#Hasbro Era

[adansimsonstudios23]

Me Loving Power Rangers Be Like:

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Transformers Studio Series Age of Extinction Optimus Prime Hasbro ‎G0482

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[leodanbrock]

JUSTICE breakdown their song, "Love S.O.S. (WWW)" VICE, 2018

requested by @desert-rambler

[heckyeahponyscans]

It has come to my attention that some bronies think Hasbro has "lost the copyright" for the G4 setting or characters so I'm here to point out that makes zero sense.

Hasbro keeps a tight grip on characters from decades ago. Hasbro just made a Transformers toy of a freakin Go-Bot that they got the rights to in 1991 after acquiring Tonka.

I promise you Hasbro's lawyers did not approve of or overlook a paragraph giving away the rights to valuable franchise characters from just a few years ago.

[vodid]

bumblebee was a good movie but we NEED more of him talking and fighting like a cretin. he was NASTY in battle /pos his voice was AWESOME and i am DEPRIVED

[skyland2703]

Guys uh

I don’t think Javelia was accidental. Or should I say Jamelia now

[thena0315]

The Hasbro Era [2019 - 2023]

[jknighttoku10]

Coming soon….

[tigergendermoved2tigergender]

Ok this is beating a dead horse so to speak but I will literally never forgive Hasbro for what they did to Twilight's library. They literally blew it up just to replace it with a disgusting sterile marketable crystal castle with no personality or charm. Just empty halls and sadness

[ponett]

I was gonna say something about how large of a jump it was going from IDW Shattered Glass to Skybound's Transformers comics, but all I can think of now is how sad it is that IDW had to end its tenure with a comic they obviously didn't want to make. I know Last Bot Standing was intended to be the last hurrah, but... Shit, where do I go?

I miss IDW Beast Wars...

Everything about that last era of IDW Transformers was so weird, in large part because it became a dumping ground for random toy tie-ins Hasbro wanted.

You had the main series, which was a serious political drama about the beginning of the war on Cybertron but then also half of the character designs were so directly based on the Siege toys that they had visible screw holes and pins and attachment points for accessories and whatnot - and also said series ended before the bots ever even got to Earth. You had that Wreckers miniseries that was secretly an advertisement for a Walmart-exclusive toyline that wouldn't be revealed until months and months later. You had a TON of random crossovers unrelated to the mainline series, often to promote collab figures. And then it ended on some comics to promote the Shattered Glass repaint figures.

(Last Bot Standing was also weird for unrelated reasons. It was pitched as a grim space western at the end of time inspired by Logan, but actually ended up being a kind of silly comic where Rodimus goes Super Saiyan. I'm sorry I'm like the only Nick Roche fan who though Last Bot Standing was mid lol)

We are so blessed to have a new series from an extremely talented writer/artist with a strong creative vision and no demands to promote toys from Hasbro. I'm cherishing this while it lasts

[adansimsonstudios23]

Alright So

My Drawings Of One Of My Favorite Power Rangers Couples Of All Time

Ivan/Kendall!!!!!!!!! 💛💜 ^^

NOTE: This is my opinion only

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[hollowtones]

opinions on yoshis story? imo that game doesnt deserve to have music that good

I haven't played very much of it and I've been meaning to do something about that forever. I've played some of it and I've watched others go through most of it.

I know I've seen a little bit of modern grumbling (I don't know if this was a point of contention when the game came out because I was three at the time. OK I looked up some reviews from the era and it looks like it was also a thing people were mad about back then. LOL) over the fact that the game isn't more like "Yoshi's Island" & that it feels like it's aimed more at younger audiences. I dunno. I've never been bothered much by games with some tie to one another doing something different. (Some of the response reminds me of Transformers fans being upset over Hasbro making toys and shows for very young children sometimes; admittedly maybe I'm off the mark here.)

It's a very easy game if you want it to be. You can just eat any fruits you want forever and it's over in a blink. And it's fine. It's fine if the video game lets you beat it very fast if you want to. You can also try to collect only one single kind of fruit in a level and that makes things take longer and makes them feel like more of a scavenger hunt (especially if you're trying to get all the melons). I think that's neat. There's sort of an interesting design trajectory from "Super Mario World" to "Yoshi's Island" where the levels become a little longer, a little more meandering, a little more exploratory, sometimes (not always, and not massively, but it's still there) a little less linear. No time limit. Going for collectibles instead; making every level about getting a score of 100 (if you want to). You can see that iterated on in "Yoshi's Story"! No singular end point of the level. Bigger rooms to explore (while still keeping levels relatively short). More of a focus on puzzle solving and exploration. Collectibles simplified to one meter that you fill up, but there are multiple things that can fill it & you get rewarded for only collecting one kind. (And also the hearts that let you pick what level you go to next. There's a lot of "opening up more of the game for yourself if you want to go out and look for it" here. Are there other collectibles, actually? I don't really remember...) Secret fruits that give even more points. It makes the levels feel more like puzzle box toys that you roam around in. It's neat that they designed that for younger kids and it's neat that you can make it more difficult if that sounds fun to you. (I would have to play more of it myself to decide if going for all melons is fun for me specifically. But I like it on paper, y'know?)

The pop-up storybook theming is cute and the visual aesthetic of the game overall works really well. It feels like arts & crafts dioramas made by kids (or with kids) so they could play pretend with their toys while reading a storybook. It's got very strong toy feel overall. The music is really fun!!! It does the dynamic soundtrack thing where some parts of the track change depending on your health!!! I'm always clapping my hands like a seal with a game's music changes depending what I'm doing!!! Maybe it's a little silly of me to say this, given that it's a sentiment I've had in the past, but nowadays I scratch my head a bit at "the music in this has no right to go this hard" type comments. It goes hard because the musicians got hired to make it like that. (I'm imagining a guy who thinks the "Yoshi's Story" music is the hardest music ever created and I'm smiling serenely about it. I hope he's real & I hope he's out there somewhere.) I'm glad they let Totaka do something that feels at least a little experimental for the goofy Yoshi babies storybook super happy yay & jumping throwing game soundtrack. It's a fun contrast, isn't it? It feels very of-the-era in a way I'm having trouble externalizing outside of "well it's a little weird and multi-genre". It's neat that they all have a shared melody that they draw on.

Thanks for reading my short essay on a childrens' video game I haven't played a lot of yet. I need to go take a shower now.

[blueikeproductions]

So next month, EarthSpark is returning for its (most likely) final batch on Paramount+.

The plan so far is it premiers October 25th.

It’s labeled “S3”, but realistically it’s just the next round of the second season. What it involves is anyone’s guess, because the old planning document that was leaked that first revealed CyberWorld has only confused things.

The EarthSpark toys are on clearance and being phased out. Those unsold, dust collecting Cyber Combiners are going to Ollies before long, and the Chaos Terrans aren’t even on shelves here. The Legacy toys are mostly gone too, the TF section is nearly all TFONE and a modest Studio Series selection.

There’s no conceivable way a series that tanked on streaming is getting specials during the successor’s tenure. If that’s how it worked, Animated would’ve gotten a special that tied up loose ends when Prime was on.

The only thing we’re probably getting is Prowl, and maybe Mirage since he was plastered on the leaked document. Considering how poorly handled ES’s (and CV’s since they share staff) ideas were, I don’t have high hopes the Quintesson and Decepticon plot will be handled well to close out ES. Modern shows have a bad habit of butterfly chasing, one idea that has potential to be fleshed out is abandoned on a whim in favor of a spur of the moment idea that isn’t much better. Entertainment in general also tends to learn the wrong lessons, like the awkward lesson taken from Lightyear is the gay kiss was the problem, so let’s just not do gay stuff at all. The gay kiss didn’t help matters due to international cultures unfortunately and the loudest grifters MADE it the problem, when Lightyear and Strange World’s problems were weak story and weaker concepts. To Strange World’s credit, it’d be a perfect Kingdom Hearts level for Sora, Donald and Goofy to run around in and the world turtle’s virus can easily be made into Heartless. Whether they’ll include in Kingdom Hearts, I dunno.

Anyway my point is, after Aligned, Transformers cartoons have all suffered bad writing and characterization: Cyberverse (said by the creators to be made for and by the fans “inbetween” which translated into Twitter IDW canon), War For Cybertron (so bleak, so overacted, so poorly acted, a downgrade in animation as it’s the same studio that made Prime, written so suffocatingly serious, it’s the 13 year old edgelord’s wet dream we grew out of), Prime Wars (oh god that was so bad, they got Peter Cullen and Mark Hamill to save face, and they instead fell flat on their faces), BotBots (the very belated response to Teen Titans Go! and Shopkins) and EarthSpark (a well meaning show using Rescue Bots’ concepts as a spring board, but refused to let go of IDW’s bad ideas, and used “DEI” as a selling point in an era where its slowly dying out.).

The movies were trying to improve, as Bumblebee and RotB are looked in more fondly by TF fans, they got (what hard cores claim) was the appeal of TFs over the Bay trilogy. And now we’re at TFONE, the film that “finally” got it right, but no one went to see.

So where are we at.

With TFONE, most news outlets agree it’s a good movie, but with its abysmal box office performance starting out, it’s not looking like that’s gonna improve, with the newsies saying the Transformers are out of gas. Or is that Energon?

In a way they’re not wrong. It’s been reported Transformers is on a decline, and with the cartoons and toys not doing well either, we’re back to the end of G2, where things aren’t looking good. The difference is we don’t have the flash in a pan miracle that was Hasbro, Kenner and Mainframe making Beast Wars and later the same thing happening with the first Micheal Bay film.

We have been long overdue for a similar kick in the pants, and I think it’s clear Hasbro wanted TFONE to be that, but alas, it’s not despite the good will.

The only kick so far are the Skybound Energon Universe series. They’re doing, as of typing, phenomenally, with the Transformers book being a decent mix of 80’s G1 Movie, Prime, and Bayformers, written and drawn in a way only the people that created Walking Dead and Invincible can do.

The other good will was the Trigger animated 40th Anniversary short.

Skybound and Trigger are the only things people were on board with. Let that sink in.

Trigger also contributed a poster for the Japanese release of TFONE.

So maybe that’s a sign they’ll be allowed to do more official things going forward. Which I think is a good thing.

TFOne is a good movie, but due to Hasbro’s and Paramount’s own indecision on what to do with the movies, and their increasingly dubious canon, we’re stuck with what is officially declared its own thing separate from Bay, though it’s pretty apparent someone internal had to show Lorenzo how irreconcilable ONE was with ROTF & DOTM because The Fallen & Sentinel Prime can’t be villains of both died horribly back on Cybertron. However, the Bayformers series is still very popular among casual fans and audiences. Universal wouldn’t still have its own Bay themed Transformers attraction with the delightfully snarky Movie Megatron if it wasn’t.

So here lies the issues. The movies. Pretty much after TLK, they’ve done poorly in theaters despite their nostalgic popularity. Notably, RotB does really well on streaming, as it did well on P+ and Netflix (in other counties, it’s not on the American one yet). The Garfield Movie is currently #1 on Netflix after having a weak but successful box office. And with preorders now open for home video, ONE walks a slippery slope of everyone agreeing this is the good movie, but no one cares enough to pay money to see it in theaters. It will probably do gangbusters on streaming, going by trends, so that’s probably the best shot it has, as apparently good word of mouth isn’t enough.

It’s not helped there’s continued confusion among casuals if TFONE is a prequel to the Bay films, and it sounds like in very early development it was leaning that way, but the differing designs, and the trailers making the film look more kiddy than Bayhem, was among the turn offs. Like how does it make sense the Transformers started out as more cartoony G1 designs but overtime evolved into the shredded metal Bionicle style. No cartoon had convincingly explained a style shift that drastic.

It was said that if TFONE did well, Hasbro would use that as the basis of future material. Well with its lukewarm performance, there’s no financial incentive to do so, but the general positivity from people about Optimus and Megatron’s blue collar years and the greatly simplified Cog and Cogless system could work in its favor anyway.

There’s still, as of typing, plans to continue with a sequel to TFONE, and while it’s still unknown if Cyberworld will borrow the Worker-Bot backstory for its Optimus… and Galvatron(?), there’s a chance it might for some brand synergy.

We’re at a fork in the road now that One has underperformed and Skybound is the only thing keeping the interest going. CyberWorld has to do what Cyberverse and EarthSpark couldn’t do and attract fresh kids to get into Transformers. Fans think they’re the only ones that matter, but it’s clear with One just appealing to us doesn’t work we need new blood. Just maintaining isn’t enough anymore. Skybound found a way, now we just need to see if CyberWorld can do so too.

[drlockdown-reviews]

Petition to start using the name "Unification Era" to describe modern CHUG.

It's obvious that the WFC Trilogy, SS86, Legacy, SG2021, Comic Edition and upcoming Age of the Primes is all meant to 'fit together', and its all in a differens style from older CHUG, Prime Wars Trilogy and earlier.

So lately I've been wanting to create a simple title to easily describe this particular era of CHUG, as just using the old acronym lumps in all the old stuff back to 2006, and even normal Studio Series.

It works two ways, because one, its a unified aesthetic across multiple CHUG lines, and two, it was an initiative that began AFTER the brand unification between Hasbro and Takara.

I'm hoping it'll catch on, including:

- War for Cybertron Trilogy

- SS86

- Legacy Trilogy

- Shattered Glass 2021

- Comic Edition

And maybe a few others if they technically 'fit'.

Here's to 'Unification Era CHUG'.

[birdhouseblogredux25]

So me and my friend were talking about Power Ranger media for at least an hour and a half, and it kind of made me realize how much potential we could have had for more adaptations or at least have story writers and producers from either Saban or Hasbro to develop original Power Rangers stories with brand new teams like they did with Cosmic Fury and their comic book teams.

Or they can do something similar to what Super Sentai did when having reunion movies, which actually works with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always as it was a decent love letter to the fans of the Mighty Morphin era.

I felt that despite Power Rangers being a series that is held back due to Mighty Morphin nostalgia, interferences from company higher ups, and the lack of encouragement for better stories to indulge fans to enjoy; it really speaks volumes for how much both Hasbro and Saban hold back the franchise.

And I'll add Disney in for some credit too because at least the people behind the shows from the directors, staff and crew, and actors work their butts off to give us adaptations and stories that stand on their own but still capture the magic of what Power Rangers can offer.

Do I forgive the Disney company for its treatment of power rangers? Absolutely not. But at least the people who were in charge of the shows actually cared and putting the effort to bring these stories to life and I would say that as well for those that worked in the neosabon era and Hasbro era shows.

Long story short: Power Rangers deserved better.