Post by Pinwig on Jul 16, 2017 12:56:07 GMT
Okay, so all this is just my personal opinion. I'm not claiming fact. Generations as a line started with a limp at a low point for the whole CHUG range with very few toys, most of which were moulds left over from Universe. Then it went into WfC/FoC, where it began to regain momentum. When we got to T30 Hasbro could see a market again (10 toys in 2011 compared to 33 in 2013, then 60 in 2015 when CW started) and so used it partly as a celebration, but also an experiment to see where to go and what to push by covering everything (when did Archer leave? new team came in sometime around here didn't they?).
So that FoC Bruticus/T30 point gave them the impetus for the Prime Wars Trilogy and the idea of re-establishing the line with regular waves and more toys. If you go back to T30, they've been redoing most G1 characters from '84 onwards. Very few 84-86 haven't got a figure now from this newer post FoC era, hence in my head, it was a decision to restart. Just in my head, no where else, I see Generations as having been reset internally by Hasbro during the T30 line with the intention of Prime Wars creating new versions of all the classic characters, mirroring the evolution of the original line.
As for scale - again it's totally subjective and as I said, I know for Ralph scale is irrelevant as he's said that before. To me, scale is height ratios for robot modes roughly equivalent to what they were originally (and how they were portrayed in fiction), so the classics plane mould is too small. Something like RTS Jazz next to Classics Starscream looks silly to me, because Starscream should be bigger. Therefore, as a personal preference, I'd like to see a Voyager size plane mould because in most cases otherwise (adhering to the Legend/Deluxe/Voyager/Leader restrictions we have now) most characters released post-FoC are just about right in relation to each other compared to the way they were in the first place.
Now you can pick that apart all you like and claim that I'm wrong about it all, but that's how it works for me.
So that FoC Bruticus/T30 point gave them the impetus for the Prime Wars Trilogy and the idea of re-establishing the line with regular waves and more toys. If you go back to T30, they've been redoing most G1 characters from '84 onwards. Very few 84-86 haven't got a figure now from this newer post FoC era, hence in my head, it was a decision to restart. Just in my head, no where else, I see Generations as having been reset internally by Hasbro during the T30 line with the intention of Prime Wars creating new versions of all the classic characters, mirroring the evolution of the original line.
As for scale - again it's totally subjective and as I said, I know for Ralph scale is irrelevant as he's said that before. To me, scale is height ratios for robot modes roughly equivalent to what they were originally (and how they were portrayed in fiction), so the classics plane mould is too small. Something like RTS Jazz next to Classics Starscream looks silly to me, because Starscream should be bigger. Therefore, as a personal preference, I'd like to see a Voyager size plane mould because in most cases otherwise (adhering to the Legend/Deluxe/Voyager/Leader restrictions we have now) most characters released post-FoC are just about right in relation to each other compared to the way they were in the first place.
Now you can pick that apart all you like and claim that I'm wrong about it all, but that's how it works for me.
