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o.supreme wrote:One Walmart near me got the endcap display of retro Retrax and Wolfgang. Still mostly full, dosen't seem to be a high demand. I just wonder how the decision was made to rerelease these? Maybe the molds wee easily accessible? I would have thought they'd stick with characters that appeared in the Mainframe animated series.
o.supreme wrote:One Walmart near me got the endcap display of retro Retrax and Wolfgang. Still mostly full, dosen't seem to be a high demand. I just wonder how the decision was made to rerelease these? Maybe the molds wee easily accessible? I would have thought they'd stick with characters that appeared in the Mainframe animated series.
Emerje wrote:o.supreme wrote:One Walmart near me got the endcap display of retro Retrax and Wolfgang. Still mostly full, dosen't seem to be a high demand. I just wonder how the decision was made to rerelease these? Maybe the molds wee easily accessible? I would have thought they'd stick with characters that appeared in the Mainframe animated series.
How long ago did your store get the endcap? I didn't realize these two were being found in stores, they aren't at my local stores.
Emerje
o.supreme wrote:Wolfgang
Cheetron wrote:I've scanned both wolfang and the other. $28. No thanks, I'll wait till its marked down
Cheetron wrote:I've scanned both wolfang and the other. $28. No thanks, I'll wait till its marked down
Flashwave wrote:Glad to see this? I will wait for Wolfgang to clear. I was just thinking I am surprised that Walmart didn't display cap the Velocitron figures given that was their big TF Exclusive. I was hoping that might get me the Cosmos I so want.
DeathReviews wrote:They seem to be everywhere, because they were sighted near my realm as well. It's a neat idea to have a predacon that turns into a pill bug which can actually roll up. But it was poorly executed with the robot mode.
TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:For what it’s worth; despite the Beast Wars reissues being Walmart exclusives, I recently saw a reissue Tigatron at a GameStop in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
They are the same character, because both names refer to the same individual within fiction, just in different states; Grizzly-1 with the robot noggin, Barbearian with the mutant head and the berserk toxin going. Right there in the bio. He's not identical to the early prototype deco from the solicitation, but so it goes.Emerje wrote:Triggerdick Megatron wrote:I would love to see Polar Claw reissued.
Considering they recolored Scorponok I'd like too see a proper Grizzly-1 figure. I completely disagree with Wikipedia calling Grizzly-1 and Barbearian the same "character" when one is a brown bear with yellow bot parts and the other is a black bear with white bot parts.
Pretty sure the non-show characters reissued have just been whoever else they happened to dig out in the course of rummaging for the show character molds.o.supreme wrote:One Walmart near me got the endcap display of retro Retrax and Wolfgang. Still mostly full, dosen't seem to be a high demand. I just wonder how the decision was made to rerelease these? Maybe the molds wee easily accessible? I would have thought they'd stick with characters that appeared in the Mainframe animated series.
I'd be more interested in Retrax's BWII redeco, Powerhug. Much nicer colors than Retrax's so-90s-it-hurts deco, and makes the pillbug mode umpteen kinds of adorable.TF-fan kev777 wrote:o.supreme wrote:One Walmart near me got the endcap display of retro Retrax and Wolfgang. Still mostly full, dosen't seem to be a high demand. I just wonder how the decision was made to rerelease these? Maybe the molds wee easily accessible? I would have thought they'd stick with characters that appeared in the Mainframe animated series.
Can't say for Wolfgang, but don't underestimate the allure of a rolly-polly bug. I have no interest in the re-issues, but you bet I bought me a Retrax despite him being a terrible action figure.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:They are the same character, because both names refer to the same individual within fiction, just in different states; Grizzly-1 with the robot noggin, Barbearian with the mutant head and the berserk toxin going. Right there in the bio. He's not identical to the early prototype deco from the solicitation, but so it goes.Emerje wrote:Triggerdick Megatron wrote:I would love to see Polar Claw reissued.
Considering they recolored Scorponok I'd like too see a proper Grizzly-1 figure. I completely disagree with Wikipedia calling Grizzly-1 and Barbearian the same "character" when one is a brown bear with yellow bot parts and the other is a black bear with white bot parts.
And speaking of said deco... 1. The "black" in the early solicitation art looks to be actually just a darkly shaded brown victimized by the screwy saturation. 2. There's still yellow bot bits in that solicitation art. In places the Botcon Japan toy has molded yellow, even. 3. The white/silver actually corresponds with where the Botcon Japan version of the deco used darker brown (robot lower legs, robot head, robot abdomen and pelvis).
Then you're seeing wrong, I'm afraid. According to Fumihiko Akiyama, the use of "Barbeareian" [sic] on the box was actually a goof. "Barbearian" was only ever supposed to be a pun in the bio. He is the only toy, the only character, to actually be released with and use the name Grizzly-1.Emerje wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:They are the same character, because both names refer to the same individual within fiction, just in different states; Grizzly-1 with the robot noggin, Barbearian with the mutant head and the berserk toxin going. Right there in the bio. He's not identical to the early prototype deco from the solicitation, but so it goes.Emerje wrote:Triggerdick Megatron wrote:I would love to see Polar Claw reissued.
Considering they recolored Scorponok I'd like too see a proper Grizzly-1 figure. I completely disagree with Wikipedia calling Grizzly-1 and Barbearian the same "character" when one is a brown bear with yellow bot parts and the other is a black bear with white bot parts.
I don't see that as anything more than convenient name reuse for the bio. The preliminary art called Grizzly-1 and the figure released at BotCon Japan as Barbearian (or Barbearerian) on the box and Grizzly-1 on the bio card don't represent the same figure.
A. Fumihiko Akiyama's statement would seem to rule out the former, and the latter is just something that commonly happens with toys between concept art and release. B. Given the yellow on his snout, that could well mean "black bear" as in the species; being dark chocolate brown instead of fully jet black still fits with that.Emerje wrote:I'll take it a step further and say either the bio was intended for the concept art and copy and pasted on to this figure or the figure was supposed to be based on the concept art and changed later because the first line in the bio refers to him as a black bear.
1. I might have been using the wrong word. The main point is that it looks more like brown with excessive shading than black. Admittedly, it would be nice to have a scan of a non-discolored copy of the solicitation. As for the bio, see what I said above.Emerje wrote:And speaking of said deco... 1. The "black" in the early solicitation art looks to be actually just a darkly shaded brown victimized by the screwy saturation. 2. There's still yellow bot bits in that solicitation art. In places the Botcon Japan toy has molded yellow, even. 3. The white/silver actually corresponds with where the Botcon Japan version of the deco used darker brown (robot lower legs, robot head, robot abdomen and pelvis).
1. If it were bad saturation then everything would have been darkened, not just the fur, and I don't see that being the case. Again, the bio refers to Grizzly-1 as a black bear.
2. Just the knees (which aren't accurate on the early Grizzly-1 art anyway) and the top of his head, the rest of the yellow is lighting from the bat being launched.
3. I don't see how that proves they're meant to be the same character, that just separates them even more.
Emerje
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Then you're seeing wrong, I'm afraid. According to Fumihiko Akiyama, the use of "Barbeareian" [sic] on the box was actually a goof. "Barbearian" was only ever supposed to be a pun in the bio. He is the only toy, the only character, to actually be released with and use the name Grizzly-1.
The preliminary art is ultimately just that, a preliminary art; it is no more a separate character than, say, Superion's prototype deco. Your liking it better doesn't make it a separate character.
A. Fumihiko Akiyama's statement would seem to rule out the former, and the latter is just something that commonly happens with toys between concept art and release. B. Given the yellow on his snout, that could well mean "black bear" as in the species; being dark chocolate brown instead of fully jet black still fits with that.Emerje wrote:I'll take it a step further and say either the bio was intended for the concept art and copy and pasted on to this figure or the figure was supposed to be based on the concept art and changed later because the first line in the bio refers to him as a black bear.
The error is noted in the page's Notes section.Emerje wrote:Part of the problem here is TFWiki is uncharacteristically lacking in actual details and brushes off the name uses with "who cares?" instead of detailing the error like you did.
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.'
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