The official Transformers Youtube channel has posted a new Designer Desk video. In this video, Hasbro’s John Warden talks about the Combiner Wars Menasor gestalt, and the six toys who form him, the Stunticons. As well as some very general comments on the design process, the video features some behind-the-scenes materials showing the paint maps and other goodies which are employed when designing a new Transformer. Check it out below:
MROptimusPrime
Every time I see the combined mode I get irritated that in 2015 those four car entire front ends can't be used as feet and or hands. Same thing goes for the jet nose cones and tail fins.
POSSESSED_DIGIT
I wouldn't say foreshadowing. It's more of them using the original toys as comparisons to what they're designing now, and having them around the design studio when they make the videos. I'm sure they may leave them out on purpose. But not because they're going for Easter eggs in the videos.
gbm
lololololol
MonaLazaBeak
I came on here to say almost the same thing. I watch the videos the first and second go round to see what I spot. They don't have old figures in the background for nothing, that I am sure of. Every single vid has changed something in the background and around the desks. It's not baseless speculation, it's Hasbro providing a foreshadowing of what's to come.
artiepants
considering the first designer vids had G1 Defensor and Devastator on the shelf in the background well before their announcements AND Scattershot has shown up in a computer listing, i don't think speculation is baseless in the slightest i'm sure it's QUITE intentional on their part.
Molini
My eyes are Mena-sore from looking at the stance he's in in this video.
shadowfall1976
To me Motormaster looks decent in bot mode and alt mode, but is weak as a torso.
And, I suppose maybe even though it was apparent… It was my opinion.
Maybe next time I should use [OPINION] [/OPINION], if that would make it more apparent.
And the pegs on Motormaster are at fault for why Blackjack doesn't fit, it's just slight tolerances that's the problem.
RNSrobot
It's teleTRAAAAN one.
usernamedustin
Sweet. Now that this guy has Menacer, maybe he will make Defencer, Computran, Supairion, Bruticas, Abominess, and Devastestar. I seriously think this guy didn't learn the name MENASOR, I am pretty sure he genuinely thinks it is Menacer, and is pronouncing it that way. Watch a cartoon one time before you make a toy based on that cartoon.
Sponge
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Prime Jetscream
This really shows how little they really care about the fiction, or at least everyone involved in this particular video. "Breakdown is a reckless crazy driver."
Fretburn
"Saur" at the end of a word would actually be pronounced the same way as "sor". Think "dinosaur". You don't pronounce it "Dino-sar", do you? Well, if you're from the southern US, perhaps you do.
Defensor, Abominus really only have the one pronunciation.
Devestator is really the only one with wide variation and that's do more to regional dialects/accents/individual linguistic limitatoons than anything.
Fretburn
Menasor, people. No "U", only one "A". It's in the TITLE OF THE THREAD.
It is pronounced "MenasOR". Rhymes with "door". Anyone you've ever heard say it some other way has been wrong. That's really all there is to it.
The joints in his thighs/hips are quite loose and have fairly wide distance between ratchet points. They're simply not up to the job of the weight they need to hold.
Of course design flaws make it through production. That's why they're called "DESIGN FLAWS" and not "production flaws".
And there really was no good reason for that either. Blackjack was designed to be a chest piece. Menasor was designed to use Blackjack as a chest piece. That someone designed those pegs with the ridges, preventing Blackjack and Menasor from working together is not a minor error. That's an unfinished figure that made it production.
jestermon
I noticed it some too, they don't completely un peg or anything, but very slightly and only because I have him posed forward with the arms down in front of him, there is only so much those tabs can hold.
Still I have heard people say Devestat-or and Devestat-ur, or Defens-aur and Defens-or Abomi-nus and Abomi-nas, at the end of the day they are made up names and people tend to pronounce things however they want or however they normally pronounce things.
I think Computron is the only one I have heard the same way consistently.
Autovolt 127
God it's infuriating when they don't know how to pronounce it right.
I'm sure he will be getting a figure in the line later on.
BlueAngel_Bolt
I like how Menasaur turned out myself. The only issue I have is Motormaster's arms not staying pegged in torso mode to support the limbs.
YoungPrime
What! Computron is coming and he's also a Skrull???
Let me hop on Twitter and spread the word!
YoungPrime
Thought that "SAUR" crap only irritated me LOL!
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john, you should learn from this company,
jestermon
I hear him saying it the correct way not sure how you guys are saying it, I have heard people say it bot ways, just how some people say the end of Devestator differently.
I have my Menasor setting here and I don't see any problems with his look or posing, what the people that have issues with the aesthetic should say it's not what "I" want it to look like not that the design isn't functional.
The Blackjack thing does suck but there are always some flaws in a design that get past production, I like him better without it anyways.
They shouldn't even waste their time doing these videos if people are just going to comment like this.