T-Macksimus wrote:NuclearConvoy wrote:I have a sneaking suspicion that we may get a Dispensor by the end of this toyline.
Also, what do you see as wrong with the current Universe design team?
You aren't just trying to mess with my head on the Dispensor thing are you?
It won't work, my heads already messed with but I'm sure you already had your suspicions.
As far as the question about the Universe line, that's just one of those grey areas where half the time I feel like bitching but the other half I don't feel like I'm justified in doing so. It's a lot like dealing with Art or Music. It's all subjective, it's a matter of personal opinion, likes/dislikes/tastes.
There have been so many arguments about it (I should know, I started a lot of them) that I'm becoming burned out and overly critical of everything that's coming out now. My feeling on Universe has to do with the choice of figures for the line and the number of repaints and recycles they are using. I thought Universe was supposed to be something fresh, a continuation of Classics which was supposed to be a tribute to G1.
As for the Movie line, I just don't know what to think. Maybe I'm just getting too old and burned out on this stuff. I had about a 10 year break from my late teens to late 20's but the last 6 years have been especially hardcore into it and maybe I'm just losing my objectivity, at least as far as the toys are concerned. I'm excited for the Movies, I've enjoyed collecting the comics again but the toys just don't thrill me as far as design and construction.
Heeeyyy, wait a minute. You aren't going to charge me $75.00 for a 50 minute hour for this are you? If you are I better get some damn meds out of the deal!
No fee, but I do have maybe a bit of advice.
If you are feeling so burnt out on an aspect of the fandom, why not just take a step back from that aspect and wait until the fuel is there again. I know that I can't get enough of Transformers in general, but that the RotF toyline isn't going to be my cup of tea for the most part (I think a lot of the things that will look cool or decent on screen have heavily failed to impress me from toys so far, like Devastator, whom I barely like the film look of and can't find much of anything to enjoy in the idea of buying 6 toys at 15 dollars each to combine into something that looks more like a sentient junk pile than a transforming robot). So, I took a step back and have been able to go "Well, thats cool, I'll put whatever money that coulda gone into RotF toys into trying to grap the Animated stuff I have never seen on shelves around me off of the internet" and, in being able to just disconnect from that rabid drive that a lot of our fandom has to want to like everything so that they can have a "complete" collection, I have been able to pick out the little bits of RotF that I think do something for me. Like Ejector here, the Deluxe Sideswipe (mmmmm, Corvette) and maybe something else down the line, once I have a better set of images on some characters or have seen the movie.
Hasbro isn't trying to market directly at me or you with every item they put out, but they will always put out at the very least something you will like every now and then. I collect comics, but not the movie comics, I collect toys, but not every line has tickled my fancy. A collection being "complete" is only a good thing if you enjoy every single bit of it. My "complete" collection discludes many toys from each line (such as the Universe Beast wars toys, which I thought were uggo) and thus I wind up happy and not burnt out. The most I say about something is "that toy doesn't suit my tastes" and, maybe, Ill list reasons for that. Hasbro knows what they are doing from a business standpoint and saying "why didn't they make X instead of this CRAP" won't change that they made it AND that they expect it to sell well (especially when you look at the overall positive responses).
The only thing I see as keeping them from making a TF1 accurate Dispensor toy is the company that owns Mountain Dew (is it Pepsi-Cola or Coca-Cola that owns the Dew?)needs to sign off on it and, even then, if they don't Hasbro could always just make a fake drink machine in simmilar colours.
The "real gear robots" from the first film were all very "serious" types of electronics: Phones, MP3 Players, Portable Gaming Systems, Game Controllers, Hi-Tech Imaging Binnoculars
In that set, a Toaster and a vending machine would have seemed out of place, no?
But, during the TF1 marketing is when we first got Ejector on screen (the Mountain Dew ad that can be seen earlier in this thread) and Dispensor in the movie. It seems more logical, this go around, to have a Dispensor toy in a line that seems to be more comical in nature. Heck, both of them were part of Mountain Dew tie-in advertising in the first place.
It isn't guaranteed that we will see Dispensor as a toy, but I have a feeling we will, considering how much love he has and that they already have officially put out a product with that name to secure it for future use (after it was suggested at BotCon '07)
A look can be deceiving,a touch can be lethal.
