Sabrblade wrote:That's a funny way to describe Animated Prowl. Even the Legacy one.-Kanrabat- wrote:Remember when bike girls were slender and agile looking, instead of looking like THICK and BEEFY WWE stars?
Pepperidge Farms remember.
Gauntlet101010 wrote:I has this in my cart at Gamestop as it went out of stock and wouldn't let me complete the transaction. Never happened to me like that before.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Meanwhile, today:Kapow Toys wrote:Transformers Legacy Titan Tidal Wave is due to go live on pre-order tonight, here is why you should vote with your wallets and not pre-order it.
Emerje wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Meanwhile, today:Kapow Toys wrote:Transformers Legacy Titan Tidal Wave is due to go live on pre-order tonight, here is why you should vote with your wallets and not pre-order it.
Damn, that's a rather scathing and incredibly misguided comment from a toy retailer. Surely they must understand it's those full price pre-orders and release sales that pay for these to be produced. Them saying not to pre-order because it's definitely going to be on clearance later isn't going to tell Hasbro (and more importantly the retailers which is where Hasbro directly gets their money from, not customer sales) these cost too much, it's going to tell them people have lost interest and not to make / stock them anymore. Stuff like this depends on early adopters. That doesn't mean everyone that wants to see more like this has to buy right now, it just means a substantial number still needs to.
Emerje
And not just any retailer, either. This would be like if BBTS told the US market not to preorder Tidal Wave.Emerje wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Meanwhile, today:Kapow Toys wrote:Transformers Legacy Titan Tidal Wave is due to go live on pre-order tonight, here is why you should vote with your wallets and not pre-order it.
Damn, that's a rather scathing and incredibly misguided comment from a toy retailer.
Sabrblade wrote:And not just any retailer, either. This would be like if BBTS told the US market not to preorder Tidal Wave.Emerje wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Meanwhile, today:Kapow Toys wrote:Transformers Legacy Titan Tidal Wave is due to go live on pre-order tonight, here is why you should vote with your wallets and not pre-order it.
Damn, that's a rather scathing and incredibly misguided comment from a toy retailer.
sol magnus wrote:I mean, I'm not sure what else they would use Animated Prowl for, but you know they were going to reuse it, so it makes a lot of sense that Chromia might come from that. I guess I would hope there'd be some retooling there besides just a head.
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:sol magnus wrote:I mean, I'm not sure what else they would use Animated Prowl for, but you know they were going to reuse it, so it makes a lot of sense that Chromia might come from that. I guess I would hope there'd be some retooling there besides just a head.
I was kinda hoping for a Road Pig retool to go with Road Rocket
sol magnus wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:sol magnus wrote:I mean, I'm not sure what else they would use Animated Prowl for, but you know they were going to reuse it, so it makes a lot of sense that Chromia might come from that. I guess I would hope there'd be some retooling there besides just a head.
I was kinda hoping for a Road Pig retool to go with Road Rocket
Hey, that could still happen.
o.supreme wrote:We know the designers really try to envision multiple uses for every newly tooled toy that comes out, but some of them dont make it. Thus they only get one use (or perhaps are slightly retooled years later). We've definitely been given some unique ones in the past few years, but some obvious (?) ones I would think would have been a Predacon release of Kingdom Wingfinger & another use of the Legacy Evolution Crashbar mould, but we still haven't got those yet.
It was only the TF: Prime and Animated characters (and, bafflingly, Cyberverse Shadow Striker) that they really G1-ified, because of how heavily stylized their original aesthetics were. The Unicron Trilogy designs were always much closer to the blocky G1 aesthetic, so they never needed to be redesigned to the same extent as the Prime/Animated designs.#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:o.supreme wrote:We know the designers really try to envision multiple uses for every newly tooled toy that comes out, but some of them dont make it. Thus they only get one use (or perhaps are slightly retooled years later). We've definitely been given some unique ones in the past few years, but some obvious (?) ones I would think would have been a Predacon release of Kingdom Wingfinger & another use of the Legacy Evolution Crashbar mould, but we still haven't got those yet.
In Wave 1, when Legacy was doing more significant G1-ifying of non-G1 characters (Like Knock Out and Bulkhead), I always thought the Autobot Ark might be used as a retool for Tidal Wave, given the similar-ish head sculpt and cannons.
Obviously, from Wave 2 onward Legacy started making more faithful representations of non-G1 characters, and now we have a very accurate Tidal Wave. But I still wonder if that was originally an idea they had or if they always planned to make an Armada-faithful Tidal Wave.
Sabrblade wrote:It was only the TF: Prime and Animated characters (and, bafflingly, Cyberverse Shadow Striker) that they really G1-ified, because of how heavily stylized their original aesthetics were. The Unicron Trilogy designs were always much closer to the blocky G1 aesthetic, so they never needed to be redesigned to the same extent as the Prime/Animated designs.#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:o.supreme wrote:We know the designers really try to envision multiple uses for every newly tooled toy that comes out, but some of them dont make it. Thus they only get one use (or perhaps are slightly retooled years later). We've definitely been given some unique ones in the past few years, but some obvious (?) ones I would think would have been a Predacon release of Kingdom Wingfinger & another use of the Legacy Evolution Crashbar mould, but we still haven't got those yet.
In Wave 1, when Legacy was doing more significant G1-ifying of non-G1 characters (Like Knock Out and Bulkhead), I always thought the Autobot Ark might be used as a retool for Tidal Wave, given the similar-ish head sculpt and cannons.
Obviously, from Wave 2 onward Legacy started making more faithful representations of non-G1 characters, and now we have a very accurate Tidal Wave. But I still wonder if that was originally an idea they had or if they always planned to make an Armada-faithful Tidal Wave.
