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The most absurd TF story you will read this year....POTP Jazz "Trump variant"


Someone was wondering about the Cybertronian lettering that appears under Power of the Primes Jazz's Autobot symbol.

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They translated it and it reads MAGA, which has been assumed to mean "Make America Great Again" which is, of course, the campaign slogan of the racist, misogynist harvest fruit that the electorate saw fit to elect to POTUS.

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Naturally, this story became all the rage and made such a fuss that it elicited the following response from Hasbro...

"It was brought to our attention that a graphic appears on one of our Transformers figures that, when translated from Cybertronian letters to English, spells out MAGA. We investigated the issue, and discovered that one of our vendors inserted this as part of the design without authorization. We are addressing this with the vendor.

We do not intend for our products to carry political messages, and apologize to anyone who was offended by this message."

So.....yeeeeaaaaaaaah......expect a running change to Jazz. If you find one from the current batch, maybe keep it MOSC. You never know how much some idiot on eBay would pay for the Jazz "Trump variant" down the line.

I would love to know the true motivations of the "vendor" in question.

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Yeah, I saw this the other day on my lunch break and immediately went looking for a Jazz. Have a feeling this'll be worth some money once the mainstream media hears about it. :lol
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Regardless of why, any time there's a running change to a toy, the rarer variant becomes pricey later. This particular circumstance is certainly... unique though. I have to wonder what the reaction will be if the media picks up on it. Screams and cries of censorship?

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By the same token, there was the "running change" with Onslaught where his chestplate as Bruticus was supposed to go from toy accurate silver to Blastoff-brown for show accuracy that never happened. They may put out a notice about it and then never do anything, assuming most people won't notice.

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I think in this case, a change is gonna happen. From what I understand, Reprolabels is already working on a set for it.

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I have to agree with Mach. This is more than just a deco change simply for making something show accurate. The way the world is politically charged as it is, I'm sure Hasbro would want to change this quick to keep as far away from politics as possible. Especially since this was an unauthorized addition to boot.

But while a running change might be more feasible, would this possibly be something that Hasbro might actually issue a recall over?
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I don't think a recall would happen over this. But I could easily see all future Jazz's being pull from any sets until a redeco can be issued. And since we don't know the planned releases for the ENTIRE PotP line... Who knows how long it'll take for it to be released again. For all we know, this may be Jazz's one and only release.

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I just had a horrifying thought of a Third Party making a Trump hairpiece that fits on the figure's head.

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I have epoxy putty, I could do it. And a brand new burnt orange paint job.

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Jazz is already planned for Wave 3. I'm certain he'll be lacking a certain decal that time around.

I wonder if we'll EVER get a U.S Release Stepper/Ricochet redeco out of a Jazz one of these days?

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