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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 21, 2015 20:16:39 GMT
Before that you're dealing with a range that tried to encompass everything and update it. With CW you can say, right, I've got the four special teams, Devastator and other assorted Voyagers and I've got a self contained complete set. Like an adventure happening in the TF world that doesn't need every character present to make it feel complete. And I think this sums up Combiner Wars very elegantly, ol' cyber-pal. Collect and build, baby. |
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 21, 2015 20:18:14 GMT
....I don't want one Headmaster, if you're doing that I want the four core Autobots. Don't do Springer and Sandstorm without Broadside. And this is why we turn to the Third Party market! Bulldozer Syndrome! I'll stop quoting you now, Pinwig. |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 21, 2015 22:01:41 GMT
Quote away! It's nice to know I'm saying something worth quoting  |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2015 11:31:01 GMT
Why has Combiner Wars energized all our turbo-chargers so? More than than any other TF line, arguably. ). For me the reason the interest is higher for CW (and the NY Toy Fair reveals) is because I am actually seeing these toys in stores and the odds are high that I'll see future waves in person too. It's been hard for me to care about the last few years of Generations and the like because they didn't come to the UK: I never saw them in shops and so my interest diminished (not helped by the quality of the movie stuff we did get being quite poor). I always like seeing new toys out in stores and seeing what they look like in person is generally how I decide whether I want to buy them or not. Thanks to UK austerity policies I have far less disposeable income than I when I started working full-time in 1999 so I'm not likely to import many toys due to unknown CUTA charges I can't budget for. There were a few Generations toys in the past that looked nice in pictures but I couldn't afford to import them. With CW I know I can get these toys when pennies allow if I want them. The team aspect of the line also appeals to me a lot and even the weaker toys have a lot of charm to them. Only the price-points let them down (tad too expensive for the current economy) but at least they are good toys. I'm quite enjoying the ones I picked up having been mostly away from the toy aspect of the Transformers hobby for several years. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 22, 2015 12:43:31 GMT
I think CW is tapping a lot of buttons at once:
The updating the Special Teams is a huge one to start with, but throwing in some new stuff like new limbs and giving combinational ability to Prime & Cyclonus, and allowing the smaller toys to participate as well. It's created a coherent feel to the range from Legends through Deluxe to Voyagers.
The quality on the deluxes has shot up this year, and to some extent the Voyagers too.
UK availability after years of drought on the classics front
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 22, 2015 12:45:22 GMT
Lots of nice surprises relating to a line which has universally got off to a great start. It's been a while since a line (CW) has been so well received. -Ralph It's odd but the surprises at Toyfair were mainly in the details: Minimus Ambus, The Hammer, how nice the Protectobots were. There wasn't a single thing revealed that we didn't know was coming already/ |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2015 17:32:16 GMT
I didn't know about Leader Magnus, the Cobra Rattler or that Devastator would have proper voyager robots making it up. Cyclonus was also new to me and I didn't think we would see the Protectobots yet so lots of stuff was new to me.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 22, 2015 18:14:24 GMT
Fair enough. I knew all of those were likely, and all had been discussed here before
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Post by legios on Feb 22, 2015 18:16:20 GMT
I'm in the same boat, I wasn't aware of all of what was revealed at Toyfair myself. There was a lot that came as a surprise to me - not just in the Combiner Wars line but also in Rescue Bots and Robots in Disguise. And for the first time in a long time I've actually been excited to get a look even at things already knew were going to exist. The last couple of years my interest level has been damped by the knowledge that most of the things I am likely to be interested in aren't going to be things I am going to see on the shelves - even the Deluxes from the last movie line were something that for practical purposes only existed on the Internet as far as I was concerned. (A fairly invidious choice - pay inflated web-store prices, and add shipping on top of that for things or add the £12 cost of a return train fair to a store which may well not have them in stock anyway... Either way, the minimum price a deluxe was going to cost me would have been around £21 in all likelihood - at which point they no longer seem like a good buy in most cases).
Karl
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