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Hasbro Talks About Studios in Studio Series and Activision Game Rereleases in Q&A

Transformers News: Hasbro Talks About Studios in Studio Series and Activision Game Rereleases in Q&A
Date: Monday, July 31st 2023 10:25am CDT
Categories: Cartoon News, Comic Book News, Movie Related News, Toy News, Game News, Digital Media News, Book News
Posted by: Emerje | Credit(s): TFW2005

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Often when talking about Studio Series and the progression from live action movies to animation to video games the question of what exactly is a "studio" comes up. Thanks to a Q&A held by TFW2005 with the Hasbro Transformers team (and thanks to Seibertronian Munkky for bringing this to our attention) we get some insight into just what qualifies as a studio. The short answer is, well, basically everything including comic books.

Q: So we kind of hit on this with the comic talk, but just to elaborate – first we had 86, now we have Gamer Edition expanding Studio Series even more. What sort of other things could happen?
A: Anything that’s technically a studio could be on the table. We’re trying to look at that and make sure that it’s authentic to what Studio Series is. We don’t want to just shoehorn everything into Studio Series, but we do know that there are opportunities to grow the brand. We always say from screen to toy. And a lot of people read comic books on screens now.

Q: Hasbro turns the tables! Asks us if we’d consider comic publishers as studios, and that they could live in the Studio Series segment?
A: Led to a small back-and-forth on this subject, but in short it seems Hasbro may be interested in something like this.

On that note, they also talked about what games they're open to doing in the Gamer Edition line.

Q: For Gamer Edition, is it limited to just WFC or will FOC (Dinobots, Bruticus, etc) and all the Transformers games be included?
A: Pretty much all of it. Think the clear winner will probably be, everybody wants some Devastation stuff, we need to figure out how to do some cell shading for it. Continuing from WFC, think FOC is on the table. Team has even joked about doing Mystery of Convoy, doing some sort of dot deco or something like that. We have the Ultra Magnus now and we have the Rodimus from Kingdom, it’s like why not. Why not some N64 Transmetals too? We can get some of that in there, there’s a lot of options. If it’s been in a video game, we have the opportunity to look at it, taking a little bit of a cue from what the Star Wars team did with their gamer stuff. There’s no licensing issues, we own all of that, it’s all on the table for us. But with the live action movie stuff, there’s always that stuff going on, you still have to deal with Paramount and the licensors.

Could we really see the Studio Series line become the home of Beast Wars Transmetals figures or future and former Commander Class figures done up for Mystery of Convoy for the Nintendo Famicom? Time will tell!

Final big piece of news that's currently making its rounds on video game news channels is the current status of Activision's Transformers games. It's a mixed bag, but the team seems optimistic about these being available again. Turns out licensing was never the issue as has long been speculated.

Q: Possible to re-release the Activision TF games to coincide with Gamer Edition?
A: Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building. When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating. Hope is that now that the deal is moving forward with Microsoft and Xbox that they’ll go through all of the archives and every hard drive to find it all, because it’s an easy Game Pass add. We want those games back up for people to have a chance to play.

Q: How did that impact the process of making Gamer Edition?
A: Sam had to load up the games on older platforms because there were some deco details we couldn’t find – we have the CAD, but it’s not colored. So we had to find some of the character details within the games themselves.

Q: So you do have some of the game assets then?
A: We do, but it’s very interesting. FOC, we have everything. For WFC, we had to rip it ourselves, because they could not find it – they kept sending concept art instead, which we didn’t want, we need the CAD. So we booted up an old computer and ripped them all out from there. Which was a learning experience and a long weekend, because we just wanted to get it right, so that’s why we did it like that.

Hopefully Activision finds those hard drives, fans have been begging for new opportunities to play those games for years now.

TFW2005 also did a very lengthy solo Q&A with Evan where he talks about figures he'd like to make, what is and isn't possible, and whatever happened to that Takara Armada Optimus Prime prototype among many other things. It's a very extensive read so check it out the link at the top of the page.

Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art and offers additional plot details

Transformers News: Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art and offers additional plot details
Date: Sunday, May 28th 2023 10:41am CDT
Categories: Movie Related News, Book News
Posted by: william-james88

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The Transformers Rise of the Beasts film has premiered and will be out soon for all to see. In the meantime, we have some fun images for you. These are scans from two books for children based on the film. While they may be based on earlier versions of the script, it is fun to see the ideas that were brought into the film and what may have been dropped. For instance, we see that the Freezer character is called a sweep and we see that Airazor brings up the concept of the Maximals being the Autobots' future (ALA the Kingdom cartoon).

We'll see if that sticks at all. But the best part is that below you will see some great art from TF artist extraordinaire Guido Guidi. Enjoy!

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

Transformers News: Scans of Rise of the Beasts Books Show Beautiful Guido Guidi Art, Mention of Time Travel and Sweeps

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