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Absolute Zero wrote:They'll probably rerelease Classic Rodimus next year when the Protector set comes out.
Scaleface wrote:Absolute Zero wrote:They'll probably rerelease Classic Rodimus next year when the Protector set comes out.
I think you give Hasbro too much credit. Did they re-release Ultra Magnus when City Commander hit? No people were paying buckets of money for them on ebay... all after the original toy sold for $10 as a Target cheapo repaint and no one wanted them!
Scaleface wrote:As to the cost of importing this KO vs. buying the Henkei Thundercracker, you have to consider that currently you can’t even buy Henkei Thundercracker for anywhere near it’s original price. It’s not on BBTS, and current asking price on ebay starts at $200+! Meanwhile past Classic Starscream toys have sold for $8 to $10 plus shipping from KO toys. Reprolabels sells a set of all six Seekers labels for $18. So even with shipping this will cost a LOT less.
Also, there are currently only THREE Henkei Thundercrackers on ebay, and NO Botcon Thundercrackers. I’m guessing more than three people want this toy.
Nekoman wrote:I don't understand why someone (who had the chance) would go through so much trouble for a KO, when they could have had the real deal for almost as much not long ago.
Also, why not just buy a legit version of Classics Starscream and paint that blue? Both have to be painted, why not buy a legit toy that will have better quality plastic?
If anyone wants to buy a knockoff, fine by me. I couldn't give a care as to what someone else does. Though, I do question the logic behind customizing knockoffs.
Scaleface wrote:Crappy Keyboard Val, I mean NOW people are paying a lot for a Magnus, not NO people.
Scaleface wrote:and no one wanted them!
Scaleface wrote:Okay, SOME people wanted them (I liked that Magnus), but I recall them going for 70% off clearance, and seeing tons of them on the shelves. ON ebay there were dozens of auctions for ONLY Magnus (people bought the set just for Skywarp!). Magnus wasn't nearly as popular until City Commander came out, and then when it did Hasbro failed to reissue him to cash in on the sudden popularity. Magnus went from being a figure sold for $3 to $70 in a short time.
Scaleface wrote:DId Hasbro release that one?
Razorclaw0000 wrote:Scaleface wrote:DId Hasbro release that one?
(Assuming you're referring to the Prime/Magnus giftset) Yes.
Scaleface wrote:Must have been made by some weird foreign branch of Hasbro where they send all the executives with good ideas to keep them from infecting the main office with sane concepts - that way they can concentrate on important ideas like white Powerglide.
--B-- wrote:Scaleface wrote:Must have been made by some weird foreign branch of Hasbro where they send all the executives with good ideas to keep them from infecting the main office with sane concepts - that way they can concentrate on important ideas like white Powerglide.
Sadly those brave men and women from the weird forign branch were all killed in a massive explosion on the set of the 2007 Transformers Movie.
When asked what part of the movie the explosion was for, a confused Michael Bay simply replyed "Part of what movie???"
Scaleface wrote:This is a knockoff, it's also one many fans have been hoping for for years. Hurray for blue seeker knockoffs!
The topic shouldn't be "Buyers Beware: KO Classic Skywarp & Thundercracker" it should be "Buyers Rejoice: KO Classic Skywarp & Thundercracker!"
I hope we get a nice "orange seeker" too.
Even if you have a Thundercracker already, maybe this can be one of the Rainmakers or something.
Blurrz wrote:
In regards to what or what not we call knock offs - I believe that almost everything produced by a 3rd party can be considered a knock off. Without the existence of something Hasbro has created, a creation is useless and void. So yes, that means everything FP has made is a knock-off to me. Upcoming Defender is not a knock-off, but everything prior that has been an attachment is. It might not appear to be... but that's what it boils down to.
doomseer wrote:Just a point I'd like to make . . . . .
Hasbro/takara continuously bombard us with recolours - sometimes of figures that we ( adult fans and collectors ) have already made clear that we don't like.
Of the ten products listed in the Toy news from hasbro FIVE are repaints.
The Blazemaster Mold went down like a lead balloon because it has poor articulation, durability and very poor build quality
The movie Ironhide is very flawed, difficult to pose, transform and not break.
The scout classes are probably the best toys to come out of ROTF
but we don't need them re-releasing in different colours every couple of months! 2 of the new line up are just rehashes of already existing characters, in an odd scale with a crappy plastic figure,
I doubt if any of us are excited by that er . . . sideswipey thing for kids.
In fact the only remotely impressive thing about the new hasbro releases is Bludgeon who I would probably fight children for right in the middle of Toys r us. lol Even that has some really bad quality plastic for the Tank Barrel though.
Yet the one design that is actually canon to have several identical figures of is the seekers. Apart from a couple of same side twins here and there and reflector there are NO repaints in opposing factions in ANY of the transformers literature that haven't come about simply to include repainted characters that existed before the storyline and were released just to make money.
The one kind of figure I would buy 8 of is the seeker classic. I'm quite lucky that in the UK skywarp came with Classic Ultra Magnus ( and was half price for some bizarre reason! £15.99 lol ) so I snapped him and also have Ramjet, Starscream and Acidstorm. If hasbro or Takara put Thrust, Dirge and Thundercracker ( plus sunstorm come to mention it ) in my local shops i'd probably buy all 4 as soon as I was possibly able to afford it.
But no - they know the allure of these figures so they are holding back or making them so difficult or expensive that fans like me
- who have been buying transformers since 1984 when I was six can't really hope to get them. I do an average job for an average wage.
I can't afford to spend the amounts that some figures like this go for, most people can't.
So to finally conclude -
F**K You Hasbro / Takara.
If I can find them I will buy these knockoffs
and be glad that even if it is just about making money SOMEONE out there is listening to what ordinary fans want.
Something it seems the real manufacturer cannot do unless it involves cheaply repainting and repackaging existing rubbish or an opportunity to get someone to pay £80 for about £3 worth of plastic.
doomseer wrote: If hasbro or Takara put Thrust, Dirge and Thundercracker ( plus sunstorm come to mention it ) in my local shops i'd probably buy all 4 as soon as I was possibly able to afford it.
But no - they know the allure of these figures so they are holding back or making them so difficult or expensive that fans like me - who have been buying transformers since 1984 when I was six can't really hope to get them. I do an average job for an average wage. I can't afford to spend the amounts that some figures like this go for, most people can't.
Scaleface wrote:h) China releases low cost blue Seeker, and people who couldn't afford previous Thundercrackers or missed them are more or less happy.
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