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News Credits: 1 · by **Ikijigoku** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:19 pm

Sorry guys. I've been out of the loop for a few months. What is the status on the classics? The last word I received was that Ramjet, and Cliffjumper are next, and sketches of a proto-type Cosmos floating around. The Classics are all selling well in my area. The only figure that is really warming shelves here in Michigan is surprisingly, Mirage.

I picked up the Magnus and Skywarp 2 pack a month ago. I've only seen it at 1 Target (Chesterfield) out of the 5 in my area (Utica, Sterling Heights, Rochester, and Madison Heights) and that one only received that one intial shipment. Magnus/Skywarp were stocked on an endcap, then poof, they were replaced by Star Wars sets once the two-pack sold out.

by **Bluebullet** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:26 pm

The classics are on hiatus indefinatly until the (cruddy) movie is over. There is no knowledge of any new classics. The same goes for the alternators. :BANG_HEAD:

Welcome back! Eye iz uh n00b.

by **Rijie** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:37 pm

Magnus/Skywarp are actually pretty common in the Dearborn area. The Allen Park and Dearborn stores have a ton of them out on the endcaps. So does the store closest to where I live in Canton. They are selling well, but each of these stores seem to have gotten a ton of them. I'm sure people will be scrambling for them when they are gone.

And I do believe that Ramjet/Cliffjumper, UM/Skywarp/ and the WM Exclusive Devastator will be the last we see of the Classics for a while.

Keep an eye on the Michiganders thread for sightings, we all take pretty good care of each other when new stuff hits.

News Credits: 1 · by **Ikijigoku** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:57 pm

Thanks.

Just from evaluating past "movie" toylines, none of them really have any sort of lasting power. The only toyline based on a movie that has any "lasting power", besides Star Wars, is The Toy Story. The average course of a movie toyline is six months. Look at Spiderman. This was always an on-going toyline when toybiz produced it. Toybiz released the movie toys along side the regular Spiderman toyline-up. The movie toy's life span lasted from a few weeks before the release of the movie, until shortly after the DVD's release. Same with the new Superman movie. The movie toys came out a little before the movie was released, which was during summer, and It was on clearance shelves at Target and Wal-mart shortly after the DVD was released and the holiday season ended. Same with the Fantastic Four movie toys, and my next guess, the Ghost Rider toys.

Hasbro has always runs two or three Transformer toylines toylines simaltaneously. Why stop now? Why end this trend when they finally have something good going on? I thought Hasbro stopped making their stupid continuos mistakes after disasters like Armada, Universe and the TRU's reissues. I got the impression at the OFTCC, that Hasbro was starting to finally listen and realize their fanbases wants and needs.

by **Bluebullet** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:05 pm

Ikijigoku wrote: Hasbro has always runs two or three Transformer toylines toylines simaltaneously. Why stop now? Why end this trend when they finally have something good going on? I thought Hasbro stopped making their stupid continuos mistakes after disasters like Armada, Universe and the TRU's reissues. I got the impression at the OFTCC, that Hasbro was starting to finally listen and realize their fanbases wants and needs.

Nope. Bay&Co. knew that Classics and Alternators would be chosen over their ugly, cheaply made/thought out crap and told Hasbro that those lines were competition, forcing the unwanted hiatus upon us. I assume Hasbro realizes their mistake now and are kicking themelves as we speak.

News Credits: 2 · by **Basketball Jones** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:09 pm

I highly doubt a film director who is only a licensee of a company's trademarks could have significant impact on the company's business model.

The decision was likely made by Hasbro themselves.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:40 pm

Basketball Jones wrote:I highly doubt a film director who is only a licensee of a company's trademarks could have significant impact on the company's business model.

The decision was likely made by Hasbro themselves.

What he said, not to mention they've spend a lot on the movie toys.
Technology wise most of them look a step up from what we've seen in the past. From Hasbro's point of view, spending the kind of money they will have spent on a toy line this, then giving the fans what they actully want so they dont have to buy the movie toys would be self defeating, and make them their own competition.
I think the toys are gonna be the only redeeming feature of the movie.