Transformers: Age of the Primes Thread: ll First Post All Listings II Update : April 12th, 2027 Bonus Wave: Repaint fun, Beast Wars, G2, Machine Wars

wonko the sane?

wonko the sane?

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I was always fairly tight in my budget, so my habits (other than just pre-ordering.) haven't actually changed. I still only get deluxes or smaller barring very rare circumstance, and only characters I have some kind of attachment to.

Which... sadly... is why I went a little nuts on studio series devastator a while ago. Haven't even started opening them yet. This week though.
 

Platypus Prime

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If Hasbro is depending on the SAME people rebuying over and over, that's not actually a good thing anyway, as it means they're not expanding their market. And sooner or later all collectors will 'age out', one way or the other. One of the reasons I still wholeheartedly support the kiddie lines existence even though I have no interest. I can easily see those getting cut if the economics go bad, but it would also be shooting themselves in the foot by cutting one of the few recruiting tools they have left.
 
unluckiness

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That’s me. I’m being phased out of the hobby myself by a combination of not really giving a damn about half of the characters they choose to make and me deciding that I’m not buying X character again with less greeble/slightly better scale/a new hat.
 
Sciflyer

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unluckiness said:
That’s me. I’m being phased out of the hobby myself by a combination of not really giving a damn about half of the characters they choose to make and me deciding that I’m not buying X character again with less greeble/slightly better scale/a new hat.
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I get that. And while I wouldn't say that I am being phased out necessarily, I have become much more selective over the last few years. Mostly, I don't mind buying the combiners again, as CW/UW was fun, but some of the designs and combined forms were not ideal, IMO. The only one I have regretted so far was SS86 Devastator, whose team members will remain in individual mode. UW just wears it better on my shelf.

Thundercracker and the upcoming Astrotrain are, I believe, good examples of "...X character again with less greeble". I don't consider Astrotrain to be appreciably better than the existing - and crucially - far too recent one, and the same kind of goes for Thundercracker. I hit Seeker fatigue a long, long time ago, and have more than enough representations of the characters that I care about.

Maybe this is something for another thread, but I wonder how many of us that have been collecting for decades still regularly make "replacement" purchases? In other words, how much better/different does something have to be to warrant getting swapped out of your collection/display, and what compromises are you willing to accept?
 
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Haywire

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Sciflyer said:
Maybe this is something for another thread, but I wonder how many of us that have been collecting for decades still regularly make "replacement" purchases? In other words, how much better/different does something have to be to warrant getting swapped out of your collection/display, and what compromises are you willing to accept?
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I have generally avoided "replacement" figures, particularly with the Seekers and Optimus Prime. However, there are quite a few figures I have gotten either because they were really good clearance price, or because they "complete" a "set". Sometimes the first exception "forces" the second. And I will almost always bite on interesting redecos, like the Toxitron G2 subline.
 
wonko the sane?

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Ostensibly, I don't have a problem with replacement figures. My problem is with the sense of time: being that it mostly doesn't feel like a decade or so has passed since I last bought it.

Like the new superion figure. I was able to scrounge it together back then, and when they announced it: I was unaware it had literally been 10 years since combiner wars.
 
The Mighty Mollusk

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I still haven't replaced Classics Prime and Cliffjumper on my shelf.

As for the combiners, I'm going in on Bruticus because he's my favorite G1 fusilateral quintrocombiner, but I passed on Superion and Menasor and don't plan to get Nexus Prime. Future sets will depend if it's a team I already have or not, but the only ones I'd really be looking for are Predaking, Computron, and maybe Piranacon.
 
Swerve

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I passed on Thundercracker as I liked the ER versions of the seekers....and it is a slippery slope. If you replace one seeker you then have to replace all of them. With power glide filling out the 85 crew of Autobots I might be done buying redo figures. I do like the focus on the Primes as it was new figures for the collection, but this price hike has killed a lot of interest after finishing those. Figures I kind of like like animated Ratchet are a wait and see approach right now. I'm curious what comes after Age of Primes to be honest....will they bring anything new to the table.
 
The Predaking

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The Mighty Mollusk said:
Future sets will depend if it's a team I already have or not, but the only ones I'd really be looking for are Predaking, Computron, and maybe Piranacon.
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Well, they did do Piranacon as a Hasbro store thing a while back, but it would be great for them to release them as a boxset. That would definitely be worth the new Titan priceset to me. I would love for them to do a new Computron though.
 
Exatron

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I've also generally been against buying replacement figures.

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...I'll show myself out now.
 
Donocropolis

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I'm definitely on a case-by-case basis with replacements. They have to be a LOT better to justify replacing a good figure. Sometimes I can justify an additional version of someone if they fill a different niche. For example, I think Thrilling 30 Springer is a better toy, but I did buy the Siege one, too, because it fits in better on my 86 Movie shelf. Old Springer gets placed with The Wreckers. That said, I felt no need to upgrade from Siege to Studio Series.
 
Sabrblade

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The Predaking said:
Well, they did do Piranacon as a Hasbro store thing a while back,
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That was Takara's doing in Selects. Hasbro merely imported the Takara Seacons and sold them on Pulse.
 

Platypus Prime

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In MY day, we didn't have old people! We'd sit up with our red Bumblebees, trying to see if some sort of hidden panel existed to show the mechanical detail on the package art that the actual toy didn't have, scratching up the roof with a butter knife in the process! Then we'd pull out the legs and arms to try to make the hovercraft thing we saw on TV the other day, way after some initial ad for comics, where Optimus Prime looked like the most evil thing ever coming over the hill, making us assume the bad guys were the cars and the good guys were the planes! And WE LIKED IT!!!
 
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