![]() ![]() This design consistency translated into sculpts with more swooping arcs and softer edges, following head character designer Derrick Wyatt's love of "rounded squares and squared rounds". Hasbro designers, the Cartoon Network design team, and TakaraTomy engineers all worked closely together out of the gate to make sure toy and show-character were as close as possible, to the point where even the characters' transformation schemes were consistent between 2D media and 3D toy (such as Bumblebee's breakdancing-like spin-kick from car to robot mode). Where the previous two decades of Transformers had the toys made first then translated to media, and the movie toyline was tasked with creating toys of intricately-complex characters that were not designed to be toys, the Animated line was a previously-unprecedented level of collaboration between toymaker and media-maker. The line's other primary feature is in its synergy with the accompanying cartoon. ![]()
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