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News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:47 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Burn wrote:
Seibertron wrote:every fan that officially backs the toy through HASBROPULSE.com w

There we go ... they had to make SOMETHING exclusive for the Hasbro Pulse backers.

Damn those foreigners taking all our digital comics!

Still, digital.
What's the point of exclusivity again? Digital have no value because it's going to be torrented just a few hours after it become available.

Print as actual physical comics that would be sent only to the backers as a bonus exclusive collector item and now we're talking.

Plus, it's really only the cover that's new. The story itself is just a reprint of the existing adaptation IDW did over a decade ago, which isn't exactly something people are clamoring for.

And even if the cover is the only exclusive, it really isn't since it's been posted right there on Hasbro Pulse for anyone and everyone to behold in full size just by clicking on it, pretty much making any and all exclusivity about this deal null and void.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:56 pm

First-Aid wrote:Another suggestion to Hasbro:

Want to put Unicron over the top, easy? Make a miniature Grimlock figure that would attach to Unicron's butt so he could...well, you know!

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN! :lol:

Sabrblade wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Burn wrote:
Seibertron wrote:every fan that officially backs the toy through HASBROPULSE.com w

There we go ... they had to make SOMETHING exclusive for the Hasbro Pulse backers.

Damn those foreigners taking all our digital comics!

Still, digital.
What's the point of exclusivity again? Digital have no value because it's going to be torrented just a few hours after it become available.

Print as actual physical comics that would be sent only to the backers as a bonus exclusive collector item and now we're talking.
Plus, it's really only the cover that's new. The story itself is just a reprint of the existing adaptation IDW did over a decade ago, which isn't exactly something people are clamoring for.

And even if the cover is the only exclusive, it really isn't since it's been posted right there on Hasbro Pulse for anyone and everyone to behold in full size just by clicking on it, pretty much making any and all exclusivity about this deal null and void.

You guys and your points ... you're totally smothering my "Hasbro hates foreigners" argument I'm trying to get going here.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:01 pm

Burn wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Burn wrote:
Seibertron wrote:every fan that officially backs the toy through HASBROPULSE.com w

There we go ... they had to make SOMETHING exclusive for the Hasbro Pulse backers.

Damn those foreigners taking all our digital comics!

Still, digital.
What's the point of exclusivity again? Digital have no value because it's going to be torrented just a few hours after it become available.

Print as actual physical comics that would be sent only to the backers as a bonus exclusive collector item and now we're talking.
Plus, it's really only the cover that's new. The story itself is just a reprint of the existing adaptation IDW did over a decade ago, which isn't exactly something people are clamoring for.

And even if the cover is the only exclusive, it really isn't since it's been posted right there on Hasbro Pulse for anyone and everyone to behold in full size just by clicking on it, pretty much making any and all exclusivity about this deal null and void.

You guys and your points ... you're totally smothering my "Hasbro hates foreigners" argument I'm trying to get going here.

Guess I'm just a little bummed that this comic not only isn't the thing that Ron Friedman and Flint Dille said they'd make if Unicron gets funded, but is just that same doggone TFTM adaptation again.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:10 pm

Okay fine, Hasbro hates everyone. :lol:

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:13 pm

Good for the new posable hands. Much better.

i also kinda really like the shuttle with Hot Rod. That's a nice touch.

And with the stand for the head, maybe I'll display him in Planet mode with the head on a separate stand!

by **lupinesithlord** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:36 pm

I can't believe they've gotten as many sign ups as they have....would I love an amazing unicron figure...sure thing! Can I afford to shell out 600 bucks heck no...for the people who want one, I hope they get there...

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:44 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:6 days left.

At the time of posting this, 368 new backers per day are required to reach the goal.

5.35 days left.

At the time of posting this, 221 new backers per day are required to reach the goal.

Whoa, hold up: it dropped?!

Well, they did add a little over a thousand backers since last night, so yeah.

I had been doing this to see when the break point was until people started getting all testy about how I was doing it.

That happened a few pages back, I love it though.

News Credits: 2 · by **X3ROhour** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:26 pm

Looking real bleak in here.
Times are getting really desperate!

:lol:

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:40 pm

Z3ROhour wrote:Looking real bleak in here.
Times are getting really desperate!

How so?

News Credits: 6 · by **AllNewSuperRobot** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:28 pm

Burn wrote:Okay fine, Hasbro hates everyone.

That’s the spirit!

News Credits: 18 · by **Immortal Starscream** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:38 am

while the Autobot shuttle is nice and all, as is the hotrod (is that the classics version or the tr version?) I don't understand why the shuttle is the ship they chose to include here. of all the spaceships I would associate with Unicron, this isn't one of them. Why not Galvatrons flagship the Conquest? Ya know, the ship unicron spat out for him? Or either the Quintesson or Junkion ships. (actually why not all 3?)

also I second the motion for a grimlock to kick butt

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:44 am

Galvatron's ship would make more sense, but I'm not buying this for a buncha tiny spaceships

I'm looking at the movie poster where this spaceship is shown; maybe it's in reference to that..

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:11 am

Immortal Starscream wrote:while the Autobot shuttle is nice and all, as is the hotrod (is that the classics version or the tr version?) I don't understand why the shuttle is the ship they chose to include here. of all the spaceships I would associate with Unicron, this isn't one of them. Why not Galvatrons flagship the Conquest? Ya know, the ship unicron spat out for him? Or either the Quintesson or Junkion ships. (actually why not all 3?)

also I second the motion for a grimlock to kick butt

It's the TR design for Hot Rod.

Galvatron's ship was the Revenge.

News Credits: 18 · by **Immortal Starscream** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:17 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Immortal Starscream wrote:while the Autobot shuttle is nice and all, as is the hotrod (is that the classics version or the tr version?) I don't understand why the shuttle is the ship they chose to include here. of all the spaceships I would associate with Unicron, this isn't one of them. Why not Galvatrons flagship the Conquest? Ya know, the ship unicron spat out for him? Or either the Quintesson or Junkion ships. (actually why not all 3?)

also I second the motion for a grimlock to kick butt
It's the TR design for Hot Rod.

Galvatron's ship was the Revenge.

thats strange, I always remember it being called the conquest... I wonder where I got that from then. is there a transformers ship named conquest? either way, my point still stands. Hasbro is giving us the wrong ship (still want the autobot shuttle though =P)

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:24 am

Immortal Starscream wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Immortal Starscream wrote:while the Autobot shuttle is nice and all, as is the hotrod (is that the classics version or the tr version?) I don't understand why the shuttle is the ship they chose to include here. of all the spaceships I would associate with Unicron, this isn't one of them. Why not Galvatrons flagship the Conquest? Ya know, the ship unicron spat out for him? Or either the Quintesson or Junkion ships. (actually why not all 3?)

also I second the motion for a grimlock to kick butt
It's the TR design for Hot Rod.

Galvatron's ship was the Revenge.

thats strange, I always remember it being called the conquest... I wonder where I got that from then. is there a transformers ship named conquest?

There's a G.I. Joe figure jet called the Conquest X-30 that appeared in some Transformers comics, but there only purely Transformers thing with the word in its name is the Matrix of Conquest.

News Credits: 18 · by **Immortal Starscream** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:55 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Immortal Starscream wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Immortal Starscream wrote:while the Autobot shuttle is nice and all, as is the hotrod (is that the classics version or the tr version?) I don't understand why the shuttle is the ship they chose to include here. of all the spaceships I would associate with Unicron, this isn't one of them. Why not Galvatrons flagship the Conquest? Ya know, the ship unicron spat out for him? Or either the Quintesson or Junkion ships. (actually why not all 3?)

also I second the motion for a grimlock to kick butt
It's the TR design for Hot Rod.

Galvatron's ship was the Revenge.

thats strange, I always remember it being called the conquest... I wonder where I got that from then. is there a transformers ship named conquest?
There's a G.I. Joe figure jet called the Conquest X-30 that appeared in some Transformers comics, but there only purely Transformers thing with the word in its name is the Matrix of Conquest.

crazy how memory works sometimes. like how I when I re-watched g1 for the first time as an adult and was like... this isn't the same cartoon is it? I don't remember starscream being THAT whiny :lol:

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:03 am

Immortal Starscream wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Immortal Starscream wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Immortal Starscream wrote:while the Autobot shuttle is nice and all, as is the hotrod (is that the classics version or the tr version?) I don't understand why the shuttle is the ship they chose to include here. of all the spaceships I would associate with Unicron, this isn't one of them. Why not Galvatrons flagship the Conquest? Ya know, the ship unicron spat out for him? Or either the Quintesson or Junkion ships. (actually why not all 3?)

also I second the motion for a grimlock to kick butt
It's the TR design for Hot Rod.

Galvatron's ship was the Revenge.

thats strange, I always remember it being called the conquest... I wonder where I got that from then. is there a transformers ship named conquest?
There's a G.I. Joe figure jet called the Conquest X-30 that appeared in some Transformers comics, but there only purely Transformers thing with the word in its name is the Matrix of Conquest.

crazy how memory works sometimes. like how I when I re-watched g1 for the first time as an adult and was like... this isn't the same cartoon is it? I don't remember starscream being THAT whiny

To be fair, Galvatron's ship was never even named in the movie or show. It didn't get its name until 2009 when its animation model was published in The Complete Ark, from which it got its name.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:26 pm

*squints hard*

*cleans glasses*

*squints again*

Dang, TR Galvatron and Hot Rod are TINY! What's the measure on the ruler, imperial or metric?

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:51 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:6 days left.

At the time of posting this, 368 new backers per day are required to reach the goal.

5.35 days left.

At the time of posting this, 221 new backers per day are required to reach the goal.

4.35 days left.

At the time of posting this, 245 new backers per day are required to reach the goal.

Website · by **DMSL** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:17 pm

Still too expensive considering the simplistic transformation. I would buy this if it was 200 less shipping included.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:36 pm

DMSL wrote:Still too expensive considering the simplistic transformation. I would buy this if it was 200 less shipping included.

Were you living under a rock these past few years?
Transformers prices have basically increased by at least 33% overall. Masterpieces doubled. And that Unicron is a giant behemoth that have at least TWICE the material of your standard Titan.

Face it, dude. The times of cheap transformers is gone.

On a happier note, with TF Select replacing Botcon and Funpub, we can now get the exclusive repaints at a reasonable price. So that's at least that.

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:25 pm

I just saw over at TFW that old Unicron has hit 7000 backers. That's a 200 jump since I last checked which was either last night or this morning. Anyone else suspicious that he's already backed and Hasbro is just playing this out for the drama

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:54 pm

Hasbro's crowdfunded Unicron toy has reached over 7000 units ordered. We are ever closer to the treshold of 8000 orders for this toy to be made. There are just 3 days left for that to happen, which we hope is the case for all those interested. For those in the US and Canada wanting to order the toy, you can click here.

The Lord of Chaos. The Planet Eater. The Chaos Bringer. Unicron stands alone as the most menacing figure in Transformers lore, capable of devouring entire worlds and civilizations. He debuted in the 1986 film Transformers: The Movie and his insatiable appetite nearly brought the entire universe to its knees.

But his legacy transcends both space and time.

“I have summoned you here for a purpose.” - Unicron

Transformers fans may be mere humans, inhabiting a miniscule planet hardly worth consuming, but they are some of the most passionate fans out there. That’s why HASLAB, the Hasbro Pulse crowdsourcing platform, is the place to awaken such a massive project.

Introducing the first ever Transformers HASLAB project: Transformers War For Cybertron Unicron.

“Then it pleases me to be the first.” - Unicron

Join us in a historic opportunity to celebrate the legendary Unicron with a figure whose features, detail, and scale are worthy of his gigantic legacy.

This campaign will move into production when it reaches its minimum goal of 8,000 backers. All support must be received by 11:59 PM EST on October 6, 2019. If the campaign is successful your payment method will be charged on October 6, 2019. Orders are estimated to ship in early 2021.

by **Plutoniumboss** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:56 pm

If it was already backed, wouldn't they get more buyers by posting up the real numbers and catching all the people who'd rather put their money on a sure thing?

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:09 pm

Plutoniumboss wrote:If it was already backed, wouldn't they get more buyers by posting up the real numbers and catching all the people who'd rather put their money on a sure thing?

I'd assume so, band-wagoners are fair weather fans.

The backer jumps just seem odd to me. I could assume their system only updates at regular intervals, but it's gone up 7 since the above screen shot. So who even knows.