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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 17, 2024 17:49:54 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2024 18:23:39 GMT
I can provide you with no direct evidence, but while the Star Wars crossovers were on the shelves Hasbro skipped over the Cybertron Minicon class, Deluxe wave 2, 4 & 9 and toys from waves 7 & 8 (they got a bit jumbled in the Euro waves) and at least Voyager Wave 4 tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Cybertron_(toyline)The SW TF toys shelf warmed round here. A very similar thing happened with the previous co branded Animorphs line that had a UK shelf presence while Beast Wars Transmetal 2 toys were unobtainable Correlation is not causation. -Ralph |
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Post by Jim on Oct 17, 2024 18:55:02 GMT
Made the mistake of clicking the IGN link to take a look before I saw was on Pulse, awful website…
This doesn’t look bad by SW crossover standards. The Mandalorian design lends itself to looking robotic anyway, and the robot mode is not nearly as awkward looking as lots of the original SW crossovers were.
In a way this is like the opposite in that in some ways the vehicle mode is what lets it down. The Naboo Starfighter is one of my favourite designs as well, and this isn’t the sleekest take on that. Might have been a tough ask to make a transformer out of that though, and this is a good effort.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 17, 2024 19:02:47 GMT
Hmm. Another Voyager dressed up to Leader price point with additional plastic tat. HMM.
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 17, 2024 19:16:01 GMT
I didn't. I bought the Darth Vader when it came out, from Tescos the same night as Sideways & Snarl (Cybertron w3), first toys from each line that I saw over here. It did nothing for me, didn't buy any more, ebayed it a long time back Vader Deathstar is by far the best figure in the line, better than Unicron and Primus considering it has to transform into a specific existing thing. I assume you are talking about the other Vader which is just as bad as most of the line. |
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 17, 2024 19:18:22 GMT
Kinda like this, but not paying full price for it.
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 17, 2024 19:26:40 GMT
SWTFs shelfwarmed everywhere. Yes they even shelf-warmed in my little local Tesco which is as small as Boris Johnson's sense of decency. |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2024 21:27:17 GMT
Kinda like this, but not paying full price for it. It's ok. It's a Crossover. It'll go cheap. They all do. Except for JP2 and GI Joe 3, damn it. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2024 21:27:58 GMT
SWTFs shelfwarmed everywhere. Yes they even shelf-warmed in my little local Tesco which is as small as Boris Johnson's sense of decency. Flew off the shelves where I was. Them and the Marvel Crossovers sold by the shedload. -Ralph |
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Post by Nigel on Oct 18, 2024 8:51:12 GMT
I don't remember having any problem selling either Star Wars or Marvel, nor seeing them shelfwarm.
Mando seems to fit quite well with the old aesthetic, albeit a more refined design. I wonder how well the size fits side-by-side.
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Post by tomwe on Oct 18, 2024 9:21:42 GMT
My mum bought me a secondhand Millennium Falcon / Han & Chewie set as a bday present about 5 years ago. I was so underwhelmed. I'm not into this.
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Post by Toph on Oct 18, 2024 16:49:14 GMT
I don't remember having any problem selling either Star Wars or Marvel, nor seeing them shelfwarm. Mando seems to fit quite well with the old aesthetic, albeit a more refined design. I wonder how well the size fits side-by-side. Hasbro's info says he's 7" tall |
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Post by Llama God on Oct 19, 2024 8:49:47 GMT
This looks fine, but certainly not worth the cost. As with most Leader-class-priced figures these days.
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 21, 2024 21:38:11 GMT
Yes they even shelf-warmed in my little local Tesco which is as small as Boris Johnson's sense of decency. Flew off the shelves where I was. Them and the Marvel Crossovers sold by the shedload. -Ralph There were stacks and stacks of them in the streets round here! Across The North bulldozers were shovelling them into specially dug pits! People were using piles of them as furniture! |
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