A theory about the designs?

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:11 am

From Seibertron

http://www.seibertron.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=95153

Could it be?

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:00 pm

Very interesting! The hypthosis sits well within the available circumstancial evidence.

Even if true, I still think they could have developed better designs that were exclusive of the other TF lines. I mean, there is no excuse for Megatrons hands......

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:29 pm

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:19 pm

Maybe the topic went dormant and was culled?

veritech · Post by **veritech** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:34 pm

So what was the theory/rumor?

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:10 pm

veritech wrote:So what was the theory/rumor?

That the movie designs are so far from that of 'normal' transformer designs specifically at Hasbros request. Essentially to protect the copyright of the iconic TF images.

So, if the movie Prime looked like classic prime, hasbro would be handing the rights to that image to Paramount, to a certain extent.

And if it all goes pearshaped it protects the classic brand. Or something like that.

IIRC

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:32 pm

Weird theory, and not likely true. Surely Hasbro had a great influence over the movie designs, they could have told Bay not to do anything radical, but they let him go along. I think Hasbro wanted these new designs, they wanted to do something radically new to spice up the franchise.