What was the mishap?
Rare, never-before-seen concept material from years past
- Thread starter Sabrblade
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Ravage's head has absolutely no backside. Totally flat.
Oh, okay. But... was there room, given that this head would have likely had a deeper face than the original head molds, due to a snout?
This is what we got for Beast Wars' 20th anniversary.
Better than what Hasbro themselves gave us (zilch!) and the full set was still pretty cool. Especially the awesome Transmetal 3 Megatron that had been 11 years in the making.
And better than that hideous Platinum Edition Optimus Primal from Hasbro Asia (who are a different entity entirely from Hasbro proper, who gave us nothing).
But Takara had everyone beat that year for the anniversary with Masterpiece Optimus Primal.
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To be fair, what Hasbro gave us was infinitely more affordable.
And only that Megatron and Unit-3 (and I did want that Reflector and Airazor!) were really what I'd call worth convention prices. Some of the others were neat ideas or pairings of colors and molds that might have been nice from a different channel, but not at what those prices were turning into.
(To be fair, given the things Botcon has to navigate and negotiate, they tend to lapse into some weaker and stronger years, and this is one of those that's a mixed bag. That 2017 proposal is GORGEOUS and I want all of it.)
Boy, that's certainly something I don't miss. For all the saturation we're dealing with now, I am incredibly grateful to no longer only be able to get certain releases of varying coolness and desirability only after jumping through serious geographical and financial hoops. I look at TFSS Toxitron, or G2 Starscream, or Thrustinator, or Treadshot, or indeed that TM3 Megatron, and I just have to make my peace with simply never being able to afford them. But I can look back at all the stuff we've been spoiled with since 2019ish that's just... At retail, or a store exclusive, or caught up in the pandemic supply weirdness at most, and be glad that whether it's Cordon or Masterdominus or T-Wrecks or Zetar or Antagony or Detritus, the process of anticipating and acquiring them didn't age me threefold (it's the 2020s, so other things did instead).
(This is not the fault of the club.)
Even more than the "damn, I wish that had gotten made!" (thanks to all involved in archiving these btw), that's what I really come away from this thread feeling.
These were conceived before the TR Perceptor toy had been revealed, so it's understandable both why it was proposed and why it was rejected (regardless of the license being lost, too).
Though, basing his Titan Master on Nijika was kinda neat.
Megator is the one of that lot I'd want most, and still want.
You know when you give a gift to someone and they respond "oh, you shouldn't have?"
FunPub really, really shouldn't have.
That BM Tankor would be better in the old toy colors, due to the normal legs.
hey they gave us that one platinum edition figure
That was Hasbro Asia. Different entity from Hasbro proper.
i am going to shove you into a fuckin locker dude
I've been very impressed by how Hasbro has handled this stuff since FunPub lost the licence. Everyone- rightfully- assumed that the deep cuts would end without an official collector club, but between Gen Selects, various capsule exclusives, and even retail lines, Hasbro's been very committed to the deep cut releases.
And because it's Hasbro and established retailers they're easier to get then exclusives from a collector's club operating off of an older business model.
Honestly, I don't mean that as an insult to FunPub. I think they did a lot of good work with what they had, and got a lot of undeserved blame. Still, their business model no longer made sense and Hasbro's stepped up in a big way since.
There's a lot here that's pretty great but a lot that's been outdone by the same concept in the last few years, which kinda speaks to my above point.
Still, there's definitely "damn I wish that happened" stuff here. Rosanna!