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chaosmage42 wrote:repaints are ok but i don't like them just reusing the same mold over and over -i would like more retooling like the recent cybertronian stuff -also some bots are just too special to have anything but their own mold
Mkall wrote:Hasbro can only do so much at a time. Maybe there will be an official Overlord done at some point.
Problem is, that there are a lot of cool IDW designs that would look pretty cool in the larger size classes - Ultra Magnus, Overlord, Fort Max and Galvatron just naming the ones off the top of my head. I've come to believe more and more that much of Hasbro's earnings aren't from the first mold use, but rather the subsequent uses of the mold. For Springer they recoup the design-time, prototyping phase, and final mold construction. Sandstorm would be (comparatively at least) pure profit.
When we talk about characters like Overlord, Utra Magnus, etc... there just isn't much one can do to reuse the mold, and thus not much financial incentives for Hasbro to produce a figure.
Look at Metroplex. He's gotten two uses right out of the bat with SDCC and mass-release. I bet that's not an accident in timing.
With these larger, un-repaintable characters, it's probably best to hope for 3rd parties to fill that gap. It'll be much more expensive and it'll take a year and a half from announcement to production, but at least it'll get on your shelves.
Blurrz wrote:[color=teal]Yeah... Hasbro is really starting to avoid 'bigger' figures.
Blurrz wrote:The sales of Fortress Maximus are going to determine the nature of Hasbro's figures, and I still believe we are leaning towards smaller figures for the most part. Then having larger figures show up as either major characters blown up bigger, or actually getting something that works at that scale.
Blurrz wrote:I'd argue that the Beast Hunters Leader Class figures come with the territory. It's a cartoon and TF cartoons, for the most part, have received Leader Class figures. The Masterpieces are Takara territory and Hasbro is simply continuing the tradition of bringing these molds into their own territory. Energon Omega, as well as Optimus Prime being reissued are simply reuses of prior molds. And.... as much as I don't want to condemn the attempt at Bruticus, let's say things could have been alot better.
So really, out of everything, it is simply Bruticus and Fortress Maximus that are really outside of the usual. I don't think it warrants an Overlord, who is 1) Not a movie character 2) Not a cartoon character 3) Not a video game character. 4) Not Bumblebee or Optimus Prime
The sales of Fortress Maximus are going to determine the nature of Hasbro's figures, and I still believe we are leaning towards smaller figures for the most part. Then having larger figures show up as either major characters blown up bigger, or actually getting something that works at that scale.
I guess I should of just elaborated 'bigger figures' as 'bigger figures that are new molds for unique characters outside of Cartoons/Movies/VGs'
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