mooncake623 wrote:xyl360 wrote:Tsutsukakushi wrote:Gauntlet101010 wrote:Rated X wrote:Gauntlet101010 wrote:You're just not their target. You may as well not vote.
I voted for Sludge. Guy needs some love.
I dont want to start another debate here, but I gotta point out that their REAL target isnt going to be you or me. Its going to be making money. We saw MMC can the hearts of steel line for classics and look how well they have done since. Im not sure any 3rd party Company is going to spend the next 10 years making characters for a video game that keeps getting older and older ever year. There will be new video games, movies, cartoons, etc. and the next generation of collectors will pressure them to move on to something more current or popular.
Yeah, well, they seem to want to make money by selling toys based off the video game, not the cartoon.
Not that I wouldn't love a cartoon set at Classics size. I'd want that more than ones based off the games. But there's no use in complaining that someone's selling apples when you want oranges (to use a metaphor).
On planet X's face book page on the voting likes pics is a pic of WFC Trypicon not the G-1 version. Planet X is interested in the WFC FOC version.
Yep, they're doing WFC/FOC right now. Once that dries up they'll likely jump over to whatever the new hot thing is or (hopefully) jump to something new that no one else is doing (as they've done with the video games).
As for the comments about the classics bandwagon, I don't think classics will be around in 10 years. I think MP will kill it in short order. I give it maybe 5 considering that just about every single major character has been done by Hasbro already and that the 30 or so third party companies doing TFs right now are mostly focused on classics to fill in the gaps of what Hasbro hasn't done. There's no way this line can keep going for that long unless they get really slow about their releases or something. I mean we don't have too many Powermasters and no Pretenders yet, but those lines weren't that large so it won't take 10 years for that many companies to do that many toys.
The Death of classics! Everyone's always talking about this these days with MP's covering their G1 needs. But I think it'll still be around. Classics these days are IDW comics from HAS/TAK and even when all the characters have been done. HAS/TAK and Third parties will do what they always do make a new version of the same thing..
Classics also offers a way for parents to get their kids something akin to what the parents had growing up, and at a decent price. Classics is not all about collectors, where MP is. Also, for collectors like me, MP is just too expensive (and a larger scale).
Whoops, I shouldn't start the scale debate again.
I also think that as long as the WfC and FoC line of video games remains a good seller that we may see toys from this line. Or at the very least, opportunities for Planet X if they wish to continue. How about a video game Ironhide? How about some of the other figures that looked pretty cool in the game, like Jetfire and company?