fenrir72 wrote:The international market (cough cough like the USA?) deep spenders? HasTak take over the MP duties? You a jokin' right?! Only market that outpaces Japan ( in fact, JP TF market is like a distant 3rd after Gundam and Eva and moe) for TF stuff is the Chinese (Mainland and a little bit, HK)
Takara will focus on the sure fire money makers like G1 for the MP line! BW sure got a lot of loving recently but it's still trucks over monkeys in the long run!
Actually, when I said "global" I was referring to all countries outside of Japan. Which includes China and doesn't refer to the US alone, as that would be asinine to equate with that descriptive.
I'm sure to people far more invested in the day to day minutiae of the toyline, there are more than trivial differences between Takara and Hasbro. However, that is none of my concern and when I say "HasTak" I refer to both of them equally. They are the only names that are synonymous with the entire series within pop culture.
Now as for the out of context Gewunner BS of the last paragraph. The answer is no, Takara doesn't focus on G1 over everything else.
Let's give you some facts.
The Beast Wars MP line started with Primal in 2016. With Megatron's release, that will bring the mainline roster to 4. The entire cast of Beast Wars Season 1 was 14. So that would be roughly a third of the cast completed in the MP line within two years.
Ignoring the obvious caveat that Beast Wars IS G1 also. The G1 MP line started with Prime back in 2003. 15 years later they haven't even finished the cast of Season 1. That shows real focus to me...
No you could decry "Smaller cast" but that is largely a moot point. The first six BW MP figures have been four original characters and two repaint/retools.
MP-32 Convoy/Primal - 2016
MP-34 Cheetus/Cheetor - 2017
MP-38 Convoy/Primal Legendary Leader Ver.
MP-41 Dinobot - 2018
MP-34S Shadow Panther - 2018
MP-43 Megatron - TBC
The first six 'G1' figures:
MP-1 Convoy - 2003
MP-1 Gold Convoy - 2004
MP-2 Ultra Magnus - 2005
MP-3 Starscream - 2006
MP-4 Convoy Perfect Edition - 2006
MP-5 Megatron - 2007
Four out of the initial six are Optimus Prime. The facts demonstrate, based on sales or popularity, one of these lines is being given preferential treatment. The other, even today, is being padded out with retools and repaints. So who has Takara's focus?