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Thanos wrote:

Bradimus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bradimus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bradimus wrote:I wish Hasbro would release the Takara heads for the 8 original headmasters as an exclusive on HTS. Everybody wins! Make it so, !

No, only Americans win. Everyone else would lose really bad since HTS charges a ton to ship internationally and since they would be exclusive HTS, everyone outside the states would be stuck importing.

Name an international company to add as the other exclusive. I would not want TRU because they overcharge for everything.

Once again Bradimus, you are using your geographic bias to make a general statement which ends up being false depending on where you are referring to. TRU is the cheapest place for TFs in Canada, with Walmart actually charging more sometimes (for voyagers for instance).

I just wrote an article about how much TFs cost at TRU today and here is my bill for 4 generations deluxes:



Thats not a discount, thats the actual price right now.

So yeah, TRU would be awesome. They can be exclusive with HTS in the states and exclusive at TRU elsewhere, that would be cool.

That would be fine with me. Unfortunately for us in the States TRU runs a very different business model. It's like they don't actually want us to purchase toys from them. It's gotten so bad the TRU near me recently closed, and that's been around longer than I have.

I've been saying for years Hasbro should run HTS like Lego runs Lego Shop (but don't stop the discounts, something Lego gets wrong). Lego wants to get its toys in every home in the world, not just in one nation. And if TRU US wasn't so greedy I would have suggested it from the outset, so you're just as guilty of geographical bias as I am since I cannot consider TRU as a viable option and you cannot consider HTS.

I will second this statement. I haven't purchased a Transformer (or practically anything else barring something on an extremely deep discount) from TRU in many years. Their prices are not competitive in any capacity.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:2 Things to catchup:

1) Wheelie is adorable and needs a slingshot (Seibs, make a tiny one for his gallery please??)

2) I never buy TRU. at least for me, it is 20% higher than any other store in the area

Kurona wrote:I'm really liking how Wheelie looks and I love his package art, but I'm slowly coming to the realization that because he doesn't come with that slingshot I'll end up giving money to third parties for what is basically a tiny stick.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:2 Things to catchup:

1) Wheelie is adorable and needs a slingshot (Seibs, make a tiny one for his gallery please??)

2) I never buy TRU. at least for me, it is 20% higher than any other store in the area

The GDO Wheelie has one

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'm really liking how Wheelie looks and I love his package art, but I'm slowly coming to the realization that because he doesn't come with that slingshot I'll end up giving money to third parties for what is basically a tiny stick.

Even worse, imagine what the GDO slingshots are gonna be going for on ebay (maybe not even with the figure)

Be cool if the 3rd parties made one that kinda 'worked' or included a piece that looked like translucent plastic in a pulled-back position for posing

Kurona wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'm really liking how Wheelie looks and I love his package art, but I'm slowly coming to the realization that because he doesn't come with that slingshot I'll end up giving money to third parties for what is basically a tiny stick.

Even worse, imagine what the GDO slingshots are gonna be going for on ebay (maybe not even with the figure)

Be cool if the 3rd parties made one that kinda 'worked' or included a piece that looked like translucent plastic in a pulled-back position for posing

Maybe they could just release some kind of ultimate Titans Return accessory kit. A slingshot for wheelie, a head for Galvatron, and targetmasters for Blurr, Scourge, Hot Rod and Triggerhappy.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'm really liking how Wheelie looks and I love his package art, but I'm slowly coming to the realization that because he doesn't come with that slingshot I'll end up giving money to third parties for what is basically a tiny stick.

Even worse, imagine what the GDO slingshots are gonna be going for on ebay (maybe not even with the figure)

Be cool if the 3rd parties made one that kinda 'worked' or included a piece that looked like translucent plastic in a pulled-back position for posing

Maybe they could just release some kind of ultimate Titans Return accessory kit. A slingshot for wheelie, a head for Galvatron, and targetmasters for Blurr, Scourge, Hot Rod and Triggerhappy.

I'd be interested in some 3p poseable targetmaster - but sold individually, or maybe as a 3 pack, or as 'troop-builder' packs

But, I think (assuming they're/he's still into this stuff) that Dr. Wu will have something for us, maybe it's already in the works, it's pretty easy after all

SillySpringer wrote:I just realized something. Maybe they'll use the UW/CW Groove mold to make a headmaster Armada Sideways for Titans Return?

SillySpringer wrote:I just realized something. Maybe they'll use the UW/CW Groove mold to make a headmaster Armada Sideways for Titans Return?

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:I just realized something. Maybe they'll use the UW/CW Groove mold to make a headmaster Armada Sideways for Titans Return?

Hopefully they'd just borrow the engineering instead of only retooling Groove, but still, that'd be pretty cool!

SillySpringer wrote:Maybe it'd be an extensive retool like how TR Chromedome is a retool of CW Dead-End.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Maybe it'd be an extensive retool like how TR Chromedome is a retool of CW Dead-End.

Chromedome is not a retool of Dead End! He just uses the same engineering!

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Maybe it'd be an extensive retool like how TR Chromedome is a retool of CW Dead-End.

Chromedome is not a retool of Dead End! He just uses the same engineering!

SillySpringer wrote:Point is, I want a Titans Return Sideways. It'd be awesome. Also a Titan Class Unicron would fit well too.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Point is, I want a Titans Return Sideways. It'd be awesome. Also a Titan Class Unicron would fit well too.

Oh heck yeah, that'd be amazing.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Maybe it'd be an extensive retool like how TR Chromedome is a retool of CW Dead-End.

Chromedome is not a retool of Dead End! He just uses the same engineering!

No parts shared = not a retool. Period.

Using the same transformation scheme for multiple unrelated (by mold) figures has been done plenty of times in the past, from the G1 Jumpstarters, Battlechargers and Throttlebots to figures like G2 Smokescreen and Energon Starscream, BT Smokescreen and Meister and CW Dead End and TR Chromedome.

SillySpringer wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Point is, I want a Titans Return Sideways. It'd be awesome. Also a Titan Class Unicron would fit well too.

Oh heck yeah, that'd be amazing.

I know it would be probably spread out over like ten years so we can get one Titan each year, but I would also love a Titan Primus. I never could get the Cybertron one, and I think he should be bigger anyhow.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Point is, I want a Titans Return Sideways. It'd be awesome. Also a Titan Class Unicron would fit well too.

Oh heck yeah, that'd be amazing.

I know it would be probably spread out over like ten years so we can get one Titan each year, but I would also love a Titan Primus. I never could get the Cybertron one, and I think he should be bigger anyhow.

I have the Cybertron one. He is pretty big already, but he can definitely be bigger. And he could use some engineering updates and de-gimmicking...but other than that, he's okay.

SillySpringer wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Point is, I want a Titans Return Sideways. It'd be awesome. Also a Titan Class Unicron would fit well too.

Oh heck yeah, that'd be amazing.

I know it would be probably spread out over like ten years so we can get one Titan each year, but I would also love a Titan Primus. I never could get the Cybertron one, and I think he should be bigger anyhow.

I have the Cybertron one. He is pretty big already, but he can definitely be bigger. And he could use some engineering updates and de-gimmicking...but other than that, he's okay.

I think a Metroplex-sized Primus would be amazing. I think if they were to release Unicron in a year, they should release Primus the next, or vice-versa.

Kurona wrote:More Armada toys would be kinda cool. I really didn't like the show for it and I don't dare to investigate into the murky depths of Dreamwave, but at least from a pure aesthetic standpoint the designs can be really cool - I have Armada Starscream and I'm using him as the G1 guy because, well, IDW and he just ends up working so well as him. It'd be nice to see an update on Demolishor, Cyclonus and Tidal Wave - those were extremely cool designs, especially the latter and it'd help fill out the otherwise rather shorthanded Decepticon ranks.
Man, a leader-class Tidal Wave would be hella.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Point is, I want a Titans Return Sideways. It'd be awesome. Also a Titan Class Unicron would fit well too.

Oh heck yeah, that'd be amazing.

I know it would be probably spread out over like ten years so we can get one Titan each year, but I would also love a Titan Primus. I never could get the Cybertron one, and I think he should be bigger anyhow.

I have the Cybertron one. He is pretty big already, but he can definitely be bigger. And he could use some engineering updates and de-gimmicking...but other than that, he's okay.

I think a Metroplex-sized Primus would be amazing. I think if they were to release Unicron in a year, they should release Primus the next, or vice-versa.

For the planet-formers? Nah, man, they've gotta be EVEN BIGGER!

SillySpringer wrote:I think Triggerhappy is a definate candidate for a Misfire repaint.



Just retool the nosecone and head and boom.