Transformers x Jurassic Park Collaborative Autobot JP12 In-Hand Images

"Embryonic Buster!"

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T-Hybrid

Him being nominally an Autobot sorta fits the movie though. He was there, he was part of the JP staff, but he was a turncoat in the end. I would absolutely put that in to JP12 in any headcannon.

My interpretation of Jurassic Park has been that the park crew itself are antagonists of various shades. Dinosaurs don't need to necessarily exist at all but InGen in their ways wanted to play god. So you make an animal that shouldn't even be anymore solely for the purpose of exploitation. In my book this makes them antagonists of various shades. Nedry is absolutely guilty. He's the one who sabotages the park system and lets Isla Nublar go to Dino Hell in the first place!

I'd give Grant, Satler, and Malcom a pass as they weren't necessarily knowledgeable of what to expect in the park.

So I was confused by the instructions. I think it is supposed to be possible to transform JP-12 into Jeep mode with his hat on. But I just don't see how that is possible. Am I the only one who read the instructions that way or is it actually possible?

C16

I think it can be. Generally, these figures aren't reused ever again. None of these new mold crossovers have been reused for anything, have they? The Chevy Aveo was never reused. The Universal Studios movie ride figure was never reused. Have any of these kinds of figures ever been reused in any way?

Well, the Aveo is a case of Chevy commissioning a figure for their exclusive use as a limited promotion that wasn't even distributed by Hasbro nor Takara, so I don't count it. It didn't even have retail packaging of any sort AFAIK.

The Universal Studios Evac figure was clearly a commission piece for the ride's gift shop since that is the only place you can even get it. That deal is probably what lead to the other Universal collab figures.

As for the rest, the ones that are unique molds are: Maverick, JP93, JP12, Dilophocon, the 3 G.I. Joe figures, and possibly Code Red.
Every other figure is some degree of repaint, retool, or remold.

The G.I. Joe figures are Hasbro properties so there's nothing stopping them from being reused, but honestly these are G.I. Joe toys with transformation engineering added to them. I don't see how they would ever fit into a Transformers line.

So really its just 4 or maybe 5 figures. (Code Red seems to be a very heavy retool of Siege Ironhide.)
Yes, it's true none of these have been reused yet, but they are all fairly recent the oldest of which was released only 3 years ago.
I say it's far too early to tell whether or not they will get reused or to generalize about them.

Unlike Aveo Swerve and Universal Studio Evac which were commissioned for exclusive use by another company and were never part of the Crossover nor Collaborative sublines.
In contrast both the Xover and Collab figures are licensed from other companies for Hasbro's exclusive use as general retail releases.

C16

I didn't know the Autobots were into snuf

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C16

Obviously. But generally, those kinds of things aren't to be used again outside of the initial agreement made and product release.

I'm just sayin' it isn't something that can or should be generalized.
It's very much a case by case thing.

C16

How? The chest is nothing alike.

Why wouldn't they? When your design a game engine for someone in the gaming industry, you're not free to use that engine in your own projects. If you design a font for a company you're not free to use it yourself. Or a formula/recipe.

That depends on the contract specifics and the attitudes of the people in the companies involved.
Nothing is assumed to be included in the deal.
That's what contracts are for.

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And making an engine for someone in the video game industry is a bad example since it's actually more like Jeep hiring Hasbro to engineer a figure without specific vehicle tooling that Jeep would then be free to use in whatever project they like.

Assuming that Hasbro is licensing the vehicle likeness from Jeep and the Jurassic Park IP from Universal, then it's exactly like any video game company acting as a third party interested in making a Jurassic Park game based on the movies.

However, I imagine it's more likely that the Jeep Wrangler likeness is already included in the JP licensing as a separate, preestablished deal between Universal and Jeep.

Hahli

With the knowledge that this is possible I can now safely say with 100% certainty that JP12 would make for an amazing looking Swindle

How? The chest is nothing alike.

Vanya

Why would Jeep have any say on the engineering?
The license is for the likeness of the vehicle.
From a business perspective I would never make a deal that would contractually bind the engineering to the vehicle likeness.
Though, I do suppose a hypothetical not-Jeep retool in particular (like the Detritus alt mode for example) could perhaps skirt a bit too close to the license terms.

Why wouldn't they? When your design a game engine for someone in the gaming industry, you're not free to use that engine in your own projects. If you design a font for a company you're not free to use it yourself. Or a formula/recipe.

Outatime

What's that little jeep?

Fenrys

Newage released a variant of their Hound figure based on the Jurassic Park jeep deco

Cool thanks