New Images of Transformers Robots in Disguise Products: Stealth Grimlock, Minicons, Titan Guardians

Continuing their war on Grimlock, Hasbro gives him the appearance of a nauseous, constipated orangutan!

kurthy wrote:Ugh...Titan figures, does anyone actually buy those? The 7-year old is already way too old to like them and the twins will beat each other with them.

Judging by the profane amount of 'em that I've see decomposing in various clearance aisles over the years, I'd say, no

Reportedly, the Titans are a hit in poorer markets where they can't afford actual transformers.

I just don't get the point of the shampoo bottles. They can't transform. They don't have the increased articulation that non-transforming Transformers often have. They don't have the increase in accuracy, sculpture and paintwork that minimally articulated figures often have. And they aren't even that cheap. If they were hugely poseable or gorgeously painted or extremely cartoon accurate or only £2 I might understand. But as is? There is literally no point to getting them over a Warrior class figure or even a one-step. I'm no economist, but there is absolutely no way that continuing to make these...things makes any sense for Hasbro. It decreases the budget they have for other lines and it takes up space on store shelves that could be used by stuff that will actually sell.

So, everybody's getting a Stealth, Blizzard, and/or Scorch Strike deco... am I too late to coin the phrase "Repaints in Disguise?"

Glarryg

Autobot tap out wrote:i'd hate to be that guy, but why does ransack look like a retool of Armada Dead end?

They roughly share an altmode silhouette, but are otherwise different in every way.

(I guess the animation model of the "gun ball" mode may homage Dead End. My tinfoil hat theory is that the chaotic Cyclones (and only them, since we know normal Aligned Mini's are born like regular tfs) might tie into the Armada idea of Minicons being born of Unicron.)

Glarryg wrote:So, everybody's getting a Stealth, Blizzard, and/or Scorch Strike deco... am I too late to coin the phrase "Repaints in Disguise?"

Glarryg

Didnt this also happen with the entirety of the Beast Hunters line?

william-james88 wrote:

carytheone wrote:So they really are going all out on this fire and ice theme. I wonder if they will include any other elements as the series progress.

Let's get some earth, wind and heart minicons

Heart Minicons? What element is heart, the element of love?

Ya nailed it Captain!

william-james88 wrote:

carytheone wrote:So they really are going all out on this fire and ice theme. I wonder if they will include any other elements as the series progress.

Let's get some earth, wind and heart minicons

Heart Minicons? What element is heart, the element of love?

Oh come on, you're older than me but you don't recognize a Captain Planet reference when you see one?

That Bot wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

carytheone wrote:So they really are going all out on this fire and ice theme. I wonder if they will include any other elements as the series progress.

Let's get some earth, wind and heart minicons

Heart Minicons? What element is heart, the element of love?

Oh come on, you're older than me but you don't recognize a Captain Planet reference when you see one?

The only captain planet i know is the one by Don Cheadle. I guess he wasnt that popular in Canada. Unlike Ms Frizzle and the magic schoolbus.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Glarryg wrote:So, everybody's getting a Stealth, Blizzard, and/or Scorch Strike deco... am I too late to coin the phrase "Repaints in Disguise?"

Glarryg

Didnt this also happen with the entirety of the Beast Hunters line?

Not that I know of. They just remolded all the molds to make Mad Max autobots with the typical Bee repaint. Nothing like different themed minicon groups

The Point Glarryg was making was that the RID line has turned into a bunch of redecos. And I was saying thats pretty much what the Prime line became in beasthunters. Sure, there was some remolding but it was basically using the same molds and selling them again under a different theme.