Oh well... it was nice while the hoax lasted.  

 

Seriously. They really made me want that thing despite the rediculous number of that mold I have already.

 

Stuff like this happens in "real" news also. Did the reporters get slammed for doing a cover story on the "balloon" boy? No. Why? Because they were doing thier jobs as reporters, and when it came to light that it was a hoax, they reported that too! If you were an editor at a major news organiztion, your words would hold some water, but as your comment shows, your not. Don't try dogging someone when you couldnt do thier job half as well as them...

 

 

oh them Japanese...

 

1. Note that the title of this forum is "News and Rumors".
2. Also, note that the rumor was discussed and eventually dispelled, rather quickly, I might add.
3. It sounds like the history and reliability of TFW2005.com's front page as a "news source" throughout the years of the fandom of Transformers is ignored here in this quoted post.
4. 2006, TFW2005.com received the award from Hasbro and the Botcon organizers for "Best News Site".

 

Bummer KSA and I both thought this was a very cool idea.

But given how Takara/Hasbro likes to reuse molds, it's not out of the realm of possibility.

 

The only thing in question should be the retailer's reliability as a news source. Not TFW2005.

 

What was the 2nd hoax?

 

True dat.... TFW is a fine source in TF news. I just wonder why people took the original post so seriously.

 

i wonder how many times people will bring this up about coming out and constant questions about it even though it is stated right on the front page that it won't come out......ugh i swear only 5 people even pay attention to any transformers news we get, expecially the convention stuff

oh i just want to get this out: TFW2005's ability to report stuff announced at conventions is absolutely terrible.....expecially at the last convention we had (comic-con).....so much crud was just skipped over you had to go to sites like allspark.com and tformers.com just to get everything....heck i didn't know that hasbro was thinking about making a white activators soundwave til a few months, cause it was one of the very things this site skipped over.......i find that while tfw2005 is a good site for news, it got a long ways to go to be the best....but we can all agree seibertron.com just sucks haha

also, what is this second hoax?

 

Just so you know that tformers also got the so-called hoax news of MP Starscream from this site. even tho the story turns out untrue, they didn't even credit the source from where it came from (TFW2005).

 

that maybe so, but i only go to tformers when it comes to convention info, i don't know how they are with report other info but i know for sure when it comes to reporting convention info they can not be beat

 

LOL. We'll find out at Botcon when Seibertron wins Best News Site 3 years in a row.

 

All I can say is that I used to visit TFormers for news, but then I found out TFW updates much faster and more frequently every day..so I kinda hopped to here.

That being said, I have to admit that for convention stuff I do check out other Transformers sites, because it has happened alot that TFW doesn't get the 'full coverage'..mind you: this might be the same for other Transformers sites as well..but checking multiple sites allows to get all the info.

But in the end, should we really be fighting over what's the better Transformers site? They're all about the same to me, and I couldn't care less if one has a better resource database, or a better forum, or slightly better news.

As for MP Ghost Starscream: mistakes happen. It was presented as a rumor though, so anyone with a common sense should know not to immediately jump to conclusions. Unless you believe everything you read on the internet as 'true'.

 

Convention coverages are so messy that you pretty much got to check out everywhere for complete info because somebody always misses something the other didn't.

Also, why TFORMERS always gets the best pictures? Seriously, their cameraboy rocks.

 

I'm finding that this thread has degraded into people insulting the very site they post on. It was a rumor, and it was debunked. That's all that matters.

 

Confirming that the next Masterpiece figure will be Masterpiece Waspinator. he will be repainted as Waspercracker and Skywasp.

 

Ya, i agree with you. But it would nice to see MP figures of Ramjet, Thrust, and Dirge.

 

Well Bandai made a transparent Macross Frontier V25 (certainly masterpiece sized), so it certainly isn't beyond the realm of reason.

 

For those who have asked, the 2nd hoax = "leaked" movie script

And I agree with Spencimus - why are people on here bashing the very site they are a member of? If you don't like what they report here then there are plenty of other TF related sites you could belong to.

You can't blame the editors of TFW for not researching this, it's not their job. Do you want them to call BBTS or TFSource every time they post their newsletter? How about contacting Hasbro or Takara to verify that a new project is being undertaken? The retailer was the one who started this nonsense so you need to blame him. The contributors for this site were only doing what they are here to do - post something that was given to them as fact.