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ShardFenix wrote:

Razorclaw0000 wrote:What "crap"? They showed some prototypes and people got pissy when they decided not to make them anymore. They're doing the best they can. Headrobots is a tiny, tiny company and they have to figure out what will sell.

Promoting and teasing items and then never releasing them in suffiecient quantity is crap. Whatever happened to their Dark Warrior set? I saw maybe one post on it and that was it. Look if they can't compete with Fansproject and Perfect Effect and other 3rd party teams that know what they are doing and do it well, then perhaps they shouldnt.

Are you going to rip into FansProject for not releasing:

Mini Matrix
Mini Megatron Gun
Broadside
Glacier bots

Or Perfect Effect for not releasing

Soundwave
Wheelie

It's pretty unrealistic (and fairly hypocritical) to get mad at HeadRobots for showing off their prototypes to gauge interest when other companies do it too and never release product.

ShardFenix wrote:just questionable business choices. Outside of the Hardhead set, they haven't been very impressive. And their collection of choices adds an air of unprofessionalism. Releasing the original Blood and Gyro sets seems like a sad excuse for a money grab as well as inconvenient to not release both at the same time judging how the figures were released. And this new thing...what is it even for? The crocodile thing from headmasters? Skullcruncher maybe? Why?

Other than Hothead and Snake, what are you basing your info on? That's the only two sets, to my knowledge, that they have released. IMO, the Blood and Gyro kits are a prime example of what third party companies, who are not able to make their own figures, should be doing: making bad figures better. But I do think they did that to make money for what their original intentions are. (smart business)

And I'm guessing they are making another Headmaster because they are a company called HeadRobots.

amcgrath929 wrote:

ShardFenix wrote:just questionable business choices. Outside of the Hardhead set, they haven't been very impressive. And their collection of choices adds an air of unprofessionalism. Releasing the original Blood and Gyro sets seems like a sad excuse for a money grab as well as inconvenient to not release both at the same time judging how the figures were released. And this new thing...what is it even for? The crocodile thing from headmasters? Skullcruncher maybe? Why?

Other than Hothead and Snake, what are you basing your info on? That's the only two sets, to my knowledge, that they have released. IMO, the Blood and Gyro kits are a prime example of what third party companies, who are not able to make their own figures, should be doing: making bad figures better. But I do think they did that to make money for what their original intentions are. (smart business)

And I'm guessing they are making another Headmaster because they are a company called HeadRobots.

And also this thread is over a year old when HeadRobots just had made Snake and before they announced Blood and Gyro.

Razorclaw0000 wrote:

ShardFenix wrote:

Razorclaw0000 wrote:What "crap"? They showed some prototypes and people got pissy when they decided not to make them anymore. They're doing the best they can. Headrobots is a tiny, tiny company and they have to figure out what will sell.

Promoting and teasing items and then never releasing them in suffiecient quantity is crap. Whatever happened to their Dark Warrior set? I saw maybe one post on it and that was it. Look if they can't compete with Fansproject and Perfect Effect and other 3rd party teams that know what they are doing and do it well, then perhaps they shouldnt.

Are you going to rip into FansProject for not releasing:

Mini Matrix
Mini Megatron Gun
Broadside
Glacier bots

Or Perfect Effect for not releasing

Soundwave
Wheelie

It's pretty unrealistic (and fairly hypocritical) to get mad at HeadRobots for showing off their prototypes to gauge interest when other companies do it too and never release product.

Agreed.

Razorclaw0000 wrote:

amcgrath929 wrote:

ShardFenix wrote:just questionable business choices. Outside of the Hardhead set, they haven't been very impressive. And their collection of choices adds an air of unprofessionalism. Releasing the original Blood and Gyro sets seems like a sad excuse for a money grab as well as inconvenient to not release both at the same time judging how the figures were released. And this new thing...what is it even for? The crocodile thing from headmasters? Skullcruncher maybe? Why?

Other than Hothead and Snake, what are you basing your info on? That's the only two sets, to my knowledge, that they have released. IMO, the Blood and Gyro kits are a prime example of what third party companies, who are not able to make their own figures, should be doing: making bad figures better. But I do think they did that to make money for what their original intentions are. (smart business)

And I'm guessing they are making another Headmaster because they are a company called HeadRobots.

And also this thread is over a year old when HeadRobots just had made Snake and before they announced Blood and Gyro.

I guess if companies change their mind they are bad?

I'd happily buy any of the unreleased Headmasters, or original ones. I've been throwing them on extra bodies I had.

Fansproject has released multiple quality products. More so than others. PFX has also delivered multiple successes on the cassetticons for lack of a better term. Also I know that they promoted Broadside and the Glacierbot, but then I also never saw them say they still weren't coming out. And if headrobots wants the same amount of trust I give others for me than they should impress me with somthing. Which they really havemt done. Hardhead was great, but as ive said before its only one piece.

ShardFenix wrote:Fansproject has released multiple quality products. More so than others. PFX has also delivered multiple successes on the cassetticons for lack of a better term. Also I know that they promoted Broadside and the Glacierbot, but then I also never saw them say they still weren't coming out. And if headrobots wants the same amount of trust I give others for me than they should impress me with somthing. Which they really havemt done. Hardhead was great, but as ive said before its only one piece.

If you compare every up-and-coming third party company to the works of FansProject, you are going to be sorely disappointed. They have two projects out, two. Both of them are of excellent quality and decent articulation. So honestly, theyd have to put out a bad product to change my mind, which I do not see them doing. I think you've also forgotten FP first release, which was extremely limited in quanity ( based on their numbers now) and a lot harder to get ahold of. And PE's first release, the first I know of, was the God Sword. The quality on that figure was not even close to what it is now.