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Kurona wrote:william-james88 wrote:o.supreme wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Not everything Generations being sold at the stores is going to older collectors. There is a healthy mix of both, but I would still maintain that these lines are more intended for children.
I'd love to see the look on the 8 year olds face who's Grandma just got him Generations Rattrap or Jhiaxus as a gift...has no idea who or what it is.
I was given beast machines Tankor from my grandma when I was 10 and he looked nothing like anything I knew even if i was watching the show. But I liked transformers and just played with it and enjoyed it. Same goes for all those Beast Wars toys that never appeared on the show.
Also your comment just dissed a ton of G1 toys that never appeared on the show. And yet kids loved em enough that we are now getting them redone for a new generations.
To be fair, a lot of those toys ended up appearing in the Marvel comics instead like the wreckers. I think the only ones that never got fictional representation - before the cartoon ended - were the deluxe Insecticons, the Omnibots and the Powerdashers... and I certainly don't see them getting remade any time soon, bar the odd occasional Chop Shop because what else do you repaint Shrapnel into
william-james88 wrote:Kurona wrote:william-james88 wrote:o.supreme wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Not everything Generations being sold at the stores is going to older collectors. There is a healthy mix of both, but I would still maintain that these lines are more intended for children.
I'd love to see the look on the 8 year olds face who's Grandma just got him Generations Rattrap or Jhiaxus as a gift...has no idea who or what it is.
I was given beast machines Tankor from my grandma when I was 10 and he looked nothing like anything I knew even if i was watching the show. But I liked transformers and just played with it and enjoyed it. Same goes for all those Beast Wars toys that never appeared on the show.
Also your comment just dissed a ton of G1 toys that never appeared on the show. And yet kids loved em enough that we are now getting them redone for a new generations.
To be fair, a lot of those toys ended up appearing in the Marvel comics instead like the wreckers. I think the only ones that never got fictional representation - before the cartoon ended - were the deluxe Insecticons, the Omnibots and the Powerdashers... and I certainly don't see them getting remade any time soon, bar the odd occasional Chop Shop because what else do you repaint Shrapnel into
But that assumes kids read the comic, which was not as popular as the tv show. Am I the only one who watched the show but didnt read the comics?
The point is you dont need media to sell a specific toy once a kid knows the brand.
william-james88 wrote:Am I the only one who watched the show but didnt read the comics?
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
Agamemnon wrote:So, to bring this back around, I think Hasbro is doing a decent enough job these days making toys that appeal to both my son and me. But, I like that I can use my 40-something year old disposable income on some cooler looking stuff from Takara from time to time. (UW Computron will me mine. Oh, yes....)
william-james88 wrote:Agamemnon wrote:So, to bring this back around, I think Hasbro is doing a decent enough job these days making toys that appeal to both my son and me. But, I like that I can use my 40-something year old disposable income on some cooler looking stuff from Takara from time to time. (UW Computron will me mine. Oh, yes....)
He will be mine too, I cant wait (he's on his way now, but wont be here for another 2 weeks or so).
Oh and Ag, while i have you here, this pic I found made me think of you.
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
william-james88 wrote:Also your comment just dissed a ton of G1 toys that never appeared on the show. And yet kids loved em enough that we are now getting them redone for a new generations.
william-james88 wrote:But that assumes kids read the comic, which was not as popular as the tv show. Am I the only one who watched the show but didnt read the comics?
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I also don't see the oopla with the new hands and feet. The feet for Victorion don't do too well for me, so I can get over it, and I prefer the HFG anyway
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
Or, if they're into Power Rangers, they could take notice of these CW toys and think, "Hey, these Transformers things combine into bigger ones like Megazords! I want 'em!" and get into them that way.o.supreme wrote:But what about all the kids whose dads are not fans like us? ...they are into their *whatever kids play with these days*....if they have any interest in Transformers at all, it would be RiD.
No, I get ya. I too want what I saw on TV/in comics/in movies/in video games/etc. first and foremost, and then the reimagined designs to come later. It's just that it seems that the MP line is primarily where the fiction-accuracy stuff comes out the most, which makes for a pricey endeavor in acquiring the closest matches to what we see in the fiction in toy form. When the Classics line first came out in 2006, I willfully skipped the majority of the line since, at the time, my reasons for skipping those figures was "They don't look enough like the characters they're meant to represent." And the 1980s G1 toys also looked too different from the fiction, so I didn't want those either. It wasn't until we got more fiction-based sculpts in the subsequent Classics-style lines that I started collecting more of those kinds of figures.Sigma Magnus wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Hasbro simply isn't as obsessed with meticulously matching the 30-year-old cartoon's look as Takara is.
Personally, when it comes to G1 Classics stuff, I just want a quality, accurate, fun toy of the cartoon incarnation before they do reinventions of the character. In the case of Computron, now that we have the Unite Warriors box set, which is all three of those things, I'm fine with them doing re-imaginings of the Technobots (such as the CW box set).
Another example...Fortress Maximus. If we had gotten a Titan-sized Fort Max, that was, in terms of appearance, accurate to the cartoon(s), and in terms of engineering, basically the G1 toy with more articulation (and with all of his accessories), I would've been totally fine with the Titans Return toy (I still have that one on my shelf, mind you, but I'm getting all the upgrade kits, and I'm still a bit disappointed with it).
...does that make sense? I'm terrible at explaining things like this...![]()
In America, the show might have been the more popular of the two, but in the UK, the comics (according to James Roberts) were viewed by many UK readers as the definitive version of the two, with the comics having a huge fan following and the letter pages routinely citing the comics as the "true" version while claiming the cartoon was an inaccurate representation of the story (save for the movie, which was given tie-in comic material exclusive to the UK).william-james88 wrote:But that assumes kids read the comic, which was not as popular as the tv show. Am I the only one who watched the show but didnt read the comics?
Though, Thunderwing and Bludgeon had already had official toys in 1989.Kurona wrote:and there's a whole slew of Marvel-exclusive characters - whether they have basis in toy or not - that we remember and love from just the Marvel stories like Impactor, Scrounge, Bludgeon, Thunderwing and Straxus. All of which have later gotten official toys.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Though, Thunderwing and Bludgeon had already had official toys in 1989.Kurona wrote:and there's a whole slew of Marvel-exclusive characters - whether they have basis in toy or not - that we remember and love from just the Marvel stories like Impactor, Scrounge, Bludgeon, Thunderwing and Straxus. All of which have later gotten official toys.
william-james88 wrote:But that assumes kids read the comic, which was not as popular as the tv show. Am I the only one who watched the show but didnt read the comics?
william-james88 wrote:But that assumes kids read the comic, which was not as popular as the tv show. Am I the only one who watched the show but didnt read the comics?
fenrir72 wrote:Z3ROhour wrote:Stranger and stranger...
I had almost no interest in Victorion
Yet here I am
In deep contemplation on this beauty.
The power of a good/catchy advertisement aka back story
Ultra Mad wrote:Got mine from Amiami also today. It was a very quick delivery. However, beside the exchange rate catching up with my wallet, I also received custom fees at delivery(It's only the second time I had to pay custom fees since I started importing TF toys but stil, the timing sucked).I'm glad I have him but somehow my enjoyement of this set is slightly diminished with all the additional fees that came with it.
nycPrime wrote:Ultra Mad wrote:Got mine from Amiami also today. It was a very quick delivery. However, beside the exchange rate catching up with my wallet, I also received custom fees at delivery(It's only the second time I had to pay custom fees since I started importing TF toys but stil, the timing sucked).I'm glad I have him but somehow my enjoyement of this set is slightly diminished with all the additional fees that came with it.
That sucks! I've never imported from Japan before. Are the customs fees totally random? And what is the % fee?
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
I've heard some stories. Does Scotland have different customs than England? You have different Pounds. (which I still don't understand. No need to explain. Way too off topic.Kurona wrote:We... do? I remember buying Legends Arcee which I sorely regret and Legends Super Armadascream and having no trouble.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
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