Due to an unfortunate logistical hiccup, we are just now finally able to dig up Hasbro, Inc's answers to the third edition of their Q&A program. You guys asked some great questions, unfortunately, we were only limited to three submissions. However, these expand across all the genres of Transformers: Animated,
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Transformers: Universe!
Will the Transformers Animated show or toy line continue past season 3, even under a different name?
First, thank you for your interest in Transformers Animated! While we cannot discuss the long term vision for the Animated series, we are excited about the upcoming launch of Season 3 in a couple of weeks and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. As for plans post 2009, it is still a little too early to discuss get into specific details.
What were the hardest engineering problems in the Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen toys?
As with the Movie 1 product line, the Transformers styling creates unique challenges for the design of the transformation. The real challenge is to continue to raise the bar even further from in capturing realism in both robot and vehicle modes. We hope that you will agree with us that we have surpassed our goal when you see the entire Revenge of the Fallen line!
Besides Bludgeon, what other characters did you want to get into the Universe line that had to be shelved for whatever reasons?
Our design team certainly has favorite such as Perceptors, Soundwave and believe it or not Wheelie. We added Wheelie into the line as a Legend because we thought it was a good fit for his character. But moving forward we would love the opportunity to redo Wheelie (paying homage to the G1 character) in Deluxe and really making him a very cool robot with an extremely cool vehicle mode. I think that would be a great design challenge
and it would be interesting to see people's reactions to an awesome Wheelie! Hopefully we will be able to get this figure into an upcoming release.
We would like to thank Hasbro for their time to answering these great questions! See you in two months for our next round!