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Donocropolis

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I don't think they really consider it worth fighting. The worst case scenario is that the leaks spoil a surprise they had been hoping to spring on us. They don't usually do anything to negatively impact sales. In some cases, leaks actually probably help keep fans excited about upcoming products.
 
Steadfast

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I wonder how much advance knowledge of a redeco impacts sales (if at all) or how they could find out.

Passing on a Leader because "oh he'll be released as X" later (or whatever), only to find out that no, just A and B is annoying, but so is settling for A when you waaant B.

My guess is that it's a fraction of a fraction, but the higher the price point, the larger each fraction is.

(And while I'm way too lazy to crunch any numbers, I'm pretty sure that the higher price points tend to have fewer redecoes than, say, Deluxes.)
 
Sabrblade

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Steadfast said:
I wonder how much advance knowledge of a redeco impacts sales (if at all) or how they could find out.

Passing on a Leader because "oh he'll be released as X" later (or whatever), only to find out that no, just A and B is annoying, but so is settling for A when you waaant B.

My guess is that it's a fraction of a fraction, but the higher the price point, the larger each fraction is.

(And while I'm way too lazy to crunch any numbers, I'm pretty sure that the higher price points tend to have fewer redecoes than, say, Deluxes.)
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It's funny. After all the many uses of both the Siege and Earthrise Seeker molds, not a one of either has been a release of the still-in-demand G1 Sunstorm.
 
Donocropolis

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Steadfast said:
I wonder how much advance knowledge of a redeco impacts sales (if at all) or how they could find out.

Passing on a Leader because "oh he'll be released as X" later (or whatever), only to find out that no, just A and B is annoying, but so is settling for A when you waaant B.

My guess is that it's a fraction of a fraction, but the higher the price point, the larger each fraction is.

(And while I'm way too lazy to crunch any numbers, I'm pretty sure that the higher price points tend to have fewer redecoes than, say, Deluxes.)
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There's probably a shockingly high amount of intersection between "Fans who are regularly checking news websites that report leaks" and "Fans who were probably going to buy both versions anyway."

But you are right, that's the only way I could see it negatively impacting anything.
 
CoffeeHorse

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UndeadScottsman said:
Has anyone from Hasbro actually complained about leaks? It seems like the kind of thing they would just avoid talking about outside of the vaguest terms.
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They usually brush it off, but there was one livestream a while back where they were noticeably salty about it.
 
Donocropolis

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CoffeeHorse said:
They usually brush it off, but there was one livestream a while back where they were noticeably salty about it.
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Oh, I'm sure it's personally very frustrating if the team had been really looking forward to blowing our minds with a big reveal only for it to be spoiled a few days beforehand. But as a cost/benefit thing for Hasbro itself, I don't think they (the company decision makers) care.

Speaking of the team, that's one thing I did want to mention. I do really love the Transformers Tuesdays fanstreams. The way Mark, Ben, and Evan clearly love their jobs and are just as much fans as they are creators makes them super enjoyable to watch. It's a great behind-the-scenes as well as a preview.
 
CoffeeHorse

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I agree about the livestreams. Mark, Ben, and Evan are good at this. IIRC, the extra salty stream I'm thinking of wasn't them.
 
Undead Scottsman

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Honestly, I feel like they walk the line between "company mouthpieces" and "genuine love for the franchise" in a way that becomes counterintuitive.

When you have to talk about how absolutely balls awesome every toy that cross their paths is and not say anything negative, the enthusiasm can feel inauthentic. It's not their fault, after all it wouldn't really be proper if they brought out a bunch of their coworkers efforts and just shat all over them on stream. Also, no way Hasbro would greenlight a stream like that in the first place. So no fault of their own, but those things do make their statements feel a bit hollow.

It's like when Major Nelson at Xbox started with his own personal podcast but it eventually became the defacto offical Xbox podcast and suddenly now Nelson was having to defend stuff like the ridiculous prices for Xbox 360 harddrives. (I'm old, sue me.)
 
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It's funny. I wanted Detritus from the Siege mold because I didn't want that Hound. Meanwhile, I don't care about him from this mold, I just want the regular Hound.
 
Darth_Prime

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Remold?
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Sabrblade

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You know, Trashmaster could work as a decent stand-in for Aligned Wreck-Gar, who had a similar altmode and was otherwise quite different in personality from any other version of Wreck-Gar.
 
Magnusblitz

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Not a lot that grabs me out of this bunch; my thoughts mostly echo Phazer's. The only one I like the look of is Dreadwing and even then I'd rather have a Skyquake, King Atlas or MW Starscream.

I want to like that Optimus but the cab pieces adding so much red to the legs really throws it off for me. I kinda wish they had gone with G2 Hero deco, given that it has same transformation with the curved cab turning into the legs (though facing backwards).
 
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Shadewing said:
Honestly, use this time to make him every garbage truck. TFA Wreckgar, Landfill, Salvage, Movie Garbage Truck guy, etc...
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Now I want to see him in Waste Management colors. I certainly picture this character sounding like weird Al...shame we didn't get a show for Legacy
 
Steadfast

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Shadewing said:
Actually I was thinking of Junkheap or Garagebot when I mentioned movieverse Garbage truck.
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I easily could be mistaken (and the image on the Wiki is ambiguous), but Daytrader struck me more as a semi with a flatbed carrying random junk and scrap or maybe a Dumpster-carrier than a trash-truck with a lifting arm.

Though unless it's Studio Series, it doesn't really matter.
 
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