Poor Hasbro. I wonder if the Star Wars and Transformers teams share horror stories about dealing with us.
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
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Yeah. The biggest stick outs to me are the feet (why not tool a toe point? Just to spice things up?) and the lack of head deco. Especially with this plastic tone, a LOT of details are getting washed out, doubly so under PvP’s over lighting.
That said, I don’t HATE it. And while it is seemingly going to be marketed as a “Unicron Soldier”…it’s not a bad stand in for the big bad. Unicron remains a lingering presence in the brand, and the last Unicron offered was the $500 In 2021. The last AFFORDABLE Unicron was the 2016 Platinum edition, which saw sparse distribution. And the last fully mass retail Unicron was the Cybertron deluxe back in 2006…TWENTY years ago.
So I kind of dig the multi-purpose thing they have going on between giving Marvel fans a Unicron Acolyte, Cybertron fans a pseudo-remake, and a “close enough” Unicron available at mass retail.
The Star Wars team has it worse. Not only do they deal with fan complaints, but they also deal with the dreaded Disney licensing department!
Supposedly Hasbro managed to get more favorable terms when they renewed the license last year.
Now the designers only get sent into the Rancor pit instead of the Sarlacc pit. .
TFW has a pic up showing the deluxes from the upcoming Energon capsule:
I hate to say it, but I think the Megatron from this capsule might have just gone from a probable pass to a must buy. I've really been wanting a Megatron to match the Behold Galvatron release. If Megatron looks like Cybertronic, he's basically that.
I hate to say it, but I think the Megatron from this capsule might have just gone from a probable pass to a must buy. I've really been wanting a Megatron to match the Behold Galvatron release. If Megatron looks like Cybertronic, he's basically that.