Autobot032 wrote:YouFearGalvatron wrote:Autobot032 wrote:*is weeping inside*
Why can't people ever just let go? I mean Transtech had it's shot and missed the boat. It ain't gettin' made, and we ended up getting items that were far better than any of these...abominations... could've given us.
I just don't get it. I really don't.
These posts are like the internet equivalent of holding your breath 'til you get what you want. Problem is, you'd be long past blue and dead from holding your breath this long.
It's over, finished, done.
No Transtech.
...let it die.
Man, were they some ugly mothers...
I agree Autobot032, but some of the designs were intriguing (sp?) while still harking back to who the charachter in question is...i think that is why many, including myself are fascinated with this train the left the station so long ago.
Oh yeah, and I am not wishing that TransTech gets made or anything, I am just interested. It is kind of nice to imagine what might have been.
Like right now, I am wondering what "might have been" if Takara actually got off their collective @$$e$ and did a proper re-issue of Shockwave instead of me having to track one down on ePay, only to find the best example left has a frayed rubber hose/wire assembly, missing battery cover, cracking, fading, etc...all for over $100 before shipping.
Daydreaming happens.
Surely you understand that?
Oh I understand daydreaming just fine. My problem is, a good portion of these daydreamers still believe that the chance of these getting made is a scant possibility. And it isn't.
Hasbro and Takara/Tomy went in a totally different direction once they went with RiD, and then Armada, etc. Transtech was nullified and died on the table right there. No amount of CPR could bring this back from the dead. It's done, it's over.
People are not willing to let it stay dead. That's my problem with this.
Sometimes you just have to realize you've lost the war and move on. Some battles might be won, but if the war is lost...well then, just give it up. Seriously.
The same with G1 fans. You love it, you like it, whatever, that's fine...but it's time to realize that Bay's movie is *NOT* G1, these are not G1 designs, etc.
It's time to call off the crusade and deal with reality.
It's just sad to see grown adults sit here and cry over what they couldn't have, and they don't seem to grasp that it's really over. No matter what they do, no amount of "I wish" will bring it to fruition.
"Wishing something, doesn't make it so." Damn right.
BTW...Takara can't do a reissue of Deluxe Insecticons, Jetfire, Omega Supreme, Roadbuster, Shockwave, Skylynx, Whirl, etc because those molds were all owned by a different company, which is now defunct and all of the rights have gone the way of the Dodo.
Jetfire however is still viable to be made, but only by Bandai. They always owned the rights, and still do. Copyright laws have changed and Takara can no longer get their mitts on Jetfire's mold to create a reissue. (IIRC...Jetfire was an American only G1 figure. It was never made as a TF in Japan...) The closest you can get is to frankenstein two of Bandai's valk molds, do a little repainting, Reprolabels, etc. That's about all you can do to make a reissue Jetfire.
I hear you man, I know where you are coming from.
SkyLynx, which I owned a month or so ago, before I sold it to a cool dude on this site, was made by ToyBox, as was Omega Supreme. Shockwave, god help my finances, was made in KOREA, by a company under the name of ToyCo, so my only option is the REAL, original thing, from either the TF line, or one of the 80's KOs.
And I have the Bandai 1/55 VF-1S Super Valk/aka Jetfire reissue (1983/4 origin) of which you speak.
BEST. VALK. EVER.
Just let people dream man.
It is a nice escape.
One last thing: Even with the reboot of this film, G1 will never die. The fanbase will always exist, so long as TransFans themselves still exist. New G1 fans are made every day, as are fans of the newer series/lines.
Hell, look at freaking Star Wars, still selling Luke Skywalker figures after 30 years.
I won't even go into all the younger people who prefer Kirk to Archer.
Just a few thoughts of mine.