwhile I am not a professional in the entertainment industry who pride themselves on being creative while in fact refusing to do anything truly innovative at all and being hindered from doing so by executives who don't want to produce anything innovative.
    And my idea is not really that similar to IDW's phase two, come to think of it.
    I was thinking more along the lines of The Postman.
    But hey, if you feel compelled to defend your god.. .
     
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  8. Venixion

    Venixion Its always the middle of the night in Moonside

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    Creative content hasn't been new or creative in a far longer time then that. So waah! Get over it.

    I'm not looking forward to the new Joe movie because I wasn't enthralled with the last 2 attempts. Yes to bringing back personalities.

    The Fast and the Furious director is doing M.A.S.K which is a-ok with me. That's a movie I'm interested in.

    I'm not familiar with Rom so, I'm not particularly excited either.

    C.O.P.S Hasbro? I like that show.

    Inhumanoids maybe? I wanna see what its all about.
     
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  9. Rated X

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    Although Im not a race car fan, Fast & Furious is an example of the creativity I want to see. It was an original franchise not from the 80s. Even in 20 years, it would make no sense to reboot it. It would be as stupid as trying to reboot the Sopranos because the original is timeless. Like I said earlier, there seems to be no limit to the creativity sunk into video game franchises, but toy and movie franchises not so much. The concept of the "reboot" has induced over a decade of laziness and is slowly killing the industry. Things that worked in 1984 dont always work in 2018. Sometimes the do, but not always.
     
  10. worldsgreatest

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    Yeah. It's a real shame that movies like American Sniper and Lone Survivor were flops. If only there were a market!
     
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  11. Rodimal Rodimus

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    I'm all for a Hasbro Cinematic Universe
     
  12. myrrh

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    ...the fast and the furious was a remake of point break with street racing instead of surfing; it grew into something different overthe course of three sequels...
     
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  13. WishfulThinking

    WishfulThinking The world has moved on...we've always said.

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    Considering there's not much to go back to, you could really get crazy there.