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7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

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Re: 7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

Postby Prime643 » Tue May 14, 2013 3:55 pm

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these are horribly misfigured, they remind me of those cheap ass kinex kits. Hasbro why do you do this!? waste time, effort and money on wasteless things when you should be pushing resources to making and improving your Transformers. (Also know as the piece of **** DOTM line you gave us) :BANG_HEAD:
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Re: 7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

Postby Mindmaster » Tue May 14, 2013 4:24 pm

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Prime643 wrote:these are horribly misfigured, they remind me of those cheap ass kinex kits. Hasbro why do you do this!? waste time effort money on wasteless things when you could be pushing resources to making and improving your Tranasformers. (Also know as the piece of **** DOTM line you gave us) :BANG_HEAD:


I believe there are two reasons in the development of these Constructbots:

1) Hasbro's pushing for more creativity in their brands. Ken Robinson in one of his "TED Talks" discusses and stresses the importance of creativity in children.

2) Fans have been asking for customizable Transformers for a pretty long while now. I totally support customizable Transformers... but just not with this approach.

I'll partially agree that the DOTM line was unpleasant. Some of the molds were decent or great, but most - in my opinion - just weren't worth $16.
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Re: 7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

Postby Superwheeljack » Tue May 14, 2013 7:09 pm

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Mindmaster wrote:
Prime643 wrote:these are horribly misfigured, they remind me of those cheap ass kinex kits. Hasbro why do you do this!? waste time effort money on wasteless things when you could be pushing resources to making and improving your Tranasformers. (Also know as the piece of **** DOTM line you gave us) :BANG_HEAD:


I believe there are two reasons in the development of these Constructbots:

1) Hasbro's pushing for more creativity in their brands. Ken Robinson in one of his "TED Talks" discusses and stresses the importance of creativity in children.

2) Fans have been asking for customizable Transformers for a pretty long while now. I totally support customizable Transformers... but just not with this approach.

I'll partially agree that the DOTM line was unpleasant. Some of the molds were decent or great, but most - in my opinion - just weren't worth $16.


Or even .50 cents. My DOTM Starscream lasted three months, much longer than expected
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Re: 7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

Postby Blurrz » Tue May 14, 2013 8:20 pm

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JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:This is like when I was 12 and kids argued over whether Transformers "ripped off" Go-Bots or vice versa. Aren't we all old enough to understand that products can be similar or based on the same idea without one having to be a "ripoff" of the other?


Where's the fun in that? ;)

Seriously though, Construct-Bots is to Bionicle as Kre-O is to Lego. Similar premises, but that's it. While I have to respect Hasbro's guts of such a move, I'd rather wait and see how it all works out.

Kre-O is decent enough, though not enough to knock Lego off the no. 1 spot of the building block market (they're being heavily discounted here, guys!). I'm expecting Construct-Bots to go the same way.


As a long time Bionicle collector, the major and original premise was a gear system where moving a gear moved a character's arm or weapon. If we want to get to get technical, it's not a Bionicle ripoff, seeing as Bionicle never originated with the articulated brick balljointed action figure, that could be tracked to MegaBloks or older Lego series like Knights.

Hasbro is trying to cash in on this craze and I feel like they are about a decade late. The recent Lego DC heroes tried to revive the brick balljointed action figure and they gave fans this;

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zzzzzzzzzz


Mindmaster wrote:Both Bionicles and Hero Factory are practically the same. >:oP


Transformers Animated and Transformers Prime are practically the same. :roll:
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Re: 7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

Postby Superwheeljack » Tue May 14, 2013 8:24 pm

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Though I absolutely dislike Legos, they kind of did rip-off Bionicle. Though I don't think there's a patent for that stuff, I can assure its going to be ****, worse than the movie franchise line, which is pure trash.
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Re: 7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

Postby Mindmaster » Tue May 14, 2013 8:34 pm

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Superwheeljack wrote:Though I absolutely dislike Legos, they kind of did rip-off Bionicle. Though I don't think there's a patent for that stuff, I can assure its going to be ****, worse than the movie franchise line, which is pure trash.


Well, I wouldn't say the entire trilogy was trash. More like Dark of the Moon. The first movie toys, besides Alternators and related toys, were a good step in making Transformers more realistic. Revenge of the Fallen took a step further and improved on the designs while adding some. Dark of the Moon just kinda cheap-ified the toys for the sake of simplicity.
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Re: 7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

Postby RAcast » Tue May 14, 2013 9:50 pm

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I want to give it some time (and a second wave) before I pass final judgement. I feel like there's a good deal of real promise here, but we've yet to see how it'll work out.
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Re: 7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

Postby Superwheeljack » Wed May 15, 2013 3:26 pm

Motto: "The problem with loyalty to a cause is, that the cause will always betray you"
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Blurrz wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:This is like when I was 12 and kids argued over whether Transformers "ripped off" Go-Bots or vice versa. Aren't we all old enough to understand that products can be similar or based on the same idea without one having to be a "ripoff" of the other?


Where's the fun in that? ;)

Seriously though, Construct-Bots is to Bionicle as Kre-O is to Lego. Similar premises, but that's it. While I have to respect Hasbro's guts of such a move, I'd rather wait and see how it all works out.

Kre-O is decent enough, though not enough to knock Lego off the no. 1 spot of the building block market (they're being heavily discounted here, guys!). I'm expecting Construct-Bots to go the same way.


As a long time Bionicle collector, the major and original premise was a gear system where moving a gear moved a character's arm or weapon. If we want to get to get technical, it's not a Bionicle ripoff, seeing as Bionicle never originated with the articulated brick balljointed action figure, that could be tracked to MegaBloks or older Lego series like Knights.

Hasbro is trying to cash in on this craze and I feel like they are about a decade late. The recent Lego DC heroes tried to revive the brick balljointed action figure and they gave fans this;

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zzzzzzzzzz


That head is way too big.
It reminds me of the thanksgiving parade people with the huge heads
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Re: 7 New Construct-Bots Revealed: Shockwave, Silverbolt, Deadend, Breakdown and more

Postby Mindmaster » Wed May 15, 2013 3:28 pm

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Superwheeljack wrote:It reminds me of the thanksgiving parade people with the huge heads


Helium balloons. ;)
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