Wait, what?JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Plus Hasbro has used "Battlemaster" before for Beast Hunters, so whatever works?
Wait, what?JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Plus Hasbro has used "Battlemaster" before for Beast Hunters, so whatever works?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Wait, what?JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Plus Hasbro has used "Battlemaster" before for Beast Hunters, so whatever works?
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Wait, what?JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Plus Hasbro has used "Battlemaster" before for Beast Hunters, so whatever works?
Battlemaster Class, with Beast Tracker Optimus and Talking Bumblebee. Not advertised on the boxes, nor do they have their own numbering, seemingly making them standalone releases. But they are grouped via their product codes with A5117 for the assortment.
Skritz wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Wait, what?JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Plus Hasbro has used "Battlemaster" before for Beast Hunters, so whatever works?
Battlemaster Class, with Beast Tracker Optimus and Talking Bumblebee. Not advertised on the boxes, nor do they have their own numbering, seemingly making them standalone releases. But they are grouped via their product codes with A5117 for the assortment.
Well that's obscure.
Skritz wrote:Is it weird the battlemasters are what I like the most from Siege so far? I mean, hey, more weapons is always good. A weapon which is also a transforming robot? That's even better!
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Skritz wrote:Is it weird the battlemasters are what I like the most from Siege so far? I mean, hey, more weapons is always good. A weapon which is also a transforming robot? That's even better!
Not weird at all, I like the Prime Masters the most from the previous line
Skritz wrote:core Pretender.
william-james88 wrote:Skritz wrote:core Pretender.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Now now Will, no matter how much you disagree you can't just go around calling people oxymorons, it's rudewilliam-james88 wrote:Skritz wrote:core Pretender.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Qwan wrote:Is there a more perfect example of the duality of man than going “Ugh more G1, when will Hasbro learn that people won’t just buy more of the same stuff over and over. Also that Optimus and Sideswipe look pretty good, I can’t wait to pick them up”
ultraimpossibleman wrote:Grand innacurration and heavy mistakes !
Diem wrote:This is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm here for.
Skritz wrote:william-james88 wrote:Skritz wrote:core Pretender.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
I meant those which did get featured (under an alternate name, mind you) in animation: Metalhawk, Cloudburst/Phoenix, Landmine/Lander, Waverider/Waver, Skullgrin/Dauros, Bomb-Burst/Blood and Submarauder/Gillmer.
I hear ya. It's a good possibility that those who decried the RID line were the pro-G1 party that likes how G1-based the Generations toys are nowadays, while those who decry the slavish adherence to G1 in the Generations lines are the party who want new characters/designs like those we got in the RID line.william-james88 wrote:I know its probably not the same fans saying it, but when you look at the fandom in general, it looks really hypocritic. I see a lot of responses (here and elsewhere) expressing boredom at the same characters being released, and in a similar look. More G1, how dull. And I get it.
What I dont get is that there was a line which was all about not being G1. And there were no gimmicks either. Plus there was a beast theme too, with solid and new transformations, robot modes and alt modes.
That line was the latest Robots in Disguise line and I thought it was great. Not only was there great deluxe figures but it had a solid legion class offering (plus a pretty cool Battlepack class). But it was avoided by many fans. And its too bad since while I know fans were worried about simplicity, many of those deluxes were more complex than any of the combiner limbs in the Generations line.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
william-james88 wrote:I know its probably not the same fans saying it, but when you look at the fandom in general, it looks really hypocritic. I see a lot of responses (here and elsewhere) expressing boredom at the same characters being released, and in a similar look. More G1, how dull. And I get it.
What I dont get is that there was a line which was all about not being G1. And there were no gimmicks either. Plus there was a beast theme too, with solid and new transformations, robot modes and alt modes.
That line was the latest Robots in Disguise line and I thought it was great. Not only was there great deluxe figures but it had a solid legion class offering (plus a pretty cool Battlepack class). But it was avoided by many fans. And its too bad since while I know fans were worried about simplicity, many of those deluxes were more complex than any of the combiner limbs in the Generations line.
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
ScottyP wrote:Myself and others that both love G1 and are burnt out on G1 nostalgia toys probably just need a break from it. Let Generations go weird again for a year or two, or disappear entirely. Focus on the present with only a MP here and there moving the coals powering a fire from the 1980s.
Examples: when G1 Commemorative toys hit TRU in the early 00s, the focus was ultimately still on RiD and Armada. When Classics hit, it was a bridge between Cybertron the 07 Movie, which ultimately were the main focus. When early Generations figures hit, it was secondary to DotM/Prime/etc. While at those times there were some that clamored for more Generations, less New Thing, I think after four years of in-your-face nostalgia blasting I'm ready for a New Thing. The New Old Things now just feel old and tired.
Edit: alternately, get back to G1 homage figures that hit Masterforce, Victory, and so on. That would feel new enough for now!
ScottyP wrote:I'm ready for a New Thing. The New Old Things now just feel old and tired.
Edit: alternately, get back to G1 homage figures that hit Masterforce, Victory, and so on. That would feel new enough for now!
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