If your kids aren't excited about Weird Al, what are you even doing as a parent?
This, 100%. As a kid, I used to love peering out the window at the garbage truck as it drove by. I thought it was the coolest job in the world, and loved that the garbage men got to ride on the back (of course, at the time, I thought that they rode back there for their whole shift
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Counterpoint: I ain't got kids so I ain't no parent.
A-parent-ly not.Counterpoint: I ain't got kids so I ain't no parent.
Super looking forward to getting this in hand!
Same. It seems like the trickle of info on Liokaiser has been slower than Omega Prime. And I have to hope that it's because they're tightening up the QC.
I really hope this turns out good with NO FLAWS as Omega did, I still not gotten around to doing the fix for my copies, thou I'll grant that one is staying in its box until I decide to sell it off for a tiny profit
It's all just Studio Series now. Siege/Earthrise/Kingdom/Legacy/Evolution/AOTP is Studio Series but the occasional digressions are into newer cartoons instead of video games. HasLab is Studio Series for people who collect huge expensive anime figures. Collaborative comes closest to having its own identity but the differences are pretty superficial. It's all the same stuff wearing a few different fake beards.
The real Studio Series was the toys we bought along the way.
There's still a distinction in goals between the two, IMO: Studio Series is about trying (with various levels of success) to replicate stuff seen on screen (the live action movies at first, then the animated movies, then games and concept characters) and is going to be moving into comics next year. Meanwhile, Generations (or at least the non SS generations, since Studio Series is technically a generations subline) is more loosey goosey about what they'll do, up to and including generating new characters from whole cloth, and is willing to do gimmicks. (Like how Kingdom Cyclonus has those ugly blast effects posts on his body while '86 Scourge did not) And willing to slap a new head and color scheme on a toy and call it a day no matter how inaccurate it is to the source material.
SS '86 began as a stopgap measure. The third year of WfC was supposed to be '86 movie themed, but somewhere along the way they decided to make it a BW line and Kingdom was born. Still, the '86 stuff was too far along to cancel so they decided to split it in half. Half would stay in Kingdom to fill out the line, the other half would get spun off into "Studio Series '86" with Sunbow-referential decos.
So SS '86 started off with moulds that were designed to be Generations.
It sold well though, and they continued it. To the point where they're now making stuff made specifically for it.
Ideally I'd like the stuff that's designed to look like it jumped off of Sunbow's design sheets to be in SS '86, while stuff that's a bit more toy centric or otherwise more detailed or stylized gets put in the main Generations line.
So SS '86 started off with moulds that were designed to be Generations.
It sold well though, and they continued it. To the point where they're now making stuff made specifically for it.
Ideally I'd like the stuff that's designed to look like it jumped off of Sunbow's design sheets to be in SS '86, while stuff that's a bit more toy centric or otherwise more detailed or stylized gets put in the main Generations line.
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we are ALL studio series on this blessed day
I'm pretty sure I'm a g1 figure with bad case of gold plastic syndrome...
There ought to be an ointment for that.
I've never been clear as to the separation between lines anyway, given Devestator in one, Superion in the other, etc. But I've had the exact same problem since the Reveal The Shield/Generations/Classics/whatever lines.