Well, I got notification that Hasbro Pulse was processing Titan Nemesis earlier this week, but no shipping notification yet. Guess I'm back to worrying if they'll actually supply it.
Again, valid concern. I ordered Siege Omega Supreme through them and they failed to deliver.
Again, valid concern. I ordered Siege Omega Supreme through them and they failed to deliver.
On a non-Transformers note I had a similar note on the brown Owlbear. I wouldn't worry yet, I've seen them lag a bit before.
For some reason Pulse isn't sending shipping emails right now. The only reason I found out the latest wave of G.I. Joe Classified figures were on their way was via the Fedex app. I get texts when new items are coming to my house.
So apparently my Armada Prime was delivered sometime this week. My wife surprised me with the box today.
The Fedex app didn't show any delivery, done or pending. Pulse, on both app and website, says Prime is available to ship come September 6th.
I'm very glad to have him in hand, but I'm very puzzled by this whole logistical mess.
The Fedex app didn't show any delivery, done or pending. Pulse, on both app and website, says Prime is available to ship come September 6th.
I'm very glad to have him in hand, but I'm very puzzled by this whole logistical mess.
It still feels weird to see stuff like the Toxitron capsule and see toys INTENTIONALLY lacking paint apps as we’ve been harking about that for years.
Even weirder to see how much interest there IS for these items.
Even weirder to see how much interest there IS for these items.
I mean, I've been oogling these unreleased designs since the Legacy book (fitting title, really) came out years ago. I imagine many other people have too.
Unreleased stuff has always sparked the imagination and in an era where movie figures rarely "pop", this insanity is a great course correction.
Unreleased stuff has always sparked the imagination and in an era where movie figures rarely "pop", this insanity is a great course correction.
I have very minor issues with the Toxitron Collection decos, like I'd prefer if Jazz's and Sunstreaker's faces were different colors from their helmets, I wish Grimlock's stripes were along more then just his tail becuase that if a big ass sea of yellow there with almost nothing breaking it up. Might be waiting to see what Toyhax comes up with for him. But I think a lot of these guys are great.
Were there any options to pre order the rest of the G2 capsule? Pulse only has Toxitron, Cloudcover and Jazz. Yet Grimlock is showing up on shelves and I think wave 2 Laser Cycle, Mirage and Sideswipe have released over seas. BWBB Tow-line and Legacy Evolution Medix as well. I'm expecting to see Strongarm, Shadow Striker, Bombshell, Bludgeon and the rest to drop before pre orders are even up at this point.
There's something about the canceled G2 stuff. I don't know what the word is. I think about how they could have been it. They are not like canceled Universe stuff or canceled final waves in more recent lines. They are relics of a brand in collapse. Transformers had already been resuscitated once and was clearly still fading. The unreleased G2 stuff could have been the last versions of these characters ever made, except G2 ended before they even had a chance to be. Even though Beast Wars came along and saved the brand without another yearlong hiatus, it was such a drastic reinvention that there still might have never been another Jazz.
Reading this makes me wonder, had Machine Wars been more successful, if it could have been used as a venue to see the final unreleased G2 items released at retail as Machine Wars items.
Considering 100% of the molds in Machine Wars had never gotten a US release and some had never gotten a release anywhere, maybe. To the extent that there was a strategy for Machine Wars it does seem that diving into unreleased stuff was part of it.
Seems possible, but I wonder if MW was always going to be just this one wave, even if it had sold better.
And Zone. And BATTLESTARS.
I want to live in the universe where Machine Wars sold so well that it got multiple waves.
It depends on how much better. I don't think they would have ignored a surprise hit.
I expect it was always planned as just one wave given the backstory of "jive we kinda promised them something G1ish at Botcon, what can we throw together that Toyworks/KayBee would buy for a quick exclusive."
-ZacWilliam, if it was meant to be more it probably would have had a wider release.
-ZacWilliam, if it was meant to be more it probably would have had a wider release.
That's kind of my own thinking. To play the hypothetical "what if it had sold really well?" game, I could suggest that, even in such an unlikely scenario that sales were astonishingly high and thus couldn't be ignored, the result wouldn't be "more Machine Wars toys," but rather "a revival of vehicle-mode Transformers," but in an altogether new line.
Which, of course, is ultimately what we got.
Yeah, between the unaltered sticker sheets, the altered packaging art from other toys, and the fact that they didn't even bother to come up with something that wasn't the Beast Wars typeface for the logo, Machine Wars was pretty clearly a half-assed effort to get something out the door to make the older fans happy.
Kinda fun to think about Hasbro dipping into JG1 to find stuff for a second wave though. Multiforce 2-packs as basics, anyone?
Kinda fun to think about Hasbro dipping into JG1 to find stuff for a second wave though. Multiforce 2-packs as basics, anyone?
I totally buy the story that it was slapped together to look like they kept a promise, and they never thought about another wave. Every piece of evidence points to it being a cheap rush job. Every one. But that ability to slap it together makes me think they couldn't have ignored a surprise hit without somebody in the finance department crying about margins.