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SKYWARPED_128 wrote:

Evil_the_Nub wrote:

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:And someone please knock Bumblebee off of Leader Class and give it back to Megatron!

I don't know why Hasbro doesn't understand that. They're called action figures for a reason. The good guy needs a bad guy to fight. When I was a kid I always wanted the lead good guy and the lead bad guy. Not the lead good guy and his sidekick.

My thoughts exactly.

You can't play-fight with your figs if there's no enemy. What's the kid gonna do, sit OP and Bee down on a table and have tea?

And let's not forget that Bee's way out of scale as a leader class toy. I know scale is almost an afterthought as far as TF's are concerned, but at least keep him in relative scale, for Pete's sake.

I do not favor the thought of the same character being released in 3 different scales. That's why I don't collect legion classes. I like characters to have one toy of one character in one class, and it better be in the right class. I also don't like "Shadow Strike" and "Nightwatch" and "Super Thingamabob" titles for the same damn character. If you're going to make a repaint, at least named it something different. Or retool it.

But of course, they gave all of this up around Cybertron. Granted, the legion class of Cybertron was rather small. The movies ruined everything for us.

PrymeStriker wrote:I do not favor the thought of the same character being released in 3 different scales. That's why I don't collect legion classes. I like characters to have one toy of one character in one class, and it better be in the right class. I also don't like "Shadow Strike" and "Nightwatch" and "Super Thingamabob" titles for the same damn character. If you're going to make a repaint, at least named it something different. Or retool it.

But of course, they gave all of this up around Cybertron. Granted, the legion class of Cybertron was rather small. The movies ruined everything for us.

Agreed. I'm probably one of the few adult collectors who actually likes movieverse Bee, but I've never bought any "non-canon" version of Bee. Ever. To me, it's just a lazy way of milking a mold.

At least in G1, the repaints are actually their own characters.

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I do not favor the thought of the same character being released in 3 different scales. That's why I don't collect legion classes. I like characters to have one toy of one character in one class, and it better be in the right class. I also don't like "Shadow Strike" and "Nightwatch" and "Super Thingamabob" titles for the same damn character. If you're going to make a repaint, at least named it something different. Or retool it.

But of course, they gave all of this up around Cybertron. Granted, the legion class of Cybertron was rather small. The movies ruined everything for us.

Agreed. I'm probably one of the few adult collectors who actually likes movieverse Bee, but I've never bought any "non-canon" version of Bee. Ever. To me, it's just a lazy way of milking a mold.

At least in G1, the repaints are actually their own characters.

And they appeared in the fiction.

Transformers toys are going downhill.

PrymeStriker wrote:Transformers toys are going downhill.

Well, what goes down (hopefully) must eventually come up again. Until then, though, I'll stick to MP's and what few choice morsels might pop up in the Generations line like WFC Starscream and voyager Grimlock.

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:Transformers toys are going downhill.

Well, what goes down (hopefully) must eventually come up again. Until then, though, I'll stick to MP's and what few choice morsels might pop up in the Generations line like WFC Starscream and voyager Grimlock.

Doesn't that phrase go: "What goes up must come down?"

PrymeStriker wrote:Doesn't that phrase go: "What goes up must come down?"

Er...well, it applies to the bodies of drowned people...

Kind of fitting if you think about it. Hasbro drowning in a sea of overstocked Bumblebees...

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:Doesn't that phrase go: "What goes up must come down?"

Er...well, it applies to the bodies of drowned people...

Kind of fitting if you think about it. Hasbro drowning in a sea of overstocked Bumblebees...

We like you, Bee. Just not so many of you.

Now let poor Megs be leader class size again, and we'll be your friends again, okay?

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:We like you, Bee. Just not so many of you.

Now let poor Megs be leader class size again, and we'll be your friends again, okay?

I don't like Leader Classes anyway. DOTM Sentinel Prime was and will always be my last Leader Class.

I seriously LOL'ed at that pic! That was a good one!

To be honest, the only leader class toy I truly treasure is the ROTF LC Optimus mold. But then, he was designed by one of the Takara guys who does Masterpiece figs, which is probably why he looks as screen-accurate as he does.

I like HFTD LC Starscream too, and I'd like him a whole lot more if his alt mode wasn't bloated from all those batteries, voice chips and speakers.