Reprolabels.com's largest update ever!

What is toyhax.com ? Where is the actual "reprolabels" website ?

They need to update their preview windows STAT!

It is a pain to review the pictures now.

Ehhhhhhh that's a rough looking website Not a fan, not a fan at all.

And Toy Hax? Did Reprolables get bought out or just change their name?

they've rarely had images of the sticker sheet in the past from my past orders, maybe 5 or so of the ones I've ordered ever had one?

Toyhax has been around for a bit, Reprolabels have been promoting the site for a while for the backdrops they sell, looks like they decided to consolidate.

fenrir72 wrote:What the heck happened to the old website? My browser's getting errors in accessing it. Jeez!

I think the old website is no more. When I tried to go to it, I got the front "Click To Enter" page, but so clicking just redirected me right to the new one.

Ayyway, I sent the following message to them:

I just wished to express displeasure with your new website. I find it much more difficult to navigate, the preview images aren't as nice, and the colors are rather garish. Overall, I found the old website much easier on the eyes, and more easy to find product on. I hope you reconsider some of the changes you have made. Thank you.

I got the following response, which came within minutes and is rather vague, leading me to suspect it is just an automated stock response:

Hi there!

We appreciate your feedback, and if you would like to give
any suggestions, we will gladly take them under consideration. As of now, we are
very busy with the new release, and with some technical problems. However, once
things have slowed down a little, we will be able to address your concerns.

Hope we can help,
Alex Black

If the website does indeed remain as it is, I suppose I'll live with it and adjust. But it does just seem so garish, and (more importantly) the interface is overly clunky and not at all intuitive. I miss the ease and simplicity of their old site.

Eventually, I will be wanting to order something. I wonder how smooth (or not smooth) the ordering process is on the new site? Has anyone else gone through it, and care to express their opinion?

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Personally, I like some things about the new set up; on the plus side, they have separated 3rd party TF stickers from their "Classics" sections. To me this is a huge plus, because sifting through those on the old website was a pain. So I think their organization has gotten better. However, I'm not crazy about the image set up, but I also don't have any suggestions right now on how to make it better.

This is one of the few nice things about the new site, although frankly, since technically all their other categories are not Transformers, they could have used a better designation then, "Not TF." "3rd Party TF," maybe?

But having them separated, and under the toy's official name, is the one thing they've done that I like. With multiple third parties sometimes covering the same character, and sometimes those being for characters Hasbro has also done, having them all in the same section and all using the character's name could make for a bit of a cluster-frak.

So cheers to them for that, even if I still boo pretty much everything else about the new website.

The owner of Reprolabels told me a while back that he was changing (servers/site?) and I suspect that this is what he was referring to.

My opinion is that, although this renders well on mobile (more on this below), I had to click on the image, wait for it to pop-up, and then open THAT image i another tab, as it didn't fit my screen (I am using my phone, while connected to a monitor, but I don't always do that). Also, clicking on the "left/right" arrors for the next image just exited the image, prompting me to have to click on another link to see the next picure, and repeat the process again.

However, I am happy that they have made the site more mobile friendly. I am going to be outspoken here, but I have felt for a long time that most, if not all ofthe main TF sites, from online shopping sites, to fan news ones (including Seibertron) are not mobile friendly, which is inexcusable in this day and age. Adverising revenue can easily be generated from mobile ads, with only small changes made to the design (just look at gawker, Ars Technica, BBC or any other main site to see how they can offer both PC and mobile solutions). Tformers has a basic "RSS" style mobile site (which still links to desktop pages, but it's more than most sites offer), whereas TFW2005 has even, strangely enough, BLOCKED the entire Docomo mobile phone network IP adress from acessing their site (because, spam, boo hoo), thus alienating most, if not all, Japanese fans (who mainly access the internet through mobile devices and networks).

One of the main reasons that I don't contribute that much to the TF boards, or buy stuff from the various online sites, is because there are no mobile friendly sites out there.

This needs to have already changed, years ago, so I applaud Reprolabels for taking the leap and doing what many sites, including this, should have already done.

The site appears to be broken. I keep getting redirected to this page: http://toyhax.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

Always seems to go down when the update email goes out