First-Aid wrote:sol magnus wrote:First-Aid wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Though I can see a bright side to all this...no more need to redo these characters for a long while
This is Hasbro. They will find a way to do it, and appease whiny Geewunners somehow, most likely with a new Seeker mold and no less than 10 repaints (crossover marketing with Skittles here: Transform the Rainbow), plus at least five redecos of Prime and Megatron.
As for SS, we are still missing the bright shiny badass Camaro Bumblebee turned into at the end of his movie, and at least two other Camaro versions of him (as we speak of redoing characters over and over...)
I hear a lot about "whiny Geewunners" from people whining about Geewunners and they're repaints and remolds while they whine about repaints and remolds. Wonder why that is?
Was that English???
Absolutely, I hate repaints and remolds. I hate whiny people, too. I want new, exciting product and characters, not rehashes and remolds, with new details, features and a different look altogether. I haven't seen that TF: Animated introduced us to Bulkhead and Lugnut, who were both good characters with excellent product. The ONLY other breath of change in the last 20 years has been the Bay movies. In a toy line that is really all about transforming and change, there sure isn't much transformation and change. It's pretty much a dead horse HasTak has been beating on since Beast Machines ended the last truly, completely original TF series.
Not the queen's, but it'll do.
I suppose hating repaints and remolds isn't necessarily bad, although it's been there since day one of the franchise.
You say you hate whiny people, and I'm not a fan, but this myth of the 'whiny Geewunner' must stop. I've never seen a "Geewunner" (itself a slur) who exhibits this behavior. Where are they? Point me out one.
In this very thread about this Studio Series business I've seen plenty of 'whining' and teethgnashing about G1 guys who were in an actual theater release movie 'invading' their precious Studio Series - as entitled an attitude as any G1 person who might have thought Armada was 'kiddy' (it was), or didn't like the direction of Beast Wars in general (I didn't - at first). But the ones I know who felt that way still bought the toys. Heck,even I have an Armada Prime - because I thought it was a cool toy despite the show's demographic simply not being mine.
Once again comes the fallacy that the franchise is "all about change" when it's really all about giant fighting robots changing into other stuff as an argument for 'why do they keep making all this Geewun (slur) stuff?'
The fact is, for now anyway, so-called "Geewunners" don't have to justify themselves to you, because Hasbro justifies them year after year with the products they
choose to make.
When this sort of post crops up, myself and others pipe up to say, 'hey I like things OTHER than G1, why you gotta harsh my mellow, man?' In the modern era, I don't see G1 types bashing other areas of the fandom. For what? It all keeps it all going in some respect or another. If you want Hasbro to keep making Skids, Mudflap and Devastators without balls from the second movie that's fine, but know that to get that, they have to keep pumping out "Geewun-ish" stuff to keep that going.
BTW, the only year I believe I didn't buy any Transformer product was when they did Power Core Combiners. They are trash, I don't care what you or anybody else says about. Complete garbage. They also failed miserably, relegated to the dust bin of history AND the actual dustbin. But Hasbro was trying to do something
different.
Never mind then, don't know why I thought there was one.
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