For a long time, fans relied on logic and leakers to get answers as to why certain toys come out a certain way but now we live in a golden age of information where designers will speak directly to us about all the minutia of specific designs. You can currently get that info from Transformers designers
Evan Brooks,
Mark Maher and
Sam Smith who all post too frequently for us to get to it all.
But we wanted to get some info we found interesting since it does confirm certain things. While it was obvious for many, some fans like hearing it from the horse’s mouth and now the designer who worked on SS86 Hot Rod has confirmed that the “voyager” class no longer