Year of the Rooster Optimus Prime Finally Distributed in the US

I might pick this up cause I'm a sucker for little Transformers and it's been hard finding a good Legends-ish Optimus to go against my Iron Factory Tyrant.

I forgot I had the orig Hybrid Optimus figure, havent seen it in a looong while so I'm guessing it's in storage with my G1 stuff. Thought this listing might have been an early April fools rather than a real thing.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Was C**k Prime the last of these released? I don't remember seeing a Dog Prime or a Pig Prime anywhere...

Nothing came after Rooster Prime, yes.

Did HasTak give a reason for this?

Not to my awareness.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Was C**k Prime the last of these released? I don't remember seeing a Dog Prime or a Pig Prime anywhere...

Nothing came after Rooster Prime, yes.

Did HasTak give a reason for this? It's not like they ran out of Primes to repaint.

It would have been nice to get 12 of them.

They don't have to give a official reason. Platinums were always hard to sell and the last ones are still clogging some store shelves two freaking YEARS later. So it's no wonder they pulled the plug from this unprofitable line.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Was C**k Prime the last of these released? I don't remember seeing a Dog Prime or a Pig Prime anywhere...

Nothing came after Rooster Prime, yes.

Did HasTak give a reason for this? It's not like they ran out of Primes to repaint.

It would have been nice to get 12 of them.

They don't have to give a official reason. Platinums were always hard to sell and the last ones are still clogging some store shelves two freaking YEARS later. So it's no wonder they pulled the plug from this unprofitable line.

So can't they just make the figure in a smaller quantity? Look at the average sales for the previous figures and go by that.

Entirely possible a piece like this and that last Unicron repaint before it were already close to the "minimum" run of what was at one point rumored to be ~10,000 pieces.

I'm ok with them stopping. Already skipped year of the sheep as they went.

Zeedust wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I'm ok with them stopping. Already skipped year of the sheep as they went.

They actually did that one, but they referred to it as "Year of the Goat", which is apparently an alternate name for the sign.

It is, due to them sharing a character:

羊: Sheep
山羊: Goat (lit. "mountain sheep")

Agamemnon wrote:I always thought Soundwave was the Greatest of All Time...

I am severely tempted by Rooster Cogburn err Optimus. However, I believe there is some resistance to get him because of the alt mode. Bot looks fantastic, especially in such a small package, but I think the truck looks worse than Generations Deluxe Prime (that came with G2 megs way back when...)

I agree that the truck is complete garbage. However, it's basically an (almost) all die-cast Revoltech action figure. For any Legend scale display, it's a must. Plus a flight stand and a possible flight pose could be a good selling point. For 75$US instead of the absurd original price, I think now is the time to strike.

Unfortunately, it's not worth it for this here Canadian, with exchange rates, shipping, and sureshot custom fees.
I'm just waiting for my Walmart.ca to finally put the thing on TRUE clearance, like 50% off.

A little late to the conversation, but I'm guessing the demise of the YOT line had do with Hasbro Asia. I'm pretty sure these started as a Hasbro Asia initiative, but we haven't seen a Transformers Asia exclusive in years and now that Hasbro proper seems to be importing Takara Tomy Mall's exclusives starting with MP+ Bluestreak and Star Convoy there just isn't any reason to let Hasbro Asia do their own thing anymore. They threw them a bit of a bone with Rooster Prime, but even that was more of a reissue than the crazy repaints we've been accustomed to.

Emerje