Sid Burn wrote:Transformers fans are defending KOs? What the hell guys?
I cannot believe some people are actually upset about this, the KO sales clog up ebay so badly, and most KOs are crap.
If this is handled correctly and I don't have to sift through hundreds of 5 dollar devastator "reissues" I will be thrilled.
If you think that a KO sixshot or a KO mirage is a valuable addition to your Transformer collection, and because of that you want the KO market to continue to prosper, I can only hope that your opinion is totally ignored by your fellow collectors and more importantly, ebay and hasbro.
KOs stain the secondary collectors market so badly it saps a lot of the joy out of gen 1 collecting. If any of you defending KOs can tell me that it wouldn't be nice to type G1 into an ebay search engine and not be bombarded with crappy superion and seaspray KOs then you must have your head partially up your own ass.
Some of us want REAL dinobots, I dont think I should have to swim through a flood of KOs to find the real thing.
Problem is this will NOT stop knockoffs from being sold on ebay. It will just stop people from properly labeling them as knockoffs in the titles. So this has made the problem WORSE.
I love the inovative knockoffs. The double sizes, the pint sized, the unconventional combiners, the colorful copies. Many of these toys Hasbro has no intention to ever make again anyways. I think Hasbro would have the brains to look at the market and see that a knockoff Dinobot or clear Mirage is selling for $80. Perhaps a hint that they would sell to collectors if reproduced officially and sold on HTS for $30?
If ebay would let knockoffs sell as long as they said "knockoff" in the title, then you could just put "-knockoff" in an ebay search. Sadly now this can't happen. Thanks Hasblow!