skidflap wrote:Nemesis Primal wrote:Rated X wrote:Cant they use the money instead to make one Decepticon that isn't part of 1 3 step, 5 step, or shampoo bottle kiddie line ?
Logical fallacies in your argument aside...
I'd settle for a few more that ARE 1/3/5-steps! Or Legion! Aside from the Mini-Cons, there are a grand total of FIVE Decepticons getting toys in this line. And only two of them, Steeljaw and Thunderhoof, have the "metal furry" look that makes the RiD 2015 Decepticons different (Megatronus and Fracture are normal robots, and Underbite has a beast mode instead of a robot mode like Sky Lynx or the G1 Cassettes did). There are so many interesting designs and we're getting nothing for any of them. I want a Springload, damn it.
there was a listing a while back that there will be a one step springload.
glorbes wrote:If I was a kid, I'd use that Drift as a stand-in for Unicron. That's...the best I can come up with with regard to praise.
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
Carytheone wrote:Spotted RID Legion Ultra Magnus at Target in Baton Rouge, LA for $5.99
Spotted Patrol Mode Strongarm at another Target. She was probably at the other Target, but I didn't know this deco was a thing.
Target in Slidell, La for $5.99
ScottyP wrote:RiD Legion Patrol Mode Strongarm and Night Ops Bumblebee at Target in Wake Forest, NC. Implies that Alpine Strike Sideswipe is also out, but wasn't here.
RAR wrote:Which Decepticons got Earth Modes - Not very many ?
Perhaps those ones should be prioritised along with ones who feature in more than one episode.
If that already covers the ones we have had so far then it's time to broaden it out - I can't say what's best though as I've have not seen the show enough to know who is who in that regard.
RAR wrote:Which Decepticons got Earth Modes - Not very many ?
Perhaps those ones should be prioritised along with ones who feature in more than one episode.
If that already covers the ones we have had so far then it's time to broaden it out - I can't say what's best though as I've have not seen the show enough to know who is who in that regard.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
Cobotron wrote:Sales reports.
Noideaforaname wrote:Ah, those Targets have gotten rid of the color-coded toy sections too, I see.Cobotron wrote:Sales reports.
This line does seem to be rather blatantly sales-driven, doesn't it? Not that it ever wasn't all about sales, but looking back at previous lines we've gone from rotating the entire cast (G1), upgrading characters with entirely different toys (Beast Wars), selling the main character a billions times over but still attempting some form of diversity (Movie/Bumblebee), to now just selling the main characters a billions times over and to hell with diversity.
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
Cobotron wrote:I was wondering if allocating funds to the new Star Wars has any baring? Cut here, so we can spend there.
ThunderhoofRAR wrote:Which Decepticons got Earth Modes - Not very many ?
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.'
Sabrblade wrote:RAR wrote:Which Decepticons got Earth Modes - Not very many ?
Clampdown
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
Animation cost-cutting measures?william-james88 wrote:If those are earth modes then why do they look that way on Fixit's records in the Alchemor?
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.'
Sabrblade wrote:Animation cost-cutting measures?william-james88 wrote:If those are earth modes then why do they look that way on Fixit's records in the Alchemor?
Sabrblade wrote:Animation cost-cutting measures?william-james88 wrote:If those are earth modes then why do they look that way on Fixit's records in the Alchemor?
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
Hellscream9999 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Animation cost-cutting measures?william-james88 wrote:If those are earth modes then why do they look that way on Fixit's records in the Alchemor?
That's probably close, they (hasbro, probably) probably didn't prepare for fiction-creating by giving the 's pre-earth modes; so in the absence of any reference, and maybe not knowing what to do for them (or not being allowed to create random modes), the studio just slips the earth modes in, and hopes that nobody questions it too much.
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Hellscream9999 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Animation cost-cutting measures?william-james88 wrote:If those are earth modes then why do they look that way on Fixit's records in the Alchemor?
That's probably close, they (hasbro, probably) probably didn't prepare for fiction-creating by giving the 's pre-earth modes; so in the absence of any reference, and maybe not knowing what to do for them (or not being allowed to create random modes), the studio just slips the earth modes in, and hopes that nobody questions it too much.
No it's just a cost cutting measure. It was done on Beast wars, it was done on Prime, it's being done here.
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
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