Maximal Primal wrote:Your an absolute Genius Skywarp-2! That Razorback and Crazybolt are awesome, who knew that Takara Tomy had released so many sweet molds for their Beast Was Neo line up! I love them! I am sick and tired of playing second fiddle to Japan and their toy market, here in the U.S. we don't do anything as near as cool as they do with their toys! I mean the packaging in our stores are always bubbles which get's severely destroyed when in storage. The excessive Twistie Ties because of corporate greed, disguised as protection for the toy. The poor choice of art work and absense of Tech Specs on some releases. it's a fricken Nightmare!
Hasbro should really up the anty and give us these Comic Packs. That would be a start in changing the U.S. toy market to become a more global and competative collection. I know alot of friends of mine here who only go to stores which sell imports. they avoid the Mass retail chains like the plague. I must say even I was greatly disappointed by the offerings in pacakges the movie toys were released in. Hasbro's packaging has serious issues, and should be redesigned across the entire Transformers line. Generation One toys even had better packaging, considering they were in boxes as aposed to Bubble packaging.
If they do the packaging right, then I can see this series of Comic Packs becoming the next big thing, even bigger then Marvel Legends has been, as long as they do it right. I don't have much faith that even if Hasbro got their butts in gear and decided to do these packages, like you have suggested Skywarp-2, they would get it right. I don't have much hope that Hasbro has the gumption to pull it off, and to be successful at it as well. I'm not downing the concept, just the manufacturer's ability to produce, which we know from the past has always been hit or miss.
Still, I challenge Hasbro to make a go of it! I want to see if they are capable of even pulling it off and making collector's happy at the same time as producing something that could be marketed in the mass retail circuit.
Thanks for the compliment Maximal!! I feel you pain, I too have had doubts that Hasbro has the ability to pull off marketing mass Retail comic Packs with transformers..... Not that they can do it and sell them, but that they can produce the right boxes and packages to satisfy the MIB collector and still keep the others happy at the same time. I was thinking that if the comic packs were set in a box with full color art, similar to that of Japanese releases, then they could place the comic on the back side of the box, with a hatch that opens and you can slip the issue from the protective sleeve.....
Not only that they could make it so you can see the comic above the toy, similar to mavel legends, but with more box surrounding it to keep it safe. Actually if you think about it, the Book box style they came up with for the G-1 Reissues worked quite well. The toy was held in plastic and the box was nice as well. All you had to do was slide the tray out and removel the plastic cover.... A comic could be worked in behind the toy for added effect and art.
Hasbro has it's faults but sometimes they can produce some nice Packaging. The Wal-Mart Starscream U.S. Repaint looks to be quite nice, and if a comic was behind that toy, it would also work...
Hasbro has never been my favorite retailer of toys, atleast not in packaging anyways. I love their products, but the packages they come in are always looking like they were mere after thoughts. I wonder if they even realize that there is a collector's market out there who wants a mass retail release that fits the collector as well as the regular toy consumer? 
) and this is what i find. ahahaha. gotta settle down first and look at the previous posts... 
just don't throw any poo...
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