RFC News Desk Special Report: Feb 6 2023 Transformers Team Conference Call Recap
Radio Free Cybertron was among the invitees to a special conference call with the Hasbro Transformers Design team, including members Mark Maher, Evan Brooks, Sam Smith, Delaney Norris, and Ben MacCrae. Over the course of a nearly two hour call, everyone got to submit at least one question, but more importantly we got a lot of interesting responses from the team members. In this special extra-large edition of the RFC News Desk, we recap the highlights, and let you hear some of the answers right from the team themselves.
At the end, we got a special exclusive first look at Buzzworthy Bumblebee Origins Jazz, an entirely new mold figure based on Jazz's Cybertronian appearance in the first episode of the G1 cartoon. Publicity photos were sent out a little later that day, but we also were able to get some extra looks through screenshots from the call for a little extra detail the product photos may not have covered. Ben tells us preorders should open later this month.
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17 Oct 2022
RFC News Desk 162: Hound And Hatchet Become Buzzworthy
TFW user Max Tower (https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/earth-mode-hound-and-movie-hatchet.1238525/) uncovered a pair of stock image renders giving us our first look at the previously unknown Buzzworthy Bumblebee Studio Series G1 Hound and Dark of The Moon Hatchet!
The toys are retools of Siege Hound and Studio Series Crowbar, respectively, and from what we can see right now appear to bring a healthy amount of new parts to the table! We can't see a whole lot for Hatchet, but I have a semi-detailed rundown of the evident changes to Hound in the News Desk episode.
According to JTPrime, this new Deluxe assortment, which includes reships of Cliffjumper, Kup, and B-127, is expected to hit sometime in December at US Target stores. And hopefully on Pulse at the same time to cover everyone not served locally by any Targets.
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The second wave of the Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection has started to hit shelves. In New Zealand, to everyone's surprise. This has given us the chance to both verify that the previously leaked Crasher is in fact being sold as Crasher! Plus it gives us our actual first look at the toy known in listings as "SHADOWS", which has been believed to reference the legacy name Shadow Striker. Except it turn out it didn't. It actually meant G2 Dragstrip. Or maybe a new character inspired by G2 Dragstrip? We don't really know what's up with this, especially since we didn't even know this specific thing existed before about five minutes ago. But hey, at least the age of surprises isn't totally over, right?
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