[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Yes and no. Crazy Jetty made some valid points about how the lines are blurring when it comes to Movie and non-Movie toys. This is compounded by Hasbro's use of older molds being redeco'd and included in current lines as different characters (Crankcase, Fracture, Big Daddy and Grindcore are good examples).

If we went strictly on toy lines, then some of Universe 2.0 could fill in for Movie and vice-versa. Some of HFTD could go in the Movie group while others from HTFD could go in the Classics/Universe 2.0/Generations group ("Neo G1").

Transformers really doesn't have a straight-on comparison to MU when it comes to supplemental lines like IM2 and XMO:W, though I guess HFTD would technically be the companion line to ROTF and Reveal The Shield is set to become the MU equivalent of Transformers (at least until TF3 comes out).

For shame on us both for overlooking a significant fact.
The fact that unlike with the marvel movie lines, it seems if anything turns up in the TF movie line if becomes co-owned by the studios (Assuming the mold didn't appear anywhere else first). The studios own the likeness rights to the distinct style for the robots, as well as the setting. So, in the past if Hasbro *had* used this the way they use the Ironman and Wolverine movie, then they would automatically lose the ability to reuse the mold outside of future movie lines. Had they stuck in a true Neo G1 Jazz in the first movie to supplement the defunct Classics line, then they could never use it in Universe as Stepper. And Botcon could never use it for G2 Jazz.
Though, this seems to be changing with Reveal the Shield in ways that I'm sort of unsure about. And some of the latter RotF toys like Bludgeon don't quite seem off limits.