Mykltron wrote:But Nightbird didn't transform, nor did she have a backpack.
Nor was she even that cool. I fail to see the appeal of making a convention exclusive character from a one-off episode who didn't transform or talk or pretty much do anything. Quite frankly, I hated the Nightbird back when I was a kid because I thought that she was a dumb character. And now, 25 years later, and I'm older and able to think things through for myself, I dislike her even more because she doesn't make sense in the grand scheme of things. Say what you want about G1 but it was downright awful with continuity (as were most 80's cartoons) and I get that. But here are these Transformers, who crashed landed on Earth millions of years ago and they are supposed to be these super advanced robots from out space, well beyond our realm of capabilities. Yet, some Earthling makes a remote controlled ninja robot who absolutely takes all of the Autobots to school without blinking an optic sensor.
And again, she was in one freakin episode, unless I'm mistaken. I don't recall any appearances after "Enter the Nightbird". Convention exclusives should be something worth wanting. And anybody who really wants this figure really needs to break away from the machine just a tad. Seriously, if she had more than one appearance and some sort of significance of the TF universe then maybe I could understand people actually wanting this. Sadly though, I know that many people will actually want this and I wonder if those people will just happily accept anything that Hasbro and the conventions will spoon feed them. There has got to be a thousand figures that deserve to be made before the Nightbird. Literally. A thousand.
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