william-james88 wrote:Hellscream9999 wrote:SillySpringer wrote:Oh Hasbro, how I wish I can buy a version of the deluxe Groove mold that is not exclusively in some sort of box set. That'd be great.
You, and me, and many, many others. Honestly, hasbro would have to be really dumb (and strangely not greedy) to not release them (bigroove and blast-off - once he's finished) here within a year
As Sabr and Jelze will remind you, they didnt release Prime Breakdown, which was their own damn toy
Nothing phases me anymore because of this. I strongly suggest to anyone who might want that blastoff and who hasnt bought any components yet to please wait till the japanese sites have preorders. Save your money till then and you could buy it for the same price as you'd buy Hasbro at retail + shipping (but no taxes). I am not leaving anything to chance on this one.
I didnt for Slingshot when I bought takara's Superion and it turns out that was smart because Slingshot was not available at canadian online retail (at least not the ones I checked).
Well;
1) They know of the appeal to these figures and are probably aware of the amount of money they could make off of them, and have admitted so at botcon's and such (the existence of neck-brace and slingshot prove that, despite the simple head swap)
2) They're of an appropriate size class, and pre-designed to integrate into the current play system - thus making it easy to fill a case with 2 of each, or fill out a TR wave with them at any point
3) They will have the groove mold at some point either way in order to make afterburner, why not make some extra cash off of it?
4) I don't care what anyone say to the contrary, Prime Breakdown's popularity will never hold a candle to that of the original G1 limb-bots
I mean, they could even get cheeky about it and release bigroove as axer or sideways, or someone, and blast-off as pre-earth blast-off, or (armada) jetfire, or anything. I don't need them, but I will be disappointed in hasbro if they don't bother to do so