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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby craggy » Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:47 pm

but it's already tomorrow! give me the new shiny!
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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby Gearslide » Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:47 pm

Blurrz wrote:
Gearslide wrote:Wait. Is this the entire Hasbro display? No new figures that we didn't know about on display? Or is that a different event?

Where's Voyager Breakdown, Dreadwing, and Skyquake? Or Deluxe Jet Vehicon?


Tomorrow, I think.


Oh, ok. I just seem to recall that we usually get shown a few completely new figures every year.

And how pissed/overjoyed would everyone be if they released color accurate Combaticons, but they only came with a $100/$150 Collector's Edition of Fall of Cybertron? 8-}
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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby Screamfleet » Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:53 pm

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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby TimothyR » Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:21 pm

Gearslide wrote:Wait. Is this the entire Hasbro display? No new figures that we didn't know about on display? Or is that a different event?

Where's Voyager Breakdown, Dreadwing, and Skyquake? Or Deluxe Jet Vehicon?


there's a sign that says that more stuff should be on display tomorrow.. but i doubt they'll show anything that we don't already know of.. so they should be showing us voyager breakdown and dreadwing.. and deluxe arachnid, the jet vehicon, and deluxe ironhide.

but who knows.. maybe we'll see something totally new.. and maybe we won't even see all of the stuff that we do know of and have seen before. you can never tell.

i'm pretty sure they'll save the best stuff for SDCC.
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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby Megatron Wolf » Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:43 pm

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well the $15 price point just made me stop caring about the FOC figures, they are no way in hell worth $15 each. Out of all the "classics" figures we've gotten over the years these are the most lackluster. They look cool and look better than TFPrime & DOTM but compared to what we got in generations, universe & classics these are the worst. So far seems like the lamest botcon ever, well news wise anyway.
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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby Flakmaster » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:06 pm

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I usually refrain from such language but...

These are the biggest pieces of shit I have ever laid eyes on.
WFC Bruticus has had the last shred of goodness taken from him in the form of his crappy color scheme, and all of the others (with the exception of Shockwave) are just as bad as they looked at Toyfair.

PRID is all of the same old suckish stuff that we've seen before.

Bad job, Hasbro, bad job.
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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby Sodan-1 » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:21 pm

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Yep, they've officially lost me on the FoC Combaticons. I think they're vile.
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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby Down_Shift » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:30 pm

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Man the Combaticons look awful! Wave one looks pretty good to me, but I have a feeling Takara is gonna pull one of those "look how much BETTER we did it" kinda things.

We'll see some new stuff tomorrow in the cases, and we'll get new info and a no-pictures allowed preview of the next few waves of Generations combiners and Prime stuff. Here's hoping for some more Thirteen.

On the bright side though, the chick in the Road Kill T-shirts adds has a fantastic rack and that more then makes up for ugly Combaticons.
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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby Autobot032 » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:41 pm

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I'm almost 100% certain that Bruticus sample is the exact same one used at Toy Fair earlier this year.

I looked at some high res photos, earlier tonight, and if you look closely, you can see where the day-glo paint is chipping off of the figures. All of them have it happening. What we're seeing is not the final product. That doesn't mean the colors will change, it just means that what's on display isn't production quality or production ready.

Plus, if you look at Brut's left hand, it's scrawny and thin. If you look at his right hand, it's all fat and weird. I think it's a work in progress and they haven't settled on it's final status, just yet.

Blurrz wrote:
Gearslide wrote:Wait. Is this the entire Hasbro display? No new figures that we didn't know about on display? Or is that a different event?

Where's Voyager Breakdown, Dreadwing, and Skyquake? Or Deluxe Jet Vehicon?


Tomorrow, I think.


Blurrz is correct. There's a tag on display that says something along the lines of "Come back to the display after tomorrow's panel". That's not the exact wording, but close.
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Re: BotCon 2012 Coverage: Hasbro Product Displays

Postby Burn » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:52 pm

SlyTF1 wrote:Now, for TF Prime, why did they give Bumblebee a Leader/Weaponizer whatever class and not Megatron!? Why do they keep doing this!? No one wants big ass Bumblebees, we want Optimus and Megatron! If you're going to make a leader sized Optimus, why not make a Megatron that size as well? It makes no sense.


Kids want him. You know ... the ones these things are created for?

Time people really accepted that. It would save them a lot of heart ache and bandwidth.

FOC Bruticus ... yeah, combiner fail again. Why are they having so much trouble getting combiners right these days when they had such great success in the past?

And FOC Shockwave ... sweeeeeeeeeet.
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