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This is broadly true, but fwiw I think this is happening even without formal organisation. Less than half a dozen toys from the past twelve months weren't available at heavy discount in the UK over Christmas - i.e. 30 -60%. That suggests the line isn't moving.

Shrapnel looks perfectly fine. Metalhawk looks... okay? I still think the Pretender approach is pretty incoherent, but this looks like a reasonable interpretation of that character. That said, a painted cockpit on a voyager retool? Ick. Costcutting at it's worst. The gaps at the front of a jet...

If they cut costs on the production of TFs any further at this point you'll just get an email from Pulse telling you to imagine the $48 dollar deluxe you just ordered.

You don't need secret inside sources for shipping in port, Hasbro puts the case assortment numbers on the shipping consignments and those are publicly accessible information. If anyone is bored enough to look it up you can figure this out for all of Hasbro's shipments, it's just laborious to do.

Literally the only significant (i.e. not a happy meal or something) Cheetor toys to do it that I can think of are the Beast Machines toys, and it wasn't exactly beloved at the time. I think there's enough other transformation here that I don't hate it, but I really didn't like when they made...

SS Cheetor. https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/01/24/first-look-at-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-studio-series-cheetor-473999 Hasbro's decision to delay announcing this toy by a week paying dividends again I see... I think the mold looks fun, but in a way he actually transforms even less than the...

Hatchette also reprinted Generation 2 in 2020 as part of The Definitive G1 Collection if anyone wanted a more recent copy.

That's because there isn't one. EarthSpark's targeted at younger viewers, and they don't read comics. If whoever gets the license wants to make some EarthSpark content they'd do it as an original graphic novel, not as a comic, because that's what that demographic actually buys.

I think it's highly unlikely Hasbro will be making any D&D announcements in the near future.

I think from a purely commercial point of view the main thing that hasn't been tried is a book explicitly in the original cartoon continuity set in the gaps, which tries to expand it a bit. And I could see retailers being interested in that book for nostalgia sales to a slightly wider audience...

Again, Furman wrote an ending for G2, it was just for a convention exclusive prose book and is not "official" but it exists. And even if IDW decided the book needed to be more about the G1 US comic for sales purposes, Furman could have reused most of the ideas from Alignment if he'd wanted to...

Yup. And I can't really see anyone wanting to make a new comic adaptation of that to be honest.

It was presumably cancelled because it required a bunch of investment and marketing to be this big event book, and IDW don't really have the money to do that for a book they weren't even going to be able to sell trades of as they were losing the license. IDW are kind of in a... desperate state...

I guess that's not impossible, but if you are aiming at a general "I remember that cartoon from when I was a kid" audience then being set after Rebirth leaves you with many key franchise characters that have instant recognition to the general public as dead, and is not set on a relatable real...

Motormaster might just be going to discount chains at this point. He is in the UK (Game are also carrying him at £45, which is less than half is RRP).

Put it this way, the publisher likely has to put up more money than IDW did, so they're going to have to sell a lot more books, to the non-core TF fandom. The only pitches for that I think might even have a chance is a fairly faithful but talent lead G1 on Earth reboot, or a in-continuity set...

Yeah, if the next license holder fancied adapting this into a mini series I'd definitely buy it, it would be a neat What If.

FWIW Game in the UK have Galaxy Shuttle avaikable for pre-order at less than half price, and have been getting in a lot of discount TF product recently (Creatures Collide went up this morning for £14.99!) So we might be about to see a glut of Galaxy Shuttles hitting discount retailers.

I don't think there's any chance of Hasbro starting their own print publisher. Making money as a print publisher is *hard* and Hasbro is running away from the E-One acquisition when E-One was a profitable company staffed by people who knew what they were doing and had long established sales...

Official Hasbro ones you mean? No, we've not had official Hasbro images of Animated Prowl, Crosscut or Junkion 2 yet. There's stacks of stuff we have listings for but have no images at all of yet.