Via ToysRuss YouTube channel we can share for you a new interview with Hasbro Transformers Team Evan “Naveskoorb” Brooks & Mark “Markclonus” Maher.
We have an interesting 27-minute chat about our favorite brand of transforming robot toys. Read on for some highlights (thanks to Tetratron):
“Beat MP-10” was the goal with Studio Series 86 Commander Optimus Prime.
Knight Rider collaboration wasn’t made with the goal of scaling with anything.
A Hasbro designer named Brian (who has worked at Hasbro for 30 years) is the one who did Knight Rider
Evan isn’t fan of the old Fortress Maximus Titan.
A lot of brands have come to Hasbro for collabortations. Certain ones get pushed forward based off what the Transformers team thinks would work best for the year. It’s a lot of back-and-forth
Debating on what to do with cardboard backgrounds since their research indicated that people don’t use them much.
Talk about creating new flight stands
Comic stuff won’t come to Studio Series until SS-86 is mostly finished. If it happens, it’ll be in something like Legacy. Evan names Nautica and Riptide as characters he wants to do.
Mark has plans for more Wreckers, though most on the backburner. Rack n’ Ruin is the one specifically he wants to do.
Capsules are always envisioned as one year programs, if they do well is when they consider to do more though with development it takes two years.
Devastator will show off in some form at Pulse Con.
Original plan was to spread Devastator across two years but now the goal is 5-6 months. They learned from Menasor based off how Breakdown well into a later wave then they wanted and was harder to get.
Recommendations from internal management are to show off Combiners all at once. Trying to figure out a system to make most of the pieces available at once.
No trumpets for the Constructicons. It was planned at one point though.
Still a lot of candidates for Titan class. Hasui wants to do Grandus, Mark thinks Broadside would fit.