Gauntlet101010 wrote:Actualy I always complained that game systems wheren't backwards compatable. That's why I love the PlayStation line! In the terms of video games, with all the vintage collections out I must not be the only one who feels as such.
As for repaints being good busness sense. Imediatly, yes it it but long term it'll only bite them in the ass. After all who needs 3 or 10 variants of a character. Most who never even made it onto a show? The consumer base will grow disenchanted after a while. The best way in any industry to keep profits up, is to keep product fresh. Hence, unlike Takara who keeps trying new things, Hasbro is lazy.
You have got to be kidding me on this one. Takara NOT being hot on repaints? Have you seen what they sell? They had all those Unicron Trilogy repaints too y'know. That's their bread-and-butter too.
Not all backwards compatability makes sence. The Playstation is NOT 20 years old. And it's really easy to make a CD system work. The NES was made a certain way with a certain size. That's why it's a better example. It's alsot more work to make a new NES system that's be compatable with that sorta stuff.
G1 Prime is made a certain way. NOT ONLY would they need to make an (impossibly) universal connector peice, but they would have to keep the leg sizes fairly consistant. And that's nuts from anyone's point of veiw but a hardcore fan. Because only a hardcore fan would have extra trailer from older lines lying around to use.
Think about it. Why would the toy designer who made Prime possibly expect someone to care about connecting an old trailer to him? And, even if the idea occurred to him, would he compromise the design he wants to make for the sake of adapting a trailer from 20 years ago into his design? G1 Prime has some thin legs you know.
I mean it *might* add play value to Prime. Play value for the 20 year old collector who has an older Prime trailer.
I mean, I can see faulting Hasbro for outright BAD designs. Or BAD paint jobs / applications. Those are things they have some control over and that they choose to do incorrectly. I'll also see eye-to-eye with you on the lack of origional heads. Both Classic and movie Cliffjumper coulds stood to see a changed head.
BUT to blame Hasbro for not taking into consideration an accessory from 20 years ago? That they're not even selling anymore? That's not even made by the same designer? That's a stretch to me. Especially when there are updated, reimagines takes on the characters, NOT slavishly faithful reproductions.
I mean there has to be a relism to expectations from a company. If you expect them to be set into the mindset that they have to cater to the old, origional fans all the time, in every way, and be completely true to old ideas of design then you will never be happy with what they make.
There is more than one trailer. And you know the idea of people actualy playing with these things and have something like Energon Prime get damaged, so someone else has to haul his load is not the type of fun kids with multiles of the same character wouldn't wanna have
This is the last thing I'm going to say about a universal hitch. I was looking at potential objects I could use to kitbash something together real quick and found the best thing to use is actualy a plain bic pen cap
I just ordered a Prime for sacrafice, then it's just a matter of cutting 2 semicircles on the backs of the legs. Chop the top and arm off the cap, cut it in half, notch the bottom so it'll fit in the semicircles(I don't wanna cut the insides of the legs), shave it down to size, but not to fardown so it can be slid up and down for the different size trailers.
Cost of materials, $22.50 for a used Prime, $0.15 for a pen
Thank you HasBlow!
As for people who would want to collect these things and enjoy them in an interactive manner, you're right, their can't be anyone out there like that! Thats why these old toys go for nothing, give away prices, on places like ebay
-- but the blue shoulders were among the main reason that I didn't buy the voyager Prime. That said, I'm not sure if they have blue in the back, so has anyone tried switching the shoulders? I'm not sure if that would work, 
). That said, I just went and compared the two and I maintain that the deluxe Prime is pretty much on par with the voyager mold in terms of poseability (unless the UM repaint is lacking in articulation that the original Prime had). The only place where the voyager would get a definite win is the waist, but considering how restricted that joint is by the wheels in back I'm inclined not to count it at all.
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