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[Albatross250]

From TFNDFB:
https://www.facebook.com/TransformersNe ... 3&theater#


UNICRON?!

[Sentinel_Primal]

Oh god, I want it... But my wallet says no

What's interesting about this is that if enough wallets say no, Hasbro will say no to all.

Very curious to see if this will happen. Are there really 8000 fans in the US willing to pay this?

My kneejerk reaction was to say I wouldn't doubt it, but thinking about it, it could go either way. There are obviously huge fans in the states because of the current backers. But considering it's cost, size, and other factors, I'd be surprised if it made it through...

[AllNewSuperRobot]

I would give serious consideration to paying HALF that amount. No toy is worth nearly 600, in any currency.

[Ironhidensh]

Oh god, I want it... But my wallet says no

What's interesting about this is that if enough wallets say no, Hasbro will say no to all.

Very curious to see if this will happen. Are there really 8000 fans in the US willing to pay this?

Good chance. No way in hell I'd be one of them, but yeah, there probably are. Bad financial choices are as American as apple pie.

[AllNewSuperRobot]

So, quick maths. They want a crowdfunding backer threshold of 8000 @ $575 each = $4,600,000

... No way in hell, Hasbro

[Albatross250]

Unicron does suck all of our taxes including our money, oh well. Chaos Prices though.

[william-james88]

I made a new thread to discuss him specifically (especially since he isnt labelled as seige and may not get made afterall https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... -31/43589/

[o.supreme]

That Unicorn looks really cool, but nope, I cant justify that. I am very interested to see the results of this first ever Hasbro sanctioned fan-financed project.

"The Chaos Bringer is Here...." If enough of you can put up 6 nearly benjamins for it

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

So, going back to Siege from the bankrupcy-bringer...

I so want that Bluestreak. Bluestreak was my first-ever Transformers toy. I've got him in G1 reissue, Universe 2.0, Masterpiece, and TFSS forms. But I so want that Siege version.

[AllNewSuperRobot]

I'd still like to see some of the more unique Bots that had only Earth Modes get a Cybertronian altmode. A Conehead Tetra jet variant. New and unique designs for Octane/Blitzwing/Astrotrain/Sandstorm.

[Sentinel_Primal]

My thoughts on the Coneheads is that they need a new mold, or it needs similar remolding like Skydive to Dreadwind. I'd love the Coneheads to get updates, but if it's just a head swap, then it's just lazy

[Skritz]

A character I'm surprised we haven't discussed as an entirely new mold for this trilogy who has basically shown in every Transformers incarnation since her creation and is either loved or utterly reviled to no end: Windblade. She was in Generations twice in recent years, in both T30 and TR, she showed up in Rid2015 and in Cyberverse and has basically been mandated by Hasbro to be their new token female heroine at the expense of already-established characters like Arcee.

Anyone want to take bets she'll be there somewhere in the trilogy?

[o.supreme]

Anyone want to take bets she'll be there somewhere in the trilogy?

It's almost a certainty, I'm just enjoying the break.

[Stargrave]

There will definitely be a new Prime and Megatron what do you think their Earth modes will look like?
G2 Megatron maybe?
Powermaster Prime?
Or better yet a whole new Prime since they just did a Powermaster nod in TR.

[Skritz]

There will definitely be a new Prime and Megatron what do you think their Earth modes will look like?
G2 Megatron maybe?
Powermaster Prime?
Or better yet a whole new Prime since they just did a Powermaster nod in TR.

To my knowledge the only notable or interesting Optimus Prime design we haven't seen remade yet is this:

[AllNewSuperRobot]

A character I'm surprised we haven't discussed as an entirely new mold for this trilogy who has basically shown in every Transformers incarnation since her creation and is either loved or utterly reviled to no end: Windblade. She was in Generations twice in recent years, in both T30 and TR, she showed up in Rid2015 and in Cyberverse and has basically been mandated by Hasbro to be their new token female heroine at the expense of already-established characters like Arcee.

Anyone want to take bets she'll be there somewhere in the trilogy?

We discussed Windblade somewhere and her lack of redesign. She is essentially a Fem Bot version of Thrust in design aesthetic. So should the Conehead receive a new mold, I don't think unreasonable she should be a minor retool of him.

There will definitely be a new Prime and Megatron what do you think their Earth modes will look like?
G2 Megatron maybe?
Powermaster Prime?
Or better yet a whole new Prime since they just did a Powermaster nod in TR.

There are a couple ALREADY, we really don't need another Prime in SIEGE, at least.

[Stargrave]

There will definitely be a new Prime and Megatron what do you think their Earth modes will look like?
G2 Megatron maybe?
Powermaster Prime?
Or better yet a whole new Prime since they just did a Powermaster nod in TR.

To my knowledge the only notable or interesting Optimus Prime design we haven't seen remade yet is this:

Haha I was just thinking that! Great call!! or that same Megatron. The smaller scale purple one with more articulation.

[Skritz]

Beyond that the only options are G2 Go-Bot Optimus Prime (unlikely, since they don't really do deluxe Optimus these days) and Machine Wars Optimus (nobody care about Machine War...but comic fans do care about Thunderclash).

[william-james88]

That Unicorn looks really cool, but nope, I cant justify that. I am very interested to see the results of this first ever Hasbro sanctioned fan-financed project.

This is not the first. They did one before for their Jaba Barge toy which got fan financed and is now selling for more than my monthly mortgage payment on e-bay.

[o.supreme]

That Unicorn looks really cool, but nope, I cant justify that. I am very interested to see the results of this first ever Hasbro sanctioned fan-financed project.

This is not the first. They did one before for their Jabba Barge toy which got fan financed and is now selling for more than my monthly mortgage payment on e-bay.

My apologies, I meant to add *Transformers* to that statement. being so focused in my collecting, sometimes I forget Hasbro sells more than just Transformers.

I do remember the Jabba Sail Barge announcement, but, didn't follow it's progress.

I did see online they asked for only 5000 backers at $500 each. I know they exceeded their goal, but not sure exactly how quickly they met it.

Considering all this, it does seem pretty daunting to ask a much smaller fanbase to pay nearly 15% more, and have a minimum of 3000 more participants.

[Skritz]

I think the goal could be more easily reached if it had been open to the rest of the world, namely due to the international fanbase. Now I don't really know much of the TF fanbase beyond Japan and the anglosphere but I do know there are fans in Canada, the UK and Australia who could have jumped into this crowdfunding.

[o.supreme]

Yes, I certainly took that into consideration. Worldwide, it's a done deal, unfortunately a lot of us folks in the US need months to prepare to make a single annual Titan purchase, much less something like this.

I wish I could recall what stipulations were for the Legends Grand Maximus pre-sale in order to have the custom headmaster (and whatever else was included?). I know that goal was not met, but at least the item got released. Too bad that wasn't open to the rest of the world either. .

[blackeyedprime]

The sail barge opened a limited amount for availability to Europe (and elsewhere) ages after it funded, that was available through hasbro ebay store and the shipping was stupidly expensive as they only used fed ex (pretty much guaranteed custom charges too). With scalpe...people being able to buy upto 5 of the unicorns each, it will likely reach its goal.
Gotta love hasbro pulses statement as being for the fans which needs a great big asterix to it with the countries it excludes :p my lack of commonsense says I'd spend £500 on this but common sense says its going to be at least £800 to get one.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

I'd still like to see some of the more unique Bots that had only Earth Modes get a Cybertronian altmode. A Conehead Tetra jet variant. New and unique designs for Octane/Blitzwing/Astrotrain/Sandstorm.

They already did those last two. They were called Titans Return Astrotrain and Thrilling 30 Sandstorm.

[o.supreme]

So...I guess if you had Titan Master Emissary, you could pretend he was Fort Max in comparison with this Unicron?