Hasbro Transformers 30th Anniversary Thrilling 30 List - The Toys

Most of those are anything but thrilling. Nice on a few of them but MEH to most. They released so many figures that were better than some of these.

I only bought five of those (and want three others).

william-james88 wrote:They also messed up with the Target exclusive smash and change white knight optimus prime (what a mouthful) which is supposed to also be on that list at number 28.

"White" =/= "Silver"

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:They also messed up with the Target exclusive smash and change white knight optimus prime (what a mouthful) which is supposed to also be on that list at number 28.

"White" =/= "Silver"

Give me a break, it's real early in the morning here.

What about last night?

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:They also messed up with the Target exclusive smash and change white knight optimus prime (what a mouthful) which is supposed to also be on that list at number 28.

"White" =/= "Silver"

Give me a break, it's real early in the morning here.

What about last night?

Ha, there's a mom joke in there somewhere but I will be nice today.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Wait, what? I thought #14 was AoE First Edition Optimus Prime!

Me too. It was a selling point of that FE mold, but that part of the Amazon description seems to have been struck from the record. The BB/Strafe/Stinger Walmart multipack might have had the logo, but I don't remember and totally threw my empty box for that set away.

william-james88 wrote:They also messed up with the Target exclusive smash and change white knight optimus prime (what a mouthful) which is supposed to also be on that list at number 28.

I'm pretty convinced that was a packaging mistake, but that's not technically wrong. They did two "#28"s.

william-james88 wrote:

Slashercon wrote:Most of these figures really have no business being labeled "thrilling". IN MY OPINION of course.

Like the 2 shockwave sets?

Precisely. Same for the two Metroplexes.

Oh, what could've been...the list is bad, there are 2 almost identical releases(which are exclusives, which makes them stupidly expensive), some are not so amazing toys and WHO THE HELL LET TARGET'S PAINTLESS KNIGHT ON THE LIST???(the one with Grimlock is how you do a SILVER kinght!)
Also, for a line that was supposed to celebrate the entire franchise, it's mosty AoE and Prime, with a few generations and MPs.
If they wanted to make it Thrilling, how about releasing a toy of each year? And if that proved too hard beacuse of lost/damaged moulds, they could have used other toys from near that year, or even not so great toys, as we have seen they didn't care about that here.
What baffles me the most is that they didn't rerelease G1 Optimus. Sure, there have been better Optimus toys since then, but come on! That toy is THE Transformers toy! And even if they have reissued it to death, it deserves it, and many of us have never been able to get one. I fully Understand G1 Megatron is off limits, but come on!
In my opinion, this line should've been the best of each year, or at least the best toys of each era.

The mass retail Generations line itself was what celebrated the 30th anniversary, containing toys that paid tribute to G1 (both 1980's and IDW's new take), Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Robots in Disguise, Armada, and more.

The 30 special toys were just something that the fandom put more importance on than Hasbro did, making them seem far more significant than the lame gimmick they really were, which tends to be the case for most lame gimmicks Hasbro does.

The Smash and Change Prime was definitely a mistake. The packaging for it reuses a lot of elements from the Leader version. Odds are, some random graphic designer at Hasbro forgot to remove it or accidentally pasted it in. They probably didn't really notice or care, since, hey, it's a $20 simplfied toy sold at Target.