-Kanrabat- wrote:Still a bunch of straight repaints. I wonder if there will be any retooling? Also, will this be sold as a set? Finally, Takara or Hasbro?
Only Hasbro for now. Dont know if Takara will try this guy out. But theya re doing the Optimus Combiner, so they have shown to stray from G1 for this line.
And it will be sold as a set, just like the G2 combiner sets.
Burn wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:[Why do we accept Devastator or Predaking with their unified team colors for their individual members? They seem to be exceptions to the rule, but they're both celebrated. No one calls them out on having a "symmetrical" deco for all members. Bright red and teal just don't mesh well, unlike Devastator's green and purple or Predaking's orange and black motifs.
We didn't question it because that's just how it was. We were kids, they were robots that combined into a bigger robot, I for one wouldn't have cared about the colours back then.
So we've grown up accepting that Predaking and Devestator have a somewhat uniform colour scheme, while the Scramble guys don't.
There is another angle to this though. The Scramble guys Scramble. That was kind of the point. So of course, mixing and matching would result in odd schemes anyway. Predaking and Devastator didnt combine with anyone else, so all their components were meant for them and them alone. So it makes sense that they would look more uniform.
And guys, one thing I am missing here is where the white is on this combiner.
Check out the color that won on the poll, the white should be as prevalent as the red. So what's going on here, how is red all over this ala Harley Quinn?!
Ironhidensh wrote:Moosey wrote:Ironhidensh wrote:This monstrosity reminds me why I took an extended break from the collecting hobby not so long ago. I hope very few people trade perfectly good money for this. It only in incourages more crappy repaints.
ah well.
Sorry to call you out on this, but why must you wish that everyone does not buy Victorion? I can understand that you do not wish to buy the set, but why do you have to wish that no one buys it?
I have this dream that if repaints have abismal sales, Hasbro will loose their hard-on for them, and we start getting more than 10 unique figures a year.
After getting Streetwise, I didnt mind the reshells as much. Especially when that is essentially G1 reborn where everyone transformed similarly but had a totally different looking alt mode. And while I would preffer unique figures, I dread the day Hasbro decides to go back to the FOC plastic to offset the cost. Or even the more recent generations like Scoop, which felt really cheap to me. I look on the bright side. I dont have to buy all the figures and the figures I do buy are of great quality. With FOC, whichever figure I bought felt cheap while now every figure I buy feels nice and solid. And the deluxes and voyager are no longer shrinking.