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Wow, I was so gonna get these, or at least just Starscream, but now I'm going to wait, probably until they go on clearance or until Starscream shows up alone (even if I have to wait until he shows up on ebay to get him by himself).

You did it once again iGear. You've convinced me once more NOT to buy your products. No other 3rd party has succeeded so much at failing. Even CrazyDevy got me to buy some of their addons (the Seacons), but iGear has yet to get any of my money. Every time I'm even slightly tempted, I see the price or some screw up in design/color/whatever and it turns me off, and this is coming from the insane mother&%#@er who bought Genesis without a moment's hesitation and paid $1250 for a green Ramulus.

xyl360 wrote:Wow, I was so gonna get these, or at least just Starscream, but now I'm going to wait, probably until they go on clearance or until Starscream shows up alone (even if I have to wait until he shows up on ebay to get him by himself).

You did it once again iGear. You've convinced me once more NOT to buy your products. No other 3rd party has succeeded so much at failing. Even CrazyDevy got me to buy some of their addons (the Seacons), but iGear has yet to get any of my money. Every time I'm even slightly tempted, I see the price or some screw up in design/color/whatever and it turns me off, and this is coming from the insane mother&%#@er who bought Genesis without a moment's hesitation and paid $1250 for a green Ramulus.

In all fairness, Genesis is f@%$ing amazing.

Also, iGear's Kup head and gun set for Kup/Perceptor is pretty nice.

megatronus wrote:

xyl360 wrote:Wow, I was so gonna get these, or at least just Starscream, but now I'm going to wait, probably until they go on clearance or until Starscream shows up alone (even if I have to wait until he shows up on ebay to get him by himself).

You did it once again iGear. You've convinced me once more NOT to buy your products. No other 3rd party has succeeded so much at failing. Even CrazyDevy got me to buy some of their addons (the Seacons), but iGear has yet to get any of my money. Every time I'm even slightly tempted, I see the price or some screw up in design/color/whatever and it turns me off, and this is coming from the insane mother&%#@er who bought Genesis without a moment's hesitation and paid $1250 for a green Ramulus.

In all fairness, Genesis is f@%$ing amazing.

Also, iGear's Kup head and gun set for Kup/Perceptor is pretty nice.

Hehe, yeah, Genesis is epic.

I didn't get the Kup or Perceptor accessories, but that's just because I never got into the comics so I had no interest in making their Generations figures look like they did in the comics.

xyl360 wrote:

megatronus wrote:

xyl360 wrote:Wow, I was so gonna get these, or at least just Starscream, but now I'm going to wait, probably until they go on clearance or until Starscream shows up alone (even if I have to wait until he shows up on ebay to get him by himself).

You did it once again iGear. You've convinced me once more NOT to buy your products. No other 3rd party has succeeded so much at failing. Even CrazyDevy got me to buy some of their addons (the Seacons), but iGear has yet to get any of my money. Every time I'm even slightly tempted, I see the price or some screw up in design/color/whatever and it turns me off, and this is coming from the insane mother&%#@er who bought Genesis without a moment's hesitation and paid $1250 for a green Ramulus.

In all fairness, Genesis is f@%$ing amazing.

Also, iGear's Kup head and gun set for Kup/Perceptor is pretty nice.

Hehe, yeah, Genesis is epic.

I didn't get the Kup or Perceptor accessories, but that's just because I never got into the comics so I had no interest in making their Generations figures look like they did in the comics.

Fair enough.

For the record, I don't even read the comics (well, I just started MTMTE due to rave reviews). I just wanted a more G1-ish head for Kup (Hasbro's head is awful), and some decent guns for Perceptor since he didn't come with any. Both were fair buys.

I have a lot of iGear stuff and have defended them often, but they really do stupid $#!+.

I may have bought Skywarp just to try one of these out, but I'm not in for all three at once ... nope.

It is the same thing that kept me away from their conehead seekers, which got pretty nice reviews. I wasn't going to pay the premium to get them individually, and as a set, it was just too much $$$ at once to swallow, so I skipped them.

Now, with what they did to the minibots sets, (hurk, sorry threw up in my mouth a bit when I thought of it) I'm just angry with them.

megatronus wrote:For the record, I don't even read the comics (well, I just started MTMTE due to rave reviews). I just wanted a more G1-ish head for Kup (Hasbro's head is awful), and some decent guns for Perceptor since he didn't come with any. Both were fair buys.

When I needed a gun for Perceptor, I just hit up eBay and picked up an extra G1 Perceptor gun. Works quite well with him.



The only iGear products I have are two of their minibots, Huffer and Gears. I was rather annoyed at the change in scale, and while overall I like Gears, I cannot help but think he feels too simplistic for his size, and he would have been better smaller.

iGear deserve to go the way of Impossible Toys. And people complain about FansProject dropping the ball. iGear aren't fit to lace FansProject's boots.

Banjo-Tron wrote:iGear deserve to go the way of Impossible Toys. And people complain about FansProject dropping the ball. iGear aren't fit to lace FansProject's boots.

You got that right.

Fansproject is coming back by releasing a more than serviceable Menasor AND wonderfully intricate Headmasters.

In the meantime, iGear comes out with THESE.

IG-C04, C05, C06 Raptor Squadron Set of 3

Now those look cool...





I still like the F15 better for the modular wing design, but this is very clever. Is there precedence in the comics for these designs?

Arctorro wrote:IG-C04, C05, C06 Raptor Squadron Set of 3

Damnit! Again, I only want ONE of them (Thrust). Why can't I buy them individually?

Hopefully they will sell them individually later on. I really only want Starscream and Thrust.

Apparently they are planning to include a non-Leno head with these.

rpetras wrote:Apparently they are planning to include a non-Leno head with these.

Ooh, that looks MUCH better .

Ooh, I would've skimped on everything in the world just for all six of these.

Hate that I've already decided to repurpose the Generations: Fall of Cybertron/Thrilling 30 Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp as my Generation One Seekers, since I can cheat like that.

Mindmaster wrote:Ooh, I would've skimped on everything in the world just for all six of these.

Hate that I've already decided to repurpose the Generations: Fall of Cybertron/Thrilling 30 Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp as my Generation One Seekers, since I can cheat like that.

Yea, these iGear figures are definitely better than the FOC Seekers... but at 10x the price, and the fact that you have to get them in sets of 3, makes these figures a hassle.

I actually like these. I think the designs are cool, and don't care about scaling in this case, since these would sit separately to anything else (unlike FP not-Stunticons, where scale is of HUGE importance to me).

I get that these don't fit in any specific context, but I'm ok with that. Looking at Starscream, no, he isn't exactly any one cartoon or comic incarnation, but I think he does a great job of capturing the feel of the character and sort of all the years of comic incarnations wrapped up into one.

Having to buy them together is an issue. I'd probably be willing to spend $80 or so on Starscream by himself, or, if I have to buy them in sets, then $50 a piece = $150 per set.

Single preorders available @ BBTS:

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=2810&category=8072&utm_source=Marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Marketing&utm_content=

ZenPrime wrote:Single preorders available @ BBTS:

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=2810&category=8072&utm_source=Marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Marketing&utm_content=

I saw that this morning too. I am sorely tempted. Perhaps if the singles go on sale some day...

Agamemnon wrote:

ZenPrime wrote:Single preorders available @ BBTS:

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=2810&category=8072&utm_source=Marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Marketing&utm_content=

I saw that this morning too. I am sorely tempted. Perhaps if the singles go on sale some day...

I would count on them going on clearance 6-12 months from now. Especially the sets of 3.

Until I have a nice, proper Megatron update (Hegemon didn't do it for me, the overall quality and rate at which his joints reportedly wore down made me extremely irate), I don't see a reason to get Voyager-sized Seekers.

For now, those nicely packaged United Ace/Elite Seeker 3-packs I got on clearance will work for me, despite being woefully outdated design-wise.

ZenPrime wrote:Single preorders available @ BBTS:

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=2810&category=8072&utm_source=Marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Marketing&utm_content=

FINALLY! Not-Starscream preordered !

Now, time to do individuals of the coneheads so I can just get Thrust !

They look much better in colour. If they weren't $100 a figure, I might've considered them.

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I find it rather sad that, outside a couple of gems, third parties are really falling flat on their faces with IDW toy designs, even compared to Hasbro themselves.

So ugly

So these have the Movie verse seeker Jet design. With a neo classics robot mode. It was a smart decision to make these Voyager scale. I like these toys but not enough to spend $100 each on them. Had HasTak released these toys for the USA $20-$25 Retail price,I would have bought some.

It's really a shame the decent seeker toys HasTak creates are deluxe scale. The 1.0 & the FOC Seeker toys would have been amazing had they been at the voyager scale.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:So these have the Movie verse seeker Jet design. With a neo classics robot mode.

These third party Seekers are actually based on their appearance in the IDW comics, where at one point they adopted F-22 Raptor jet modes.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:So these have the Movie verse seeker Jet design. With a neo classics robot mode. It was a smart decision to make these Voyager scale. I like these toys but not enough to spend $100 each on them. Had HasTak released these toys for the USA $20-$25 Retail price,I would have bought some.

I am in agreement with you here. These would be nice Hasbro voyagers, but not at iGear's prices.