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This was always going to be an uphill battle, mitigated only by price. But "mitigated only by price" went right out the window when they wanted $350 for essentially a vehicle shell with some fancy lights and a flicker switch and some bloosh bits that would only work with this particular item...

Out of context that panel is hilarious.

It was interesting that (as Shadewing pointed out) one of the things they made sure to stress at the panel was that they continue to have a strong relationship with Toei. Not that that necessarily means anything; it could just mean "we're not making this change because of problems with Toei".

I'll take that too, gladly.

This was a sweet batch of reveals. Leo Prime is best of the bunch for me, tied with Tarn I suppose. Shame about the "realistic" lion face on LP, which just makes him look either sad or surprised or sadly surprised in beast mode. But the robot mode is great. I hope to high heck they've found a...

The DNA kit intrigues me. I hadn't mentioned hands etc specifically because I had already seen them in another kit (that one), but I agree those are useful upgrades. As upgrade bits go I like that DNA's manages to be useful in emulating the old RTS 3P trailer, but more importantly in filling out...

I'm not super bothered by this Breakdown, but I don't think it's entirely unreasonable for people to expect that entire list of things when Hasbro managed it the first three times. (Although only one previous time was a calf.)

(shrug)

Not sure how it compares to Earthrise, but it'd be nice to get some "upgrade kit" parts that let you swap out the hip and thigh fronts parts (which are removable via unscrewing, iirc) for more Scourge-y ones. But that paint job nicely picks out the details that make the hip plate look different...

Man, 2014. A year I never really figured I'd really be nostalgic for, but after the last couple years...

You either die a Skywarp, or you live long enough to be the one pushed down the stairs.

From a brief glance, I almost wonder if someone might've just painted a Wildrider for a mockup, but those clear windows strongly suggest not. I'm not going to make any big angry grr Hasbro statements because lol, but it's just... WEIRD that they'd go to all these lengths, commit this hard...

It's certainly welcome. The next preferable step would be new-character redecos. I wish they'd gone and made that a Night Ops Ratchet, but this will be a good base for a custom.

I've had it happen to a small degree on a copy of ER Bluestreak, but I suppose that's partly due to disassembling and reassembling the thing a few times and moving it around for tape masking (i.e., not ideal use).

Hmmmm. If the red ends up being that dark/maroonish, this could be interesting. Although eh. Too many little differences (on top of this being almost more brown than maroon).

The race was just cover for a heist on the other end of the capital or something.

Man, the last two posts take you from utter despair over the soulless closest-thing-to-fiction Hasbro gives to this, to such glee at the fun signature bonkersness of Takara stuff.

Vehicles always seem like such a hard sell to me even at regular retail. Even more so with a $350 price tag. Doesn't help that the early-bird bonus is the blandest one they could've gone with (an unmasked alt head should already be part of this GR's accessory complement by default). I don't...

That gradient on the face is goddamn delicious. Aside from the kickass Universe nod, and the great color scheme in general, I like how this looks less like the robot mode doing ab wheel workouts. That's been the main holdback for me with Iguanus, who is otherwise a great looking mold.