Re: Zob's Thoughts on TakaraTomy Encore Ironhide and Ratchet

On Apr 30, 10:18 pm, Zobovor <zm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> It's kind of funny, actually.  All these years, I've regarded Ironhide
> and Ratchet as patently inferior toys compared to their contem****ary
> brethren, barely-humanoid mech suits who don't look anything like
> their cartoon ****trayals.  I know I'm not the only one who feels this
> way.  It seems kind of strange to me that Hasbro would select these
> two toys as part of the original Transformers line-up, knowing full
> well they were of a different nature than the other toys, and yet
> later insist that the characters be ****trayed as humanoids despite
> this dichotomy of design.

....Do we know this was a Hasbro decision, and not one by Marvel/Sunbow/
Dery/Budiansky/anybody else?