JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Rated X wrote:Seibertron,
I commend you for putting up these galleries. The bottom line is almost no one has the original Takara Dino cassettes. With that being said, it makes the KO Dino cassettes a hot item and a must have for G1 collectors. I encourage you to do more galleries of KO’s that were never intended to exist such as CHMS Rainmakers, Sunstorm, Purple Clone, Ghost Coneheads, KOLD Blue Konvoy, X-Transbots Bad Boy and Cobra Power Rat. While the molds might be KO’s the characters are not because they have been deemed unworthy of production by Hasbro. These are the galleries people want to see. Not galleries of stuff that is in Wal-Mart as we speak.
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While I'm not against galleries of such KO's for informative purposes, it could come across as condoning them, which will definitely earn us Hasbro's wrath. Several online stores had to actually stop listing such items upon Hasbro's request (read: Cease and Desist Notice), and I'm sure nobody wants to be sued by any large company.
And stop acting like you know the fandom, because you don't.
Exactly what Jelze is saying.
And for the record: I am most certainly NOT interested in endless rows of galeries of variously colored KO's for any purposes. As far as I'm concerned just changing a color of plastic granules in a mold does not a new toy make (whatever fancy name you give it to push it to 'less discriminating fans'), especially if the manufactorer is not even the original designer / licensed producer of said toy. I barely accept official repaints, actually, but understand they are needed to up new product and to 'dilute' R&D costs. For a KO-producer to do the same (with current molds!) is just plain robbery.
I'll be honest, I have the KO Headmasters set, which severly impressed me, and I also have Dairu and Zauru, which are barely acceptable, QC-wise (and turned me off ordering the remaining two Japanese Dino-cassettes). But they all have been molds (not just recolors) that are no longer in use and for which fan demand was always pretty high.