Cobotron wrote:I kinda felt like the Toy Fair reveals were lack luster due to the rumor mill grinding so hard lately. Still had fun though.
Not to mention that there were very few new molds. Overlord, Blitzwing and 'Octone' (ie all the standard Leaders and Voyagers shown off) were all (p)retools of previous figures; as was one of the two new Deluxes shown off, Twin Twist. The only new molds we saw were Seaspray, Ramhorn and Windblade - the former two of which, while lovely, are still small figures and not as incredibly exciting; and Windblade... looks a little odd, and people are kinda fatigued on her by now. I love her, but I know a lot of people hate her and have reason to with how much Hasbro insists on pushing her.
Not to mention the boxsets themselves were disappointing. Nautica especially; she was the one most people here seemed exciting for and... once the initial hype was past, she looked kinda bleh and not a very good representation of the character. There were a few really neat surprises like the Clones being new molds, Ginrai getting a Hasbro release and Metalhawk being kinda cool... but yeah, there just wasn't much mindblowing in the TR department especially since we knew about Trypticon a few days prior. Mostly just new uses for old molds, most of which were predictable even without rumours.