With New Funky Mode!
The Funky Mode is basically just him putting his head between his legs and calling it a Cybertronian mode, but man, is it funky!
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I hate that I am, but I'm considering getting the Seeker pack. I don't really want the rainmakers in this mold, but I do want Sunstorm. And if he's not going to be available otherwise for the forseeable future... 🫤
So, does anyone know how Hasbro handles MTO? Do you have to pay when you order? At the end of the ordering period? At the cancellation date? Some other time?
So, does anyone know how Hasbro handles MTO? Do you have to pay when you order? At the end of the ordering period? At the cancellation date? Some other time?
If done like HasLab, it'd charge once the ordering period was over. That said, HasLab has a minimum, so maybe they'll charge immediately?
As said, I won't be participating in this round, but I look forward to getting details. I'm hoping that this will be successful enough that Hasbro will do more.
He might be, though...
KOs FTW.
Also, Nate said Sunstorm might come out about four years later individually:
I'm going to remark on it every time because I never want to let myself take it for granted. I'm so glad we've gone from "We can't talk about possible plans" to "No that character isn't currently planned, but we'll think about it. Here are some other characters that are in the works though."
Just take a deep breath for maximum funk.
I was fine with the former, because we fans don't HAVE to know everything at a time that's convenient for us. There is enough fandom entitlement. But this present format, which suggests it's also convenient (and/or worth disclosing) for the team, is welcome.
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They're just knockoffs with a ten-minute life expectancy.
Think of MTO (Made to Order) more as “extended preorders” without a guarantee of leftover stocking at retailers. Hasbro’s not going to charge until they start shipping, and delivery is farther out than with typical mass availability pre-orders.
Hasbro’s been doing MTO with other brands for a while now. Two of bigger ones that I know (and I’m sure there are others) was the Marvel Legends Dragon Man and Classified Cobra Commander (first version) in his “before the fans pissed and moaned about the brighter colors” blue and gold.
I think they've also done a ML Mephisto as Made To Order too.
Classified Arctic HISS was MTO
I think the ML X-Men '97 Sentinels were MTO too. Also X-Men '97 Apocalypse.
They cancellation date has changed since the previous MTOs. Looks like it just a little bit after the close on sales now whereas before it was allowable right up until they took your money
Been seeing scattered preorders for the 4-pack from local specialty stores, and the most recent one is a little under $200. Not wildly off (especially once I remind myself the exchange rate has changed by SO much), but definitely out of my price range.
$150-$200 is a lot, and not something that's comfortably in my price range but... if they'd used the ER moulds I'd have been dead in the water and I'd probably have bitten.
But I don't even really like the SS '86 moulds so this is... an easy pass. So thank you from saving me from poor financial decisions, Hasbro!
But I don't even really like the SS '86 moulds so this is... an easy pass. So thank you from saving me from poor financial decisions, Hasbro!
I didn’t like the SS86 mold at first. We had just gotten Seige, then Earthrise, now this? Seemed like a lot. But the more I see it, the better it looks. And when you get them all on the shelf with the other 86 figures, they look even better. I’ve got Skywarp. Waiting to see if I can get my hands on Starscream before I go back and pick up Thundercracker.
They really ripped UK/EU customers off with this box, even by Hasbro standards.
That's the thing. I don't have many of the SS '86 redoes. I was going to pass on SS '86 Prime entirely, as I'm quite happy with ER. My sister got me him for Chanukkah though, and when I got a chance I stuck him on the shelf... and he just didn't mesh with most of my collection. He now hangs out at my work desk. The kids get a kick out of him.
I had SS '86 Megs in my hands at Target and passed because I didn't care for the look. I passed on SS '86 Soundwave and Bumblebee because I was happy with the Netflix ER-adjacent figures of them. Will probably only get SS '86 Cliffjumper because I'm a Cliffjumper completionist.
Objectively, the SS '86 figure poses better than the ER figure. And it probably is, objectively, a better figure. It's got the better part of a decade's worth of engineering improvements in it.
But I just don't like its face. Literally. The overly referential Sunbow sculpting and flat colours just don't hit me like ER's mix of toon and toy and IRL detail. I'm a Seeker fanboy. I've tried to talk myself into it, but it's just not working.
So I'm going to stick with SS '86, at least until they revisit the Seekers again with less Sunbow referential intentions.
Wait until it comes out in Japan...