by ReinaHW » Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:46 am
- Motto: "Life happens"
- Weapon: Twin Swords
Here in North-East Scotland, it's gotten really bad. The majority of Transformers I've seen on the shelves in the only shops that sell TF's - Argos and Tescos - are ROTF Wheelie, the ROTF legends of Jetfire and Starscream and Powercore repaints.
It's been very rare to see anything else, I got lucky to get the new Jazz, I saw Tracks a couple of times, but very rarely.
I've ended up having to resort to buying online and that's expensive, retailers online are charging double the recommended retail costs for deluxes and more, Generations Blurr for example cost me £24 since no shops bothered to stock him.
I've ordered a four pack containing Kup, Wheeljack, Scourge and Thundercracker from Epic Heroes, but it's taking time for it to be dispatched. I'm hoping it will be dispatched in time for the 26th of this month - my birthday - so that I can have something to look forward to.
I've had to order Tracks, the remake of Laser Prime, Perceptor, Blurr, WFC Megatron, Prime, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Soundwave - who took months to find, Thrust, Dirge and Windcharger, as well as Skullgrin, Straxus/Darkmount and Thunderwing online. Windcharger cost me almost £20!
I'm hoping to be able to find Wreck Gar, Warpath, Grapple and Lugnut next month, maybe Wreck Gar on Tuesday if able. But I'm not happy at the extra cost online since no shop is stocking anything but ROTF stuff while waiting for DOTM stuff.
Hasbro says they're losing money, will hello, common sense needed. If you want our money then here's this wild new idea - release your products in full!
As for shops refusing to stock anything but movie stuff, they should stop this stupid behaviour because if something is shelf warming then it's pretty clear there's been a mistake somewhere, so stock things that will sell.
And then there's the whole distribution side of things, whoever manages the distribution of Transformers for Hasbro is, to be blunt, an idiot.
They churn out multiple repaints of movie Bumblebee, yet trying to find anything actually decent like Generations/RTS Wheeljack for example is near to impossible.
Generations/RTS has been the best Transformers line in, well, ever outside of Masterpiece and Alternators/Binal Tech. They've been the true example of how well engineered a toy can be, how they can be like mini works of art to play with and admire and that Transformers don't need some tacky gimmick like oversized weapons or heavy amounts of electronics in order to attract the kiddies, but that they can just be plain good fun to play with for any age and encourage the imagination instead of being lacking and sloppy like much of the movie bots have been - with the exceptions more often that not being the remarkable little scouts and non-screen bots like Seaspray, Breacher and Hubcap.
The over realiance on a movie to sell things is damaging when something that is worth buying comes out, like Generations/RTS. Given a choice between yet another movie Bumblebee repaint or the sheer cry in joy delights of the G1 remakes, I would rather spend my money on the G1 remakes.
Maybe when my neices are old enough that may be how I introduce them to Transformers, not via the terrible recent movies that insult the intellect and are more to do with some male teen's glands than the actual Transformers, but series like the original G1 while introducing them to the toys via the remarkable G1 remakes.
So please, Hasbro, not just from the old time fans, but for the sake of actually showing just what the Transformers line is capable of, release the Generation/RTS line in full.
Because those, in all honesty, have been and are your best products when it comes to the Transformers franchise. If the new versions of Jazz and Tracks can actually have me smiling and nearly weeping for joy at how remarkable they are, then in that area you're doing something right.
More Classics/Universe/Generations/RTS please, we have the money if you have the common sense to release them in full.
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ReinaHW on Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
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