Talk:Transformers (toy line)

message: Can we move this to something like Transformers (toyline) - at the basic level the Transformers were a toyline first and foremost with the comic and cartoon emerging from them. User:Timrollpickering
:I think the determining factor should be the predominant influence, not so much the genesis. User:Mallignamius
IMHO: Some of this should be moved to Transformers Universes (e.g. Decepticons, Autobots, History) assuming it isn't already covered there.  This article should cover the toyline, not the fiction associated whit it, given the existance of the Universes article.
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:I agree. The Toyline article should be devoted to the toys, not the cartoon or anything else. Any story included in the bio/tech specs or anything on the packaging is fair game, but otherwise, save it for one of the other dozen TF aticles. Crockalley 14:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move proposals 

message: I thought there's already a wiki page for Transformers (2007) movie ? Do we really need to include it in an article about the toyline?
--Destron Commander 03:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agreed. I suggest changing that section to: "The live-action Transformers movie has been set to open in the U.S. on July 4, 2007 and is being produced by DreamWorks Pictures with collaboration from Hasbro and Takara. It is expected that the release of a new movie will involve the production and release of associated toys from Takara and Hasbro."
The rest is irrelevant to the Toyline article. Crockalley 14:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Don't be silly. Jesus was a zombie. Optimus Sledge 10:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transformers (2007) 

message: Does any one know who design the original Autobot and Decepticon head logos? --24.249.108.133 22:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo design 

message: I have removed external links to discussion forums as they are a violation of WP:EL. -- MakeChooChooGoNow 08:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: The earliest Transformers did not have entirely metal bodies.  The toys simply each had a few metal parts on them.  Optimus Prime, for instance, had a metal upper chest and metal toes, but beyond that he and his trailer were made entirely out of plastic (except for things like screws).  Fully die-cast metal Transformers, or even mostly die-cast metal Transformers, are merely a myth created and perpetuated by a combination of nostalgial, purism, and hazy memories.  --Andrusi 20:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metal parts 

message: Someone's put a "citation needed" tag in the following line:
The taglines "More Than Meets the Eye"[citation needed] and "Robots in Disguise" reflect this ability
Is the citation needed because someone questions whether "More Than Meets the Eye" is a tagline (which is easily demonstrable, at least for G1), or because someone questions whether or not that tagline reflects that toys' ability to change?--G.B. Blackrock 00:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Needed? 

message: Should we mention the transformatirx toys and other (cheap spin offs of the transformers toys into the article) since i found this while searching on the internet. Luna191 13:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are waaaaaay too many Transformers knockoffs to list in this article, and just mentioning that they exist would be redundant, as any toy line significant enough to have a Wikipedia article will be bootlegged.  --Andrusi 15:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So?, its better to mention them than not mentioning them at all. Luna191 14:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Transformatrix? A Hasbro product? Not by a long shot. JIP | Talk 19:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Transformatrix and other cheap knockoffs

message: If there's going to be a single photo illustrating the toyline, could it at least be one of a Transformer transformed completely? Jetfire, whatever his other shortcomings, has longer legs than that. Optimus Sledge 00:40, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Image:MP04MasterpieceConvoy.jpg What about the pic of MP Convoy in the WikiProject header? Without a doubt more iconic than Classics Jetfire, and transformed correctly to boot. Marcus-e 09:06, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Much better. Optimus Sledge 14:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

text: I changed the image link to a blue link, since that image is non-free, and thus not allowed in Talk: space.  --Phirazo 21:47, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: I was looking at the Chinese-language version, and I have a question that I don't know where else to direct. I see the Chinese version has multiple versions, but all they seem to do is change the character set, not the content. What do we do about articles like this, where, for example, Optimus Prime is known as one thing in China, another in Hong Kong, and another in Taiwan?--211.74.219.104 16:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question re: translations of this article 

message: There seems to be no mention of the heat-sensative logo that was put onto some lines in response to cheap knockoffs.  It was usually somewhere obvious on the toy, and was black until heated (by putting your thumb onto it), when it showed the logo of the side that the transformer belonged to.  I always understood that only 'official' toys had these on, and that if it didn't have a patch it wasn't an official Transformer.  does anyone have any sourced info that they could add on this?
Cheers 212.85.28.67 13:27, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 212.85.28.67 is partly right. Only official Hasbro Transformers had these rub signs, but not all of them had. Rub signs were used in the middle of the G1 line, there are both older and newer figures that don't have them. JIP | Talk 16:08, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heat Responsive Logo 

message: I know that there is already a list of Autobots and list of Decepticons pages, however I would like to know  if anyone would be opposed to a Generation 1 list for this page which has both Autobots and Decepticons. It is a bit more compact and you can view it here Libro0 19:47, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The only problem with the list is that it really includes less than half of the entire G1 toyline. JIP | Talk 19:35, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of G1 

message: Shouldn't there be a mention of the class denominations given to figures according to their sizes? --uKER (talk) 06:59, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size classes 

message: Hasbro would go on to buy the entire toy line from Takara shortly after giving them sole ownership of the Transformers toy-line, branding rights, and copyrights, while in exchange, Takara was given the rights to... (emphasis added)
Could it be that the emphasized part should read obtaining? It seems illogical that Hasbro (the original buyer) should have been giving Takara (the original developer and seller) sole ownership to the product line. It seems more imaginable quite the other way round. Even more so as the text goes on to say that Takara received some assets in exchange (you normally don't receive something in exchange when you're receiving something in the first place, or do you?)
Just so this point gets detected and handled more quickly, I take the liberty to insert a ? in the place in question.
--217.226.40.183 (talk) 17:22, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear or misleading point in intro? 

message: I don't see what's wrong with using this image on the article. It demonstrates the patent of the single most memorable toy of the franchise. Granted, it was originally poorly placed without any caption, but if that's fixed, I don't see why it shouldn't belong in the article. JIP | Talk 21:11, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Optimus Prime patent image 

message: I bought the universe Optimus Primal toy but there was an issue, when I tried posing the figure, the legs broke off, accidentally I dropped the figure on concrete, I was outside during that day, as a result the face detail was heavily scratched, What should I do now?.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.117.102.31 (talk) 00:21, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the talk page for the article about the Transformers toy line. It is not a general Transformers discussion board. JIP | Talk 21:30, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transformers universe toy advice. 

message: In the section mentioning the characters to first be put in the hall of fame, it says the dinobots. This should be Dinobot singular. 2600:1008:B063:6A1E:6070:7E2:9368:C176 (talk) 04:23, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hall of fame error 

message: I propose merging Decepticon into this article. The article is currently about 100K of wanky fancruft w/ a few sentences of relevant, properly sourced material. Let's move those few sentences here and make this an article worthy of WP. Just Another Cringy Username (talk) 06:26, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger Proposal 

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thread_title:  "[[:Tailspin (Transformers)]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Air Patrol (film) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 18:03, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress