Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!

[Donocropolis]

True, and a lot of them are interchangeable.

Transformers team, please notice this.

The recent experimenting with extra heads packed in is encouraging, and I wish they'd do it more (I would have loved for the Retro G1 Bumblebee to have come with both the Bumblebee head and the Goldbug head for your choice of cartoon or toy accuracy). I am 100% behind the idea of standardized head connections wherever possible.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

It shouldn't take that much experimenting. Just pick a standardized head connection. It doesn't have to be the tested and proven theoretically ideal choice. Just pick something and call it settled.

 

[LordGigaIce]

True, and a lot of them are interchangeable.

Transformers team, please notice this.

One of my pet peeves with Bandai's Dragon Stars line is that different figures of the same character representing the same base body type will be moulded in such a way that the balljoints on the heads aren't interchangeable.

I don't know Bandai, why WOULD I like to swap heads on Dragon Ball figures? Any ideas?

 

[CoffeeHorse]

It's weird that this is still a thing in the age of CAD. There is no need to start from scratch on every little piece. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.

 

[LordGigaIce]

It's weird that this is still a thing in the age of CAD. There is no need to start from scratch on every little piece. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.

I know Hasbro is really investing in CAD, and it's informing how they manufacture moulds.
At the same time given how conservative Japanese companies are... I wouldn't be shocked if TT, Bandai, and the like simply haven't bothered yet.

 

[lastmaximal]

The recent experimenting with extra heads packed in is encouraging, and I wish they'd do it more (I would have loved for the Retro G1 Bumblebee to have come with both the Bumblebee head and the Goldbug head for your choice of cartoon or toy accuracy). I am 100% behind the idea of standardized head connections wherever possible.

I was going to say something about Titans Return, but ehh.

I've been hoping for additional/alternate heads for Transformers forever, especially since they became commonplace for things like Marvel Legends and even WWE. These are largely on ball joints, give me a bunch of them already. And not just alternate expressions -- a Bumblebee with a toy and cartoon head, an Optimus with a cartoon and comic head...

Just make them complete intact heads that fit on a neck ball that's standard across the line. No more of this Buzzworthy Army Builder 4-pack "masks on neck bases" silliness that leaves only one functional head at a time.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

I was going to say something about Titans Return, but ehh.

Hah, me too.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I would be okay with making the Titans Return neck the universal standard, even for heads that don't turn into anything.

 

[Donocropolis]

I would be okay with making the Titans Return neck the universal standard, even for heads that don't turn into anything.

The connection can be a little floppy/loose sometimes, so I would probably prefer a standardized ball joint, but I wouldn't absolutely hate it.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

From what I've handled of the swappable heads so far, I'll take connections that are a little loose.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

It shouldn't take that much experimenting. Just pick a standardized head connection. It doesn't have to be the tested and proven theoretically ideal choice. Just pick something and call it settled.

Just a 5mm peg with a ball joint on top.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Perfectly simple. I like it.

 

[Kalidor]

I was VERY late getting to see Transformers One and I wish I could have seen it on the big screen. That said it is hands down the best Transformers movie to date. A masterpiece 40 years in the making.

 

[Sabrblade]

I was VERY late getting to see Transformers One and I wish I could have seen it on the big screen. That said it is hands down the best Transformers movie to date. A masterpiece 40 years in the making.

And, sadly, a commercial flop that Hasbro will probably see as a total failure.

 

[Kalidor]

Nooooo

 

[Sabrblade]

Nooooo

It's all because the marketing for the movie was abysmal (making it look like a slapstick comedy movie instead of the dramatic pro-labor allegory it really was), and the movie shouldn't have been released in September. September was a total death knell for the movie since kids were back in school not going to movies as much as they would have if the movie had been released in August. But September was chosen for the movie's release to have it coincide with Transformers Day, which was itself chosen to be on the 40th anniversary of the G1 cartoon (instead of the actual 40th anniversary of the whole brand, which was back in May).

Not to mention The Wild Robot coming to theaters so closely afterward, which totally killed TF One's chances of commercial success.

 

[Kalidor]

That's a shame. The only real "slapstick" elements came from how obnoxiously annoying Bumblebee was. There were a few mcu gotg style bits of humor but it also got pretty dark.

I went in with zero knowledge or spoilers so it was all new and fresh to me.

But I clocked Sentinel as a "Homelander" type from the start, I just didn't know how.

 

[Sabrblade]

Yeah, it's a great movie that critics, fans, and audiences all loved, but also had everything stacked against its financial success by all the decisions made by the marketing department.

The first trailer alone set a bad first impression by cramming practically every single joke in the movie into it, giving people the wrong impression about it.

Not to mention we won't be getting the next Studio Series toys for this movie (Deluxe B-127, Deluxe Elita-1, and Voyager Sentinel Prime) until next summer.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Tired: "I don't watch movie trailers because they spoil everything."

Wired: "I don't watch movie trailers because they don't accurately reflect the movie at all."

Spoiler

Expired: "I don't watch movies anymore."

 

[Kalidor]

I'm very happy I didn't watch the trailer. It would definitely have soured me on having the reveals shown.