william-james88 wrote:Even then the FE voyagers were released at the Voyager price point and he is as intricate as those. So we had toys at the same price being released around the same time. I just dont see what exactly puts him in no man's land.
The FEs were from a different line from the previous year, and they were only a mini-line that was a preview for the main line to come the following line. And, originally, they were going to be Generations releases before deciding to give them their own release as a separate line.
Plus, there was a major change from 2011 to 2012 in that the Prime toys got simpler and more gimmicky when they switched from FE to RID, while the Generations line revamped for its Fall of Cybertron phase with smaller, less complex Deluxes than those of the 2010-2011 part of the line, and the two brand new Voyager molds of the line (Soundwave and Grimlock) were very basic and simplistic.