|
|
Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2022 21:33:36 GMT
They'll be popping the corks at Haslab HQ. They've avoided four failed projects in a row.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Llama God on Nov 29, 2022 8:23:57 GMT
They'll be confused, though, I'm sure - there's no real difference between Deathsaurus and their other offerings, in that it's just a slightly fancier "normal" figure that could've appeared in one of the mainstream lines somehow. Maybe all this shows is that Transformers fans are a bunch of marks...
Hoping that this isn't going to be the pattern going forwards now, and that this doesn't become the only way to get what used to be Leader or Supreme class toys (depending on how you want it), and that future Haslabs are more interesting.
Still not decided if I'm going in on this - I've got some non-trivial expenses looming on the horizon, and I don't think I can justify it...
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Nov 29, 2022 13:21:43 GMT
There are times when Adulting is required, alas.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by shaggydave76 on Nov 29, 2022 14:30:15 GMT
Isn't this basically just a rip-off of the 'Death Saurer' from Zoids: Chaotic Century???
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 29, 2022 14:35:51 GMT
Chaotic Century is 10+ years post Victory
The original Deathsaurer toy is earlier that Victory - 2-3 years - but it's basically another riff on the Giant Tyranosaur theme whereas Deathsaurus is more a dragon, with wings.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 29, 2022 15:46:42 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Nov 29, 2022 16:37:40 GMT
THE CHAIR!
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by shaggydave76 on Nov 29, 2022 16:37:57 GMT
Chaotic Century is 10+ years post Victory The original Deathsaurer toy is earlier that Victory - 2-3 years - but it's basically another riff on the Giant Tyranosaur theme whereas Deathsaurus is more a dragon, with wings. Good point. I guess they're ALL technically a rip-off of the OG Godzilla/Gojira. |
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 29, 2022 17:10:44 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Bogatan on Nov 29, 2022 18:27:35 GMT
That looks massively better than the render or block prototype.
|
|
|
|
Post by Toph on Nov 29, 2022 19:29:15 GMT
I'll give them props, that silver paint on the un-breasted chest looks very much like unpainted diecast.
|
|
|
|
Post by Llama God on Nov 30, 2022 8:12:07 GMT
Yep, the paint looks nice, but I'm still not as wowed by it as I was Victory Sabre. I know that both sets have multiple figures, but Deathsaurus' don't offer the same complexity as the other set. It's just big. A good looking Commander class toy, but nothing more than that...
|
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Nov 30, 2022 8:39:31 GMT
That does look a LOT better. Not put my cash down on it yet though. Unsure about the bacon chair
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 30, 2022 8:51:05 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 1, 2022 0:36:05 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 3, 2022 23:41:27 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 3, 2022 23:42:46 GMT
Almost there for the weapons at 14K
Throne at 17K looking much more likely now
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2022 23:44:37 GMT
I'm going to stick my neck out and say I think it will get the chair.
It's grown on me but I simply don't have the pennies for it this close to Christmas. Oh well. I remain strangely sanguin about it though.
Maybe I will be full of frothing FOMO when Victor Saber turns up but unless I do crypt time I can't afford one anyway!
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Benn on Dec 4, 2022 1:43:53 GMT
No throne. Simply because I have not the room for it.
If it reaches the Throne, should I donate it to Andu?
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 5, 2022 0:07:07 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Toph on Dec 5, 2022 5:41:44 GMT
Okay. So 11k is on the low end, but that's a full production run from what we've been told in the past. That puts these in normal retail ballpark from my understanding.
So going by that premise, Deathsaurus looks like a pretty standard Commander Class. IE, he doesn't look much more intricate than Jetfire.
That makes him an $80 toy.
The two beasts, hasbro swears are core class, but don't really seem like it to me. But but $10 each.
So that's $100 there.
Let's give them benefit of doubt and say that there's mild premium deco going on, that wouldn't happen if he were a retail toy, plus being on the lower end of a production run, they aren't banking as much per unit as they would Jetfire or Skylynx. (I personally think commanders have a significantly lower run than deluxes do).
So that's $120-$130 depending on how generous you want to be, here.
They're charging $180 for Deathsaurus.
So that's at minimum a $50 difference.
So at 14k, we get a gun, and some recycled blast effects that no one (except phil) seems to want.
At 17k (which really is into full retail production numbers), we get a chair.
So this is a long winded and bitchy way of saying that even though I don't give a shit about a chair that'll never leave the box, I want it because I'm paying like... Eighty bucks more than this toy is worth to me for it and I want every scrap I can get out of this.
That said, why couldn't they throw in a Leozak retool of PotP Scarscream as the unlockable instead of a chair and shitty blast effects?
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 5, 2022 13:08:48 GMT
13,546 Backers
Target 11,000
Funded
Crowdfund ends in:
7 Days 15 Hours 51 Minutes
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 5, 2022 19:31:24 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Dec 5, 2022 19:59:58 GMT
Still no FOMO here.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 7, 2022 13:13:24 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 9, 2022 15:46:18 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Jaymz on Dec 9, 2022 21:30:17 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 9, 2022 23:36:49 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 10, 2022 17:17:42 GMT
It's all good throne fans!
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Dec 10, 2022 17:22:05 GMT
I don't actually like this Throne, but I would buy any recolours of the one that came with Starscream! Where is my Hasbro Selects Chair Set???
-Ralph
|
|
