You asked and Hasbro answered! Hit the jump to see the answers from Hasbro and Hunter PR! Is there an industry term for the various catalogs, flyers, DVDs, comics and other materials sometimes packaged in with Transformers figures? (All the stuff that isn’t the instruction sheet, effectively.) The “Cyber Missions” online videos have depicted Power Core Combiner characters, such as Smolder and Chopster, alongside characters from the live-action movies. Should we take this as evidence that Power Core Combiners are in the same continuity as the movies, or are “Cyber Missions” a separate continuity which happens to have a lot
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Hasbro Star Wars Q&A – October 2010 Answers
You asked and Hasbro answered! Hit the jump to see the answers from Hasbro and Hunter PR! What prompted the decision to make the upcoming ROTJ R2-D2 smaller than the current molds? I’ve always noticed that the modern R2-D2 figures were a little larger than realistic scale should have them at, but this honestly never bothered me enough to want a “proper to scale” version, even back when it was rare to get a non-R2-D2 Astromech figure. (The difference wasn’t as bad as it used to be with Leia compared to Chewie, for example.) But now we’ve got nearly 40
Continue readingNew Star Wars Exclusives in Stores This Fall
Hasbro/Hunter PR sent over this press release and pictures of upcoming Star Wars exclusives. Read on for the release, and check out the pictures in our gallery.
Continue readingThe Hub Press Release – TRANSFORMERS: PRIME
THE HUB PRESENTS FIVE-DAY ORIGINAL MINI-SERIES EVENT SHOWCASING ‘TRANSFORMERS: PRIME’ Week to Also Include: “Hub Exclusive: ‘Transformers: Prime’” And Transformers-Themed “Hubworld” Episode LOS ANGELES, Ca. – Fans of the enormously popular Transformers action-adventure entertainment franchise will revel in the upcoming television event on The Hub cable network – a five-part original mini-series, Monday-Friday, November 29 – December 3, showcasing “Transformers: Prime,” a new CGI-animated television series coming to the network. The Hub, a TV network for kids and their families, is a joint venture of Discovery Communications and Hasbro, Inc., and is available to 60 million U.S. cable and satellite
Continue readingHasbro Transformers Q&A – October 2010 Call for Questions!
Got questions for Hasbro’s Transformers team? Ask away! Questions must be in to us by 11:59pm Eastern Time on Sunday, October 31! You can post your questions below, send them to us on Twitter, or send them to hasbrotfqa@asmzine.com. We’ll pick the two best questions and send them off to Hasbro. As usual, the following rules apply:
Continue readingHasbro Star Wars Q&A – October 2010 Call for Questions!
It’s time once again to submit questions to Hasbro’s Star Wars team! Questions must be in to us by 11:59pm Eastern Time on Thursday, October 28! You can post your questions below, send them to us on Twitter, or send them to hasswqa@asmzine.com. We’ll pick the two best questions and send them off to Hasbro. As usual, the following rules apply:
Continue readingHasbro Marvel Q&A – October 2010 Call for Questions!
It’s time once again to submit questions to Hasbro’s Marvel team! Questions must be in to us by 11:59pm Eastern Time on Sunday, October 10! You can post your questions below, send them to us on Twitter, or send them to hasmarvqa@asmzine.com. We’ll pick the three best questions and send them off to Hasbro. As usual, the following rules apply: Hasbro won’t answer questions regarding when certain characters will be made, redesigned or released (even if it’s just talking hypothetically or potentially). Sales and cost data are not available for discussion, nor are topics about future movie and/or entertainment releases.
Continue readingHasbro Marvel Q&A – September 2010 Answers
You asked and Hasbro answered! Hit the jump to see the answers from Hasbro and Hunter PR! Comics are usually on a cycle of major crossover events, with those events planned out 12-18 months in advance. Is Hasbro interested in tying in toy releases more directly to those kinds of crossover events? The packaging for the Marvel Transformers says Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic built the battlesuits using “alien technology.” Were those aliens the Transformers? If so, was it an information exchange, or a gift, or did they cut up a bunch of Decepticon corpses and see what they could
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Before I get into the usual spiel about submitting questions, I need to apologize. Last time I put forth the call, I completely spaced and never submitted questions. So, um, oops. Sorry about that. I won’t forget this time. So, that being said, it’s time once again to submit questions to Hasbro’s Star Wars team! Questions must be in to us by 11:59pm Eastern Time on Thursday, September 23! You can post your questions below, send them to us on Twitter, or send them to hasswqa@asmzine.com. We’ll pick the two best questions and send them off to Hasbro. As usual,
Continue readingHasbro Transformers Q&A – August 2010 Answers
You asked and Hasbro answered! Hit the jump to see the answers from Hasbro and Hunter PR! The Transformers: Hall of Fame entries showed that Hasbro considers many incarnations of Optimus, Megatron, Bumblebee and Starscream to be the same character, or at least the same character archetype. We’re wondering, though — since Megatron has been inducted into the Hall of Fame, does this mean that Galvatron is already in as well, or would he have to be voted in by fans? Most Transformers stories show Galvatron to be the upgraded form of Megatron, but some fans consider Galvatron to be
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