Rodimus Prime wrote:Alright, for some reason I concluded that the Galaxy Shuttle figure was a bit of a disappointment due to being a redeco of a substandard mold? I guess I got my wires crossed somewhere.william-james88 wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:The point I was trying to make was that the mold having it's shortcomings for the characters it's trying to represent makes it not worth the price it's being sold for, but Astrotrain being more well known (and thus more popular?) would upset more people than an obscure Japanese character. Or is it the same expectation with Galaxy Shuttle despite the obvious difference in their profiles?Jelze Bunnycat wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Isn't Astrotrain a more well-known character though?
Yeah, and that's where it actually works against: he's more likely to get new releases.
Obscure Japanese Character 1, well-known Character 0.
Of course, if Astrotrain had been done right to begin with, maybe the inaccurate Galaxy Shuttle also would have been accepted more easily.
I'm not sure I follow, this inaccurate Galaxy Shuttle is being accepted with open arms, based on that crazy mark up.
No, we are both wondering the same thing afterall. I remember a lot of people (maybe even you, not sure) saying that Astrotrain as a leader was a ripoff since it was a voyager, and that's beyond the shuttle mode looking poor. I read this all over various boards. And yet a redeco of that same supposedly ripoff toy is one of the most wanted toys right now. I'm not seeing the same disdain or lukewarm response for Galaxy Shuttle that I did for astrotrain even though Galaxy shuttle is not just a simple redeco, but a simple redeco of a supposedly dislike toy.
Which leads me to think that people probably didn't hate the astrotrain mold afterall l.