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I agree, it's more to do with where HasTak's focus is these days (FOC, Prime) whereas I am interested in finishing my Geewun collection and Hasbro don't seem to be concerned with this at the moment. They are losing out to 3rd parties because of decisions like making 2 out of 3 Decepticon triple changers and not bothering with the Autobot ones.

Although I have YOTS Omega Supreme on order (he looks great), and FOC Grimlock is miles better than I expected, I think official pickings will be slim this year.

PrymeStriker wrote:Congratulations. You're the one of the first threads of 2013 made to complain about Hasbro and Takara.

And on the flip side...another one of these threads?

Okay, we get it. The new figures suck. Don't buy them, then. You really hate them? Don't even open up a news post regarding them. Stay as far away from them as possible and only look at the stuff that's not been announced. Configure your verdict and be done with it. So sick of us constantly complaining about toys we're not going to buy anyway. That's like me complaining about the pathetic nature of Squinkies everyday. I'm not going to pick them up, why should I complain about them consistently?

Now that my rant is over, you can look at my signature below to see what I'll be picking up this year.

I'm not complaining about Hasbro or Takara, and I'm not posting hate, just disappointment. If you like them, that's great, enjoy them. I was posting an observation I had when I was looking into must haves for this year using what we know is coming out and that only 3 upcoming HasTak products (MP Soundwave, MP Cassette pack 1 and MP Cassette pack 2) are on it. I look forward to Botcon where we can see what they have in development, I really do. I want Hasbro to dazzle me. This time last year we didn't know about MP Sideswipe, Red Alert or Soundwave. They were must haves for me.

One question, how do we look at things that haven't been announced yet? We don't know what they are.

Edit: I looked at your sig after posting and noticed you want a PRID Airachnid. Have you not seen that lump of crap? It is the latest fig to join the Armada Scavenger, Side Swipe and Energon Treadbolt crowd as pure garbage.

Trikeboy wrote:One question, how do we look at things that haven't been announced yet? We don't know what they are.

I meant stuff that hasn't been announced previously. Kind of like Beast Hunters were before NYCC.

Edit: I looked at your sig after posting and noticed you want a PRID Airachnid. Have you not seen that lump of crap? It is the latest fig to join the Armada Scavenger, Side Swipe and Energon Treadbolt crowd as pure garbage.

She's an in-show character. I rest my case.

PrymeStriker wrote:

Trikeboy wrote:Edit: I looked at your sig after posting and noticed you want a PRID Airachnid. Have you not seen that lump of crap? It is the latest fig to join the Armada Scavenger, Side Swipe and Energon Treadbolt crowd as pure garbage.

She's an in-show character. I rest my case.

I have the in show characters too but I won't touch that one if I found it in my local £1 store.

Then I will use this opportunity as money saving year.

Trikeboy wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:

Trikeboy wrote:Edit: I looked at your sig after posting and noticed you want a PRID Airachnid. Have you not seen that lump of crap? It is the latest fig to join the Armada Scavenger, Side Swipe and Energon Treadbolt crowd as pure garbage.

She's an in-show character. I rest my case.

I have the in show characters too but I won't touch that one if I found it in my local £1 store.

Good for you. I get all the in-show characters. I don't care how crappy they are. It's the only one we've got, and I'll settle for it.

Trikeboy wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:

Trikeboy wrote:Edit: I looked at your sig after posting and noticed you want a PRID Airachnid. Have you not seen that lump of crap? It is the latest fig to join the Armada Scavenger, Side Swipe and Energon Treadbolt crowd as pure garbage.



She's an in-show character. I rest my case.



I have the in show characters too but I won't touch that one if I found it in my local £1 store.



Good for you. I get all the in-show characters. I don't care how crappy they are. It's the only one we've got, and I'll settle for it.

Crappy as she is, she has an amazing head sculpt!

Has/Tak is putting out a fair amount of product. However, it all generally disinterests me. All in all, I had a very down year this year. The MP's that were released were the only figures that imterested me. Thanks to budget concerns I passed on those. I am strongly against the 3rd party market and I don't mess with them. I passed on all of those as well.

My memory is sketchy but its entirely possible that the entire year passed without me purchasing a new figure. Generations Thundercracker is the newest figure on my self. What does that tell you?

When money is available but interesting figures are not, the phrase "whats old is new" really applies. I use the dead periods of interesting toys to do some hunting/ebaying for good prices on figures from past lines that I missed for whatever reason.

Unless you are completely satisfied with your collection and you would consider it to be complete by your standards, there has to be something that you missed out on that you could be hunting for.

I'm interested in a lot more official product than I thought I would be initially. The Prime line has had a few disappointments, but I'm still collecting it and overall, I'm satisfied with it. The new Beast Hunters figures definitely have my attention (and my preorders ).

For that hardcore G1 itch, Takara is scratching it big time with the upcoming MP releases as well as the Asia Exclusive Seeker sets, not to mention whatever Has/Tak have planned for Generations this year (which they've already said they will be doing more of). Here's hoping for some new molds there, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

FoC has actually exceeded my expectations quite a bit. The new molds/retools look pretty awesome so I'm definitely expanding my WfC/FoC shelf this year big time.

All in all, it looks as though I'll be spending at least as much this year on TF's as I did in 2012, maybe even more and the year is still young with many new announcements forthcoming I'm sure.

admittedly there are a bunch of 3rd party offerings I'm after, but Has/Tak has some decent stuff too. I'm still keeping my eye on new AM things, particularly AMWs but yep, Wildrider looks pretty good, and am still tempted by the racing car Star Saber dude. Since I'm already importing the majority of my purchases I'm not too put off by getting Japanese releases, but for some of the Prime line, and most of the FOC Generations guys, the US releases are much more worth it to me, money wise. There are only a very few that come out where the Takara/Tomy paint-jobs are worth it.

Looking forward to the MP Cassetticons. Passing on Soundwave til the Hasbro release, because he's really probably a bit too big for me, but the tapes will fit in nicely with the rest of my Classics and G1 Soundwave.