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My big spate of QC issues started around Kingdom with several figures that either broke or had difficulties. I thankfully haven't had any yellowing issues I noticed. (Well, my Netflix Soundwave is a little green in the grey)

I'm not talking about durability. I'm referring more to stuff like size, hollowness, amount of paint apps, and other places where it's appears the budget held back the figure. Also there was a hot minute where QC was really terrible, but I feel like I haven't had an issue with that in a few years.

Unfortunately, unless you can completely change how Hasbro functions as a company, specifically in what their overall goals are (i.e. making as much money as possible in the short term rather than something sustainable in the long term), the prices will continue to increase while the quality of...

I save my doomsaying for current events.

To be fair, they had to pull some shenanigans to get Unicron funded that they haven't done since. (Namely the date extension, dude got like a 84 day campaign compared to 45-ish that most of the current ones go for)

The thing that most interests me about the future of toys is 3D printing. Obviously the technology isn't anywhere near where we'd want it to be yet, but it's getting better every year. Print on Demand has beeen a viable business for stuff like RPG books for many years now. It's MTO, but always...

Difference there is Car Robots got released in the US as Robots in Disguise while Beast Wars Neo was not. Only people plugged into the Japanese scene at the time will have nostalgia for the character, everyone else will have had to come to it later. Also IIRC, there was never even an official...

We are getting two commanders a year now, though; one under Generations and one under Studio Series. Unless your'e talking about that rumor that they'd be dropping the titan class in favor of two commanders a year.

I still enjoy the Beast Wars Neo opening theme for how out of place it is.

I wasn't trying to imply doom, just a shake-up.

We still need a Windcharger so they can do a dead Windcharge/Wheeljack 2-pack.

To be honest, I have not verified this myself, but Hasbro designer Evan Brooks apparently said in the Triple Takeover podcast several months ago that the plan is to finish up the SS86 cast by 2026. (I'm assuming the end of 2026, not the start.) I suppose by that wording '86 could continue to...

Between AotP being a two year line instead of three, and apparently now Studio Series '86 ending in 2026, I'm curious if there's a large shake-up for the TF division coming in 2027.

To be fair, I wouldn't expect anyone from the original series to have much more than a passing familiarity with the franchise. People have more reverence for this now-a-days, but back then it was just another job.

I remember when people thought it was a slap in the face that they dared use G1 designs as background characters on Cybertron in that first episode.

Guys, you can just put him on ignore if he bothers you that much.

The thing with Sixshot is his alt-modes are SO abstract that if you want them to resemble the original toy/character in any fashion, you kind of have to stick pretty close to his classic transformation, otherwise they'll just look like a different compromised altmode and you wouldn't even have...

Welp, unless something goes very sideways, we're probably getting Deathcobra then. And probably the other unlocks as well.

RiD15 Steeljaw is like if Starscream learned subtlety.

They're pretty out of scale for one. Hashtag should be a voyager, while Nightshade is a tall, skinny deluxe and Jawbreaker is a shorter, wider deluxe. Thrash is a small deluxe and Twitch is basically a legends or core class.