AbsumZer0 wrote:When this set was first announced, wasn't the big pro-exclusive argument that:
a) There wouldn't be enough demand for Hasbro to release the figures even as a Hasbro online exclusive set, and that because of the larger-than-normal amount of figures being produced there'd be extra sets available at the Mastercollector online store and individual figures on eBay at around $80 bucks each? Because fans who thought there'd be enough demand for something more than a limited convention run were kidding themselves?
b) That Classics was definitely dead, and as a result there'd be no way Hasbro could have possibly shuffled the other seekers (or, at least Thundercracker) into future assortments?
Whatever. I'm sure there are people who think it's just as big a waste of money, but with the money it would have cost me to buy a set of repaints/remoulds of $10 figures I bought a complete set of Lords of Byston Well figures, updated my Neon Genesis Evangelion dvd set to the platinum edition, got a few new Gundam kits, and bought a great new airbrush.
I can't help but both agree and disagree.
Classics only died because of lack of product. ThunderCracker would have sold, same as the scraped Cosmos idea. I think both figures would be a great way to reintroduce Classics 2.0(even though some would still call it hack)
I can't help nod at how you spent the same amount of money that these repaints remolds would have cost on such a varity of diverse and expensive stuff.
BotCon and the TFClub exclusives(to me)are overpriced ways of Hasbro shaking down their overly devout patrons, and I draw the line pretty much there. I can't see any situation in which a basic repaint by HASBRO should cost upwards of $60!
Thats how my dollar and opion side, I'm a collector, who loves TFs, not a money spewing lemming. However, to each their own.