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Burn wrote:Exactly.
There's an incredible amount of talent in the 3P world. We live in a world where crowd funding is an option. They've proven they can produce the goods.
Why not ditch Transformer characters and create their own universe? Imagine what they could create unhindered by corporate rules and go direct to the fans.
Burn wrote:I have to wonder, all those people who are pro-3P, how would you react in such a scenario?
You spend hours ... days ... months ... years creating something and it turns out to be a success and you make a bit of money out of it. All that hard work has paid off!
Someone else sees your success and decides to improve on it without talking to you, their product, based on your creation, is a success, they make money on it, thanks to your hard work and theirs it has paid off and THEY have profitted from it and you receive nothing.
Do you ...
"I say old chaps! Well done! It's great to see you take my ideas and run with it and make some money! Good show!"
Or ...
"Oi! What the bloody hell are you wankers doing? That's my bloody creation! Those are my dollary-doos! I'll see you in court and make sure you get a fair boot up the bum for pinching from me!"
Mull over that ...
Black Hat wrote:Do we expect Hasbro to seek Floro Dery's approval every time they make a figure based on his designs?
Ironhidensh wrote:Black Hat wrote:Their Weibo and various other accounts are still up. I don't think Zetacron is down for the count, this is probably just them waiting for the bullsh!t to blow over.
With regards to the timing, Zetacron has been in production for a while now (before HasLab 'cron IIRC) but only recently got a finished prototype shown off. Bad timing perhaps but I think it's a bit silly to call it a "scummy move" to deliberately undermine the official offering. This seems more like an unfortunate coincidence than an evil ploy.
With regards to Hasbro striking the video, calling it Unicron in the vid was a bad idea. I HIGHLY doubt Hasbro even has any interest in actually "fighting" 3Ps though. According to sources that shall remain nameless for, shall we say, security reasons, Hasbro and 3Ps have had a "gentlemen's agreement" for a long damn time and even share ideas at events. This is most likely posturing for formality's sake and not an actual threat to either side.
With regards to the IP law debacle, US IP law is a decrepit, jumbled, corrupt mess that has been warped so far from its original meaning (largely by lobbyists from Disney trying to avoid their properties entering the public domain ever ever ever) that quite frankly it needs to be taken out the back of the shed and put out of its misery. Obviously some level of IP law needs to exist, but in it present state anything that undermines it is a good thing, just because it will hopefully pave the way for reform.
TLDR: US IP law is ridiculous and is not a good basis for an argument of how IP should be handled.
Finally, whilst as I have said many a time I have no real horse in this race, and I hope that both make it into production and everyone that wants them can get them, I would find it bitterly ironic if this really was the end of Zetacron...and then HasLab Unicron failed anyway and nobody got an updated Unicron. Obviously I sincerely hope that doesn't happen, but I fear that it might.
On a more positive note, if these do succeed I would love to see the old BWN Unicron get resurrected and released somehow.
Single best post in this entire thread.
Ironhidensh wrote:If Hasbro wanted to end the 3rd party market, they could do it virtually overnight. They just have to make the products fans are craving. They are not, and are leaving a huge void in the wants of consumers.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:It's... complicated. For starters, it's pretty hard to break through in any market, let alone one where "robots converting into different forms" is synonymous with Transformers (and to a lesser extent Power Rangers), and anything similar to them is viewed as a pale imitation in the public eye, thus avoided. Trying that with new IP's is taking a big risk, especially when Transformers is a staple, going strong for years, and covers quite a bit of ground leaving hardly anything undiscovered. Think "Simpsons did it!". And I'm not talking about just toys, but media tie-ins (a necessity nowadays) as well.
Black Hat wrote:The analogy kinda falls apart given that aside from being based on the same character (which the HasLab crew didn't create either; the actual designers of the character aren't even involved with the franchise anymore AFAIK) the two products are both utterly distinct. If this was an improved KO then sure I'd understand the complaints, but the tooling and engineering and actual hard work of Zeta's is 100% distinct from the HasLab version- they don't even look that similar to each other beyond both being horned robots that turn into balls.
I mean, I hear you, but at the end of the day "Hasbro" isn't an individual. "Hasbro" hasn't created anything. People who WORK for Hasbro created those characters, but they aren't even with the company anymore. Do we expect Hasbro to seek Floro Dery's approval every time they make a figure based on his designs?
A more accurate analogy would be if you owned a model company and were making a kit based on, say, the Panzer IV, and another company made a subjectively better Panzer IV model, based on the exact same tank but was completely original in tooling. I'd be sad my model wasn't liked as much as the competitor, but if the competition was better than mine then I kinda have to suck it up. Unfortunate but not everyone can be winners.
Obviously which Unicron is "better" is highly subjective, but the Zeta offering definitely has SOME advantages that to SOME people make it the better buy than the HasLab version (or else we wouldn't be having this argument).
I'd also like to present the argument that maybe this should have been a limited run of 5000 guaranteed produced figures, which almost certainly would have sold out in no time, rather than an "If we get 8000 pre-orders we'll make this figure" uncertain gamble.
But that's just me.
TheForgottenTaxi wrote:Kinda shocked at the unabashed bias in Seibertron's writeup. Maybe it's silly of me to expect a toy fan site to separate its opinion and news content, but dang.
Burn wrote:lots of good stuff
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:TheForgottenTaxi wrote:Kinda shocked at the unabashed bias in Seibertron's writeup. Maybe it's silly of me to expect a toy fan site to separate its opinion and news content, but dang.
Agreed. I would have thought it more professional to have a little more objectivity, in coverage of a given article. Instead of something that reads like smug, gloating fanboy
sol magnus wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:TheForgottenTaxi wrote:Kinda shocked at the unabashed bias in Seibertron's writeup. Maybe it's silly of me to expect a toy fan site to separate its opinion and news content, but dang.
Agreed. I would have thought it more professional to have a little more objectivity, in coverage of a given article. Instead of something that reads like smug, gloating fanboy
What 'writeup'?
Stargrave wrote:
I really did try to write from a neutral stance
Stargrave wrote:
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TheForgottenTaxi wrote:While we're on the topic of the dubious journalism on display here... why do we think this is true?
The only source cited in the article is "Seibertronian Calidus." Forgive me if the regulars around here know but... who's that? What is the source of their credibility? Has any official representative from Hasbro or Zeta been contacted, or has either company released any kind of statement?
It seems pretty irresponsible to post this on the frontpage if it's as thin as it appears.
TheForgottenTaxi wrote:While we're on the topic of the dubious journalism on display here... why do we think this is true?
The only source cited in the article is "Seibertronian Calidus." Forgive me if the regulars around here know but... who's that? What is the source of their credibility? Has any official representative from Hasbro or Zeta been contacted, or has either company released any kind of statement?
It seems pretty irresponsible to post this on the frontpage if it's as thin as it appears.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:TheForgottenTaxi wrote:While we're on the topic of the dubious journalism on display here... why do we think this is true?
The only source cited in the article is "Seibertronian Calidus." Forgive me if the regulars around here know but... who's that? What is the source of their credibility? Has any official representative from Hasbro or Zeta been contacted, or has either company released any kind of statement?
It seems pretty irresponsible to post this on the frontpage if it's as thin as it appears.
The link to the original video in the Zeta Toys Core Star thread is still up, which shows "Video Unavailable. This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Hasbro, Inc." Hasbro has done something, that's already somewhat newsworthy. I did find it again on a Chinese video site (the power of Google), and it did say "Unicorn" in the beginning, so... *shrugs*
Nobody has noticed any toy listings being taken down, have they?
Been there, done that, still kinda doing it (elsewhere, that is). No, thank you.Burn wrote:I wasn't aware we had so many qualified news reporters on these forums. Any of you interested in an unpaid gig that gets little praise but lots of abuse?
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.'
Burn wrote:If the hate were real, there wouldn't be a sub-forum for 3P at all.
Even though it's buried deeply, would like to see it brought up a bit.
One point I see people bringing up is "Hasbro won't give us but 3P will".
So again I have to ask, why does Hasbro even have to give it to you in the first place? It's bordering on entitlement.
Which mankes calling Hasbro supporters "whiners" a little hypocritical. Not taking a shot at you personally bvzxa, but to me it seems the whole 3P market exists is because people whined about Hasbros lack of offerings to begin with.
Both sides have valid reasons for supporting what they do, I just don't see the point in insulting and attacking each other for it. At the end of the day, we like what we like.
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:If anyone has an issue with the story, please contact ryan@seibertron.com to voice your concerns.
Don't attack my staff.
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
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