In other words, its a no win thing, much like with Omega Prime, where I believe on some forms some fans are complaining about the fact they are making the two bots Haslab instead of regluar retail
40th Anniversary Haslab: RID2001 Omega Prime
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In other words, its a no win thing, much like with Omega Prime, where I believe on some forms some fans are complaining about the fact they are making the two bots Haslab instead of regluar retail
It's just salt. Having to miss out feels bad. Especially with the 'this is your one chance ever' factor. Titans get repaints and reissues. Masterpiece gets repaints and reissues. With HasLab your finances better be in place right now or you're just out of luck forever.
I honestly would like to see the concept art for the Grimlock retool, just to gage what might of been and what they would of done with the mold, thou it would of likely been a major retooling, given the fact that Grimlock wings in robot mode form the chest of the Dino mode, but then again, they might of simply gone and retooled the heads and called it a day, kind of what they did with Skylynx in the Power of the Primes line!
You're forgetting that if the new starting point were two Commanders, their new whining demand would be for both to be at the Leader price point, widening that gap again. Moving goalposts make everything pointless.
But yeah, I get being salty. It's rough to have to miss out, but it's also difficult to justify the (not insignificant) cost unless it's something really meaningful. And at these prices "meaningful" tends to need to mean something more than "crossing it off the Have They Remade This list".
Of course, the solution to that isn't to insist a replacement offering at your preferred price point would have been the right idea. I'd love a Tidal Wave at Commander class, sure, but that doesn't make it any less cool or worthwhile that they made a Titan class one (that nevertheless includes Megatron-appropriate parts).
I would say it means the odds of getting Gigatron in some form in the next 4-5 years goes up to about 85%.
-ZacWilliam, nothing is definite and he could
show up anywhere from Leader (probably not, but possible) to Commander (even more likely size-wise) to Haslab m.
If nothing else, vintage copies of the original RID Megatron/Galvatron can be found pretty easily for prices below $100 on eBay.
Particularly the Hasbro versions. Only the original Takara versions are expensive, but the Hasbro versions were barely any different.
Particularly the Hasbro versions. Only the original Takara versions are expensive, but the Hasbro versions were barely any different.
I think RID Megatron is likely to become a mass retail release if only for dodging the nowin situation of somehow releasing a Galvatron within the mechanics of Haslab.
Heh, at that point, one would probably be better off just buying the original off eBay.
One of the things to come out of this is that now that the Optimus barrier has been broken, everyone under the sun is speculating for what Optimus or Megatron they can do next and I really hope this is a one off; if Haslab just becomes a place to get fancy versions of big name characters, especially various flavors of Optimus Prime, it's going to become really unappealing to me.
I doult they'll keep doing Optimus & Megatron, over and over in Haslab as they are two of the four primary TF characters these days along side BB & SS
I expect this to be a special case, due to the unusual complexity of RID01 Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus. None of the Unicron Trilogy designs are as complicated. Movie designs are more complicated, but they're mainstream enough to skip the crowdfunding step and get Masterpiece toys.
The only other Optimus I could see them doing is Powermaster Optimus/Super Ginrai; and that's mostly becuase I don't think they could sell a Apex/God Bomber seperately. Takara did, sure; but that's a different audience. He's just not that interesting solo, he transforms into a box on wheels. So a Haslab of Them together feels like a possibility. But I'd hate that as I really don't feel like either should be Haslabs. PM Prime isn't any more complext then Armada Prime, and Apex Bomber is just his personal armorizer.
I hate to imagine them locking Powermaster Prime behind HasLab, but it's disturbingly believable. Someone at Hasbro clearly has no faith in that design as a retail toy.
Titans Return PMOP was nearly 10 years ago.
Legends Ginrai was a clusterhug of questionable design. A new one could do much better, even if the only change was a regular solo robot mode