Help:Official info

 has a policy that information about upcoming toys or media be officially released before it is fit for inclusion on this wiki. There are 4 reasons for this.


 * 1) Such information (charmingly called "scoops" on many newssites) is almost always based on stolen prototypes or leaked scripts, and  doesn't feel that is legitimate behavior, and that any information obtained this way is dubious-at-best.
 * 2) Things are subject to change, and thus early information may not reflect the final product it in fact stands an excellent chance of misrepresenting the final product.
 * 3) Information obtained this way is often flat-out wrong due to the scoop-ee's ignorance or lack of context. The information is almost always incomplete, with guesswork to fill in the gaps, but no clear indication what part is guesswork.
 * 4) This information is inevitably posted on  as 'fact', with no citation for the source it came from.  Because some of this information inevitably proves to be to be wrong, this harms the overall accuracy of this wiki.

is for information, not disinformation. Stolen, subject-to-change misinterpreted and badly-translated scoops are not 'information,' because they have a much higher potential to misinform than to inform. Including such pseudo-information on this as fact legitimizes it while hurting us. Fuck that.

In summary, has decided not to include information from stolen toys and media for ethical reasons, concern that it may not be final, and reasons of general accuracy/stupidity.

Stolen toys are bad
Because we say so.

Subject to Change
At one point all of the below were true. Only one turned out to be correct.

There's gonna be a Decepticon helicopter called "Grimlock" in the movie! There's gonna be a Decepticon helicopter called "Vortex" in the movie! There's gonna be a Decepticon helicopter called "Devastator" in the movie! Soundwave is a helicopter in the movie! There's gonna be a Decepticon helicopter called "Incinerator" in the movie! There's gonna be an Autobot coast-guard helicopter in the movie! There's gonna be a Decepticon helicopter called "Blackout" in the movie!

Idiots are not a "reliable source"
In a 2007 Hasbro panel... somewhere a toy designer provided the amusing note; through a complete fluke of design the upcoming Classics Astrotrain (a space shuttle) could be locked onto the back of Movie Jetstorm (a Russian cargo plane used to transport space shuttles.)

On April 17, 2008, "gizmo_spaz" posted a video of himself on youTube set to sad piano music and labored breathing where he rolls a Classics Astrotrain toy over the surface of Movie Jetstorm for over a minute, unable to get it to lock in no matter what he tried. In conclusion he spoke to the camera;

"To the best of my knowledge, "Classics" Astrotrain cannot attach to... what is that...? Energon Cybertron Jetfire. Uh, this is the repaint, but... still. *ahem*  So the little blurb on the tformers... tformers.com... to the best of my knowledge is false.  Maybe they were just trying to make a little joke.  Thank you."

The video was later picked up as a "news" item on tformers.com on May 10th where it received an almost immediate response video from "TheMechaMage" demonstrating how the interlock worked. The news item was never corrected, despite being frontpage'd at the time. It's still out there... spreading its misinformation over the interweb.