Down_Shift wrote:Immortal Starscream wrote:Down_Shift wrote:vlipke wrote:as long as the quality isnt junk plastic like MP Starscream I am game. Starscream is in no way worth the 100 dollars his price calls for.
Then you got the a bad batch of Starscream or something because mine is plastic perfection. Top quality plastics, better then anything used in Cybertron or Alternators for that matter. Plus mine didn't come with any of the unfortuante mis-haps others had like two left hands or no arm cannons.
i think the issue is how thin a lot of starscreams parts are. if they were truly chap plastic, theyd bend , ir just snap in half like a cracker. thin as it is, it realy is good plastic. just doesnt feel like it to those whovenever actualy worked with plastic before
if hasbro did bring this fig over, i get the feeling a lot of the realy thin peices might get replaced with vinal.
either way, i dont see that many super thin parts on megs,just a very few actualy
On the bright side, Hasbro said they wouldn't use this mould. Mind you, that's not to say they wouldn't use the prototype mould. Anything Takara makes Hasbro has access to and vice versa (sp?) So if Hasbro were to issue a MP Screamer which would prolly becalled Anniversay screamer or something along those lines, it wouldn't be the same thing fans have seen from the MP line.
In the past, I agree that Takara and Hasbro may have shared the molds but that is not necessarily the case now. Each mold would have it's own contract between the two companies, which indicates how long can it be used, where can it be marketed and sold, how many figures can be produced, and at what price.
For instance, if Takara designs a figure completely on their own and invests their money solely into the project, then they have little reason to share the mold with Hasbro for free. In a situation like this, it would be more likely that Takara would either sell the rights to Hasbro to produce the figure, than to share the figure for free like in the past.
In the past, Takara and Hasbro worked on projects together and shared the costs because the projects are expensive. In that case, they probably signed individual contracts agreeing to share the mold and share the market to sell the product.
However, now Takara can fund more projects on their own now that they have merged with Tomy. TakaraTomy may decide not to share certain molds with Hasbro, in order for TakaraTomy to corner the market.
Hasbro indicated at Botcon last year that they gave the TakaraTomy ideas to do MP Starscream, but I haven't read anything to suggest that they worked on the project with Takara or helped fund the project. I am sure that Hasbro would like to use the MP Starscream mold, but Takara may prevent that.