Hellscream9999 wrote:I'm sorry, that's bs and you know it. The sheer fact that so many of us clamored for - and then lamented over - the fact that hasbro passed on the opportunity to give us an orange or yellow G2 devs - or even diaclone build king last year and brave max or whatever other repaint the fort max could have been this year goes to show that there's a large amount of interest in getting titan class figures as sdcc exclusives - they just have to merit the price tag and the title of 'convention excluisve'.
Why would I post something I knew was BS? We may have interest, but the design team has shown that they're completely out of touch when it comes to exclusives. We're talking about the same people who designed a Titan class Metroplex without knowing who Metrotitan, a guy with Titan right in his name, was. They don't appear to be thinking of secondary characters or existing repaint potential at all. Their only interest for a while now has been premium paint apps and extras based on the retail versions. And it isn't just Titans, they've been doing the same thing with smaller exclusives as well. Think about it, when exactly was the last time we got a wholly new character from SDCC? It was 2008 with Classics Nemesis Prime and Titanium Skywarp. Ever since then they've only done premium versions of retail figures when it comes to normal Transformers toys (2014 Knights of Unicron was an exception, but it was way out there). While it would be great to have Metrotitan, G2 Devastator, and Brave Maximus that's not Hasbro's current line of thinking. Anyone hoping for Gigastorm next year will most certainly be disappointed as we're more likely to get a Trypticon with random purple chrome, if anything at all, at SDCC 2017.
nobody wants to pay premium prices for some sh|t repaints when better options were already available, I'm sorry, this one is on hasbro and no one else.
I wasn't blaming anyone BUT Hasbro in the first place. But Hasbro makes these with the expectations that they've made something incredible that will sell out fast. They're a big company, they aren't going to admit they came up with a bad idea, they'll spin it as a shift in fan interest leading to a decline in sales before they admit they had a bad idea.
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