by Jelze Bunnycat » Wed Apr 05, 2017 1:09 am
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Sabrblade wrote:Emerje wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Nemesis Maximo wrote:Beast Wars Transmetal Scavenger. That guy is the bestest most underrated toy ever. I frikkin love this figure, but he was a shelfwarmer back in the day.
I don't think that's really a fair call to say that Scavenger or any BW Megas were underrated. A lot of BW Megas were really cool and fun. It's just that several of them had the misfortune of ending up as shelfwarmers. Inferno, B'Boom, Transquito, Scavenger, there was just so much stock of them for sale left over. I guess everyone who wanted them got one while the stores simply bought too many of each of them.
Didn't help that only a few were actually featured in the show. Scorponok sold well, Inferno picked up eventually, and of course TM Optimus and Megatron sold easily enough. But the others, especially B'Boom and Transquito, sold terribly. I have to wonder if naming Scavenger Inferno would have done anything for his sales?
Emerje
Seems Scavenger wasn't named "Inferno" because of how the Inferno toy was still shelfwarming. I guess Hasbro didn't want two toys of the same character in the same size class on the shelves at the same time.
Or rather the same assortment. Size Classes were still new at the time and designating them went a bit... haphazard going into the second year. Long story short, Transmetal Optimus Primal, Megatron and Scavenger were put in the regular Beast assortment instead a separate one like the Deluxe and Ultra Transmetals (the Fuzors were put with the regular assortments). That would have meant that "Inferno" would have indeed shown up twice, as a regular Beast and as a Transmetal, had the latter's name not been changed.
In fact, looking at the names assigned to assortment codes, only a single name is repeated: Cheetor, as the Deluxe Transmetals and Transmetal 2 shares the same code.
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