Ben MacCrae
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Ben "Bmac" MacCrae is an Associate Brand Manager of Global Brand Development & Marketing on the Transformers brand at Hasbro. He is in charge of exclusives for the Generations franchise. He previously worked at a contractor running Magic: The Gathering events before later taking an internship on the franchise team for Transformers. He was then eventually brought onto the product team during then-Associate Brand Manager Rachel Fleming's maternity leave.
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Known marketing projects
HasLab
- Victory Saber with Holi and Fire
- Deathsaurus with Tigerchest and Eaglechest
- Omega Prime
(with Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Autobot Bluebolts, and Cerebros)
Transformers Collaborative
- Tyrannocon Rex / JP93
- Megatron H.I.S.S. Tank and Baroness
- Bumblebee A.W.E. Striker and Sgt. Stalker
- Code Red (initial concept, finished by another marketer)
- Party Wallop
Holiday
Other known projects
Robosen Collector's Edition
- Optimus Prime Auto Converting Robot (Cataloguing the voice lines recorded by Peter Cullen.)[1]
Convention appearances
- Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest 2021
- Hasbro Pulse Con 2021
- San Diego Comic-Con 2022
- Hasbro Pulse Con 2022
- MCM Comic-Con London 2022
- San Diego Comic-Con 2023
- Hasbro Pulse Con 2023
- Singapore Comic Con 2023
- WonderCon 2024
- Hasbro Pulse Con 2024
Hasbro Pulse web content appearances
Livestreams
- May 21, 2021's "Hasbro Pulse | Fan First Friday: Transformers Livestream" on YouTube, with Evan Brooks.
- August 13, 2021's "Fan First Friday | Transformers Livestream" on YouTube, with Evan Brooks and Isabella Weiss.
- August 27, 2021's "Hasbro Pulse | Fan First Friday | Transformers Livestream" on YouTube, with Evan Brooks.
- February 4, 2022's "Fan First Friday | Transformers Livestream" on YouTube, with Isabella Weiss, Sam Smith, Mark Maher, and Evan Brooks.
- June 23, 2022's "Hasbro Pulse | Transformers Fanstream" with Isabella Weiss and Mark Maher.
- August 16, 2022's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream on YouTube, with Delaney Norris, Sam Smith, Evan Brooks, Isabella Weiss, and Mark Maher.
- October 27, 2022's 1027 Hasbro Pulse Premium Event on YouTube, with Thew Adams.
- November 29, 2022's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream on YouTube, with Evan Brooks.
- January 31, 2023's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream on YouTube, with Delaney Norris, Evan Brooks, and Mark Maher.
- February 6, 2023's Hasbro's Transformers Team Roundtable Q&A February 2023 - Origin Jazz Revealed! recorded on the Seibertron.com YouTube channel, with Delaney Norris, Sam Smith, Evan Brooks, and Mark Maher
- April 4, 2023's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream on YouTube, with Evan Brooks, Mark Maher, Sam Smith and Shogo Hasui.
- May 16, 2023's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream on YouTube, with Evan Brooks and Sixo.
- June 20, 2023's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream on YouTube, with Mark Maher, Evan Brooks, and Rich Pellegrino.
- October 27, 2023's 1027 Hasbro Pulse Premium Event on YouTube, with Mark Maher.
- November 14, 2023's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream on YouTube, with Mark Maher and Evan Brooks.
- January 30, 2024's Hasbro Pulse | Transformers: Legacy RID 2001 Omega Prime HasLab Fanstream | January 2024 on YouTube, with Evan Brooks.
- February 21, 2024's Hasbro Pulse | Transformers HasLab: Legacy RID 2001 Omega Prime | Painted Model Reveal on YouTube, with Evan Brooks.
- March 7, 2024's Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 7, 2024 on YouTube, with Evan Brooks and Mark Maher.
- March 14, 2024's Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 14, 2024 on YouTube, with Evan Brooks and Mark Maher.
- March 21, 2024's Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 21, 2024 on YouTube, with Mark Maher and Evan Brooks.
- March 28, 2024's Hasbro Pulse | Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream | March 28, 2024 on YouTube, with Evan Brooks, Mark Maher, Kelly Rose, and Matt Ferguson.
- April 25, 2024's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream | April 2024 on YouTube, with Mark Maher and Evan Brooks.
- May 14, 2024's Hasbro Pulse | Transformers Fanstream | May 2024 on YouTube, with Evan Brooks and Kelly Rose.
Articles
- HasLab Preview
- Unboxing the Transformers Generations HasLab Deathsaurus packaging walkthrough with Evan Brooks
Trivia
- MacCrae was a G.I. Joe playtester as a child. He still owns multiple prototype toys from this time in his life, some of which were never actually released.
- BMac's favorite character is Seaspray. He fights for him at every meeting to plan out the year's assortment and swears he'll do so until the day he leaves the brand.[2]
References
- ↑ May 22, 2023 Interview with the "Adventures in Collecting" podcast.
- ↑ February 8, 2023 Interview along with Delaney Norris, Mark Maher, and Evan Brooks on the "Mr. Alan SuperShow" YouTube channel
External links
Interviews
- November 7, 2022 Interview along with Evan Brooks on the "Mr. Alan SuperShow" YouTube channel
- February 8, 2023 Interview along with Delaney Norris, Mark Maher, and Evan Brooks on the "Mr. Alan SuperShow" YouTube channel
- May 22, 2023 Interview on the "Adventures in Collecting" podcast, on YouTube
- June 26, 2023 Interview along with Delaney Norris on the "Toys are Russ" YouTube channel

