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Post by blueshift on Feb 19, 2018 15:32:47 GMT
That might be an excuse but it's more to do with the price, surely. When TR figures are discounted they move quite quickly. But £23 a deluxe is taking the piss.
It being around character selection implies that the vast majority of people buying the figures are hardcore fans, which can't be true. The general public tends to recognise Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Bumblebee, Soundwave and Grimlock. That's it. I've seen people's 'obscure Transformers' lists that include Brawn and Sideswipe. For most people who will be buying toys, the important thing is the price and whether it looks cool. Wheeljack is just as well known as Bulletbike to the man in the street.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2018 16:11:07 GMT
The Longevity of wave 3 deluxe & voyager can't have helped. I thought it's 3-2-2-1 composition wouldn't help, and expected Hot Rod to sit, but all have been easy to get with Twinferno sitting the most
We dodged a bullet by all but missing Legends Wave 2 (The 3 mainly black Decepticon tape repaints with only one robot mode) and every wave since then has done OK. Even the anticipated BB mountain has failed to emerge.
Voyagers, w3 aside, and Leaders have been harder to get, Titanmasters non existent beyond w2 which still bewilders me.
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Post by browny87 on Feb 19, 2018 16:49:31 GMT
ill moan and what not but ill still buy em all lol so I'm skipping the moaning phase now
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Post by blueshift on Feb 19, 2018 16:59:35 GMT
Titanmasters non existent beyond w2 which still bewilders me. I imagine because their price point (£7) was too close to the Scout price point (£11?) so what would your average customer go for?? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2018 17:00:41 GMT
£7 was perhaps asking a bit too much, like many of the RRPs in the line.
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Post by Toph on Feb 20, 2018 15:03:44 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2018 15:45:13 GMT
Join me in voting #BulletbikeForever
Together we can make this happen!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Feb 20, 2018 16:34:35 GMT
#longtoothlives
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Post by KnightBeat on Feb 20, 2018 19:44:25 GMT
I must have missed this revelation in the Toyfair announcements over the weekend: Impactor is a *stinkin' Decepticon*?
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Post by Benn on Feb 20, 2018 20:28:55 GMT
Huh.
Not a fan of that head shape, either.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 20, 2018 21:29:06 GMT
That's ridiculous! Impactor is not a Decepticon!!!
Why he's paired with Mirage anyway?
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 20, 2018 21:33:30 GMT
The connecting themes are in the vote at the top. It's an IDW thing I think.
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Post by Benn on Feb 20, 2018 23:01:26 GMT
Only Needlenose and Tracks are IDW. The others are pretty random.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 20, 2018 23:03:55 GMT
Oh right, so Mirage is $$$ basically because he's a rich playboy in his original bio? That's actually pretty cool.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 21, 2018 18:57:37 GMT
Erm, yeah.... It'd be good to explore that side of Mirage more. Something I for one have never seen being explored in TF fiction.
What that's got to do with Impactor I don't know.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 21, 2018 19:11:50 GMT
I took it as the ultra commited to the fight Impactor vs the unsure of the war Mirage. But it does also seem to work as working class vs upper class.
Why Impactor has a con logo I couldn't begin to fathom.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 21, 2018 19:13:17 GMT
Class war fare as a Transformers vs pack concept is..... well it's something. If true.
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Post by Jim on Feb 21, 2018 20:14:24 GMT
I wrote a fan fiction a long time ago on this! It was Mirage clashing with Banzaitron with a sort of old-money vs nouveau-riche-mercenary thing going on. I probably still have it on my old computer... Though I fear digging it out for how terrible it probably is...
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 21, 2018 20:45:00 GMT
Was it Decepti-Kombat? If so it'll probably still be on the Underbase.
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Post by Jim on Feb 21, 2018 21:07:47 GMT
No, I only ever put it on my LiveJournal. So probably literally noone ever read it
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 23, 2018 15:06:02 GMT
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Post by drmick on Feb 23, 2018 15:25:50 GMT
Looks like Impactor vs Mirage is running away with it. Also, assuming only one voter per person, then the Impactor votes contain the greatest amount of cheating.
A deluxe Impactor is going to look stupid among your existing toys. Plus if you really wanted Impactor you would have Spartan already.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 23, 2018 15:56:06 GMT
Only if you buy 3P products.
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Post by Benn on Feb 23, 2018 15:57:27 GMT
Also, not all of us can afford Spartan prices, y'know?
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Post by Toph on Feb 23, 2018 16:12:39 GMT
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Post by Dezzeh on Feb 23, 2018 16:24:12 GMT
Sounds kind of acceptable. I could get in to this concept.
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Post by Benn on Feb 23, 2018 16:26:54 GMT
I hope they can get that cartoon van thing of Wheeljac's into his Sunbow robot. That'll be impressive!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 23, 2018 17:09:16 GMT
Spartan isn't Impactor.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Feb 23, 2018 17:34:55 GMT
Ya know, I'd put this in the WfC thread because my conversation was about the WfC line But if Phil wants us to talk about WfC here instead, I'm cool with that. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 23, 2018 18:31:48 GMT
It's specifically related to the fan vote options so here seems a sensible place for it. Hence the "Fan vote ending today" in the url and title.
I am considering rolling the two threads together.
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