Sabrblade wrote:Honestly, people, aside from a more lavenderish color, what more were you expecting?
Something more worth the money.
They're scraping the bottom of the barrel so far.
Sure, Cannonball is better than this guy, but still.
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Sabrblade wrote:Honestly, people, aside from a more lavenderish color, what more were you expecting?
Flashwave wrote:...I'd rather have more Decepticon personalities than a dozen Starscreams, wouldn't you?
Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
Believe it or not, people have been wanting toys of these guys for years. Just like how they've wanted Straxus and Jhiaxus, and now it's finally happening for a lot more of these as well.Manterax Prime wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Honestly, people, aside from a more lavenderish color, what more were you expecting?
Something more worth the money.
They're scraping the bottom of the barrel so far.
Sure, Cannonball is better than this guy, but still.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Believe it or not, people have been wanting toys of these guys for years. Just like how they've wanted Straxus and Jhiaxus, and now it's finally happening for a lot more of these as well.Manterax Prime wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Honestly, people, aside from a more lavenderish color, what more were you expecting?
Something more worth the money.
They're scraping the bottom of the barrel so far.
Sure, Cannonball is better than this guy, but still.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Manterax Prime wrote:Funny thing is, he's died in both comic continuities.
He died by Blaster's hand in the Marvel comics and was executed by Impactor in the IDWverse, so, yeah, very minor 'con.
Sabrblade wrote:And that somehow disqualifies him from being reinvented from a nobody into a somebody?
How is breathing new life into a brand new character made entirely from scratch any different from breathing new life into an existent-yet-untapped character who's been waiting to be used?
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Eat my ass funpub.
Burn wrote:And this is for taking Nemesis Maximo seriously.
*high fives Silly in the face*
carytheone wrote:I can't be assed to do any better right now.
I'm completely lost as to what your point is here. The reaction towards Windblade was polarized at best, largely negative from what I saw. Reactions to heretofore fiction-only characters finally getting toys is usually positive; so positive that it jumpstarted the whole 3rd party market.SW's SilverHammer wrote:Sabrblade wrote:And that somehow disqualifies him from being reinvented from a nobody into a somebody?
How is breathing new life into a brand new character made entirely from scratch any different from breathing new life into an existent-yet-untapped character who's been waiting to be used?
It's simple, not every one knows about, or alternatively cares to much about the significance, or lack of there fore of an extra from way back in the day being re purposed. A new character is just that, new, you saw the reaction towards windblade. How big was the fan reaction, beside people with knowledge like your own, was there toward squadron X?
Bumblevivisector wrote:
I'm not as obsessive as Saberblade, but I spent a good chunk of the '90s with no way to indulge in Transformers other than the Marvel books I'd found, and wished that its toyless characters would someday get their due justice in physical form.
What you're actually saying is that you don't care about the character. Fair enough, but when you expand that to an assumption that no one cares about them enough to warrant their ever getting a toy, that attitude leads down a slippery slope to GEEWUN, no matter what era of TFs you prefer. Myself, I'd seriously buy several Botcon sets of the Classics Starscream mold repainted into every last in-fiction background color scheme, with new names and personalities made up as they went along.
That said, before he was fudged together with that guy Rodimus Prime killed in the UK book, Ferak was a blue attack-saucer, so I'd honestly be happier if he was a repaint of our latest Cosmos. The robot mode works, though.
SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Alright, my point is this: (and you are right) I don't think Ferak is an Identifiable enough as a character to warrant a toy, much less an exclusive; he's generic, so generic he's made of two, the saucer and that guy rodimus killed. Now some generics might be cool, I like Macabre and I like Crosscut because of their goofy looks, and I think they warrant toys as they're distinctive enough. I do agree with you some obscure characters should see the light of day,i'd love a G1 octus, it's just that some characters are a little to obscure, and only a few people really know about them, or just aren't that special, ferak is a little bit of both in my opinion.
Sabrblade wrote:What do you mean by this?Rodimus Prime wrote:I really hope they have at least 1 G1 mold in there...
Mkall wrote:But that's what makes him perfect for this type of set. It's a character that will only excite the type of collector that BotCon attracts - people who are so immersed in the lore that can get legitimately excited about this stuff. you're not and that's ok.
If the rest of the set plays to this pattern, it will be perfect. These are figures that can stand among a Classics collection, yet aren't necessary to complete it.
I really can't wait to see what's next. I'm hoping for Devcon to appear as a Knight.
And this is different from every other BotCon/Club exclusive to before now how?shockblast2 wrote:This is silly. Hasbro can take any old mold, change the dye color of the resin, give it some random name, call it an "exclusive", and fleece $40-80 from someone for a figure that was $10 at retail and probably about $2 at cost.
Of course, they are not holding a gun to your head either.
This difference this time being, unlike Landshark, they used an existing character to make this instead of making up a whole new one.ScottyP wrote:Cool mold, comes with a Minicon, but character I totally don't care about. Kinda feels like Flak and Landshark out of the '09 set.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:This difference this time being, unlike Landshark, they used an existing character to make this instead of making up a whole new one.ScottyP wrote:Cool mold, comes with a Minicon, but character I totally don't care about. Kinda feels like Flak and Landshark out of the '09 set.
Seibertron wrote:Sabrblade wrote:This difference this time being, unlike Landshark, they used an existing character to make this instead of making up a whole new one.ScottyP wrote:Cool mold, comes with a Minicon, but character I totally don't care about. Kinda feels like Flak and Landshark out of the '09 set.
Yah, it exists, but it's so obscure that I doubt many people care. Plus the poor color scheme doesn't help much. It looks like a KO.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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