Haslab Updates: Deathsaurus is Halfway There and Victory Saber Shipping Update

I think of all the Haslabs that both went into production and had bonus tiers, the GIJoe Skystriker is the only one to actually fund, but not pass all it's tiers, so far.

half way sure. notice how big the start was but its gone snail speed now. to anyone getting this good luck with those stretch goals.

griftimus prime wrote:half way sure. notice how big the start was but its gone snail speed now. to anyone getting this good luck with those stretch goals.

Yeah, but this hasn't even been active for a week yet. Plus, they still haven't added in the international preorders and such. I don't think Star Saber fully funded until a couple of weeks before the deadline.

blackeyedprime wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Funny thing is if deathsaurus had been in legacy as planned I'd have picked him up.

I think had he been in Legacy, he'd be far less then the beast seen here. They would have taken far more short cuts with him.

Dunno a commander class figure has a lot of wriggle room selling them at $90 when they have sold them for $45. Easier to charge the fandom way more with a 'haslab'

william-james88 wrote:

Moonshot wrote:I think if it was sold at Commander class, it would have not been that great. Prolly much smaller and almost none of the accessories. Lucky to have even one breastforce guy. I am glad they chose to make it a HasLab figure.

Now I am even more excited to gets my Victory Saber. But I am a bit confused about this ebay talk. What are people selling on there? A promise to ship VS to the buyer when it actually ships?

Yes, that's what they are selling. People are panicking about VS now more than ever.

And I too agree about Commander Class. Honestly, I wouldn't have minded either way, but I can see how this gives you more than any commander class figure we've had.

Honestly, I'm baffled this is still a debate. Has everyone forgotten the last Targetmaster partners from Legacy? Especially the Double Targetmasters? Commander Deathsaurus and his Breast Chest Animals wouldn't be nearly as good as the current version!

Anyway, are these the final tier goals, or do you think there might be a new one later? Because this'd be a golden opportunity for an Esmeral figure. Or a miniature of the Planet-Destroying Fortress in scale with HasLab Unicron.

griftimus prime wrote:half way sure. notice how big the start was but its gone snail speed now. to anyone getting this good luck with those stretch goals.

That's how it always goes. There's a big surge at the start as the early birds place their orders, then it slows down after the first week as people who are interested but not financially able to back it at the outset start to chime in, or people who are interested but didn't hear about it day 1. Near the end the international orders start getting added to the tally, and the closer to the goal it gets, the more people who were on the fence begin to chip in as it seems more like a done deal now. Then once it crosses the finish line it begins to surge now that it's a sure thing.

MaximalNui wrote:Honestly, I'm baffled this is still a debate. Has everyone forgotten the last Targetmaster partners from Legacy? Especially the Double Targetmasters? Commander Deathsaurus and his Breast Chest Animals wouldn't be nearly as good as the current version!

I don't think anyone's trying to debate that a mainline Deathsaurus would be a better figure than the Haslab, merely stating the fact that some of us would prefer an $80-90 figure with less stuff (and/or an $80-90 figure and $10-20 on separate minions) over having to drop $180 on one figure/set.

Also I would say 1/2 of the Targetmaster characters in Legacy thus far look fine, and the good one is the one that is a Double, so I don't think that would compromise Deathsaurus that much.

Orders only went live in Australia in recent days, if they do what they did with Unicron and VS, those numbers won't be added until near the end date. Would imagine that's similar for other parts of the world that Pulse doesn't yet service.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:Honestly, I'm baffled this is still a debate. Has everyone forgotten the last Targetmaster partners from Legacy? Especially the Double Targetmasters? Commander Deathsaurus and his Breast Chest Animals wouldn't be nearly as good as the current version!

I don't think anyone's trying to debate that a mainline Deathsaurus would be a better figure than the Haslab, merely stating the fact that some of us would prefer an $80-90 figure with less stuff (and/or an $80-90 figure and $10-20 on separate minions) over having to drop $180 on one figure/set.

Also I would say 1/2 of the Targetmaster characters in Legacy thus far look fine, and the good one is the one that is a Double, so I don't think that would compromise Deathsaurus that much.

I was actually talking about their partners. I mean, compare them with the Battlemasters back in Siege and Earthrise. Or hell, all the way back to Legends, Thrilling 30 or even Universe Cyclonus!

I've heard it said that when it comes to crowdfunding things like this, that usually if it makes half or more of it's goal before halfway through it's time window, it will be funded (usually). While I am not worried about this guy being funded, I think Hasbro still has some lessons to learn. they should not have more then one crowd fund program going on at the same time. many of their fans are fans of more then just one property, and with how expensive most of these are, and with the economy still trash, I for one can only back one, and I really cant even afford that.

Not that anyone cares ... but I placed my order earlier today! I plan on placing an order a week until it ends.

People like to hold off until they see an actual figure as it will likely look at release. For now we've only seen an uncolored CAD model and an undetailed block model, we haven't even seen a gray model yet. We'll see a colored CAD model probably next week which should help bump up the orders a bit, we'll see. Then you have to factor in the orders from Takara Tomy, Australia, and individual sellers like BBTS and we're definitely getting at least the 11K goal.

I do think it's very optimistic for it to receive as many or more backers than Victory Saber. Traditionally heroes are better sellers than villains and just how many people are going to want a Deathsaurus without a VS? Sure there's the MP Star Saber but how many people could possibly have one of those and not backed VS (yes, there's definitely those people out there, but not enough to tip the scales that much).

My prediction is 18K, enough to hit the second tier, but nothing close to VS. I am not expecting a secret third tier, I don't believe Hasbro has ever done secret tiers (Unicron extras don't count) and they've always been up front about the number of tiers.

Emerje

I am very interested in this figure even though I have almost no frame of reference.
As I’m nearing the end of my collecting days, I would like to have a Haslab figure on a shelf.
I think this guy looks very promising all-around.
I rarely transform any of my figures, but I think he’d be an exception.
And while I’m not a huge fan of the cost, I’m willing to sell off enough to have this covered.
Plus, I usually gravitate towards the villains.

Personally I think DS'll only hit tier 1 if he gets funded. I'm not gonna be shocked if he funds, but I don't see him getting enough for the second tier (as much as I hope he hits it)

So can anyone on here comment, how was hasbro with replacement parts for breakages with unicron? I remember Thew broke his unicron live on camera, and comments were telling him to contact hasbro. I only ask, as I now have the funds (theoretically) to get a second deathsaurus as back up in case anything happens with the first...

MaximalNui wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:Honestly, I'm baffled this is still a debate. Has everyone forgotten the last Targetmaster partners from Legacy? Especially the Double Targetmasters? Commander Deathsaurus and his Breast Chest Animals wouldn't be nearly as good as the current version!

I don't think anyone's trying to debate that a mainline Deathsaurus would be a better figure than the Haslab, merely stating the fact that some of us would prefer an $80-90 figure with less stuff (and/or an $80-90 figure and $10-20 on separate minions) over having to drop $180 on one figure/set.

Also I would say 1/2 of the Targetmaster characters in Legacy thus far look fine, and the good one is the one that is a Double, so I don't think that would compromise Deathsaurus that much.

I was actually talking about their partners. I mean, compare them with the Battlemasters back in Siege and Earthrise. Or hell, all the way back to Legends, Thrilling 30 or even Universe Cyclonus!

Ah, I see, I misread that part. Yeah, this is why I'm totally fine with the strategy of pack-partners-separately like in Siege and the upcoming Frenzy, since they seemingly don't have the budget for packing them together within the retail price points. It leads to less compromise on the individual bots.

Hellscream9999 wrote:So can anyone on here comment, how was hasbro with replacement parts for breakages with unicron? I remember Thew broke his unicron live on camera, and comments were telling him to contact hasbro. I only ask, as I now have the funds (theoretically) to get a second deathsaurus as back up in case anything happens with the first...

I believe with Unicron and probably other HasLabs they produced extra parts for replacements, but I wouldn't count on that past the first month after release.

Emerje

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Personally I think DS'll only hit tier 1 if he gets funded. I'm not gonna be shocked if he funds, but I don't see him getting enough for the second tier (as much as I hope he hits it)

Ye of little faith.

Considering the previous two HASLAB Transformers History, Deathy will be fully funded beyond all the tiers.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:Honestly, I'm baffled this is still a debate. Has everyone forgotten the last Targetmaster partners from Legacy? Especially the Double Targetmasters? Commander Deathsaurus and his Breast Chest Animals wouldn't be nearly as good as the current version!

I don't think anyone's trying to debate that a mainline Deathsaurus would be a better figure than the Haslab, merely stating the fact that some of us would prefer an $80-90 figure with less stuff (and/or an $80-90 figure and $10-20 on separate minions) over having to drop $180 on one figure/set.

Also I would say 1/2 of the Targetmaster characters in Legacy thus far look fine, and the good one is the one that is a Double, so I don't think that would compromise Deathsaurus that much.

I was actually talking about their partners. I mean, compare them with the Battlemasters back in Siege and Earthrise. Or hell, all the way back to Legends, Thrilling 30 or even Universe Cyclonus!

Ah, I see, I misread that part. Yeah, this is why I'm totally fine with the strategy of pack-partners-separately like in Siege and the upcoming Frenzy, since they seemingly don't have the budget for packing them together within the retail price points. It leads to less compromise on the individual bots.

I can understand the sentiment, but hunting separate bots can be a nightmare. Especially when limited quantities and/or bad distribution gets involved.

Having to pay 50$CAN plus shipping for that Select box of cassettes just so that my ER Doubledealer can have his minions was a hard pill to swallow. I would rather had paid a bit more for leader DD than having to buy the minions from a damn scalper.

o.supreme wrote:I think of all the Haslabs that both went into production and had bonus tiers, the GIJoe Skystriker is the only one to actually fund, but not pass all it's tiers, so far.

Heroquest didn't reach the last two stretch goals but they included them anyway.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Personally I think DS'll only hit tier 1 if he gets funded. I'm not gonna be shocked if he funds, but I don't see him getting enough for the second tier (as much as I hope he hits it)

Ye of little faith.

Considering the previous two HASLAB Transformers History, Deathy will be fully funded beyond all the tiers.

True, but Unicron didn't have any tiers and has a wider appeal, and Victory Saber is a good guy that people have been wanting for years. Deathsaurus is also a wanted character, but I don't know if he has the same appeal for the price point that the entire package of Victory Saber had