PotP - will you be buying Hasbro or wait to see what Takara does?

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  1. Bob Schoonover

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    This is all speculation, of course, and it barely hangs together, but:
    Takara is quite hit-or-miss on few episode characters. They skipped Alpha Trion (TR), Paradron Medic(s) (T30), and Devcon (Generations Scourge w/the head used in the exclusive 3-pack or TR Scourge w/Blurr's head). They haven't done Dion yet (TR Wheelie). Orion Pax was only available via the Tribute set. I don't think Moonracer, et al. are more prominent than any of them. So I'm not in the camp that thinks Takara will feel bound to do those characters.

    I also think Elita being a jet is interesting - maybe Takara wanted to do something different than Hasbro with the fem molds and Hasbro compromised by making her a jet (e.g. Elita will be used for Lyzack in UW).

    Lastly, Takara flipped Victorion, and when they released retools of fembot molds in the past, they were made into Decepticons (Slipstream and Nightbird). I think there's a preference/bias/interest Takara has or perceives in its fans for villainous females.

    Sure, it's all supposition and rantings of a mad man, and I'm sure there's a lot of wishful thinking in there, but I'm not going to be shocked if Takara skips one-episode characters for something else
     
  2. gambitprime

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    For Titan Class Predaking I will wait for the Takara version
     
  3. Hanzkaz

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    Lately, Hasbro's thing for stickers has me going with Takara for pretty much everything. I may get some POTP figures to complete my CW teams, though.

    However, I will also be keeping an eye out to see if Wei Jiang does anything with the Dinobots and Terrorcons.
     
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    I'll probably have to do that, too. I'm not sure we're going to get Hasbro Predaking in the UK.
     
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    I think it's more a sense of them trying to be balanced. Blackarachnia/Slipstream/Nightbird were released after they had done a release of the three Thrilling 30 female autobots. Likewise you had Megatronia and Grand Galvatron (and Baldigus) to even out the filler Autobot teams ported over from Combiner Wars. It's a farcry from the end days of G1 where Takara tended to release almost all the Micromasters as Autobots.
     
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  6. Fade2BlackZarak

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    I wait and see. The only good thing about Hasbro being so expensive here is that I can get the TT ones for roughly the same price (deluxes excluded).
     
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  7. Bob Schoonover

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    I think the balance argument is fair and good, but not necessarily an indication the fems will be Autobots. If you ignore Devastator (which will then require ignoring Predaking in UW2.0), you had 5 of each faction released in UW. Putting the fems aside for the moment, and based on leaks/mold choices, my guess is we'll have

    3x Autobots (Volcanicus plus Inferno and Grapple-based Autobot car combiners to finish out the 84/85 cast)
    3x Decepticons (Abominus, Piranacon, GG2.0*) with God Neptune sitting out there as a "If everything goes well" capper much like Baldigus

    If Takara goes for faction balance in UW2.0, I could see the Elita-Five (god, we need a name for them) being the pivot group of molds/characters. If HasTak have planned retools of the Dinobots into (BW) Predacons (or, more generally, have more Decepticon plans), they'll be the G1 incarnations. If Takara fulfills everyone's hopes and dreams and gives us a Car Robots Autobot combiner based on tooling Hot Spot/Inferno into Super Fire Convoy (or, more generally, have more Autobot plans), we'll get female Decepticons. And of course, there are the molds/characters of which we are unaware that make up PotP waves 5 and up (plus all the retooling of current molds which we can't know about).

    *GG2.0 (Grand Galvatron 2.0) is whatever Takara does w/some mixture of (1) as yet unseen molds/characters, (2) leftover molds from CW/UW and (3) Starscream/Buster/Hydra.
     
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    Hasbro unless Takara reveals an even more kickass version of Volcanicus
     
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    There's always a possibility Takara will put forth some 'must have' versions here and there, but I'll probably stick with Hasbro for most of it.

    There is one Hasbro guaranteed buy for me, and that is Slug/Slag, mainly because I predict a 99.5 percent chance Takara will go with a cartoon deco of white thighs and red head, and I AIN'T HAVIN' THAT SHIT! :mad: 
     
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    normally hasbro is my go to unless takara does something really special. the paint apps on adventure windblade were too good to pass up and with TR i couldnt say no to the non faceplate hardhead, accurate kup, ginrai, godbomber, and what they've done with their upcoming overlord. stuff like that is worth the import prices but for the rest of them i've been quite happy with hasbro and will continue to do the same with potp.
     
  11. WishfulThinking

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    TT made the Titan Returns figures much improved via better heads, premium paint and extra accessories.

    CW, on the other hand, often fell more in line with the "few licks of paint" differences between the toys, with Blast Off and Computron as a whole being the primary exceptions (and you really need both Computrons to make a "best" version). --- Kinda expecting something similar to CW for PotP...
     
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    Unless the price is similar and the Takara version has significant improvements like Devastator I go Hasbro. Better colors and paint apps aren't usually worth double the price for me.
     
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    Hasbro since I really don't have intentions of getting most of the line. It's just the baby Pretenders, Beachcomber, and Rippersnapper(just for now do want the other 3 terrorcon limbs and well Hasbro can keep Hun-Grrr yugh).

    Now the question is will and how will they release the baby Pretenders. Diver is already getting released with GM as a TTM exclusive.
     
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    Hasbro, just the cheaper option for me since toy shelves here in the Philippines usually are well-stocked.
    Plus, nothing like buying toys off the shelves.
     
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    Thinking of Grand Galvatron.. the things Takara could do with POTP...
     
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    I'll probably get most of what Hasbro puts out for PotP. I got all the CW and UW combiners because I wanted to double-dip, at the very least, with the G1-original combiners (Devastator, Superion, Menasor, Defensor, Bruticus, and Computron) to display in both individual and combined mode, so I'll do the same with the Dinobots, Terrorcons, Predacons, and any other combiner team that comes out. Other than combiners, I'll want to pick up any unique decos or characters that Takara does, and might go Takara for any Hasbro versions that have those dreaded stickers.

    Oh, and I'll definitely be checking out any OS KO Dinobots. :cool: 
     
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    I think I'll wait for Takara. They tend to have better paints and slightly better detail (very, VERY minor difference). Though, Tak's offerings tend to be much more expensive than their Hasbro counterparts.
     
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    I'll be curious to see Takara's approach to the POTP Dinobots. If they go "full cartoon" with 'em, it risks losing a lot of the toy-centric detailing I find so appealing in the Hasbro toys.

    And as I mentioned previously, a cartoon-colored Slag is a bad Slag.
     
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    Not everyone can have Hasbro items at the prices they charge in the U.S. Sometimes the price is close enough to the Takara version, people just wait for the Takara version.
     
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    Much like CW/UW, I'll be likely getting a mix.