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autobot-jolt wrote:*right eye starts twitching*

*jaw drops slightly*

*confusion*

Well well well. Don't know where to start. Oh yeah, ENOUGH WITH THE FRIGGIN MOVIE LINE ALREADY HASBRO! Gee wizz, can't they finish it up? That says "Autumn/Winter 2010" If they're planning to have RotF going on all of this year, then I'm goin' to be very disapointed indeed. But hey, maybe it'll give me enough time tofind a nice Energon Dreadwing for about $15 (hint, hint, hint) Now for my verdicts on idividual things:

autobot-jolt wrote:Voyager Class Seaspray: Why in the name of Vector Sigma is this part of the RotF line? I thought it would be part of a classics line (which, ahem, Hasbro, ahem, you should actually be, ahem, planning for instead). Anyway, he's a bit too beefy and (color wise) dull for me. Another pass.

autobot-jolt wrote:New Package Look: This, I must say, actually is the best packaging I've seen in a long time. For this, nice work, Hasbro. But regular old Sideswipe??? He'd better be Premium (though I can't see how much shiner he can get), otherwise this is just a waste of fine packaging.

autobot-jolt wrote:Power Core Combiners: What the heck is this line doing in RotF? I thought it was going to be a completely new line, but no, it has to be Movie. Really, I'm getting tired of it. Let's move on to something fresh and new, like War for Cybertron, which I'm growing fond of. But, it's a limited line (that's what I heard) and won't have many figures to last us another year. But, Bruticus looks sweet, I have to admit. If the price is right (for the quality we're getting), then I'll pick it up. Hey, it might look good next to Legends Devastator.

ConBotFormer wrote:Buldgened

Mkall wrote:

autobot-jolt wrote:*right eye starts twitching*

*jaw drops slightly*

*confusion*

Well well well. Don't know where to start. Oh yeah, ENOUGH WITH THE FRIGGIN MOVIE LINE ALREADY HASBRO! Gee wizz, can't they finish it up? That says "Autumn/Winter 2010" If they're planning to have RotF going on all of this year, then I'm goin' to be very disapointed indeed. But hey, maybe it'll give me enough time to find a nice Energon Dreadwing for about $15 (hint, hint, hint) Now for my verdicts on idividual things:

Where on the new packaging does it say that this line is ROTF? It doesn't. ROTF line is done. This is a new line in the same asthetic.
Ok, Got me there.

autobot-jolt wrote:Voyager Class Seaspray: Why in the name of Vector Sigma is this part of the RotF line? I thought it would be part of a classics line (which, ahem, Hasbro, ahem, you should actually be, ahem, planning for instead). Anyway, he's a bit too beefy and (color wise) dull for me. Another pass.

Where did Hasbro say that Universe 3 was actually happening, and would be in exactly the same asthetics as the previous line?
I was just saying, they should be working on something like it. Also, in an earlier news post, they were hinting at a Universe 3.0 (or something like it, but not quite).

autobot-jolt wrote:New Package Look: This, I must say, actually is the best packaging I've seen in a long time. For this, nice work, Hasbro. But regular old Sideswipe??? He'd better be Premium (though I can't see how much shiner he can get), otherwise this is just a waste of fine packaging.

Maybe it's a mock-up? Wouldn't be the first time we've seen new packaging using an older fig as a filler.
That's the first time I've seen it, but I'll keep an eye out for it in the future. Got me there too, but I still like the packaging design.

autobot-jolt wrote:Power Core Combiners: What the heck is this line doing in RotF? I thought it was going to be a completely new line, but no, it has to be Movie. Really, I'm getting tired of it. Let's move on to something fresh and new, like War for Cybertron, which I'm growing fond of. But, it's a limited line (that's what I heard) and won't have many figures to last us another year. But, Bruticus looks sweet, I have to admit. If the price is right (for the quality we're getting), then I'll pick it up. Hey, it might look good next to Legends Devastator.

Again, show me where it says ROTF on the packaging.

Mkall wrote:Where did Hasbro say that Universe 3 was actually happening, and would be in exactly the same asthetics as the previous line?

Seibertron.com: Setting aside the 2 limited G1 Reissues released recently this year, how does Hasbro plan to reach out to the adult collector market? With Alternators not planned for the near future, the homage based Classics "on hold", and no further Special Edition figures announced (didn't Overkill, Dragstrip, Megatron, and Optimus Prime sell well?), there appears to be more incentive for adult collectors to purchase reissues and other more targeted merchandise from outside import vendors and '3rd party' companies. Why has Hasbrotoyshop.com not established a collector service to provide Encore, Alternity, and Masterpiece figures in the same manner that MattyCollector is attending to their adult fan-base? Where are the previously seen 'Red Classics Mirage', and upgraded Classics Cliffjumper going to appear (theorized to be next in line as Special Edition toys)? Is there anything in the plans that caters more to the Transformer collector market, rather than just the whole of the Transformers brand market?

Hasbro: We think one of the reasons it may feel like there's not as much collector-specific products is that we are right in the middle of the "movie madness" and we haven't made any formal announcements for the Fall 2010 line and exclusives. We continue to look for opportunities to bring out the G1 re-issue characters that haven't been released as re-issues before or do them in a new, different way. We are trying to avoid releasing the same versions that were released in 2003/2004. We will continue to find these opportunities (like we did with Soundwave at Comic Con in 2009... hint hint). We will continue to bring Masterpiece toys as retailer exclusives where appropriate - there will be one in 2010. And as discussed at BotCon, we will be continuing the "Classics/Universe" toys in the back half of 2010 with a new name (it won't be called Universe 3.0, but that's the idea). In addition we also try to include fan favorites in the movie line like Bludgeon and Brawn as well as assortments like the Human Alliance assortment.

PrimeFan wrote:

Mkall wrote:Where did Hasbro say that Universe 3 was actually happening, and would be in exactly the same asthetics as the previous line?

Ummm.. from Seibertron's own Q&A from December.

And as discussed at BotCon, we will be continuing the "Classics/Universe" toys in the back half of 2010 with a new name (it won't be called Universe 3.0, but that's the idea).

Blurrz wrote:
Then stop wishing for things like that! Wish for more meaningful figures like Deluxe Blurr, and more Deluxe Blurr, and throw in some fembots for my robot harem. Seriously, Hasbro's reading your mind... make your mind want Blurrrr

Megatronsdemise666 wrote:and dude that truck prime turns into is only 14 feet is not that big

Blurrz wrote:
Seriously, Hasbro's reading your mind... make your mind want Blurrrr

Down_Shift wrote:

PrimeFan wrote:

Mkall wrote:Where did Hasbro say that Universe 3 was actually happening, and would be in exactly the same asthetics as the previous line?

Ummm.. from Seibertron's own Q&A from December.

And as discussed at BotCon, we will be continuing the "Classics/Universe" toys in the back half of 2010 with a new name (it won't be called Universe 3.0, but that's the idea).

So you highlighted and underlined the part that said it wasn't Universe 3.0? That was your argument against it?

PrimeFan wrote:You're right, it won't be called Universe 3.0. My argument isn't about what its going to be called, it's about whether or not the Classics/Universe line is even returning. Mkall stated that Hasbro hasn't announced its return and that he believes the movie aesthetics will be used for future toys. As you can read, they clearly state that they are "continuing the Classics/Universe toys". That to me, means that it'll share the same aesthetics as Classics and Universe. And not that of the movie.

So for all intents and purposes, Universe 3(Classics/Universe) is happening, it just won't be called that. That's my argument.