mooncake623 wrote:Lol tell you guys the truth. I really just wanted to know from you guys (in the third party forum) who's interested in this years set. Just threw the third party thing in there to keep it on topicish haha =X
There's actually nothing expensive coming out in the third party world that I would pick up atm.
Mooncake strikes again!!
To preface, the only box set I bought was last year's, and only for Strika & Obsidian (they REALLY should have been their own 2-pack). So I might end up trying to buy a bagged set off someone (Bueller??), and then keeping the couple I like.
I could see myself going for Cannonball & Fire Guts Ginrai, that's it. I don't see them being so expensive as to eat into my 3rd Party budget (besides, I think only MMC Talon is coming out around that time for me).
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Here are my bonus opinions of the other 3:
Cyclonus & Scourge are very distinctive molds, and unless you're going to completely recolor them AND give them new heads (a la Senator Ratbat), it doesn't work great. Ferak is too reminiscent of Strafe, and Devcon's colors are too close to Scourge. Most custom Devcon's I've seen that use the Scourge mold remove the wings - I could get behind that, but then there's no real serviceable alt mode, but whatever.
Scorponok looks great. But he's going to be a modern brick, like so many of the Energon molds were. My hope is that he is the new Scourge: awesomely popular at Botcon, and inspires Hasbro to make a new mainline version. So I'll pass on this one.