Transformers Fan Built Bot Poll

Autobot, Car, Blaster cannon, Orange and white, Grumpy= RUNG!!

Vote now, vote often!

I voted for a Grumpy orange and white Decepticon construction vehicle that wields a mace.

My message disappeared, how peculiar.
Here it is again:

This is actually a cool idea!

My juicy bit from the news? 'An upcoming IDW series'.
Really? A new one? Replacing ReGen One, maybe? Ooooh.

Voted for a grumpy purple-and-bronze Decepticon Terran Beast with a mace. Interested to see how this turns out!

Oh god DAMMIT!!! I can't decide!

EDIT: Jesus I've been awake for a long time. I thought an option on the last question was to make it a secretary.

EDIT-EDIT: Right now my thinking is to just go for whatever options Hasbro are least likely to do under their own steam.

Decepticon
Motorcycle
Sword
Purple & Bronze
Sneaky

I'm thinking fembot ninja!

That's a pretty cool idea! Not sure if I'll vote, I have no idea what I'd want right now, but I'm very interested in seeing how this turns out.

Autobot
Construction
Orange & White
Nunchucks
Valiant

We need more construction 'bots.

Sodan-1 wrote:Oh god DAMMIT!!! I can't decide!

EDIT: Jesus I've been awake for a long time. I thought an option on the last question was to make it a secretary.

EDIT-EDIT: Right now my thinking is to just go for whatever options Hasbro are least likely to do under their own steam.

Yes. Just to see what will happen when we get a purple and bronze hotshot Decepticon construction with nunchucks.

You think nunchucks are less likely than a mace?

Va'al wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:Oh god DAMMIT!!! I can't decide!

EDIT: Jesus I've been awake for a long time. I thought an option on the last question was to make it a secretary.

EDIT-EDIT: Right now my thinking is to just go for whatever options Hasbro are least likely to do under their own steam.

Yes. Just to see what will happen when we get a purple and bronze hotshot Decepticon construction with nunchucks.

Apologies, just want to double-check: mockery?

Nemesis Primal wrote:You think nunchucks are less likely than a mace?

How many Transformers can you think of that have had nunchucks in all fairness. There's been a few maces even I can think of.

Sodan-1 wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:You think nunchucks are less likely than a mace?

How many Transformers can you think of that have had nunchucks in all fairness. There's been a few maces even I can think of.

I suppose it's just Animated Jazz, but he's more recent than the last TF I can think of with a mace (as opposed to a morning star), which is Transmetal Optimus Primal.

Sodan-1 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:Oh god DAMMIT!!! I can't decide!

EDIT: Jesus I've been awake for a long time. I thought an option on the last question was to make it a secretary.

EDIT-EDIT: Right now my thinking is to just go for whatever options Hasbro are least likely to do under their own steam.

Yes. Just to see what will happen when we get a purple and bronze hotshot Decepticon construction with nunchucks.

Apologies, just want to double-check: mockery?

Not mocking you, that's what I voted! I love the idea!

Nemesis Primal wrote:You think nunchucks are less likely than a mace?

How many Transformers can you think of that have had nunchucks in all fairness. There's been a few maces even I can think of.

Animated Jazz is the only one that springs to mind, really.

I voted so we could get a Waspinator homage, despite him being in a later time of Generation 1. If he could get into the Hall of Fame, he certainly deserves a new toy!

Mindmaster wrote:I voted so we could get a Waspinator homage, despite him being in a later time of Generation 1. If he could get into the Hall of Fame, he certainly deserves a new toy!

He's already showing up in IDW though!
He was in the backgroud of Spotlight: Thundercracker, and has been mentioned in the solicits for July's Robots in Disguise.

Va'al wrote:Not mocking you, that's what I voted! I love the idea!

Oh right. Sorry. I wasn't sure and I'm in a sensitive mood, lol. Even I have to admit that's one crazy combo.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:You think nunchucks are less likely than a mace?

How many Transformers can you think of that have had nunchucks in all fairness. There's been a few maces even I can think of.

I suppose it's just Animated Jazz, but he's more recent than the last TF I can think of with a mace (as opposed to a morning star), which is Transmetal Optimus Primal.

Now you mention it I think I am kind of bunching maces and morning stars together. Morning stars I suppose are sort of like the love-child of a mace and nunchucks. And now I'm thinking of nunchucks with a spiked-ball at the centre of the chain. (And now I'm thinking that it's general silhouette bears a resemblance to a ball-gag. I really shouldn't stay awake for more than 24 hours.)

EDIT: In the end I voted for Decepticon, avian beast, crossbow, blue and silver, and secretive. I'm envisioning a lone bird of prey that hunts in the silence of the night.

'Con
Choppah
Spear/Harpoon
Purple/Bronze
Wildman

No one in particular I'm trying to homage.

I don't think we'll get a homage out of this, so I'm just hoping for a big, bad-tempered bruiser of a Decepticon that turns into smething nasty with horns or tusks.

Va'al wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:I voted so we could get a Waspinator homage, despite him being in a later time of Generation 1. If he could get into the Hall of Fame, he certainly deserves a new toy!

He's already showing up in IDW though!
He was in the backgroud of Spotlight: Thundercracker, and has been mentioned in the solicits for July's Robots in Disguise.

Where was I when they announced this crap?

Oh yeah, and obligatory "images or GTFO".

Mindmaster wrote:

Va'al wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:I voted so we could get a Waspinator homage, despite him being in a later time of Generation 1. If he could get into the Hall of Fame, he certainly deserves a new toy!

He's already showing up in IDW though!
He was in the backgroud of Spotlight: Thundercracker, and has been mentioned in the solicits for July's Robots in Disguise.

Where was I when they announced this crap?

Er... somewhere else?


Seriously, the more I think about it, the more we should go for the most ridiculous character we can think of!

Va'al wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Va'al wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:I voted so we could get a Waspinator homage, despite him being in a later time of Generation 1. If he could get into the Hall of Fame, he certainly deserves a new toy!

He's already showing up in IDW though!
He was in the backgroud of Spotlight: Thundercracker, and has been mentioned in the solicits for July's Robots in Disguise.

Where was I when they announced this crap?

Er... somewhere else?


Seriously, the more I think about it, the more we should go for the most ridiculous character we can think of!

The ultimate trolling a Transformer fan can do... I like this idea!

Va'al wrote:Seriously, the more I think about it, the more we should go for the most ridiculous character we can think of!

I think we should instead vote for what we actually WANT instead of trying to troll Hasbro. This is a poll of fan preferences, I can see it having an effect on more than this one character.

•Autobot
•Jet
•Longrange blaster
•Blue and silver
•Sneaky

I want more Autobot Jets.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Va'al wrote:Seriously, the more I think about it, the more we should go for the most ridiculous character we can think of!

I think we should instead vote for what we actually WANT instead of trying to troll Hasbro. This is a poll of fan preferences, I can see it having an effect on more than this one character.

I think this fandom needs to lighten up, and this is a good way of ensuring that.

Va'al wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Va'al wrote:Seriously, the more I think about it, the more we should go for the most ridiculous character we can think of!

I think we should instead vote for what we actually WANT instead of trying to troll Hasbro. This is a poll of fan preferences, I can see it having an effect on more than this one character.

I think this fandom needs to lighten up, and this is a good way of ensuring that.

I think in some ways, it does, but there are better ways to go about it than trying to sabotage something that could turn out really nice.

In all honestly, I don't particularly care for this poll: I just want toys of the Decepticon Justice Division. Like, very much.

Something tells me the least interesting options will win and/or Hasbro will take the least interesting interpretation of said options.

Still, would love to see how this turns out.

I went for something random

-Autobot
-Spaceship
-Flamethrower
-Orange and White
-Wildman

I'm seeing a Jet-like version of Whirl...with FLAMETHROWERS

MasterSoundBlaster wrote:I went for something random

-Autobot
-Spaceship
-Flamethrower
-Orange and White
-Wildman

I'm seeing a Jet-like version of Whirl...with FLAMETHROWERS

and completely different colours and different alt mode? fairymuff.

I can't get over the dross that is "Thrilling 30" enough to bother voting. That's just a really poor name for a line. It's so terrible it almost offends me. £0th Anniversary Collection, or Sorry We Didn't Bother With A 25Th Anniversary Line Unlike We Did With GI Joe or Star Wars or something would be okay, but Thrilling 30 sounds like either a really terrible holiday company, or a crappy wrestling tournament.

Wasn't Universe their 25th anniversary line?

Anyway:

Decepticon (MOAR CONS!)
Motorcycle
Long range blaster
Blue and Silver
Sneaky


...In retrospect, it's like that unreleased G2 Soundwave. I think that may have been subconscious yearning.

A Hotshot Autobot that is a Terran Beast with a powerful Mace that will crush any Decepticon while looking cool with her/his Blue and Silver color scheme! I'm not sure if it should be a he or a she.. I'm thinking she. Anyway I love this poll, Hasbro is on a grrreat roll! Yet again it is almost Transformers thirtieth anniversary.

Autobot
Avian Beast
Sword
Blue & Silver
Wildman

Will be interesting to see how this turns out.

I voted for a valiant purple and bronze Decepticon car armed with a lance. I love honourable Decepticons and jerk Autobots to mix things up. I'm hoping for a Bugatti Veyron-type super car, which is why I went with a similar colourscheme as Movie Jolt. And a staff weapon makes sense with a sentry-type character.

This poll is a great move on Hasbro's part. I hope they'll involve the fans as much as the Four Horsemen did with their Seventh Kingdom toys.

Awwwwww YEAH! This makes me excited, what WILL the fanbase create!?

For me, I'd like to see:

Hotshot Autbot Tank w/ Long-range Blaster
Blue and Silver


[Which I would love to vote for, but it seems to be closed for some reason! D:]


Gimme moar Breacher, Hasbro! (And don't kill him off this time!)

We don't need more stink'n Autobots as far as the Generations line goes. But surely that's what we'll get. Please vote

Autobot, Tank, Flame Thrower, Red and Black, Grumpy.

As cool as this is, I'm looking forward to learning more about this "Thrilling 30" thing that they've got in the pipes...

lowman_x wrote:
As cool as this is, I'm looking forward to learning more about this "Thrilling 30" thing that they've got in the pipes...

Thrilling 30 is the tagline of the Generations toys meant to celebrate the (amazing) 30 years Transformers has enjoyed. Kinda similar to where the Universe line from 2008-09 celebrated the 25th anniversary.

We especially owe Beast Wars several homages; without it, Transformers would have never went past Generation 2.

Mindmaster wrote:

lowman_x wrote:
As cool as this is, I'm looking forward to learning more about this "Thrilling 30" thing that they've got in the pipes...

Thrilling 30 is the tagline of the Generations toys meant to celebrate the (amazing) 30 years Transformers has enjoyed. Kinda similar to where the Universe line from 2008-09 celebrated the 25th anniversary.

We especially owe Beast Wars several homages; without it, Transformers would have never went past Generation 2.

Yeah, I sorta figured that bit, but I wonder whether it's going to actually be 30 figures and who will they be? Oooh! Excitement!

lowman_x wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

lowman_x wrote:
As cool as this is, I'm looking forward to learning more about this "Thrilling 30" thing that they've got in the pipes...

Thrilling 30 is the tagline of the Generations toys meant to celebrate the (amazing) 30 years Transformers has enjoyed. Kinda similar to where the Universe line from 2008-09 celebrated the 25th anniversary.

We especially owe Beast Wars several homages; without it, Transformers would have never went past Generation 2.

Yeah, I sorta figured that bit, but I wonder whether it's going to actually be 30 figures and who will they be? Oooh! Excitement!

Just because there's a 30 in Thrilling 30 doesn't necessarily mean that there will be 30 figures. It's like saying there was exactly 25 toys in Universe.

lowman_x wrote:Autobot, Tank, Flame Thrower, Red and Black, Grumpy.

As cool as this is, I'm looking forward to learning more about this "Thrilling 30" thing that they've got in the pipes...

Warpath fan?

A valiant sword-wielding 'Con, dressed in Orange and White paintjob that transforms into a motorcycle.

Basically a con that looks and act like a bot is what I have in mind

Just put my selection in; I think this a great idea and I am really interested to see how this turns out.

A green & gold Autobot Terran Animal who wields a Spear/Harpoon and is a wildman. We've not seen that yet to my knowledge.

Hasbro released a new press release across the news wire at 4:00 p.m. EST today.

Hasbro wrote:For the first time in its history, Hasbro has unveiled a program in which Transformers fans can help create an all-new Transformers character that will be introduced into the brand's rich lore forever, including an action figure in next year's "Thrilling 30" anniversary line as well as appear in official Transformers comic books.

Further details can be found in the below release.

HASBRO INVITES KIDS AND FANS TO CREATE NEW TRANSFORMERS CHARACTER

Opening Globally Today, the “Fan Built Bot” Poll Kicks-Off Celebration of the Iconic Brand’s 30th Anniversary by Allowing Fans to Create New Transformers Character

Pawtucket, R.I. (April 18, 2013) — For the first time in history, the Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) TRANSFORMERS brand is inviting fans of all ages around the globe to help create a new TRANSFORMERS character that will be forever added to the TRANSFORMERS world. In anticipation of the TRANSFORMERS’ brand 30th anniversary in 2014, the “Fan Built Bot” Poll kicks off today, and will run through May 5th on TRANSFORMERS.com/vote. Hasbro invites fans to vote daily to shape this new TRANSFORMERS character. The new character will be made into an action figure featured in the “Thrilling 30” line of toys to celebrate the anniversary.

Hasbro is giving kids and fans the opportunity to make the “Fan Built Bot” character with votes determining everything from being an AUTOBOT or DECEPTICON—to its vehicle or other mode, color, personality and more. Kids and fans are encouraged to vote daily! Also, to keep with the theme of the fans being the ones who really shape and create this new TRANSFORMERS character, Hasbro will also give fans a say in the naming of the new character. More details on the naming will be announced soon.

“Since 1984, the TRANSFORMERS brand has been bringing entertainment and excitement to kids and fans with our beloved characters like BUMBLEBEE and OPTIMUS PRIME. We invite all fans to help us kick off the 30th anniversary of TRANSFORMERS with a new character of their choice — for the first time in history,” said Jay Duke, vice president of the TRANSFORMERS brand at Hasbro. “This is the perfect way to kick off our anniversary celebration and the ‘Thrilling 30’ line of special edition figures. It will be tremendous fun for everyone to keep track of the entire process from the designing of the character; leading up to its introduction as a toy and watching it become a part of the TRANSFORMERS brand.”

The results of the poll will be announced by Hasbro at this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, as part of the official kick-off to Hasbro’s TRANSFORMERS “Thrilling 30” anniversary celebration. Kids and fans will be able to purchase the “Fan Built Bot” character as a toy and will see the new character appear in official TRANSFORMERS comic books.

For further information visit the official polling page at TRANSFORMERS.COM/vote as well as the TRANSFORMERS Facebook page at Facebook.com/Transformers.

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About Hasbro

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Oh, come on! No selection for a pink/green gassy Autobot leader that carries a toilet plunger and transforms into a Thighmaster?


FAIL.

Super Megatron wrote:Oh, come on! No selection for a pink/green gassy Autobot leader that carries a toilet plunger and transforms into a Thighmaster?


FAIL.

I guess they figured a farting gimmick and Thighmaster liscensing fees would make the toy too expensive.


...Wait, you did mean "transforms into the exercise thingy" when you said Thighmaster, and not "has Nebulans forming the thighs", right?

Is it bad that I can't think of any ideas to vote on?

Sabrblade wrote:Is it bad that I can't think of any ideas to vote on?

Honestly, I think the poll needs more choices. Especially the personality and color scheme choices. They all feel... cliche, by Transformer standards.

Green and gold decepticon tank with a blaster cannon, and grumpy.

Autobot + Tank + Blaster + Grumpy + Black/Red = ?