TreyTable wrote:Bear with my ignorance, but I do not know the consensus of this subject. It seems clear that Takara Tomy nor Hasbro is making an Encore Scorponok, so if there's to be a reasonably priced KO on the market, is it a bad thing?
It's a bad thing because the intent of the people making the counterfeit Transformers is to deceive consumers. It is unfair to uninformed collectors that these types of products are out in the market who are looking for official products.
TreyTable wrote:I have some KO's in my personal collection; mainly because Hasbro and their retail store exclusives are always gone from shelves way to quick, at least in this one horse town.
You can buy Hasbro's figures online or at various comic book, toy, and Transformers conventions or through other fans on Seibertron.com. Lack of supply in your area doesn't justify the production of counterfeit products.
TreyTable wrote:But I have a KO G1 Shockwave, which was $100, that is just as wonderful as the Shockwave I had as a kid, and I have a CHMS V2 Generations "Skywarp," which was $30 since Hasbro has yet to re-release the Skywarp Target exclusive. Is this frowned upon as well?
Yes it is frowned upon as well. Hasbro would be run into the ground if they had to reissue every toy they made because collectors want to buy these items at cheaper prices than what they're going for because a collector missed it the first time around. Classics Skywarp can be found on eBay at
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=classics+skywarp&_sop=15 or you can buy the recent official reissue of him, along with Starscream and Thundercracker, at our site's advertisers such as
BigBadToyStore.com or
TFsource.com. Skywarp works out to about $43 if you buy him in that set. You could sell your original Classics Thundercracker and Starscream or sell the ones from this set if you don't need or want them.
TreyTable wrote:Lastly there's the third party thing. If a KO Scorponok is bad, then where do things like iGear's Seekers come in?
iGear's Seekers are unlicensed 3rd party products, which is considered a bad thing officially here on Seibertron.com. While some Transformers fansites rally behind item's like that, I chose to steer Seibertron.com away from associating with unlicensed products so that Hasbro knows where we stand on that issue and to keep us out of what some would consider a gray area.