philipjreed wrote:I've launched a Kickstarter project to create a book about third party Transformers toys. Please take a moment to look at the project and check my stretch goals.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/102 ... rence-book
Counterpunch wrote:FP sure does provide some F'd up head.
Rated X wrote:At the rate 3rd party stuff comes out, any book would be out-dated in 6 months or less. I would suggest you make a website decicated to 3rd party figures instead of a book. Kind of like a TF Wiki for all 3rd party stuff.
philipjreed wrote:Thanks for the feedback, guys. A site would be neat, but my goal here is to create an introductory book for people unfamiliar with third party pieces and for my own shelf. For all of the third party toys coming out I still frequently chat with people who don't even know these exist.
If this goes well then I'll think about the suggestion for a site.
Rated X wrote:I see your vision. It's just in the age of the internet, not alot of collectors want to spend money on a book. It takes up shelf space and costs money that could be used for more figures.
Rated X wrote:I still say a website data base would be a better idea than a book. By the the hard copy gets printed, 20 new 3rd party products will have been released and another 20 teased.
Scaleface wrote:Rated X wrote:I still say a website data base would be a better idea than a book. By the the hard copy gets printed, 20 new 3rd party products will have been released and another 20 teased.
There IS an online third party Transformer database already. It's at Wikialpha.
http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Third_party_Transformer
This book is not a database of all third party Transformer toys. It is a coffee table photo book of some pictures of some third party Transformers.
Scaleface wrote:There are over a hundred pages of content on wikialpha about third party Transformers. As for message boards, pleanty of those out there. I don't know what else you want.
Yes, any printed material will be dated, but that's the nature of printed material. No different from when someone released a printed book about Transformers. Some people will buy it, other will say it's dated. This book is not a reference work, nor it is the "latest thing", and yes, you could probably print a quarterly magazine on the subject of third party Transformers, but that's not happening yet. There was talk of a second volume, with the best of the new stuff, and some classics that got overlooked.
I did notice that one Headrobots toy seems to premier in this book, and there are a few prototype photos of unreleased toys like Terminus Hexatron and MMC's Talon.
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