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Sabrblade wrote:If you guys think this one was good, according to BotCon's Twitter, we ain't seen nothing yet - https://twitter.com/BotCon/status/448192677893267457Not to rob Devcon of any of his hype, but we haven't even gotten to the jaw dropping reveal. Something we've never done. #PVK #BotCon2014
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.'
Seibertron wrote:Sabrblade wrote:If you guys think this one was good, according to BotCon's Twitter, we ain't seen nothing yet - https://twitter.com/BotCon/status/448192677893267457Not to rob Devcon of any of his hype, but we haven't even gotten to the jaw dropping reveal. Something we've never done. #PVK #BotCon2014
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Or a 3.75" figure from a GI Joe wouldn't be too bad either. Curious to see what they reveal next.
Rodimus Prime wrote:You can't make me disappear. I am not feet.
Well, what else could they have gone with? There aren't many other broad chested, Floro Dery rounded-style figures out there that could have worked to resemble the character better than this.OptimalOptimus2 wrote:I was waiting for a Devcon toy, but not like this.
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.'
shockblast2 wrote:Yeah, that is not Devcon. It is a shameless Scourge repaint in patriotic colors. Just in time for the fourth of July.........
Sabrblade wrote:Well, what else could they have gone with? There aren't many other broad chested, Floro Dery rounded-style figures out there that could have worked to resemble the character better than this.
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.'
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:I was waiting for a Devcon toy, but not like this.
Sabrblade wrote:shockblast2 wrote:Yeah, that is not Devcon. It is a shameless Scourge repaint in patriotic colors. Just in time for the fourth of July.........Sabrblade wrote:Well, what else could they have gone with? There aren't many other broad chested, Floro Dery rounded-style figures out there that could have worked to resemble the character better than this.
How would that even be possible when Fun Pub can only use existing molds? They don't make all new molds, Hasbro does.shockblast2 wrote:A new mold, maybe.
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:How would that even be possible when Fun Pub can only use existing molds? They don't make all new molds, Hasbro does.shockblast2 wrote:A new mold, maybe.
And the fact that Fun Pub is even making a Devcon is a sure sign that Hasbro has no current plans to make one themselves.
gothsaurus wrote:I don't think your "$2 of plastic" takes into account shipping, engineer, artists, staff, custom printing, labor painting, the moving and reassembling and operating a factory to press a tiny run of product...
Those costs spread out across hundreds of thousands of mass market Bumblebees is one thing, but across a tiny run of figures like Botcon, it runs the price up.
Check out any manufacturing stats. Go to DiscMakers.com and compare making 100 and 10,000 CDs. The price gets cheaper the more you make.
It's not that people get meaner or greedier the fewer CDs you make.
Hoping to educate here... not feed the trolls.
With that, I'm exiting stage right. You may all debate ad nauseam.
gothsaurus wrote:I don't think your "$2 of plastic" takes into account shipping, engineer, artists, staff, custom printing, labor painting, the moving and reassembling and operating a factory to press a tiny run of product...
Those costs spread out across hundreds of thousands of mass market Bumblebees is one thing, but across a tiny run of figures like Botcon, it runs the price up.
Check out any manufacturing stats. Go to DiscMakers.com and compare making 100 and 10,000 CDs. The price gets cheaper the more you make.
It's not that people get meaner or greedier the fewer CDs you make.
Hoping to educate here... not feed the trolls.
With that, I'm exiting stage right. You may all debate ad nauseam.
gothsaurus wrote:Well, I'd certainly attend and ask for a price breakdown.
Sabrblade wrote:Well, what else could they have gone with? There aren't many other broad chested, Floro Dery rounded-style figures out there that could have worked to resemble the character better than this.
me, being sarcastic. wrote:Hey! you know what'll be fun?? Let's act surprised when the botcon set turns out to be repaints and retools of existing figures! Then we can bitch about it endlessly full well knowing this is how BotCon exclusives work, and have worked for the last decade!
gothsaurus wrote:As I said, it sounds like you have a real claim against the greedy FunPub overlords. Call them out on the floor at the convention and demand a price breakdown per figure.
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