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Hasbro is actively making main characters as exclusives. Similarly, they are packaging "missing" parts from one toy with another toy (such as the Dinobot swords being packed with the comic-colors Grimlock). My guess is that they are trying to make the hobby more difficult to promote chaine...

My problem is that Hasbro is making Hound part of a mail-away exclusive 5-pack, with slight recolors of toys that most people have. Sunstreaker and Trailbreaker were somewhat rare at standard retail. But, they were easy to find online. Anybody who can get the upcoming 5-pack probably had a chance to...

This is almost the Gillen-esque, Uber-style, TF series I wanted a decade ago. Both sides are applying economics as ruthlessly as they are willing to. Ratchet saying "let some humans die" seems harsh, until it is compared to Soundwave and Starscream cannabalizing parts from Skywarp and Refl...

You can't just ignore those figures exist, and you're side stepping the point I was making. Those figures are outliers, and do not work as reference points. The bad face-sculpts and lower articulation were more common in "Beast Wars". But, they were acceptable at the time because standard...

As I said, some updates wouldn't hurt, but just being older doesn't mean the original figures are "unacceptable now", or even that a newer version would necessarily be better. Take the PotP Evolution Optimal Optimus figure as an example. The 'evolution' gimmick alone was enough to make me...

This kind of kills my interest in the line.

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Hasbro is getting in to the habit of making 1984/85 characters as weird exclusives. Hobby is getting less fun.

The Transmetals are among the best figures of the Beast Wars line. I Beast Wars was 25+ years ago. The face-sculpts on many of the Transmetals are terrible. The articulation, while amazing for 1997 (better than many action figures for the time) has not aged well. (Much of it was stuff that Hasbro c...

The Beast figures are sort of weird. They are the first time in a long time where "look the other way" is still somewhat acceptable. "Beast Wars" is from the late 90s, the last time that toys were not assumed/required to look like the control art and animation models. Honey Bear ...

W1 had the six stage infiltration protocol and Ore 13 storyline, and IDW2 was a great pre-war story with some nice dialogue. Feels like with Skybound we're getting the bare minimum, basic Transformers plot just to hang action scenes on. The art is good, at least. Furman could not even finish the 6-...

I like the writing more than you seem to. There is more contrivance than I would like. But, that is standard lazy comicbook writing. The real problem is the art. IDW opened to the door for sub-par art in TF comics ~10 years ago. Why pay for Don Figueroa grade art when any indie artist will do? The l...