AllNewSuperRobot wrote:It's a flaw because they are only doing this to benefit themselves. Sunbow Masterpiece figures will be cheaper to design and produce with people blindly lapping them up for whatever prices they choose. Win-win for them.
Ultra Magnus was the "second" figure in the MP line. MP-22 exists because of that. A logical upgrade, from palette swap to legitimate release.
Star Saber was a fan poll. Not down to initiative from Takara
Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime are a lone anomaly within this line.
Shockwave in the midst of all the licensed vehicular mode Autobots.
Huh?? This line isn't all generic car bots though. The goal was to replicate the seasons of the show. A large chunk of the season one and two Decepticons will not be made within this line, as they are combiner teams. Shockwave was part of the very limited roster of early Decepticons that are not Gestalt. Apart from the fact Shockwave is a Gun Bot like Megatron, with a lot of the same functioning design to his mold. Not quite as blatant a palette swap as the Seekers but the same engineering was at play.
There has been only one Dinobot in ten years. All of the others would be smaller and cheaper to produce. They chose not to. They continue to do so, and keep this G1 side of the MP line stuck in indefinite limbo. Hiding behind licensing "barriers".
Where's the proof of your assertion? Just that the figures aren't made? It seems you are more just kind of angry at Hasbro/Takara than basing your argument on anything that has been said by them. Again, as a fan, I do agree with you on figure selection to a degree. The MP+ stuff has slowed the line down to a large degree, and rabid Gee-Wun person I am, I still don't want to re-purchase figures I already bought. Much rather buy new ones (even if my shelf cries out for me to stop). Your point about one Dinobot, though - because he's not scale, Grimlock would likely need to get remade, anyway at this point.
I still think this is probably the way we end up with the mini-bots many of us have been waiting for. And maybe even Mirage and Trailbreaker / Hoist. We'll see, I guess.
Shockwave has nothing engineering-wise in common with Megatron. Do you have the figures, because I do, and I don't see that at all. Gun =/= Gun.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Nemesis Maximo wrote:So many G1 characters, so many movie characters, and here I am just waiting for Masterpiece Terrorsaur.
We are more likely to see that then anyone from Season Two of Sunbow
Season Two of Sunbow -
Autobots - Red Alert, Smokescreen, Tracks, Grapple, Inferno (no Skids, no Hoist, no mini-bots, no Blaster, no Omega Supreme)
Decepticons - Thrust, Dirge, Ramjet (no Astrotrain, Blitzwing)