Comprehensive Video Review for Haslab Transformers Deathsaurus

He looks nice, but not worth £320 RRP. That's more than any Titan or most Masterpieces (aside from Primes) for someone infinitely more obscure.

First-Aid wrote:Yeah, HasLab is specifically FOR obscure fanservice figures.

I imagine this figure is good news for Deathsaurus fans(and those of the obscure). Yet meanwhile still no official MP Galvatron....

Sabrblade wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Yeah, HasLab is specifically FOR obscure fanservice figures.

I imagine this figure is good news for Deathsaurus fans(and those of the obscure). Yet meanwhile still no official MP Galvatron....

Why would MP Galvatron come from Hasbro (the team behind HasLab) when MP G1 is solely Takara's baby?

It has been Twelve Years since MP Rodimus Prime. I'm not picky which side of HasTak does it. Merely that the release should have been done by now!

I don't care about the packaging because it's not even collector friendly once it's taken out of the box. Unless you take the time to carefully remove each little plastic tie without breaking them. I cut up the box anyway for the art and threw the rest away. As for the figure, I only got it because I have Star Saber. For a "premium" figure, it's not worth the Haslab price. They can literally charge anything to MAKE it premium and they still found ways to cut corners and make it feel cheap. There should be no visible swivel joints, cleaner storage for ALL accessories, a better way for the chest pieces to clip on and into the torso, and a more refined way to eject the piece other than sticking a finger through the back. They should have charged EXACTLY what it would have cost to make it a premium collector level piece.

Solrac333 wrote:They should have charged EXACTLY what it would have cost to make it a premium collector level piece.

Lol, charging cost means 0 profit. Tough luck finding a toy company doing pro bono work.

The price of any crowdfund is based on the minimum needed to go ahead with the campaign (minimum order quantity, MOQ) and that number is usually based on production, logistics and profits (and sometimes advertising). Stretch goals are supposed to add more value to the project since profit per unit goes up once they get past the MOQ, but it also costs more to ship in 27K units on a freighter than 10K so it's not like Hasbro is making pure profit off all those units and can afford to drop the price.

Emerje

Dunno why we are whining about prices now, and why the UK is so out of wack, Deathsaurus is priced $20 cheaper than a titan, is commander sized, and with the amount of accessories, articulation, detail, and paint work plus the fact he is a crowdfunder, that price ended up being very reasonable.

Plus, he is far better than Victory Saber, who was the same cost.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Which brings into question why crowd funding is needed at all, if not for excess profit? A Commander/Leader Class Deathsaurus wouldn't be £320. If they were going to attempt a Masterpiece, which potentially could have been released with such a price tag. They would have likely have done so to coincide with MP-24. Although at the time - 2015 - the prices were not yet that high.

This version needed funding. Hasbro (corporate) was fine with releasing Deatgsaurus as a retool of leader 86 Grimlock (and make over 100,000 of them, which is how much they produce mainline toys). The designers argued against it and their version of the figure was only approved as a Haslab figure to negate the risk.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Deathsaurus is priced $20 cheaper than a titan

I dunno about that. Granted I bought TR Fort Max and Generations Trypticon on sale for £99 each. But my Metroplex (reissue) only cost £220. Scorponok cost £120 new in 2020. I've even seen the Guardian Robot go for £219 RRP too. I reiterate the City Bots also double as play sets for smaller figures.

Deathsaurus was $180. A Titan is $200. $20 cheaper.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:So Hasbro Pulse was a bit interesting this morning. When sorting for all transformers and viewing by newest, Haslab Victory Saber and Unicron both were showing as coming soon and both appeared to be slightly different than the original Haslab listings. Later in the day, they just said sold out and were the original listings. I am wondering if they will be offering a second run on either of them and not sure how I feel about that.

It will be interesting to see if that was a glitch or if they are about to reveal a second chance at either or both sometime soon.

If they do, I already have VS and Unicron is still a hard pass for me. That is too much for a single figure for me.

See this post by Emerje for the explanation about that.