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Post by Pinwig on Jan 21, 2022 23:18:02 GMT
Or did I dream that? I'm sure we did.
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Post by KnightBeat on Jan 22, 2022 0:24:29 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 22, 2022 11:57:58 GMT
Interesting the news breaks exactly 30 years after issue 333 should have been out
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 22, 2022 12:19:28 GMT
Oh that's probably it. Must have been wishful thinking on my part. |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 22, 2022 12:20:08 GMT
I will too. I'd like the complete story. It may not be brilliant, but it's still Transformers. |
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 22, 2022 12:32:28 GMT
Having got the Definitive collection I suppose I will have to decide on a format to round up IDW2, just to keep the collection definitive.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 22, 2022 17:04:38 GMT
It is at least nice that with this series, IDW seem to be combining the ongoing with miniseries that are all in the same continuity, so it's all in one book collection.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 22, 2022 19:21:27 GMT
The monthly Transformers series will wrap up by mid-summer, while the Transformers: Beast Wars series will come to its conclusion this summer, too. That will lead to two new miniseries events. The company will also publish a variety of special one-shot projects spotlighting heroes and villains from across Transformers history.
I wonder where this is going then. We know IDW are knocking out the collections of these in 12 issue books, and the fifth volume is due in June with issues #31-#36, The Wreckers mini and the last two one shots. King Grimlock is getting its own book. By my reckoning that means the only issues so far published that would go in a Volume 6 book would be issues #37-#39, 39 being this month's comic. Midsummer in America means June, so *around* five more issues of the main series? meaning eight in the next volume and space for one of the minis? Seems to me they aren't going to end up with a nice round number of comics to fit in the 12 issue books. Unless the other mini and the one shots aren't in that continuity.
Obviously all I'm thinking about is what will look neat on the shelf...
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Post by Jaymz on Jan 22, 2022 19:34:46 GMT
8 issues of the main would work with the 4 issue mini War's End.
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Post by Toph on Jan 22, 2022 21:02:29 GMT
I guess this means the TF/Ghostbusters tpb reprint I've been hoping for won't happen.
Amazon cancelled my preorder for the original, and instead scalpers want up to $100 for it.
They also cancelled my preorder for the BttF crossover tpb, but they reinstated that about a month before release.
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Post by primenova on Jan 23, 2022 11:21:15 GMT
Are they still going to be able to do tpb/hb on the IDW stuff not collected for end 2022. Maybe have everything listed for Dec22 even if the issue comes out that month then don't ship until 2023?
John Paul Bove has been pitching ideas but IDW say no to everything, maybe this new company might say yes.
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Post by Nigel on Jan 24, 2022 19:45:46 GMT
Is it just me or does the Ruckley series seem like it's just been treading water or killing time anyway? Might an end to the Hasbro/IDW partnership have been a possibility a couple of years ago? Might that have been part of the reason for IDW ending their original universe on their terms, before the plug was pulled? Purely speculation, of course.
On the one hand, I don't like Ruckley's pedestrian main series and am not bothered about it ending. On the other hand, I've enjoyed some of the mini-series and crossovers that have been published over the last couple of years (including those connected to the main series), with the Beast Wars series being far more enjoyable than Ruckley's and still having a lot of future potential, so it's a shame to see those going.
It's interesting that IDW still has the licences for other Hasbro properties, such as D&D and My Little Pony. One might have speculated that the recent end of the Friendship is Magic comic could point to the end of the licence.
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Post by Nigel on Jan 26, 2022 20:50:52 GMT
Flirting too closely with Disney is dangerous at best... But even still. Working too closely with Disney is dangerous. The more licenses they consolidate in Hasbro (and atm, all three major ones are there. Marvel, Star Wars, Princesses), the stronger their connection is. When Hasbro starts granting Disney their own licenses, then that gives Disney even more power, and Disney will consume Hasbro without hesitation if they think they can do it. As it happens, it was announced today that Disney Princess and Frozen are going back to Mattel. Hasbro having the Star Wars rights is actually an historical agreement going back to the Kenner and Galoob days, both of which companies Hasbro bought out - in the case of Galoob it was largely to acquire their Star Wars licence. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 26, 2022 22:14:34 GMT
... but one that has been up for negotiation several times since then
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Post by Nigel on Jan 27, 2022 10:33:33 GMT
What a coincidence - it was announced yesterday that Hasbro has extended it's Star Wars licence and also acquired Indiana Jones! investor.hasbro.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hasbro-expands-relationship-disneys-lucasfilm-extending-starKenner had the rights to produce Star Wars in perpetuity, a canny piece of negotiation on their part. As far as I recall, Hasbro acquired these rights as part of the Kenner acquisition. However, as this article ( www.jeditemplearchives.com/2018-09-16-the-cost-of-hasbros-star-wars-license/ ) demonstrates, this didn't cover the prequels and other projects afterwards. Maybe the various renegotiations related more to new films? I don't know. If Hasbro had the rights in perpetuity originally, then this licence may well have been subsumed into subsequent licences. If I remember correctly, when Disney bought Lucasfilm, Hasbro received Disney shares as part of the deal, to replace their Lucasfilm stock; or that could conceivably be the other way round and Disney received Lucasfilm's Hasbro shares! |
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 13, 2022 22:14:39 GMT
Losing my mind trying to combine all my digital copies into one organised folder. Some are issues, some trades,some from comixology some from humble bundle. The are spread across multiple folders on multiple hard drives. A ridiculous number of them have very similar titles and comixology is not great for finding them all. Or the licenses have expired and so the issues are just not there.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 13, 2022 22:22:46 GMT
*shudders at the prospect of having bought a digital copy of a publication that then vanishes*
This is what holds me back from going digital still. I'm fine with rental services like Marvel Unlimited, but if I've bought something, even a file, it should stay accessible.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 13, 2022 22:25:49 GMT
Mind you, that said, I do need to check the IDW stuff pre new continuity that wasn't in the hachette collection. I'm sure I've got some trades missing there. I liked the aligned stuff they did but I'm not sure I have all of it.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 13, 2022 22:26:02 GMT
I stopped using Comixology when over a hundred issues vanished from my account and queries went unanswered. I returned to physical copies and have never looked back.
I can see myself using Marvel Unlimited in the future as it's a decent cheap rental service I could use to keep up on stuff now that Paninivision is not what it was. Not until I finish my degree though. Work + Uni means I have too much screen time.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Feb 13, 2022 22:32:29 GMT
I went digital around the personality ticks arc of MTMTE, but have dropped off in recent years. Kinda glad I'm not more up to date now.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 13, 2022 22:47:35 GMT
I only "bought" stuff that had DRM free backups (so basically IDW) or stuff that was very cheap. I stopped when I realised how much very cheap stuff I had and how much real money that worked out at.
I've always been pretty good at backing up the IDW stuff so I dont think Ive lost anything there, but I didn't get all the hasbroverse stuff at the time and now a chunk of that is no longer available.
I'd just like to know what Im missing.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 13, 2022 22:50:04 GMT
I have found Ive only been downloading cbz files from Humble Bundle so Im grabbing quite a few pdfs as I go.
HB file sizes are way bigger than comixology seems to be.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 13, 2022 23:20:48 GMT
Arghhhhhhhhhhh!
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 14, 2022 2:08:15 GMT
meep
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 14, 2022 22:58:36 GMT
So the good news is theres only a few thing that arent available that directly tie into Transformers (MASK seems to be the responsible party) Its a bit confusing though. Revolutionaries is no longer avaible in any digital format on its own, but volume one has been included with the first hard back of phase 3 which is available digitally.
The bad news is that I am missing a fair bit of that arc and a surprising amount of the first phase. Initially I wasnt in a rush, but it seems IDW have stopped including DRM Free copies with purchases directly from their site. So once comixology stops providing them I'd be reliant on a humble bundle coming along in the next few months.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 17, 2022 17:15:24 GMT
I caved and spent an undetermined amount of money filling gaps. Think I have everything available digitallly from the main IDW storyline.
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Post by KnightBeat on Feb 17, 2022 18:31:07 GMT
I've just bought Phase 3 Vol in hardcover form and hidden it underneath an angry cat, at the centre of a maze of confusion. There's no way that Hasbro can get to it now!
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Post by Toph on Feb 18, 2022 7:59:00 GMT
Amazon took down their listings for the King Grimlock TPB
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 26, 2023 11:32:58 GMT
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Post by legios on Jul 1, 2023 17:29:50 GMT
And also it's just odd that Hasbro are putting out characters from IDW 2.0 (mainly - yes, Javelin featured a small amount in IDW 1.0, but not as much as 2.0) given that they (relatively) recently stopped IDW 2.0 from being a thing. Very strange. Out of curiosity, do we know that it was the case that Hasbro withdrew the license? Or was it that IDW opted not to renew it/did not want to pay what Hasbro wanted for renewal? I hadn't heard one way or another and I'd been wondering of there was any evidence one way or another. Karl |
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