Randomhero wrote:wolverinetodd wrote:I ordered my two Grotusque Exclusives (separately of course because of the limit of 1 per customer) and while I had to pay for shipping for both instead of qualifying for free-shipping had I been able to order both together, it's worth it just so I'll have this figure after waiting so very long for it to finally be available to order.
Now my fingers are crossed that both are shipped without incident and also that Hasbro releases a Deluxe Class Repugnus in the Power of the Primes line. We need the complete team of Monsterbots!
Yeah good luck waiting for a deluxe repugnus. Think there’s room in that corner where people are still waiting for Takara Liokaizer
I think a deluxe Repugnus is quite possible when you think about what other somwhat obscure characters hasbro has done solely to appease fans by compleating "teams"
* Broadside to complete Autobot triple changers
*Quake to complete the Funpub targetmaster juniors team
*Slingshot, Wildrider, and Groove for the fans unhappy with the addition of new characters replacing traditional members
*Kickback because fans kept bitching and bitching and it made sense.
While a more accurate Liokaiser from Takara could have been done with the silverbolt mold, the 6th member would still be missing. I think that was enough to make Takara shy away from doing Liokaiser. Whether due to budget constraints or just out of respect for the Hasbro concept, they didnt want to eliminate the scramble city concept with a double bot torso. Not to mention Hasbros Liokaiser was already at Takara standards in the paint app department. So it would have been the torso or nothing which is what Takara chose.
On the other hand, Hasbro likes to make retools like Grotesque and Arcee to bring in easy $$$. While a future deluxe repugnus might not be a headmaster to go with the other 2 monstrobots, the upcoming terrorcon molds make it entirely possible and profitable. Rippersnapper, Blot, and even Cutthroat would be too easy to resist for Ha$bro.
I think we are going to see a few "black box exclusives" from the POTP molds this year.
But hopefully that means they will BE available before long.
On the plus side? All the OTHER figures that I mentioned in the post just above are now actually available, including Quake, Kup, Octone and Slugslinger!
