Echoing Shadewing... you're not required to buy anything. If the prices and options aren't to your liking you can choose not to buy.
But for those who are ok with their prices they get a plethora of options.
That's not even the main point though. PrimalxConvoy complained about figures "mummified in stickers" which is absurd to me.
Either buy the set and only use the ones you want or don't buy the set, I really don't care. But no one is forcing him or anyone else to use the full set of stickers on any set.
This is, I kinda agree with them. I can get no loiking sets, I can agree some do feel bloated, and no I'm not including sets with large amounts of spare options; sometimes meant for army builder characters. There are sets where it feels like they are trying to cover ever flat space possible. One that comes to mind is Selects Jackpot where all the stickers just look guady to me and they do cover everything it feels. Then there are sets with the stickers feel right an natural, like the recent Toxiton Cloud Clover; and in rare cases you get sets that honestly improve figures to such a degree I would almost say they are required. Stuff like SS Scavenger or Legacy Knock-out where the improvement is so drastic it feels like what the figure should have looked like in the first place.
But that doesn't change the fact that, these are all still incredibly optional and no one is forcing you to buy them if you don't like them.
This is a Transformers board; we talk non-stop, all day every day, about stuff we don't HAVE to buy. It's the entire point of this place. Not a single person here NEEDS to buy a Transformer. Yet nobody is suggesting we curtail complaints about Transformers based on that fact, so I'm genuinely not sure why you think it's a valid argument against people who aren't fans of how Toyhax chooses to bundle their offerings.
Like, it's a smorgasbord (smorgasbullitinboard?
) of people complaining about Hasbro's increasing prices, hollow plastic, waffling, large backpacks, lack of paint or any of the zillion other comments people have about the toys we consume.
It's not like I hate Toyhax or something; I like the work they do and would likely buy a lot more of their product if it wasn't so expensive. But it is, so that's a very real barrier for me. Like the stickers for Velocitron Scourge are $35 normally; well over half of the cost of the base figure. Even on sale it's $24 dollars.
Like, it's a smorgasbord (smorgasbullitinboard?
) of people complaining about Hasbro's increasing prices, hollow plastic, waffling, large backpacks, lack of paint or any of the zillion other comments people have about the toys we consume.It's not like I hate Toyhax or something; I like the work they do and would likely buy a lot more of their product if it wasn't so expensive. But it is, so that's a very real barrier for me. Like the stickers for Velocitron Scourge are $35 normally; well over half of the cost of the base figure. Even on sale it's $24 dollars.
Meh.
Unofficial stickers are, to me, the epitome of a luxury item in a hobby that is all about luxury items.
This isn't even a case of "don't be entitled" because the problem here seems to be that they're trying to please everyone and some people don't want to shoulder that cost.
But again- you don't need to buy them and you don't need to apply everything in a single set.
Here's my honest take on it.
I'm happy to pay for options and I'm happy to pay for sets where maybe I don't need everything applied.
As far as Toyhax goes, i absolutely adore them. I'm just dissapointed they don't sell actual repros for original Laser Prime, but instead offer this weird replacement that doesn't say OPTIMUS PRIME across his chest. That's like one of his best features, what gives guys?
Perhaps the name is copyrighted?
Takara has released a relatively small grainy picture of United Silverbolt. Looks good.
Botcon Windrazor is almost a definite. That's gonna happen, so any other repaint might be a stretch but I can't help but imagine...
Purple Universe Silverbolt is probably the outside weird option.
In my dreams I'd like a Raven/Fox(or red wolf) repaint as a new character but that's probably pretty unlikely...
-ZacWilliam, I do wonder if we could get him remolded into anyone else with a Wolf mode: Wolffang, Thunderhowl, Beast Machines Quickstrike, Maybe even Carnivac or RiD Steeljaw
Botcon Windrazor is almost a definite. That's gonna happen, so any other repaint might be a stretch but I can't help but imagine...
Purple Universe Silverbolt is probably the outside weird option.
In my dreams I'd like a Raven/Fox(or red wolf) repaint as a new character but that's probably pretty unlikely...
-ZacWilliam, I do wonder if we could get him remolded into anyone else with a Wolf mode: Wolffang, Thunderhowl, Beast Machines Quickstrike, Maybe even Carnivac or RiD Steeljaw
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I rarely get Toyhax sets anymore because of unacceptably low percentages of stickers I'll actually use, but I think they probably think that the people who get mad at Hasbro for not exactly recreating every tiny mark that existed in the G1 cartoon for exactly one frame because a stray eraser crumb accidentally found its way onto the animation cel are probably more reliable customers than the people who just think it would be cool to see taillights get painted more often. Same with the add-on makers doing gap fillers and screw covers and such--the people who want gap fillers are going to want gap fillers basically every time, while it's more of a gamble whether anyone really cares whether Velocitron Road Rocket's blade is similar enough to G2 Road Rocket's.
Lines from shortly before the mutants escape containment
I'm planning on using my Decesous drones for the extra heads that come with the AutoTrooper to have like 2 different styles of troopers.
THANK YOU!
Seriously, the reason I (speaking only for myself) complain about them is because I DO want to buy the sets, but these days, they add so much to what's really necessary that it puts me off, and then ToyHax doesn't get a sale at all (at least, not from me).
Yeah, I do wish that they offered "small" sets as an option. I'd be willing to pay $5-10 for a small set of "essential" stickers a lot of times (or a bit more for larger figures) but once the price of stickers approaches around 1/2 the cost of the base figure, that's too rich for my blood. I'm not mad about it or anything, and it could very well be that small sets at low prices just aren't economically viable for them so I do understand.
YEARS ago (when they were Reprolabels) I asked for that very set.
Their response: "It's not practical."
But everything now? toy-mummification. toon-windows. guaddy, unnecessary details. stickers for every detail on a mold. priced at half-to-full price of the figure it's for. ALL TOTALLY PRACTICAL APPARENTLY.
Yeah, I was much more into them when they were all about replacement label sets. I understand that they eventually HAD to move into other stuff (the number of sets for which reproductions could be made being finite), but I do wish they'd actually tackled all of those gaps first.
The last toy-specific set I got from them was Studio Series Jazz, and I had what felt like enough leftovers to fully mummify a second Jazz.
As long as we're talking Toyhax quirks, what really confuses me (it's not a problem since they're sets all to themselves, but it's weird) is some of the very specific faction symbol variations. I can picture the guy who would want cartoon-style Decepticon symbols with the extra little peak, but I can't picture the guy who also wants them to be intentionally poorly drawn.
As long as we're talking Toyhax quirks, what really confuses me (it's not a problem since they're sets all to themselves, but it's weird) is some of the very specific faction symbol variations. I can picture the guy who would want cartoon-style Decepticon symbols with the extra little peak, but I can't picture the guy who also wants them to be intentionally poorly drawn.
There was a TF fan forum I was on back when Animated was on, and there was a very vocal crowd there that loved the toys but wanted "cartoon accurate" faction symbols. Which usually meant squished and poorly drawn.
I refuse to believe that 'poorly drawn faction symbol stickers' is a thing
*checks Toyhax*
What the hug.
*checks Toyhax*
What the hug.