Rise of the Beasts Titan Hero Scourge Found at US Retail

Brokebot wrote:TITAN Changer Scourge.

A character voiced by Peter Dinklage.

Ironic.

cloudballoon wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:FYI, according to Hasbro toy sales went up and the ROTB line sold well so as far as their concerned the movie did well.

Yes, but that's a comparison to the dismal 2022 year. On the retail floors, ROTB (and BBM) got far less presence than the Bay movies. Those glorious days of TF toys steamrolling over everything else (even Star Wars, DC & Marvel shelves) are long gone. Still if Hasbro's doing well, it's all good for us fans.

With bombs after bombs (some undeserved, some earned), Paramount might go down before TF:1 (hopefully AFTER MI:DR Pt. 2 so Cruise's fans have some closure), which might be a GOOD thing as it forces Hasbro to shop for another studios for the TF IP, and negotiate better terms for creative controls on the bots & story.

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I loved BBM & like ROTB enough. But I'm ready to give up on caring for any more live-action TF. Paramount's hesistance on bebooting the franchise and not caring about continuity between movies is making the movies very 'meh.' They're not nothing more than toy commercials now.... and not even GOOD toy commericals because most of the toys doesn't even look close to the on-screen designs (I went with Yolopark).

TF:1 sounds good on paper. And putting TF movies back in animation & on Cybertron is the right thing to do, at the very least to keep costs down and make them profitable for long-term viability.

The crazy things animation can do nowadays, like what we saw in Spiderverse, TMNT, Puss in Boots, etc. is wild.

cloudballoon wrote:Isn't it strange that the lack of movie toys for ROTB happened at all? The movie was delayed while the toys were supposed to be all ready and sitting at warehouses for a year. But when the movie's actually release and people don't see the toys....


I just don't even bother to go to the stores for toy hunts anymore. Hardly ever any sales since 2019. What they have are all kiddie lines. New CHUG/SS are rarely seen unless they're the few shelfwarmers.

The ROTB Beast Alliance line (the ones with the weapons, not the ones wear the bot wears the beast) got some pretty cool figures though. I wouldn't mind getting a few of those if I have more shelf space.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:So, as it was in the past we had a case of feast or famine with the distribution of ROTB toys. Here's the other thing, Mirage was THE guy for the movie and for its entire theatrical run, there was only ONE Mirage toy available, boggles the mind.