Takara Cancels Certain Transformers Legends Reissues due to Lack of Preorders

Goddammit....

Well, that is certainly bum news to hear

RAR wrote: Blurr Makes a lot of sense - Wheelie modest sense.
jetfire was alway a bit of "Huh" moment.

I think the main reason for the Wheelie Reissue is so that anyone buying the God Ginrai giftset with Cab & Minerva can purchase the Goshooter figure that comes with Wheelie to complete the Headmaster Jr. set.

Kurona wrote:I'm so sick of preorder-based stuff like this. Didn't even know it was this bad outside of video games.

Model Trains are like this too. Part of me worries that Car sales may eventually head that way as more and more people buy Used and not New. We are heading towards a Made-to-Order market in a lot of ways.

Flashwave wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'm so sick of preorder-based stuff like this. Didn't even know it was this bad outside of video games.

Model Trains are like this too. Part of me worries that Car sales may eventually head that way as more and more people buy Used and not New. We are heading towards a Made-to-Order market in a lot of ways.

And I gotta say I'm really not a fan. Thankfully, outside of more high-end collector's lines like Masterpiece and maybe the Titans; I can expect it to not actually effect Transformers toys as a whole, since it's difficult to imagine pre-ordering being aimed at children.

Pre-ordering and such is good as an option imo -- there's always gonna be people that are gonna want stuff reserved and were gonna get the product no matter what. What annoys me is when it becomes a central driving force to the industry; when things become focused and built around pre-orders and hence we get stuff like this.

As a nice, convenient option that has clear benefits for certain people; very good. But as... this, it's just ugh.

RAR wrote:Moved a long rant to minds :
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/742706646353977344

That... seems to be talking about Masterpiece, rather than anything to do with Takara Legends re-issues?

fenrir72 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:pffft, not surprised, most of those figures sucked in the first place, and if they wanted to sell a bunch more fort max's they should first endeavor to make sure the base mold isn't a huge disappointment

Is this statement based on fact or conjecture? You hate G1 so more or less you never get a G1 themed item. How then can you come up with the conclusion that they suck?

Also, Thanks to G1 sucktitude, Hb and Takara are still making a killing on them sucky G1 themed products (Legends/Masterpiece/Titans etc)

No need to be salty, if they were so desired, then why is legends megs still available misb on tfsource? Clearly they aren't as desired as you seem to want to think

Beyond that, each figure - save maybe chromedome - has design flaws that make them a disappointment and certainly not worth the inflated price tag. Megs has those idiotic shoulders, and was so similar to the hasbro release that people just got the hasbro version and saved money. Jetfire is boring and as far as I can tell almost identical to the hasbro release, so there again, and until recently was also available online, so, clearly not as popular as you'd like to think it is. And TR Fort Max basically reinvented the term disappointment, taking it to staggering new levels of underwhelming. And it isn't just me, there were plenty of people that felt the same way with each figures release. But you can go ahead and keep telling yourself it's because I hate G1

william-james88 wrote:I love G1 as much as all aspects of Transformers and Titan Fort Max is a dissapointment.

FYI, Takara Jetfire is quite different from the Hsbro release sicne it does not have chrome, which was quite a departure for Takara at that time. Its there that they went from being exra chromey and premium to being more toon accurate.

Megs doesnt have that much difference though. Basically, I can get why anyone in japan would be sad of the cancellations but no one from the US or anywhere else should be since it doesnt affect them. Anyone who wants to get these cancelled figures still can. And quite easily too.

Yeah, if I was an importer like bbts/tfsource, and I saw that there were still leftovers in the warehouses from the initial release, I certainly wouldn't be in a hurry to order more. That probably put a dent into the pre-orders (or lack thereof), but, it's just good business sense.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I love G1 as much as all aspects of Transformers and Titan Fort Max is a dissapointment.

FYI, Takara Jetfire is quite different from the Hsbro release sicne it does not have chrome, which was quite a departure for Takara at that time. Its there that they went from being exra chromey and premium to being more toon accurate.

Megs doesnt have that much difference though. Basically, I can get why anyone in japan would be sad of the cancellations but no one from the US or anywhere else should be since it doesnt affect them. Anyone who wants to get these cancelled figures still can. And quite easily too.

Yeah, if I was an importer like bbts/tfsource, and I saw that there were still leftovers in the warehouses from the initial release, I certainly wouldn't be in a hurry to order more. That probably put a dent into the pre-orders (or lack thereof), but, it's just good business sense.

That has nohing to do with this though. Improters cannot order from Takara, that is against Takara's contract. Takara only judged preorderd based on japanese people preordering from takratomymall. Like i said in the news item, none of this really applies to any of us discussing it unless we are japanese.