LOST Cybertronian wrote:The listing mislablels Warriors Bumblebee as a 1-step.
Okay, this illustrates my misgivings about the '3 to 5 different difficulty-level figures for each character' trend. It's a great way to give everyone from preschoolers to adult collectors the toys they want,
IF everyone can keep all the variations straight. But while an Amazon listing is easily called out here or any other fansite, and will be corrected before long, I have a bad feeling that this is just confusing the heck out of kids and their parents, causing consistent clusters of chronic shelfwarming.
I can't even remember which AofE characters have or haven't gotten figures in different brackets on which side of the Pacific, and I'm supposedly be the expert at my store. And I for one, LOVED that movie more than the first 3 put together, so I actually do CARE...but it's still not enough. Just today, someone was asking for "the Bumblebee car". While that does conveniently rule out the shampoo bottles and any Rescue Bot Raptors, it's not quite enough, and I can just imagine that being a typical 5 year old's response to an overwhelmed mother asking, "which Bumblebee?" With most other characters, the problem would be only having one version of them in stock, making the odds at best 1 in 3 that it's the desired one.
I'm just saying that Hasbro needs to somehow better communicate how the different difficulty levels work, or this isn't going to move enough lower-production-cost toys to stave off the scourge of higher plastic prices in the long run. Maybe more elaborate diagrams on the packaging than just the 1-2-3 system on the front?
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