Titans Return #HASCON exclusive Arcee Video Reviews

YRQRM0 wrote:Thanks for the shout-out, I also reviewed the power bank prime in a lot of detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZJoU3JiPM

I don't think this figure has received the love it deserves

We newsed that a little while ago!
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... iew/39510/

Twin Twist and his wave mates are available for purchase at TRU at MSRP.
Got my order in for TT and WB. Passed on Misfire.

https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=112871756

Wanted to just put this here, since both RiD and TR did a Twinferno. They actually look pretty decent together!



2 heads and 4 dragon heads make for some interesting conversations

Arcee/Leinad and Ultra Magnus as an Autobot boxset.

Will we get a Decepticon one (with the Scorponok Titan Master)?

Not sure if this is the right place for this, or if it needs a new thread entirely, but I was looking into a bit of a consumer cost analysis on Titans Return vs Combiner Wars and it looks like, while it seems like CW was repaint city and had so much to collect it made your head spin, it looks like Hasbro has a sweet spot for what they think people are willing to pay to complete a line.

Both Combiner Wars and Titans Return came in at just a bit over $1600. How is that possible? Well it happened because, as we tend to forget, they introduced a new size class (Titan Masters) and had 2 Titan class figures instead of 1. A couple of patterns I noticed:

Not including the G2 boxsets (which basically were hasbro just wanting to squeeze every penny out of nostalgia, which I was okay with since I bought them), or the Titan Force (again, repaints released figures) the boxset/exclusive counts were remarkably similar:

Titans Return has 2 boxsets and 3 separate exclusives (Arcee, Clones, and Shreddicus). looking at around $300 for those exclusives.

Combiner Wars has 3 boxsest, Liokaiser, Computron, and Pyra Magna. Also $300.

Retail Voyagers were matched at 9 a piece, and Retail Leaders were matched at 6 as well.

Here it where I go into the theoretical aspect, the discussion portion if you will, feel free to skip if you don't want to read it.

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So, for those of us clamoring for certain figures, and disappointed by the abrupt ending of Titans Return (Slugslinger being the sole figure to end the line), we now have some insight into why. Hasbro appears to have met it's goal of what it feels individuals are willing to purchase within the line.

In terms of certain figures, here are the ones I have heard people wishing would have released:

Legends:
Frumble, Eject, Steeljaw, Ratbat, Cliffjumper, Freeway, Goldbug, Rollbar, Searchlight, Wideload

Deluxe:
Headmasters: Siren, Nightbeat, Hosehead, Fangry, Horri-Bull, Squeezeplay
Powermasters: Slapdash, Joyride
Targetmasters: Sureshot, Crosshairs, Pointblank, Spinister, Needlenose

Voyager:
Apeface, Snapdragon

So in order to fit these in, you would have to remove other figures... let's assume, that you take away Trypticon and the Titan Masters.

Trypticon could be worth 6 voyagers, 9-10 deluxes, or 15 legends
The titan masters could be valued at 2 per legends, 3 per deluxe, 5 per voyager

Theoretically, you could get all the Powermasters and Targetmasters, the Horrorcons, Frumble, Eject, Steeljaw, Ratbat, and Ramhorn as a Legends instead of Titan Master.

Personally, I definitely would have rather had Trypticon, and wait for the rest to trickle out eventually, versus waiting even longer for the Titans.

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Now what this means to me, moving forward, is that I expect Power of the Primes to maintain that $1600 collection number, and to keep approximately 9 voyagers and 6 leaders. We know the Titan already, and since this will be done before summer 2019, we expect the 2019 TItan to be included in the next Generations line. So I think we will see a decent number of figures in this line.

Obviously this post is from my perspective, but feel free to ask questions or put your own spin on it and share.

nycPrime wrote:

Rysquad wrote:

nycPrime wrote:Twin Twist and his wave mates are available for purchase at TRU at MSRP.
Got my order in for TT and WB. Passed on Misfire.

https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=112871756

Showing OOS for me now.

Twin Twist sold out in under an hour. The other 2 sold out a few hours later. Pretty amazing demand.

They do seem hard to come by. I saw two cases at my local TRU. Only picked up Misfire and Twintwist at the time. Finally went on Amazon and got Windblade the other day. I got tired of not finding her anywhere.

As for Amazon, Hot Rod is only $9.99 with Prime shipping right now.

I totally get why wave 5&6 figures sell out online -- they're hard to find in the States. I have yet to see them at all in Oregon, despite having so may brick & mortar options.

So I may not get these figures, due to poor purchasing decisions by my local buyers.

That is...not a good facesculpt. Ech.

Magnus might look good on Top Spin/Twin Twist?