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ShardFenix wrote:

Flux Convoy wrote:Hothead is the ****. Nuff said. I'd support these guys over a lot of the other shmucks any day. Not everything they do is stuff I'm interested in but I get where it comes from. They're stuff is good quality too. Looking forward to Blood (voyager) if and when it comes around.

eh so far in my opinion they have had one success and it was fantastic. Hothead was amazing. It just takes more than one success to get me riding their train. If and when the Blood sets come out I may change my tune.

Agreed, Hothead was cool. Although I'm not a big fan of Headmasters, this is one cool Iguana. Looks like a alligator but still, it's quite amazing.

ShardFenix wrote:

Razorclaw0000 wrote:What "crap"? They showed some prototypes and people got pissy when they decided not to make them anymore. They're doing the best they can. Headrobots is a tiny, tiny company and they have to figure out what will sell.

Promoting and teasing items and then never releasing them in suffiecient quantity is crap. Whatever happened to their Dark Warrior set? I saw maybe one post on it and that was it. Look if they can't compete with Fansproject and Perfect Effect and other 3rd party teams that know what they are doing and do it well, then perhaps they shouldnt.

What hasn't been released in sufficient quality? Both Bludgeon sets, deluxe and voyager, are being mass released. The gyro set was originally going to be limited to 100 sets. Then due to the demand they re-opened the pre-order for 3 days, no limit. If you miss something HR puts out I'm pretty sure that's your fault.

why on earth would they mass-release the deluxe bludgeon and not the whirl...seeing how they are from the same two pack...see stupid decisions. This isn't even considering the fact that the whirl set didnt even look that good.

ShardFenix wrote:why on earth would they mass-release the deluxe bludgeon and not the whirl...seeing how they are from the same two pack...see stupid decisions. This isn't even considering the fact that the whirl set didnt even look that good.

Then why are you complaining again?


EDIT: It's called supply and demand. When the demand is high, companies will go out on a limb and make the supply high. Anyone in their right mind would assume that the demand for Bludgeon would be much higher than Whirl. It just so happens that HR was generous enough to make a kit for both the deluxe and voyager in case you didn't own both. Then they do the unGodly and make the Whirl set, planned for only 100, made to order. That means all you had to do was lay down the mo ey and say you wanted one. Geesh, what was HeadRobots thinking.

just questionable business choices. Outside of the Hardhead set, they haven't been very impressive. And their collection of choices adds an air of unprofessionalism. Releasing the original Blood and Gyro sets seems like a sad excuse for a money grab as well as inconvenient to not release both at the same time judging how the figures were released. And this new thing...what is it even for? The crocodile thing from headmasters? Skullcruncher maybe? Why?

ShardFenix wrote:

Razorclaw0000 wrote:What "crap"? They showed some prototypes and people got pissy when they decided not to make them anymore. They're doing the best they can. Headrobots is a tiny, tiny company and they have to figure out what will sell.

Promoting and teasing items and then never releasing them in suffiecient quantity is crap. Whatever happened to their Dark Warrior set? I saw maybe one post on it and that was it. Look if they can't compete with Fansproject and Perfect Effect and other 3rd party teams that know what they are doing and do it well, then perhaps they shouldnt.

Are you going to rip into FansProject for not releasing:

Mini Matrix
Mini Megatron Gun
Broadside
Glacier bots

Or Perfect Effect for not releasing

Soundwave
Wheelie

It's pretty unrealistic (and fairly hypocritical) to get mad at HeadRobots for showing off their prototypes to gauge interest when other companies do it too and never release product.

ShardFenix wrote:just questionable business choices. Outside of the Hardhead set, they haven't been very impressive. And their collection of choices adds an air of unprofessionalism. Releasing the original Blood and Gyro sets seems like a sad excuse for a money grab as well as inconvenient to not release both at the same time judging how the figures were released. And this new thing...what is it even for? The crocodile thing from headmasters? Skullcruncher maybe? Why?

Other than Hothead and Snake, what are you basing your info on? That's the only two sets, to my knowledge, that they have released. IMO, the Blood and Gyro kits are a prime example of what third party companies, who are not able to make their own figures, should be doing: making bad figures better. But I do think they did that to make money for what their original intentions are. (smart business)

And I'm guessing they are making another Headmaster because they are a company called HeadRobots.

amcgrath929 wrote:

ShardFenix wrote:just questionable business choices. Outside of the Hardhead set, they haven't been very impressive. And their collection of choices adds an air of unprofessionalism. Releasing the original Blood and Gyro sets seems like a sad excuse for a money grab as well as inconvenient to not release both at the same time judging how the figures were released. And this new thing...what is it even for? The crocodile thing from headmasters? Skullcruncher maybe? Why?

Other than Hothead and Snake, what are you basing your info on? That's the only two sets, to my knowledge, that they have released. IMO, the Blood and Gyro kits are a prime example of what third party companies, who are not able to make their own figures, should be doing: making bad figures better. But I do think they did that to make money for what their original intentions are. (smart business)

And I'm guessing they are making another Headmaster because they are a company called HeadRobots.

And also this thread is over a year old when HeadRobots just had made Snake and before they announced Blood and Gyro.

Razorclaw0000 wrote:

ShardFenix wrote:

Razorclaw0000 wrote:What "crap"? They showed some prototypes and people got pissy when they decided not to make them anymore. They're doing the best they can. Headrobots is a tiny, tiny company and they have to figure out what will sell.

Promoting and teasing items and then never releasing them in suffiecient quantity is crap. Whatever happened to their Dark Warrior set? I saw maybe one post on it and that was it. Look if they can't compete with Fansproject and Perfect Effect and other 3rd party teams that know what they are doing and do it well, then perhaps they shouldnt.

Are you going to rip into FansProject for not releasing:

Mini Matrix
Mini Megatron Gun
Broadside
Glacier bots

Or Perfect Effect for not releasing

Soundwave
Wheelie

It's pretty unrealistic (and fairly hypocritical) to get mad at HeadRobots for showing off their prototypes to gauge interest when other companies do it too and never release product.

Agreed.

Razorclaw0000 wrote:

amcgrath929 wrote:

ShardFenix wrote:just questionable business choices. Outside of the Hardhead set, they haven't been very impressive. And their collection of choices adds an air of unprofessionalism. Releasing the original Blood and Gyro sets seems like a sad excuse for a money grab as well as inconvenient to not release both at the same time judging how the figures were released. And this new thing...what is it even for? The crocodile thing from headmasters? Skullcruncher maybe? Why?

Other than Hothead and Snake, what are you basing your info on? That's the only two sets, to my knowledge, that they have released. IMO, the Blood and Gyro kits are a prime example of what third party companies, who are not able to make their own figures, should be doing: making bad figures better. But I do think they did that to make money for what their original intentions are. (smart business)

And I'm guessing they are making another Headmaster because they are a company called HeadRobots.

And also this thread is over a year old when HeadRobots just had made Snake and before they announced Blood and Gyro.

I guess if companies change their mind they are bad?

I'd happily buy any of the unreleased Headmasters, or original ones. I've been throwing them on extra bodies I had.

Fansproject has released multiple quality products. More so than others. PFX has also delivered multiple successes on the cassetticons for lack of a better term. Also I know that they promoted Broadside and the Glacierbot, but then I also never saw them say they still weren't coming out. And if headrobots wants the same amount of trust I give others for me than they should impress me with somthing. Which they really havemt done. Hardhead was great, but as ive said before its only one piece.

ShardFenix wrote:Fansproject has released multiple quality products. More so than others. PFX has also delivered multiple successes on the cassetticons for lack of a better term. Also I know that they promoted Broadside and the Glacierbot, but then I also never saw them say they still weren't coming out. And if headrobots wants the same amount of trust I give others for me than they should impress me with somthing. Which they really havemt done. Hardhead was great, but as ive said before its only one piece.

If you compare every up-and-coming third party company to the works of FansProject, you are going to be sorely disappointed. They have two projects out, two. Both of them are of excellent quality and decent articulation. So honestly, theyd have to put out a bad product to change my mind, which I do not see them doing. I think you've also forgotten FP first release, which was extremely limited in quanity ( based on their numbers now) and a lot harder to get ahold of. And PE's first release, the first I know of, was the God Sword. The quality on that figure was not even close to what it is now.