Official Images of Rise of Rodimus Prime Platinum Edition Set

itscramtastic wrote:Again, the artwork from the box has sucked me in to make me want figurse I don't really need. If anyone picks up ANY of the Platinum sets and wants to sell me the boxes, I'm around!

And then there's Unicron. I just had a friend say to me the other day "I see you don't have a Unicron in your collection, did they ever make one?" I said "Yeah they did, a few variants actually." He said, "Why don't you have it?" I said, "I'm lazy."

So now I may have to get this one. I REALLY WISH they'd make one bigger than Fortress Maximus/Metroplex, like that one the 3rd party company teased on April Fool's Day.

Dang it Hasbro.

Hasbro has a titan class now and wants to make one a year. I feel that its there they would do a new unicron (and then retool him into Primus).

william-james88 wrote:Hasbro has a titan class now and wants to make one a year. I feel that its there they would do a new unicron (and then retool him into Primus).

But that's like..3 years away!

Did they answer the important question of whether Rod is plastic this time?

durroth wrote:Did they answer the important question of whether Rod is plastic this time?

I believe he was confirmed to be metal.

Crap. So its going to be overweighted joints again

durroth wrote:Crap. So its going to be overweighted joints again

Well, at least it will go well with that Galvatron then. :p

MrBlack wrote:

durroth wrote:Crap. So its going to be overweighted joints again

Well, at least it will go well with that Galvatron then. :p

william-james88 wrote:

durroth wrote:Did they answer the important question of whether Rod is plastic this time?

I believe he was confirmed to be metal.

Damn...I only ever owned the war within Optimus and it was just a flimsy mess due to die-cast. I don't need this, especially that Galvatron and especially with Titans return Rodimus coming but I did at least want to give this Rodimus a try since I never owned it and was kinda hoping he'd be without die cast.

Randomhero wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

durroth wrote:Did they answer the important question of whether Rod is plastic this time?

I believe he was confirmed to be metal.

Damn...I only ever owned the war within Optimus and it was just a flimsy mess due to die-cast. I don't need this, especially that Galvatron and especially with Titans return Rodimus coming but I did at least want to give this Rodimus a try since I never owned it and was kinda hoping he'd be without die cast.

On the positive side, Titanium Megatron makes a great IDW Terminus.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:The Megatron and Optimus set looks cool, the Junkion set I'll most likely pass, and the group set looks really expensive... Now if only they had a Platinum edition of all the figures from season 1...

I would like to have the Autobot Heroes set just for Ultra Magnus and Arcee, but where will it be sold?

I actually like that Rodimus, but they couldn't have picked a worse angle to picture him at.

HBGoo1984 wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:The Megatron and Optimus set looks cool, the Junkion set I'll most likely pass, and the group set looks really expensive... Now if only they had a Platinum edition of all the figures from season 1...

I would like to have the Autobot Heroes set just for Ultra Magnus and Arcee, but where will it be sold?

Target, I believe.

shajaki wrote:I actually like that Rodimus, but they couldn't have picked a worse angle to picture him at.

Oh, yes they could have.



And now I've just ruined this figure for everyone who's never experienced it before.

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:I actually like that Rodimus, but they couldn't have picked a worse angle to picture him at.

Oh, yes they could have.



And now I've just ruined this figure for everyone who's never experienced it before.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Tyrannacon wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Tyrannacon wrote:I wouldn't mind a Unicron that's larger, but the price point might be a bit higher than anticipated since it's not using the city-mode molds I think? I know I read somewhere that Fort Max and MetroPlex use some of the same tooling/molding. Please correct me if I misunderstood or am misinformed.

That's a bit of an interesting point, they are retools of each other, but that shouldn't have had an impact on the price, as Trypticon, Scorponok, and Omega Supreme are likely to be all new molds, and Dev's was also a new mold, so, clearly, being a retool did nothing but increase hasbro's profits on the Fort Max mold

Like I said, you guys are probably more experts in this area than me here. So I yield to you guys. I just was kind of applying what I consider "common sense" to the situation here.

It's all good, you did raise a valid point, and I think a lot more people owuld have taken to Fort Max if the msrp was lower - especially since hasbro flat out stated that it's cheaper to remold a figure...

I see what you're saying about lowering the MSRP, but that would make pricing and budgeting impossible on HasTak's end.

Let's say Max is sold for less than Metroplex. That just means that more folks buy Max, who by the way, was only cheaper to design. Manufacturing stays the same. Good luck planning ahead when your big figure (or any figure) varies that much in price and demand from year to year. It's easier to just equalize prices and roll anything leftover in the design budget into future work. Odds are, either Metroplex benefited from such funds or leftover from Fort Max might be put into Trypticon (who will definitely need every dollar he can get). It's not like these savings are going into Brian Goldner's money bin.

Randomhero wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:I actually like that Rodimus, but they couldn't have picked a worse angle to picture him at.

Oh, yes they could have.



And now I've just ruined this figure for everyone who's never experienced it before.

... meh? *shrugs* I mean, the backpack's a little hollow, but... whatever.

not switching to plastic doesn't make alot of sense honestly. It would have made the set cheaper to produce (you know they wouldn't lower the pricepoint, this is hasbro we're talking about), made the figure more stable, and made it so he wasn't stupidly heavy compared to galvatron.

Kurona wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:I actually like that Rodimus, but they couldn't have picked a worse angle to picture him at.

Oh, yes they could have.



And now I've just ruined this figure for everyone who's never experienced it before.

... meh? *shrugs* I mean, the backpack's a little hollow, but... whatever.

...that's not his backpack, it's his entire body - and the fact that it doesn't exist - and Sabr was wrong, this is the most unflattering photo:

I, for one, love my little Titanium Rodimus. I think the engineering is cool, and it holds together just fine. I even have Reprolabels for mine.