An announcement via Hasbro.com let us learn an important decision for Hasbro’s products packaging in the near future.

Brian Goldner, Hasbro’s Chairman and CEO states:

“Removing plastic from our packaging is the latest advancement in our more than decade-long journey to create a more sustainable future for our business and our world”

According to the extra information from the article, beginning in 2020, Hasbro plans to begin phasing out plastic from new product packaging (all their brands, not only Transformers).

These plans will include plastic elements like polybags, elastic bands, shrink wrap, window sheets and blister packs. The goal is to eliminate all plastic in Hasbro’s product and toy packaging by the end of 2022.

While we are glad Hasbro is taken care of the environment, this is now a very interesting point to debate on how it will affect Transformers collectors. Window sheets and blister packs have been a classic presentation for years letting you check the toys before you buy them. Is it time for closed boxes? What do you think about?

You can join to the ongoing discussion on the 2005 Boards and share your thoughts!

To help push the popularity of its brands in India (and the subcontinent), Hasbro has teamed up with Black White Orange for the franchises including Nerf, My Little Pony, Transformers, Play-doh, Monopoly, Power Rangers and Baby Alive.

Black White Orange aims to expand the licensing program for Hasbro with an initial focus on the apparel, accessories, back-to-school, promotional licensing, sporting goods and publishing categories. The agency is also planning a major push for the brands throughout the upcoming festive and back-to-school seasons.

“I am incredibly impressed by the commerciality, creativity and passion of the Black White Orange team and look forward to building powerful licensee and retailer partnerships together in India.” says, Claire Gilchrist, vice president, APAC consumer products, Hasbro, Inc.

“Hasbro and the portfolio of its brands have been legendary in the consumer products space. We at Black White Orange are extremely honored and excited to work on these properties and take them in to the homes of all the fans who are currently consuming or have grown up with these brands in India.” says Bhavik Vora, Founder and CEO, Black White Orange Brands Pvt. Ltd.

Artist Han Yue has uploaded, via his Artstation account, several pieces of Buildings And Background Concept Art  used for War For Cybertron: Siege promotional materials.

We have a detailed look at some amazing Cybertronian backgrounds as well as renders of several buildings used for the final art. Han Yue shares some details about it:

My responsibility is using the concept art from design team to creat a environmet include all 3D assets, textures, materials and lighting for green screen shooting. This project was build for Transformers War for Cybertron Siege. The Camera sequence is mainly designed on Center bridge with practial elements such as a platform ruin. I wish you like the final result.

There’s even a fantastic 360-degree view of the final background that you can see here. You can click on the bar to see the rest of the mirrored images on this news post and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!

The official social media channels for Flame Toys continue to publish great updates, this time revealing the package artwork and contents of their upcoming Star Saber figure.

After reviewing the images attached to this post, let us know what you think on the 2005 boards!

Furai Model news items are coming in hot, with Flame Toys revealing the package artwork and contents of the upcoming Megatron (IDW Autobot ver.) model kit via their official social media channels.

Check out the images attached to this post and then sound off on the 2005 boards!

Courtesy of Slate.com we can share for you a very interesting interview with John Warden and Lynsey Bernier On Making Transformers.

As you may know, John Warden is Transformers Senior Design Manager and Lynsey Bernier is Transformers Senior Project Engineer at Hasbro, and they talk about how they do their jobs. On this 40-minute audio interview they reveal the fun, nerdiness, and math that goes into making our beloved transforming robots.

You can listen to the interview here and then you can share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

A heads up to our 3A Transformers product fans out there – there is a shake up with the companies that make them.  Rest assured all product, in production or not, will be made and shipped.  The license will also continue beyond that under a new company name.  But things are changing.

3A was a joint collaboration between Ashley Wood, the artist, and Kim Fung Wong.  They originally created toys based on the worlds and art of Ashley Wood.  Kim Fung Wong eventually created a sister company, ThreeZero, to manufacture non Ashley Wood product.  They have been running side by side for a while.  Over time, due to the ins and outs of licensing deals, 3A also got into producing items that weren’t Ashley Wood specific.  Including Transformers.

Last night, Ashley Wood announced that 3A would be shutting down, and the Transformers and Destiny licenses will be transferred to ThreeZero.  All Bambaland.com and Worldof3a.com orders will be filled and honored.  Future pre-orders, customer service and the like will be handled by ThreeZero.

In reality, nothing is changing but the logo on the box as far as we can tell.  However, for those interested or with outstanding pre-orders, we suggest checking out the following links to get informed.  You can also read on to check the details out.

ThreeZeroHK.com Statement

Worldof3A.com Statement

We wish all parties the best of luck in their new adventures and hope the Transformers product keeps coming!

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