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Well that's unfortunate. Less of an excuse to just skip it on principal 🤪

Big caveats here since a lot of these leaks are AI or otherwise not indicative of final products... While the sandbox approach to Gens won't be in full swing until 2028, it is encouraging to see less Sunbow referential stuff here. Mirage, Nightbird, and Scorpy are all clearly their G1 selves...

🎵How easy to fly the white flag And give up But would I run today Just to die another day? Give up now and every fight Has been in vain 🎵

I felt the urge to rip off pay homage...

Speaking of the Mattel Core stuff, I finally got the Jokerized Batman. I wanted to take the opportunity to do a bit of a comparison between this one, and the version McFarlane did. Why this design? Well... this design comes from the Batman Who Laughs, the Batman from Earth -22 who finally...

Blokees Hush Batman is pretty cool. A size comparison between the Blokees and the new Mattel Core. The Hushening Returns!

I think the head swap is an improvement.

He's from the old Polish Robotnikski clan. Very devout in the old country.

I mean it seems kinda silly. While yes RiD eventually turned into what Universe was before changing the name... it was still RiD. The packaging was very clear about this 😛 Of course retailers continuing to order RiD after Armada launched (post-Armada RiD if you will 😉) got Hasbro thinking that...

When I said "post-Armada RiD" I meant the RiD line that continued to be ordered by stores even after Armada launched. It was post-the launch of Armada. Or post-Armada if you will.

That's just a BONUS It sounds like "post-Armada RiD" was very much a thing by this description!

Agree or not, whatever. Factually speaking MW, post-Armada RiD, and Universe '03 were all stop-and-start experiments with running duel lines at retail. Which is what ended up becoming the norm for the line. Regardless of what they were intended to be, they dabbled in that fan space and they...

Eh, yes and no. Yes, the "collector" portion of the consumer base back in 1997 was certainly not big enough to carry a line. And the same, however, it did unquestionably lay the foundations for the "two simultaneous lines, one of which is more fan geared" template that the brand would later...

I remember back in the Classics/Henkei days, I repurposed my Classics Megatron as Megaplex once I got Henkei Megatron.

That mould for MW Starscream wasn't great but I also don't know what else they had that would have worked. We're getting a pretty good one now because they bothered to bake some G1 Skyquake into the Prime Skyquake toy for Legacy, but back in 2013? What is there? MAYBE Universe 2.0 Silverbolt...

They could do it, and as was pointed out they did do it fairly well with HasCon the one year they tried. The fact is, though, that the FP business model no longer worked. It was great for a time, but now? Between Fan Channel releases, store exclusive sublines, Gen Selects whenever they deem to...