o.supreme wrote:My experience is similar. I had a strong inclination to get T30 Metroplex when it first came out,since selling all my original collection in 2007, I had no reason to start up again feeling that this was going to be just a "one off" of a classic character I liked. My son was getting random movie and animated toys, but not a huge collection since he was only 7 at the time (now he's 11). I was unable to find Metroplex at retail and that was that.
Then in 2014 at Botcon when Menasor & Superion were revealed for CW for 2015, it raised an eyebrow, but then I figured there would be only those two, and that's it. It was not until CW was in full swing, and almost ending I took the plunge, and UW cemented it for me. I'm glad I did. Including all TR and PotP reveals thus far, we are only a few characters away from what I would consider a faithful recreation of my original collection, and we've gotten some nice new ones along the way.
I'm glad TT is rereleasing Metroplex. I'm not thrilled with the price, but its better than what I would have to pay on eBay for the T30 one at this point.
See, what you've done here is turn my complaint that the figures are essentially the G1 figures with more articulation, and turned it into "I like the new lines because we're getting all the toys I used to have."
If they had been more aesthetically unique (to be fair, some of the stunticons are), but the same roster of characters, would you still have been as interested? My money is on "yes". And the complaint was most specifically to do with the people conjecturing about Scorponok and Omega Supreme, based on the look and function of their G1 toys. I am reasonably certain that new renditions of those figures will need to be more unique from the originals to function well. No partsforming OS, no giant scorpion backpack, no mountain of accessories that are only useful in one mode.
If (big IF) I do get him, he'll be strictly torso. Both the bot and the plane modes look like sh*t.
I don't like the Thicc arms but other than that i'm loving this fig so far the HFG/feet/hands will be in a bag until we get a confirmation on the full combiner. Please Hasbro for all that is good and holy repaint this into Skywarp and Thundercracker 
. Also for all that is good and holy release them here in my area in Australia this Xmas!
