AllNewSuperRobot wrote:steals_your_goats wrote:I think you guys are missing the point of Haslab. This is a way to get products out there that would never make it to regular retail. Omega and Scorponok would be regular retail releases like the other titans before them. So this isn't a "one or the other" type thing, it's an extra outlet for the more collector oriented market.
Well that's not strictly true in any event. Scorponok and Omega Supreme were already looked over once in a fan poll, for Trypticon. I tie these points together because even after releasing one name only from the poll, they have dismissed the rest of the list entirely. Be it HasTak or HasLab, their track record demonstrates it is and will always be one or the other.
You can't look at the results of the fan poll and say Hasbro looked over Omega Supreme and Scorponok for the release. To say that these two characters have been 'dismissed' is likewise ridiculous.
The only track record is Hasbro releasing one titan per year since Metroplex. If anything, the release of Predaking is evidence of the success of Devastator, and has no bearing on a release of Omega Supreme or Scorponok down the road.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Further proof of this being in their Other Collector orientated Line: The MP Collection. You don't get to choose who you want, you get to select from options they want to make. Which of course their home fanbase is the only region that gets even that level of input.
Hasbro and Takara coordinate to a large extent, but you can't take a Takara-driven as evidence of any Hasbro-driven decisions.