TF-fan kev777 wrote:LeAwesome1 wrote:Hasbro are really taking the mick at the moment in regards to reveals. Legacy gets a whole panel in a live event dedicated to it, has countless social media posts on multiple sites and pre-orders everywhere. Studio series? Nothing in the live event, and yesterday got a single Instagram story revealing Sideswipe (and Sweep but they already showed us that), nowhere else was this posted about, and no pre-orders. What is with this?
Its simple, it is not G1 therefore it is not important to the current brand team. Whenever we get to the wave with all the Bumblebee movie bots from the first 5 minutes of the film, I'm guessing those will get a little attention because they are G1-ish enough to maybe catch the design teams interest.
It certainly feels like the current people in charge have just inherited this brand with little to no idea how to market it or communicate properly with consumers. They don't even announce entire waves at the same time any more, They keep splitting everything over the course of several months.
The Bumblebee Movie versions of Wheeljack, Ratchet, Brawn, Soundwave and Ravage are supposedly going to be in the same wave as 1986 Perceptor and Starscream, which were announced on their own two months ago. Outside of Studio Series, I don't understand why Blaster and the Cores weren't revealed alongside the rest of Legacy wave 1, and the "they were cut for time" excuse doesn't hold water when you consider a portion of that stream was taken up by a Vince Di Cola performance that didn't need to be there.
I sold my Dark of the Moon Sideswipe a while ago, and I wasn't going to buy the new Revenge of the Fallen version, but having thought about it a bit more, I still might. It is a big improvement over the original.
