Man that Unicron is so cool. But there's no way I can justify it given our space situation right now. I'm sure the hubby would love "hey I know we agreed my collectables would stay in the study but... hear me out... what if I kept this giant Transformer the size of a child on our kitchen table?"
When CW Devastator was coming out, I joked about putting a bunk bed in our older kid's room, moving the younger one in with her, and letting Devastator take the now open room with the toddler bed. My wife didn't appreciate it very much...
Dress it in children's clothing. Pretend it's your cousin's kid that has to stay with you for a while. Keep the ruse up as long as possible.
Weekend at Uni's!
See, This is why I'm taken aback every time I hear someone say they want the next HasLab to be Primus. The sheer size and mass of the Unicron figure made it as expensive as it was, and it pretty much failed to fund in it's first go-round, needing an unprecedented extension because Hasbro couldn't afford to let it fail. Do people really want to pay that much money a second time for a figure just as large and massive that will take up just as much space as Unicron does?
I can only speak for myself, but as should be clear by my last post, my answer is an absolute, unqualified YES! Unicron himself is great, but I REALLY want to have a solid counterpart for him. And as someone who's always loved mythology, all the lore with Unicron, Primus, and the 13 has always been right up my alley. I thought the 40th anniversary was a good time for Primus, but given that the next two or three years are apparently centered on the 13, this seems like an even more appropriate time for him.
As for funding, I've seen the claim several times that Unicron basically failed to fund and only made it because of the extension. That always struck me as revisionist history. We've gotten to see several HasLabs now, so we should all be familiar with the funding curve, and how much it shoots up right at the very end. Unicron's extension hit right as that ramp up was just starting, and it cut it off at the knees. At the time of the extension, he was sitting at right around 5,300/8,000. He only added a few hundred more over the next few weeks, before then more than doubling over the last few days. He was ~2,700 away from funding at the time of the extension, and added more than 3,000 in the last day alone.
Now, had there been no extension giving people more time to consider and save up, is it possible he would have failed? Sure. Did Hasbro extend it to try to increase his chances? Highly likely. But was it a foregone conclusion he would have failed without it? Not remotely.
For reference, TFW2005 user TranslucentBag did a great job of tracking daily funding levels.
Here's his last update before Unicron funded, and the counter was changed to simply "8,000+". I don't think we have a solid final number, but over the last day, it increased from 8,000 to some number over 11,000 (over 12,000, if the final counter update is accurate).
