Hasbro Upcoming Entertainment Lineup – TF5, RID, RB & Combiner Wars

User_136440 · Aug 5, 2015

Ravage101 said: ↑

Oh here we go again...

I will never understand this. Why is it the second I or anyone else asks Hasbro to put full support for IDW story lines and other tightly G1 inspired content through toys and cartoons, it instantly means; "Ohhhhh you say/believe toys are not meant for kids". Or, my personal favorite; "toys are meant for kids not adults".

Why do we get this reaction [from other members] when it is suggested to have great stories written by IDW be put in animated form? Why do we get this reaction when when we ask Hasbro to put 100% support in generations toy lines? How does this translate into going against the wants and needs of kids? This may actually be a shock but kids actually love the the original story lines. Kids like complex story telling and well done character development. Kids like good transformer figures! I've been to collector shows where kids inquire about what the cannon stories were about. Kids read the IDW comic books.

If you are thinking about the needs of younger kids, that's what Robot Heroes is for

Yes, Hasbro can please the collectors while at the same time keep kids engaged. Hasbro's been treating this move like a an experiment for a while now and IMO I feel they need to go full steam a head and commit to making toys and animation both collectors and kids will enjoy. It is just my opinion.
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The funny thing is, Hasbro's reasoning behind splitting the line into the simplified kids' lines and having the older collectors solely targeted with Generations was that they believed they had been 'trying to please everybody but succeeding is pleasing no-one' so make of that what you will. I still remember that being said from when they revealed the up scaled BH legends figures.

Anyone else find it ironic that TF5 is among the movies not being made by Allspark Pictures?

Exinferis · Aug 5, 2015

RiD2015 continuing = fantastic! Love this show. Agree with DOTM Bumblebee above; would love to see some Prime characters show up. I especially want to know what happened to Airachnid after her Dark Energon Zombification!

More Rescue Bots? Love it! I know it's meant for little kids but it's still a great show. Look forward to seeing how coming out to the humans of Griffin Rock turns out!

TF5. Not a fan of the movies, so not bothered. Only liked TF4 because of the Dinobots!

CW Cartoon. Not sure if I like the idea or not. Will wait and see.

When I saw Jem and the Holograms I thought we were in for an epic CGI outrageous extravaganza. Then I saw it was live action. Poo. Interest went from 100% to 0% in half a second. *Sigh*

Season 6 of MLP:FiM, not unexpected and I'm happy it's still going strong as it's one of my favourite shows. More Derpy and Dr Whooves please Hasbro!

Equestria Girls series? Hmmm. I've watched both movies and they're OK. But to me MLP stands for My Little Pony, what's with this dollification? Don't like. Mind you, I've never been one for dolls; Sindy was my limit as a kid!

MLP movie sounds good though. Not sure what a previous poster meant by a Brony film? You do realise MLP is meant for girls, right? I know there's a big Brony fan-base and that's fine, but this movie will no doubt be aimed squarely at little girls, with maybe a nod to the older fans and Bronies. As an older fan I look forward to it!

How does one make a movie out of Play-Doh? Will it be Claymation?! Play-Doh-mation?! The Lego Movie was great fun, but can't see this appealing to anyone over 2 years old.

Raiyuki · Aug 5, 2015

Glad to hear RID's continuing (I wanna see what it's like for Bee and Optimus to be leading side by side).
Also Magic the Gathering? Wonder what that'll be like.

Autovolt 127 · Aug 5, 2015

Autobot Burnout said: ↑

I honestly don't know if giving TF5 to Blomkamp will result in one of the following or not:

- Movie is actually much more urban in appearance and carries a powerful story that makes it the strongest film of the series yet, even though it's set in the slums of a South African nation like the last few of his films when not in the slums of China (because let's be honest, TF5 no matter what will pander HARD to the Chinese market again)

- The film actually has promise but Blomkamp screws it up with a few mind-boggingly bad casting choices. Seriously, Chappie could have been so good had he not put in those idiot rappers just because he was a fan of their music and treating the titular robot like a brain-dead Jar-Jar Binks.

- Regardless of the film's quality, it becomes the subject of controversial discussion over how it's semi-transparently commentary on modern world politics or something (I.E. Elysium all over again)

Honestly, I don't think Blomkamp is the right director for a TF film - we need to move away from all the grimdark serious bullshit. It's a film about transforming space robots that turn into human vehicles or should be mainly about said robots instead of goddamn human inserts that throw themselves into situations that sane people would run away from really, really fast. The films need to stop taking the entire premise AND themselves so seriously in order to be good - a good comparison would be the style of the Ant-Man film where it's obvious the film never does forget to point out that even the film itself does not take the concept of Ant-Man seriously. And it works.

Also, ROTF isn't that great an idea to revisit, either - you want a toyline full of ROTF Mixmaster voyagers?
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Yeah if TF5 was done by Blomkamp and had a toyline like ROTF. I'd pass on it completely.

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