The Energon Pub

We're getting the newer waves of voyager figures here in the UK and I was wondering if there was a special "Let's not make any Bloody effort at all" Repaint design department at Hasbro? Let's look at the new Ratchet.Originally he looked some some big robot Hulk and now he looks stunningly unimproved in his guise as a giant white blocky suppository!Perhaps they should call him an Auto-butt heh.
The new Starscream...sorry THUNDERCRAPPER..red and purple?Meh I say.Spray him black and least you could have a "Stealth" Starscream rather than this Sesame St Starscream you've foisted on us!
The upcoming Prime and Ironhide?DON'T EVEN GO THERE. "Hey,let's do less paint opps than a robot replica and give it a crappy byline name and the kid's will buy it again" Sheesh,Hasbro if your gonna be rolling out the same moulds for the next 9 months at least have some one who is not colourblind in your art department.Or let the CEO's 5 year old do it....or maybe they did?

Don't buy them, then. Glad I could solve that problem for you.

Repaints are way for Hasbro to make more money off of their very_costly_to_design molds.
IT would be unreasonable to think they'd just release a mold once, and that's it. They want to milk it for everything its worth and its understanjdable. Granted sometimes there choice in repaints is a bit lacking but others its spot on.

I consider Thundercracker to be one of their best repaint choices.

Night_something_or_other Prime is pretty good

Blue Ironhide not so much.

Desert Camo Leader Brawl, eeeewwwwww.

so there's abit of eveyrthing.
08 Cliffujmper... totally amazing choice. even if some don't like it. I love the red and silver on that particular mold.

So you see, its inevitable Hasbro will do repaints. You on the other hand aren't required to buy them all.

Repaints are always better when they take on another character from the fiction.

Cliffjumper? I like it
Night watch Prime? thats a name for a batman toy.

Guys it is a business. Hasbro is a company, and most companies don't care about their customers, as long as their products are selling. The bigger a company gets, the more it loses its virtues.

Take for example Electronic Arts that has become a monster. Ubisoft, Sierra aren't far behind either.

So yea it is bit insulting for customers when molds are repackaged with slight changes and full price tags, but what can you do? Unfortunately there are enough dolts among us who will buy the same thing 20 times because it is a different color... but that's how the free market works. They wouldn't insulting us with these rereleases if it wasn't profitable?

For the record, I like the Thundercrack movie repaint and the Rescue Ratchet.

I love the Starscream mold, and think it is one of the coolest ones. I despise the G1 colors though.

Oh and Nightwatch prime is a retarded idea. Normally they resell the mold by packaging it as Ultra Magnus.

Guess why they didn't do that...

Yes because they plan to have an entirely new mold for him in the sequel.

I Actually enjoy repaints mostly because sometimes they can be better then the original figure. Thundercracker is awsome both in his repaint and the fact that they made a new head mold, hmm seems like they did more then "just a crappy reapint". I actually hated the Starscream toy thta came out, but i loved Thundercracker.

As for Rescue Ratchet, i heavily enjoy his G1 style repaint as opposed to the "piss colored" movie toy :/.

Also as stated by Sledge, don't buy the fogures if you hate their repaint apps . Yes Hasbro is milking out for money and want to be "cheap" on it, but what company doesn't? Not to mention they have some nice repaints among the crappy ones.

Sledge wrote:Don't buy them, then. Glad I could solve that problem for you.

that was highly insightful

haha

decepticonjon wrote:

Sledge wrote:Don't buy them, then. Glad I could solve that problem for you.

that was highly insightful

I could probably have written a quick 500 word essay, but it would have boiled down to the same point. I really don't understand why people get so worked up about repaints.

Sledge wrote:

decepticonjon wrote:

Sledge wrote:Don't buy them, then. Glad I could solve that problem for you.

that was highly insightful

I could probably have written a quick 500 word essay, but it would have boiled down to the same point. I really don't understand why people get so worked up about repaints.

Errr,I didn't actually say I intended to buy them,I was merely unimpressed with the lack of imagination on Hasbro's part

No, what happened is they are trying to sell off the cheapie repaints to pay for the Premium Metallic ones..


which are the only one's I really like, the rest, meh... Give them to sledge he likes them..

"let mikey eat it, he'll eat anything!!" From a popular 1980s commercial....care to guess??

and as far as Brit rants go, ratchetnclank, well done me boyo!!

I love it when a Brit goes off his rocker with proper english, it's sooo cool.. and funny as well.. oh Benny Hill R.I.P.

SephM wrote:As for Rescue Ratchet, i heavily enjoy his G1 style repaint as opposed to the "piss colored" movie toy

what the hell are you drinking to produce movie ratchet coloured piss?!

skywarp-2 wrote:No, what happened is they are trying to sell off the cheapie repaints to pay for the Premium Metallic ones..


which are the only one's I really like, the rest, meh... Give them to sledge he likes them..

"let mikey eat it, he'll eat anything!!" From a popular 1980s commercial....care to guess??

and as far as Brit rants go, ratchetnclank, well done me boyo!!

I love it when a Brit goes off his rocker with proper english, it's sooo cool.. and funny as well.. oh Benny Hill R.I.P.

Why has the swarovski crystal Megatron got toffee fingers?

Seriously,Why has the swarovski crystal Megatron got toffee fingers?

ratchetnclank wrote:Seriously,Why has the swarovski crystal Megatron got toffee fingers?

I don't know what that means, but Sledge makes the best point.

I just like the way he wrote the post. I love to here the English go off on a rant with all the bloody's and wanker's you here. So awesome.

If your piss is the color of Ratchet, run, do not walk, to the nearest doctor.

Thundercracker is awesome, Just wish they'd make a SkyWarp out of that mold too.

Thundercracker
StarScream
SkyWarp

in original colors? aw hells yeah.

Malikon wrote:If your piss is the color of Ratchet, run, do not walk, to the nearest doctor.

Thundercracker is awesome, Just wish they'd make a SkyWarp out of that mold too.

Thundercracker
StarScream
SkyWarp

in original colors? aw hells yeah.

Well, my piss turns that color when I drink Rockstar or Monster.

Dagon wrote:

ratchetnclank wrote:Seriously,Why has the swarovski crystal Megatron got toffee fingers?

I don't know what that means, but Sledge makes the best point.

It means "Why does the Voyager class Megatron repaint (that looks like some sort of robo-Liberace)have fingers that look like they are made of toffee?-or "taffy" as you colonials call it.

ratchetnclank wrote:...Let's look at the new Ratchet.Originally he looked some some big robot Hulk and now he looks stunningly unimproved in his guise as a giant white blocky suppository!Perhaps they should call him an Auto-butt heh...

But I like Auto-butt (Rescue Ratchet)...

Sledge wrote:

decepticonjon wrote:

Sledge wrote:Don't buy them, then. Glad I could solve that problem for you.

that was highly insightful

I could probably have written a quick 500 word essay, but it would have boiled down to the same point. I really don't understand why people get so worked up about repaints.

noobs.... can't live with em'..... cant live w/o em'

skywarp-2 wrote:No, what happened is they are trying to sell off the cheapie repaints to pay for the Premium Metallic ones..


which are the only one's I really like, the rest, meh... Give them to sledge he likes them..

"let mikey eat it, he'll eat anything!!" From a popular 1980s commercial....care to guess??

and as far as Brit rants go, ratchetnclank, well done me boyo!!

I love it when a Brit goes off his rocker with proper english, it's sooo cool.. and funny as well.. oh Benny Hill R.I.P.

As long as you remember it, it lives on laddy.

What I don't get with metallic Megatron is, why why WHY THE STUPID BLACK FACE!? HE'S FACE IS MAINLY SILVER IN THE MOVIE! AND IF YOU PAINT THE WHOLE THING SILVER, WHY WASTE MONEY PAINTING A PART BLACK!!??


Are you really that stupid Hasbro? Have you no brain in that collective skull of yours?!

Malikon wrote:If your piss is the color of Ratchet, run, do not walk, to the nearest doctor.

Thundercracker is awesome, Just wish they'd make a SkyWarp out of that mold too.

Thundercracker
StarScream
SkyWarp

in original colors? aw hells yeah.

I'll be back, I've got to go to the doctor.

Dagon wrote:

ratchetnclank wrote:Seriously,Why has the swarovski crystal Megatron got toffee fingers?

I don't know what that means, but Sledge makes the best point.

He means why, when the rest of the figure is silver, is his hands- which should also be silver- bronze-brown? Hasbro= STOOOOPID.

Nice touch with the swarovski reference. I was looking at some of that today. Cool stuff.













Did you know bloody and wanker are two of the words most commonly used by me and friends? Doesn't that just make you smile?

I never buy them, but I've got nothing against repaints in principle. However there are inspired repaints and there are lazy, boring repaints.

A clever repaint can put a whole new spin on a figure. It can seem like a totally different character. A bad repaint just looks like the same character with the wrong colours.

Rarely do Hasbro repaints match the potential that clever customizers and kit-bashers have shown is possible.