Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Seibertron wrote:Is anyone else NOT excited about Diaclone's return? I've always felt that one of Takara's biggest weaknesses with the Transformers brand is that they won't just stay focused on Transformers. Takara would probably love to have Diaclone be a big hit so that they can focus on that product line instead of Transformers so that they don't have to share profits with Hasbro (or at least sell Diaclone products in Hasbro's markets). I'm all for seeing Diaclone updates in Transformers, but I'm not up for seeing a stand-alone Diaclone line which I think will only take away from the Transformers brand.
hinomars19 wrote:Not sure what's prompted this line of thought, good man.
fenrir72 wrote:What Ryan said is tru on TF. TF isn't that big a name for quite sometime except post 2007 (the Movie). The only place where TF sells like hotcakes is in the land of KOs....China!
Seibertron wrote:fenrir72 wrote:What Ryan said is tru on TF. TF isn't that big a name for quite sometime except post 2007 (the Movie). The only place where TF sells like hotcakes is in the land of KOs....China!
Transformers sells really well in the US as well as other Hasbro markets. It is also really popular in China.
Seibertron wrote:You can't compare the U.S. market with the Japanese market.
Cobotron wrote:Hey! You seemed to have attracted a wild Megatronus. They're hard to find, but boy are they fun when you catch one!
fenrir72 wrote:Seibertron wrote:fenrir72 wrote:What Ryan said is tru on TF. TF isn't that big a name for quite sometime except post 2007 (the Movie). The only place where TF sells like hotcakes is in the land of KOs....China!
Transformers sells really well in the US as well as other Hasbro markets. It is also really popular in China.
As in "super popular" in China. As attested to the recent releases of the quite expensive henkei 3 in one packs? Asia market my posterior..those are China bound.
Gundam,Macross and Eva rules Japan.
megatronus wrote:Seibertron wrote:You can't compare the U.S. market with the Japanese market.
I know I'm cherrypicking... but why are you asking Takara to pursue a Hasbro-esque strategy, given the above?
I'm of the opinion Diaclone is a non-issue. Great for those who want it. Irrelevant for those who don't... certainly not a negative in any way.
Seibertron wrote:megatronus wrote:Seibertron wrote:You can't compare the U.S. market with the Japanese market.
I know I'm cherrypicking... but why are you asking Takara to pursue a Hasbro-esque strategy, given the above?
I'm of the opinion Diaclone is a non-issue. Great for those who want it. Irrelevant for those who don't... certainly not a negative in any way.
My statement is being taken out-of-context, I wrote it too far down in the paragraph so it reads like a separate statement. I was replying to hinomars19's initial comments comparing the more popular more-or-less Japanese exclusive robot toy lines sold in Japan. Takara doesn't have a runaway hit like those, but they really do it ... it's the Transformers brand. Takara Tomy just doesn't treat the brand like it is a runaway hit like Hasbro does. I think if Takara would get behind the Transformers brand for once and fully support it, a great many things would happen. Yet they don't, they haven't, they're always following Takara's lead, and they continue to work on their own transforming robot toy lines instead of putting all their chips on Transformers. If Transformers was as wildly successful in Japan as it is here in the States, I wouldn't have any room to talk. But since it's not, and Takara isn't the big robot toy line player in Japan, I think there's a lot of merit to my statements about Takara not focusing on Transformers and following the global lead on the brand that has caused the brand to not be as successful in Japan. I think a lot of Transformers fans have "fan blinders" on so they don't always see the bigger picture business-wise like this. I could also be totally off-base here, but I think I've been on to something for the past 15 years or so since I started making these comments with Brave and Web Diver.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Seibertron wrote:fenrir72 wrote:Seibertron wrote:fenrir72 wrote:What Ryan said is tru on TF. TF isn't that big a name for quite sometime except post 2007 (the Movie). The only place where TF sells like hotcakes is in the land of KOs....China!
Transformers sells really well in the US as well as other Hasbro markets. It is also really popular in China.
As in "super popular" in China. As attested to the recent releases of the quite expensive henkei 3 in one packs? Asia market my posterior..those are China bound.
Gundam,Macross and Eva rules Japan.
I agree that Gundam, Macross and Eva are all very popular in Japan, far more so than Transformers. However, I wouldn't use the Henkei 3 packs as an example. There has only been 5 of those 3 packs, and the last one was released at least a year ago (mid-2014 if I recall correctly). If those had been more popular, I'm assuming we'd see a set released every 3 to 6 months which isn't happening.
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