HasLab Deathsaurus
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I got mine last Sunday. The only reason I knew to expect it was an email from Fed-X telling me that a signature was required. I didn't get an email from Hasbro Pulse until AFTER it was delivered.
Its fast mail, or one of the fastest characters around has started working for the postal company, maybe to earn some extra cash for Christmas!
Good news UK Fans!
Attention HasLab Deathsaurus backers in the UK. While we had previously reported that the Transformers Generations HasLab Deathsaurus had been delayed In The UK until February 2024, now Hasbro has just started to sent e-mails to all UK backers to confirm their addresses in order to start the shipping process of the highly anticipated Transformers Victory Emperor of destruction.
It seems we fellow UK fans may have Deathsaurus in their hands before February. Transformers Victory main villain is coming in hot to the UK! LET’S SAY GO!
Attention HasLab Deathsaurus backers in the UK. While we had previously reported that the Transformers Generations HasLab Deathsaurus had been delayed In The UK until February 2024, now Hasbro has just started to sent e-mails to all UK backers to confirm their addresses in order to start the shipping process of the highly anticipated Transformers Victory Emperor of destruction.
Update: E-mails have also been sent to other European countries as well.
It seems we fellow UK fans may have Deathsaurus in their hands before February. Transformers Victory main villain is coming in hot to the UK! LET’S SAY GO!
Bumping this thread to respond to this post with some news that has been recently brought to light.
It's been revealed that the reason Solon and his King Solon mech weren't considered for an additional tier for HasLab Deathsaurus... is because Hasbro and TakaraTomy don't actually own the rights to them!
According to Evan Brooks, any character or concept that was created fully uniquely for the manga is not owned by Hasbro or TakaraTomy, so HasTak can't actually use them without going through am extra hurdle (as in, spending more money to work out a deal with the actual rights holders). The original inquiry that brought this to light had asked about Deathsaurus's wife Esmeral rather than Solon, but the same still applies nonetheless.
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Sadly, this kind of thing has happened in Transformers more often than most people realize. Just look at Circuit Breaker, Death's Head, or even Primus's sister Gaea!
That's only because they backported those characters to other comics before the issues where they premiered happened.
Which is why Circuit Breaker just randomly shows up in Secret Wars 2 and, like, never again in any Marvel stuff outside of Transformers.
There was actually a comic a few years back called Avengers A.I. that starred a bunch of robot and synth characters and she would have made a fantastic villain to oppose them, but nope.
Which is why Circuit Breaker just randomly shows up in Secret Wars 2 and, like, never again in any Marvel stuff outside of Transformers.
There was actually a comic a few years back called Avengers A.I. that starred a bunch of robot and synth characters and she would have made a fantastic villain to oppose them, but nope.
Yeah, I don't mind them having such a clause, but for goodness' sake, do something with them, then, or just let them go.
Incidentally, it's a wonder we haven't seen Hasbro produce a Circuit Breaker figure yet, since they have the Marvel license.
Incidentally, it's a wonder we haven't seen Hasbro produce a Circuit Breaker figure yet, since they have the Marvel license.
They literally only just announced a ROM figure despite having had the Marvel license for ages, and he at least had the title role in a comic that lasted 75 issues and 4 annuals.
It depends on what the contract is and each contract is different. I don't know about any of the manga but I do know a bit about Marvel.
For instance, the character Machine Man first appeared in Marvel's 2001: A Space Odyssey comic (which became a sort of anthology series unrelated to the movies) and yet he shows up all the time. (Most memorably in Nextwave, but in other stuff since then. Strangely not in Avengers AI though).
Meanwhile, G.B. Blackrock first showed up in Transformers and since he was used in IDW1, it looks like Hasbro has the rights to the character.
ROM was a Hasbro property to begin with but a lot of the surrounding lore - his homeworld, other named spaceknights, his human companion) stayed with Marvel and they even did a Spaceknights miniseries in the 2000's that just, kind of.. talked around the character of ROM.
Micronauts is a Hasbro property, but the character of Bug, despite first appearing in Micronauts, stayed with Marvel and was actually a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. He had a different name, shared with a Micronauts toy, but he apparently looks nothing like that toy so they renamed him to Bug.
In the same Instagram comment thread, this was posted by David "ItsWalky" Willis in regard to that very question:
"Lyzak wasn't a new toy, just a comic appearance, so perhaps that matters. But my guess is that Fun Publications used them not realizing there'd be rights issues and then nobody cared."
Now I'm trying to imagine a world where Hasbro's contracts with Marvel for G.I. Joe and Transformers were like the ones for ROM and Micronauts (didn't that have to change a bit for IDW's book, too?).
Yeah. Like Marvel making sure Circuit Breaker got into a Secret Wars comic before she appeared in Transformers was a ploy to keep the rights to her. Notably had she appeared first in a Transformers comic then she would have been a Transformers character and been Hasbro IP.
So it's strange that a publishing house making a manga specifically to promote a Transformers anime would keep the rights to all original creations. Usually (at least in the west) any characters created for that work would go to the owner of the IP who awarded the licence.
It's possible that it's actually Masumi Kaneda and Ban Magami personally who own the rights to their own original creations from the manga, rather than Kodansha specifically.
I admit I'm not familiar with how work for hire contracts work in Japan, but it just strikes me as weird that they could write Transformers manga and that they or their publishers would own original creations made for the licence they're working on.
Like I'm pretty sure Hasbro owns Rung, not James Roberts or IDW.