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Seibertron wrote:I'm pretty sure this is already something that Hasbro and Takara Tomy takes into consideration with each mold they create. I think if you look at the span of the Transformers brand since 1994 (starting with G2's new molds ... the 93 molds were carry overs from Europe, with the exception of Megatron (who was repainted in BWII)), you'll see that the majority of the toys have been repainted at least once or twice.
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are the PERFECT example of Hasbro really thinking through the process of reusing a mold later on. I think they should do this on all character specific molds, such as Cyclonus. Something they should have done with Cyclonus' mold is figure out what to do with the "ears" in robot mode. If they had just gotten creative with the ears such as the ability to remove them to combine them as a weapon or to fold them back during the transformation process, it would've easily provided them with a unique mold to use as another character or two.
I must admit that I prefer drastic repaints over minor repaints released as the same character later down the road, though when I look at it from a marketing perspective, I get why Hasbro is doing minor repaints because it keeps the primary character on the shelf longer but with a different SKU (?) which keeps retailers happy because it's a "new" product.
DMSL wrote:Great sculpt, horrible repaint, definate pass.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:Why are so many bitching about this? When the original set came out everybody wanted more toys for it and where hoping for this exact toy to come out. When the Uni Cyclonus finally hit shelves people where begging for him to be repainted as SG Cyclonus, going so far as to buying 5 of this guy so they could have G1 Cyclonus with 3 troops and one to repaint as SG. And now the toy actually gets announced and shown off and the same people that where offering BJs to FunPub to make it bitch about it being made?![]()
So what will you do when FunPub announces SG Soundwave or SG Ratchet, curse and quit your club subscription?
It looks like no matter what they do, is it complete the Classics Seekers, complete two popular older sets (Razorclaw and Elita), make more SG toys as people that bought the original set liked them they always seem to piss somebody off.
Dead Metal wrote:Why are so many bitching about this? When the original set came out everybody wanted more toys for it and where hoping for this exact toy to come out. When the Uni Cyclonus finally hit shelves people where begging for him to be repainted as SG Cyclonus, going so far as to buying 5 of this guy so they could have G1 Cyclonus with 3 troops and one to repaint as SG. And now the toy actually gets announced and shown off and the same people that where offering BJs to FunPub to make it bitch about it being made?![]()
So what will you do when FunPub announces SG Soundwave or SG Ratchet, curse and quit your club subscription?
It looks like no matter what they do, is it complete the Classics Seekers, complete two popular older sets (Razorclaw and Elita), make more SG toys as people that bought the original set liked them they always seem to piss somebody off.
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