Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection - Transformers: Legacy subline at Walmart
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I’m kinda shocked they put 2 similar looking race cars painted up almost (from a parent POV buying for a child) in the same wave.
Wow, a Stunticon repaint before Menasor is even fully released, you're too slow Breakdown.
Also wow, a toy being found in a store without any prior announcement, nothing from Hasbro, nothing I can find from the leakers, it feels refreshing but also kinda weird.
Also wow, a toy being found in a store without any prior announcement, nothing from Hasbro, nothing I can find from the leakers, it feels refreshing but also kinda weird.
It was in the leaked listings. People just assumed that it was Shadowstriker instead.
Yeah leak said ShadowS or Shadowstri and folks (rather understandably) jumped to a conclusion.
-ZacWilliam, a million years no one would have guessed "Shadowstrip"
-ZacWilliam, a million years no one would have guessed "Shadowstrip"
Honestly, I'm kinda happy the leak was "wrong" Things like Toy Fest, Bot Con, SDCC, NYCC....looked forward to those every year to see the new products coming out. These leak lists really make them less interesting. Even the Hasbro web shows are showing product we usually already know about. I miss the not knowing.
Mildrider is Wildrider's elderly grandmother.
except Its not Dratstrip, its Shadowstrip; so the 'one letter off' doesn't really make sense even as a joke.
If they're based on their colors; I think something like:
FlameEnd
AmberRider
Cobaltmaster
Beryldown - My favorite, becuase it sounds like 'barrel' so Barrel Down sounds like he's mowing down pedistrians or something.
That's not why that doesn't work anymore, Nowadays stores give toy product much shorter lifespans. In the 80s the same toys would be out for at least a whole year, and could be released for several years in a row.
Nowadays stores demand new exciting different products on shelves every 3 months. In this environment 1/2 to 3/4 of the toys in a yearly catalogue would be unavailable at any given time, either not out yet or long since gone from stores.
-ZacWilliam, a bad advertisement and bad PR leading to complaining kids and parents.
Super easy pass.
Current team seem to think we like toy repaints way more than we actually seem to.
Current team seem to think we like toy repaints way more than we actually seem to.
Depends on if those are painted deco or stickers. Hot Rod is on the “short list” of characters I’m an easy mark for (like VW Bumblebees, or Grimlocks, or Starscreams).
That said, while I think it looks okay, I really wish they had been a little more creative with their options. Then again, most of the obvious options might have conflicted with the deluxe vehicle also sharing a lot of black/dark colors in their deco.
That said, while I think it looks okay, I really wish they had been a little more creative with their options. Then again, most of the obvious options might have conflicted with the deluxe vehicle also sharing a lot of black/dark colors in their deco.
Toy Repaints are an easy way to keep the characters on the shelves without packaging refreshes; people are gonna complain either way but at least toy colors is something 'new'.
Also with Crasher and Shadowstrip, we don't really need Dark Rod, and I don't think they many would want Crystal Rod.
Also with Crasher and Shadowstrip, we don't really need Dark Rod, and I don't think they many would want Crystal Rod.
Yeah, for all my annoyance that it's mostly the same, I'm probably gonna get this. But those had better be tampos and not stickers. Then again, given the recent toy-based Galvatron and Cyclonus...
I'd absolutely want both of those. But I am just one buyer, and half a world away.