Lord Drakkon did get into the newest video game and is getting a figure at this year's Power Morphicon. Maybe the 1969 Rangers might get a similar treatment. But I kind of want Saban [and Bandai] to stay away from the comics. Hasbro got too involved with the IDW Transformers books and they started to decline.
-Hasbro got too involved with the IDW Transformers books and they started to decline-
Hasbro have always been looming over the shoulder of Transformers, even from the early days. There's stuff from the Furman run on IDW where they stepped in with bizarre edicts ("Arcee has to be pink, or people will confuse her with the other female Autobots!"). And most of the decline was the All Hail Megatron ("let's make it like the cartoon!") or the Ongoing ("I don't care about these characters!") Even Last Stand of the Wreckers wasn't mandate free, Hasbro saying Roche and Roberts couldn't kill certain characters.
Heck, even stuff from the first year of MTMTE and RID were Hasbro mandates - the Shadowplay storyline and the Syndromica stuff were because Hasbro were utterly terrified at the thought of Optimus not being in a comic for a whole year. (*scare chord*)
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Date: 2018-01-28 01:08 pm (UTC)Hasbro have always been looming over the shoulder of Transformers, even from the early days.
There's stuff from the Furman run on IDW where they stepped in with bizarre edicts ("Arcee has to be pink, or people will confuse her with the other female Autobots!").
And most of the decline was the All Hail Megatron ("let's make it like the cartoon!") or the Ongoing ("I don't care about these characters!")
Even Last Stand of the Wreckers wasn't mandate free, Hasbro saying Roche and Roberts couldn't kill certain characters.
Heck, even stuff from the first year of MTMTE and RID were Hasbro mandates - the Shadowplay storyline and the Syndromica stuff were because Hasbro were utterly terrified at the thought of Optimus not being in a comic for a whole year. (*scare chord*)