Di Bonaventura Commits on Transformers

Transformers Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura was interviewed for a forthcoming issue of Wizard Magazine, in which he commented on his various projects including Transformers:

Di Bonaventura also addressed fan controversy surrounding next summer’s “Transformers” film.
“The thing I keep trying to find is how to create a forum between filmmakers and the core audience that is a constructive forum for both sides,” he said. “What we did was to take some people who live and breathe [Transformers], and then everything they could possibly want and know about Transformers, we did.”

I am curious to know who they spoke to. Ben Yee is considered one of the foremost experts on Transformers including consulting for the Beast Wars cartoon series but based on what have read, seen etc, I get the feeling that a casual fan or two was where most of the information about TFs was gathered.