Emerje wrote:I remember Roadbuster shelf warming for a long time, even on clearance, not sure if Hasbro will ever do another figure of him. Whirl didn't sell all that great either, but at least he had an appearance in Cyberverse and that figure sold well so maybe he could get a new figure (without the chicken legs). I really want to see Sandstorm done again, the T30/IDW version is just completely unrecognizable to me, only having the colors in common with his original design. Hopefully we've seen the last of that, time for him to get the Siege Springer treatment.
primalxconvoy wrote:They would be much better suited being colour coordinated to go with a BW figure instead, IMO.
Well that would be a dumb move since most of the Kingdom Beast Wars figures only have ports in their feet and aren't really compatible with Fossilizers. As for popularity, under normal circumstances the leader of the Wreckers would be the figure at the top of the tower sold on his own, not an unfamiliarly colored random Jumpstarter from five lines ago. They had to stick him in a box with a Fossilizer just to get the fourth release of the character in that mold to sell and they knew it. The majority of people seem much more excited about the Spindle figure than that guy that nearly nobody in America grew up with in the 80s and probably already have at least one of.
As for Leadfoot, he's such an obscure character to most people he may as well be a new character. Seen a few people here poking fun at his color layout.
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That said, if I were to rank my excitement over these reveals:
7. Bulkhead
6. Springer
5. Impactor
4. Twin Twist
3. Spindle
2. Masterdominus
1. Leadfoot
Emerje
I think it was even dumber for Hasbro to not include more ports for the Beast Wars figures to interact with the Fossilizers as they seem to work aesthetically the best with them. I will stand by my statement though, that the fossilizers are simply tacked-on to the more mainstream G2/G1 character releases. The G2 figure isn't that "unknown" in the fandom these days, thanks to a little thing called the internet (which is why Japanese and European figures are popular/known the world-over with collectors, and get American/Western release or vice-versa in Japan). The Fossilerz, be they good or bad figures, are definitely the underdogs in this fight. Thus, it was the fossilizers that were plopped in the box with the likes of Leadfoot, so it could sell. It's why other, perhaps more popular Fossilizers were also sold this way, such as they nice, transparent purple one that came with BW Megs, etc.
It's a shame, as I think with a little more paint/materials, better interaction with BW figures (via some tastefully placed holes in them), and say, a whole line called,say "Beast Wars - Fossilizers", they could have become a lot more relevant/popular in the fandom than their current state.
