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Sledge wrote:I think Hasbro are accomodating fans pretty well. Hell, we're getting whole lines (Alternators, Classics) that clearly aren't aimed at children watching the cartoons. Seems to me that when people complain about "the fans" being ignored, they really mean that they are being ignored. I'm sure it would be great if Hasbro could release every single thing every single fan wanted. But I'm not sure the 80s TV show-based gestalt that I'd love would sell well enough to justify the costs.
By the way, can anyone name a petition about anything that actually achieved it's objective? My experience is petitions achieve nothing, because you can get people to put their name on a petition for anything. If you doubt that, consider that people have signed petitions calling for a ban on dihydrogen monoxide.
Maximal Primal wrote:
1. release a super metal finish Leader Class Megatron (mostly silver with gold, and gun metal in the areas you normally want to leave black and Optimus Prime with metallics in colors and silver.
2. release a leader Starscream, Blackout, and Bonecrusher
3. release a voyager Bumblebee and barricade
4. release a realistic and fully posable frenzy, who turns into a slightly miniature boombox, size would be that of a leaderclass or bigger.
how's that?
megatroptimus wrote:Maximal Primal wrote:
1. release a super metal finish Leader Class Megatron (mostly silver with gold, and gun metal in the areas you normally want to leave black and Optimus Prime with metallics in colors and silver.
2. release a leader Starscream, Blackout, and Bonecrusher
3. release a voyager Bumblebee and barricade
4. release a realistic and fully posable frenzy, who turns into a slightly miniature boombox, size would be that of a leaderclass or bigger.
how's that?
Well, to me, those suggestions border on "frivolous" and "unnecessary".
Maximal Primal wrote:1. release a super metal finish Leader Class Megatron (mostly silver with gold, and gun metal in the areas you normally want to leave black and Optimus Prime with metallics in colors and silver.
2. release a leader Starscream, Blackout, and Bonecrusher
3. release a voyager Bumblebee and barricade
4. release a realistic and fully posable frenzy, who turns into a slightly miniature boombox, size would be that of a leaderclass or bigger.
how's that?
SnapTrap wrote:Maximal Primal wrote:1. release a super metal finish Leader Class Megatron (mostly silver with gold, and gun metal in the areas you normally want to leave black and Optimus Prime with metallics in colors and silver.
2. release a leader Starscream, Blackout, and Bonecrusher
3. release a voyager Bumblebee and barricade
4. release a realistic and fully posable frenzy, who turns into a slightly miniature boombox, size would be that of a leaderclass or bigger.
how's that?
Now I see why the rep didn't answer your questions...
(just yanking yer chain)
Seriously though, as far as wanting Hasbro to do these suggestions:
1) I assume you mean the Movie Megatron. Probably not unless they are planning to rerelease him in the Power of the Allspark line. As far as I am aware, the movie toyline is done and Hasbro is focusing its energies on TF Animated toys. Optimus was already released like this as Robovision Optimus Prime; a Target exclusive.
2) I agree these figures would be cool but probably won't happen in the near future. If we are lucky at the most we may get one but I highly doubt it. If these characters make a comeback in TF 2 then we might have a better chance of getting them at this size than we do right now.
3) & 4) Again they are focusing on TF Animated figures right now and won't be working to add new figs to this line.
I don't know if you are aware of this but Hasbro (and many toy companies) work at least 6-18 mos. ahead of when the toys actually hit the shelves. So right now they are probably working on concepts to the second season of TF Animated figures. They didn't start working on the TF Movie toys until late 2005/early 2006. The best we can hope for is that some characters like Starscream will be returning in TF 2 and Hasbro will make the figures in the sizes you want.
skywarp-2 wrote:
not quite, they did manage to get us a US Accurate version os Starscream, and a super metal finish Ratchet and Megatron in Voyager class.. so if Hasbro has already done that, then A. they listen to the fans, and B. it's not a frivolous request.
megatroptimus wrote:skywarp-2 wrote:
not quite, they did manage to get us a US Accurate version os Starscream, and a super metal finish Ratchet and Megatron in Voyager class.. so if Hasbro has already done that, then A. they listen to the fans, and B. it's not a frivolous request.
Those releases were already planned well before fans started asking for them. They planned a few G1 decos to please the G1 whores, a few non-G1 redecos to squeeze more money out of the molds and that was it. If there were no mainline Blackout or Starscream figures at all, I could understand, but to demand Leader versions for scale purposes is frivolous.
skywarp-2 wrote:megatroptimus wrote:skywarp-2 wrote:
not quite, they did manage to get us a US Accurate version os Starscream, and a super metal finish Ratchet and Megatron in Voyager class.. so if Hasbro has already done that, then A. they listen to the fans, and B. it's not a frivolous request.
Those releases were already planned well before fans started asking for them. They planned a few G1 decos to please the G1 whores, a few non-G1 redecos to squeeze more money out of the molds and that was it. If there were no mainline Blackout or Starscream figures at all, I could understand, but to demand Leader versions for scale purposes is frivolous.
so you don't or wouldn't ask Hasbro for a Leader class version of Starscream or Blackout??
So what your basically saying is that since you have classics Starscream, the Masterpiece Repaint being released through Wal-Mart is frivolous??
skywarp-2 wrote:so you don't or wouldn't ask Hasbro for a Leader class version of Starscream or Blackout??
So what your basically saying is that since you have classics Starscream, the Masterpiece Repaint being released through Wal-Mart is frivolous??
lanzajr26 wrote:I don't see anything wrong with making these kinds of suggestions. You never know what could happen. Hell, 10 years ago I'd have thought a Masterpiece line to be the most awesome and ridiculous thing ever conceived. "$100+ for big cartoon accurate versions of my favorite toys? Sure I'll take one but it'll never happen..."
We might not get 99% of what we ask for but that remaining 1% might be enough to knock our socks off.
BLACKOUT2007 wrote:lanzajr26 wrote:I don't see anything wrong with making these kinds of suggestions. You never know what could happen. Hell, 10 years ago I'd have thought a Masterpiece line to be the most awesome and ridiculous thing ever conceived. "$100+ for big cartoon accurate versions of my favorite toys? Sure I'll take one but it'll never happen..."
We might not get 99% of what we ask for but that remaining 1% might be enough to knock our socks off.
Heres hoping that 1% contains leader Blackout & Starscream.
skywarp-2 wrote:we asked for updated versions of G-1 characters, yes we sure did... but Hasbro didn't make those.. they imported it, and made them palastic, and not because we asked, but because at the time before they came here, we were spending huge amounts of money importing them...Hasbro wanted a share fo that gold mine.. until the well dried up...so did Hasbro listen??if you count them listening to the chaching in their pockets with their latest import, whose only deal was, they didn't have to incopoirate diecast.. and sell them for cheaper..but inmass, which still meant more profits
megatroptimus wrote:skywarp-2 wrote:
not quite, they did manage to get us a US Accurate version os Starscream, and a super metal finish Ratchet and Megatron in Voyager class.. so if Hasbro has already done that, then A. they listen to the fans, and B. it's not a frivolous request.
Those releases were already planned well before fans started asking for them. They planned a few G1 decos to please the G1 whores, a few non-G1 redecos to squeeze more money out of the molds and that was it. If there were no mainline Blackout or Starscream figures at all, I could understand, but to demand Leader versions for scale purposes is frivolous.
The Chaos Bringer wrote:Hasbro refuses to make Transformers more avalieble in my area. I seriously have it worse than the Brits down here. Why do they refuse me? Because I am alone in asking.
But when the entire fanbase cries out for something they have wanted for as long time, Hasbro eventually listens. A lot of things people complain that Hasbro ignores them about are things that only a few people want. If you want Hasbro to listen to you, have strength in numbers. Otherwise, you are just another fan bothering them. Their goal is MASS MARKET APPEAl after all.
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