kurthy wrote:fenrir72 wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:Desslok2201 wrote:I really wish the BW MPs would be a separate numbering system
That's where I was with Star Saber, but now it just doesn't matter.
WHY? Why though?! Why ISN'T IS MEGATRON DAMMIT?!
WE. HAVE. TOO. MANY. HEROES.
We need more villains. Seriously. Every shelf ever is
absurdly unbalanced.
Unless it's someone like Char Aznable "villains" always get second billing.
Even though said heroes wouldn't exist without those villains. Makes me miss MOTU, G.I. Joe, and M.A.S.K. from the '80s. You can't have a proper war on your floor if you only have one side.
But I actually understand the economics of the situation. Both factions will be bought by more well-to-do families because they can afford more than one and don't want to buy the same figure. But if you can only buy one for your kid, are you going to buy a good guy or a bad guy? The kid is probably going to want the good guy first and foremost (please don't forget that low income families far outnumber middle and upper class families). Hence, they will sell more Optimus Primes and Bumblebees than Megatrons and Starscreams. Basically, the assumption is that most families will buy a OP or BB, some families will buy a smattering, and very few families will only buy a Megatron/SS.
And that's great logic for the lower end of the spectrum. But when it comes to MPs, they are cost prohibitive from the beginning and not targeted at families, so when it comes to that, GIVE ME MY QUEEN AND LET THE REST BURN!
True, but that doesn't prevent it from being a value and tradition being deep-rooted into decision making and how fans of such markets perceive things. It's very complicated and would likely get into psychology so I'm just gonna skip to the other more obvious point.
There were much fewer decepticons then autobots in the first couple years of G1, and of those they were the most notorious mold re-users (10 decepticons of 1984 and Megatron, Ravage and Soundwave are the only ones who had unique molds). They got a whopping 6 main characters out of the general Plane mold, the Bird cassette and Robot cassette each had two uses, and by that point you're left with the two gun molds, the cassette player mold, the two triple-changing molds, the three insect molds and the panther cassette mold. Not to count the combining molds which Takara have stated will never see use.
Meanwhile, the Autobots still haven't burned through their
17 characters of 1984.
Believe I want more 'cons; I'd love to have a Blitzwing and I much prefer the lineup - hell, I think I prefer the 'cons not despite their smaller number but
because of their smaller number. It's much easier to remember, group and differentiate them while I always forget at least 3 guys from the original Autobots. But yeah, that's just the way things are...
Interesting...would've preferred Megatron before Mr. Kid-Appeal, though I can deal with this. I hope this means that Masterpiece will be expanding its horizons. Who knows, maybe we'll start getting Masterpieces from the Unicron Trilogy.
