Hasbro is only part of the release as a licensor same as Porsche. That's as far as their role goes here. They are not manufacturing or distributing this.

Jada got licenses to make items based on Hasbro owned characters and to produce cars based on Porsche's designs. I believe they already had the latter. This doesn't automatically give Hasbro a license to make a figure with an official Porsche alt mode. HasTak would still need to obtain their own separate licensing agreement with Porsche to do that.

 

Does anyone have a better idea when G1 Jazz and Smokescreen are likely to be released? I just got the 1:32 G1 Optimus (courtesy of Kapow), and I've only got one complaint - where's the frikkin' trailer? Other than that, it's a nice little Autobot truck (the Optimus molded underneath is a nice touch. Hope they do something like that with the others). I can't even bring myself to throw away the box which is pretty unusual for me.

I'm really hoping Jada go beyond Tracks and Jazz and do the other Autobot cars (and is anyone else thinking Stepper and Road Rage?).

 

We may get more reveals at SDCC.

 

So here we are in 2020 and still no release of the G1 mini cars.

Was there any news I missed or have we just not heard anything at all about it?

There have been 3 waves of mini Fast and Furious cars this year though (along with the Movie TF set)

 

the haven’t heard anything or seen anything in walmart
:’-(

 

The only new Jada Transformers I've seen is Bumblebee with Charlie.

 

Maybe we shouldn’t get too excited about Jazz. A licence to make diecast versions of Porsche vehicles, held by a company that has made plenty of diecast Porsche’s before Jazz, is a lot more trusted with the licence than a company who makes robots that transform into cars, robots who use guns.
TL;DR, Jada make diecast cars, Hastak make robots with guns. The former is trusted more than the latter, and is more in line with Porsche’s philosophy.

 

Minor update: my Walmart has been out of these for a while now, but today I went in and they had 4-5 of the FF sets, 4-5 of the TF movie set AND 2 of a Back to the Future set I didn't even know was out there! So maybe there are still new waves coming and because its a smaller company we're just not seeing the updates we get from a company like Hasbro

 

R.I.P.

 

If you know something we all don't, please share.

 

Most of these cars have been canceled

 

As in sideswipe, jazz, tracks

 

Do you have official info that says that? I contacted Jada earlier this year and they said the project is still in the works. But that was a while ago and could just be a canned cs rep response.