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JediTricks wrote:Ugh, so now Bumblebee is an eagle and Megatron is a fish?

This statement alone is hilarious.

And enough to stop me caring about this line's "story".

...And no, that's not because I'm a Geewunner! As I often say, I'd rather not see toys of Bumblebee or Megatron at *all*, but... eagle and fish is just...

CREATE NEW CHARACTERS

Who among you would not rather have seen this mould released as a new character called King Poseidon?

And then Wal-Mart and Target take a look at the manifest and say, "Who the fuck is 'King Poseidon?' That's not going to move units, kids don't know who the fuck that is. Put Megatron there. And make sure there's twice as many Bumblebees in this case as there are Megatrons, because kids don't like bad guys."

And Hasbro does it, because if they don't, then Wave 3's only going to sell on BBTS and Amazon.

I didn't say "don't have a Megatron figure at all," you silly goose. I just think this is a bizarre mould to give him.

Gomess wrote:I didn't say "don't have a Megatron figure at all," you silly goose. I just think this is a bizarre mould to give him.

If it helps any,I thought the original 2012 TFP Voyager megatron toy in both modes was complete garbage. About the only praise I gave the mold was that it tried to do a slight homage in the lower legs to 1984 Megatrons cartoon robot lower legs,even this was a slight-slight homage.

So honestly all the BH Voyager megatron toy is doing is adding on more garbage to a already existing garbage TFP 2012 mold.

Onslaught Six wrote:And then Wal-Mart and Target take a look at the manifest and say, "Who the fuck is 'King Poseidon?' That's not going to move units, kids don't know who the fuck that is.

Like Wal-Mart or Target is really going to be that savvy with any Transformers characters?

Sparky Prime wrote:

Onslaught Six wrote:And then Wal-Mart and Target take a look at the manifest and say, "Who the fuck is 'King Poseidon?' That's not going to move units, kids don't know who the fuck that is.

Like Wal-Mart or Target is really going to be that savvy with any Transformers characters?

In fairness, they probably do know the name Megatron.

Hasbro doesn't make those big Toyfair presentations so that we want to buy the toys--they do it so retailers know what kind of stuff is going to come out.

I'm not that up on the Prime stuff, but isn't the Beast Hunters gimmick for the non-Pred characters mostly spiky armor bits and whatnot? So Megatron's not a fish, he's a jet or spaceship or whatever with fish bits or fish armor or something?

Even if he was, though, it's not like Megatron's had a consistent alt mode. Fish, tank, spaceship, dragon, bigass hand, why not?

Can I be the one to coin the term "Fishion Cannon" for his arm gun?

Onslaught Six wrote:Hasbro doesn't make those big Toyfair presentations so that we want to buy the toys--they do it so retailers know what kind of stuff is going to come out.

Still doesn't mean they'll know anything about the characters. And not everything is shown at Toy Fair. Like this version of Megatron...

Gomess wrote:Can I be the one to coin the term "Fishion Cannon" for his arm gun?

Works for me.