Mkall wrote:I'll be getting this unless Hasbro gets to Gears first, as hinted by their Kup instruction manual
rpetras wrote:Mkall wrote:I'll be getting this unless Hasbro gets to Gears first, as hinted by their Kup instruction manual
Even if Hasbro does a Gears on the Kup body, this will be the official Gears of my collection.
rpetras wrote:Mkall wrote:I'll be getting this unless Hasbro gets to Gears first, as hinted by their Kup instruction manual
Even if Hasbro does a Gears on the Kup body, this will be the official Gears of my collection.
Mkall wrote:I mad3e the decision a while back that unless the 3rd party figure is vastly superior, I'll use the Hasbro figure. Gears is, IMO, not that big a character for me.
zodconvoy wrote:Mkall wrote:I mad3e the decision a while back that unless the 3rd party figure is vastly superior, I'll use the Hasbro figure. Gears is, IMO, not that big a character for me.
What Gears would you be using then? The silver movie one or the G1 one? Because it sounds like you're saying Hasbro or none.
Rated X wrote:As far as Im concerned the I-Gear Gears is now "official".
Mkall wrote:I'm saying that IF the predictions are accurate that we'll be seeing a Gears head on Kup's body as hinted in the instruction manual, I'll probably end up getting that one, pending final renders of each.
Otherwise, I'm all for iGear.
zodconvoy wrote:Mkall wrote:I'm saying that IF the predictions are accurate that we'll be seeing a Gears head on Kup's body as hinted in the instruction manual, I'll probably end up getting that one, pending final renders of each.
Otherwise, I'm all for iGear.
Then I'd get Cogz because Hasbro has a habit of not following through with those alternate heads. Every Generations figure was supposed to have one and they put out maybe a third of them. We still do't even have confirmation on Scourge, Kup, Lugnut, Laser OP, Warpath, or a bunch of other ones that our assumptions are even right! That "Gears" head always looked more Brawn to me.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
zodconvoy wrote:Mkall wrote:I'm saying that IF the predictions are accurate that we'll be seeing a Gears head on Kup's body as hinted in the instruction manual, I'll probably end up getting that one, pending final renders of each.
Otherwise, I'm all for iGear.
Then I'd get Cogz because Hasbro has a habit of not following through with those alternate heads. Every Generations figure was supposed to have one and they put out maybe a third of them. We still do't even have confirmation on Scourge, Kup, Lugnut, Laser OP, Warpath, or a bunch of other ones that our assumptions are even right! That "Gears" head always looked more Brawn to me.
Dead Metal wrote:BotCon is using laser OPs second head for Ultra Magnus, actually most of the heads used by BotCon this year are the alt-heads from the instructions.
Kups head is being used as the Swerve repaint in the Asia exclusive Movie Trilogy line.
The others however are still to be used.
zodconvoy wrote:Dead Metal wrote:BotCon is using laser OPs second head for Ultra Magnus, actually most of the heads used by BotCon this year are the alt-heads from the instructions.
Kups head is being used as the Swerve repaint in the Asia exclusive Movie Trilogy line.
The others however are still to be used.
I could have sworn that Brian Savage came out and said that all of the new heads for Botcon were made separately for them and they were not the ones that had appeared in the directions saying that they would never get "first run" on heads like that or something. Also, I thought that all the Asian market exclusives were just that: exclusive to Asia. We will never see them over here. So no Swerve head Kup for us!
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:IF he did say that he's telling lies, the heads for Magnus and Treadshot look exactly like the heads in the instructions.
Plus the Asian only release would still count as a Hasbro release and usage by Hasbro.
Man I hope importing that won't be insane....
zodconvoy wrote:Dead Metal wrote:IF he did say that he's telling lies, the heads for Magnus and Treadshot look exactly like the heads in the instructions.
Plus the Asian only release would still count as a Hasbro release and usage by Hasbro.
Man I hope importing that won't be insane....
But FunPub has to pay extra for their original heads, hence to markup for the repaints. Why would Hasbro do them in house at the time of original design for free and do the line art for the instructions up to a year and a half early? It doesn't make sense, at least, not when compared to how it was done every or year. For Hasbro to be doing the heads at the time of original molding means a very hands on stance by them and a very well coordinated plan by FunPub. The same company that people seem to assume is a gaggle of idiots who don't lock their doors at night. For the first time ever, Hasbro would own the molds to Botcon exclusive heads and FunPub would just be a distributor that comes up with the fiction. Hasbro would, in essence, be their own external Collectors Club. It just doesn't work.
EDIT: To clarify, FunPub owns the Botcon exclusive parts. That's why Thrust didn't have the more accurate (and better) VTOL wings and why a Generations Jazz wasn't just a non-SG version of the C Smokescreen mold with the Jazz head and why the two Primal repaints of Leobreaker didn't use the Razorclaw head and so forth. Hasbro could perfectly legally release Vector Prime as Alpha Trion but if they did, it'd have a new head. If Hasbro designed (re: owns) the upcoming Botcon heads, it's a drastic shift for both FunPub and Hasbro towards FP becoming unnecessary.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:Hasbro didn't design the heads for BotCon, BotCon is just using them for their exclusives, basically SG UM and SG Tred are straight up repaints of existing molds.
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