Animated info from Lead Designer Eric Siebenaler

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by XJunky, Nov 10, 2008.

  1. Soundwave84

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    good news all around i really excited about a possible Arcee figure!
     
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    I'm almost certain that the reason is that there's going to be a bunch of Movie Constructicons and they don't want kids or parents to get confused, but they can't actually say anything about the movie product officially yet, so...
     
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    Cool stuff about that new BB.
     
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    Hanging out with Eric was really cool. Nice, down-to-earth guy.
     
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    Yup. Eric's a very cool guy.
     
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    This is the same thing I'm suspecting, to be honest.
     
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    Wasp, yes. But I'd rather get a Cliffjumper out of the current BB mold.
     
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    Random speculation on my part, but what if one of the G1 homage characters is Skyfire? Don't know if Hasbro has rights to that name, but since one of the Jet twins in Animated is Jetfire, Skyfire could be the animated G1 homage that most Jet/Skyfire fans want. *head explodes*
     
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    You're more than likely quite correct about that, now that I think about it. Still, that does raise the question: when WILL we see Animated Constructicon toys? It would seem a major oversight not to release toys for two such prominent characters, but if the second movie line has anything like the longevity of the first, we might well into 2010 before the way is cleared for another line to use the Constructicon name. Will Animated still be going by then? :confused: 
     
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    Like the news about the new BB.

    I'd like Cybertron mode, but a more in scale Earth mode would be exceptional.
     
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    I wonder what the new mold will be?
     
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    No Activators, no money from me. I think the Activators is the most brilliant idea out of Hasbro in years. Those little devils are FUN! They transform in seconds, and they show an amazing amount of detail for such small figures.

    I was really looking forward to movie Activators. Oh well.... again I am disappointed by Hasbro.
     
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    Y'know maybe they wanna wait after the movie when Constructicons get popular to sell 'em.
     
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    If I recall correctly, Kickback said current plans were to have Animated go to 2011, so... yes.
     
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    Eric has a great story to tell about what his original plans were with the Animated Constructicons, and I hope he's at BotCon next year for someone to ask him about it, because if I try to recall it all, I'll probably get something wrong or mis-interpreted.

    The short version though, is that he originally wanted a full team of Constructicons in Animated, introduced throughout a season or two so that they could get decent character development and stories centered around them (as opposed to just dumping them all into the one episode and get no decent character development, like say, Gen1). And then down the track, they would then have been made to combine, with new toys to match.
    Plans changed after two were already introduced, and now it is not on their Animated agenda to release them in the near future as toys.
     
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    Well, that makes alot of sense for me, and still gives hope for toys later!
     
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    If they don't have plans in the near future to release them as toys.
    Then what do they plan to release them as?

    Actual transforming construction vehicle?
    That'd be pretty wonderiffic if I might say.
     
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    Griffin's emphasis was on Animated, thereby implying that they aren't being released as Animated toys because they are being released as Movie toys.
     
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    That sucks. Animated Anything >>> Movie Anything