That you think these scenarios are equivalent is laughable.

 

i will buy this and all coneheads.

only thing i dont like so far is the nose cone fo the jet sticking out his ass basically.

 

I like it... as I liked the last one. If I have the money, I will get them (all 3) as I would love to have the six seekers. I see how releasing figures like this may be deemed wrong, but I really don't see Takara releasing them themselves (not that that makes it any less wrong).

But if Takara does realease them, I'd buy those as well, and keep one in each mode. Simple.

 

Sunstorm damn it!! Sunstorm!!!

 

I'm actually a little pissed they skipped the scaled-down Megatron. They would earn my business with a versus-two pack with him and Faith Leader.

 

  Do I at least get an "A+" for my efforts?  

Look again, I'd say the mods make up more than just 5%.

I disagree, More times than not, by the time a GC add on is made, and released to the masses, the toy required is no longer in production, and if you want it, you have to get it from ePay or a private seller...so no money for Hasbro there at all.

So when customizers do the same thing, and sell on ePay, in return, making money, are you right there criticizing the customizer for doing the same thing? No you aren't.

O.K. I get it, you love FP. Cool. But, if they did not get written consent to make said add on, and apparently, they did not, thus the obscure names for their products (City Commander- Ultra Magnus, Warbot - Springer) then yeah, it's the same thing. Sorry....to a lesser degree?....maybe. But theft is theft....right?

Hasbro has a copyright on MP Coneheads?.....Really?....saweet!!...maybe we will get an official version then!

 

 

In the case of the City Commander, yes, you had to resort to Ebay or private sellers to get a classics Magnus. However, when the combiner add-ons were announced both of the sets were still in stores for plenty of people. SO you either went out and bought a set for yourself or for yourself and others.

The difference is customizers AREN'T MASS PRODUCING THEIR CREATIONS. They either make ONE custom and decide to sell it off or they take comissions for a higher price due to it being made by ONE person.

 

Until iGear starts using a purchased HasTak MP seeker for every conehead they produce, this argument has no weight.

 

So... is this going to be scaled down like the Prime one, or full size like MP Starscream? Also, chances are it'll be priced too high...

 

To the both of you, so what about when a customizer casts head, weapons, and even at times, whole TF's and sells them....you know, mass production/multiple copies....all that jazz.

What then?

 

This will be the same size as MP Starscream.

 

Small pieces like Heads, guns, hands, etc. you can't buy in stores or in online retail and again you have to own the existing figures for the pieces to actually be of use. Casting and reproducing full-on figures, on the other hand, I'd be against. I mean didn't iGear also do that repro Sharkticon?

 

i've been wanting MP coneheads since day 1. as it is i have to say i'm a transformers fan first, and a has-tak loyalist second. I understand what that statement is and know exactly what it implies, but quite frankly these 3rd party manufacturers continue to serve a nitch of transformers fans that hasbro, for entirely legitimate business-related reasons, doesn't cover right now (G1 arcee, MP coneheads, quintessons, etc. etc.).

It's also hard to get around the fact that since their original G1 incarnations, the coneheads have identical bodies to the seekers, and it's remained that way all the way up to the classics figures.

It is also legal to do this in the place of business in which igear is situated (china). So what they are doing is perfectly legal in the laws and regulations which govern their region of the world. They happen to conflict with ours.

 

I don't think the Sharktion has been released to date.

 

If they're copying another mold and selling it, it's a KO. But, to be honest, I'd be less opposed if someone casted a part (head, weapon, etc) of something not readily available that was going to be used for an official product.

As someone else suggested earlier, it they were producing the parts to customize your own seeker into a conehead, I'd have zero issue with this. If they were taking a HasTak seeker and customizing it for you, I'd have zero issue with it.

 

That is good to know. I kept seeing the back-and-forth of "scaled-up, scaled-down," etc.

If it's the same size as MP Starscream, I'm all about picking him up!

 

I don´t like it.
I mean he´s looking really good, but that´s not the point.
The point is, that they copy a whole mold, change it a little bit here and there and sell the result as their own in a "partner project" (which is kind of dubious)?
Na.. I don´t know if my money would be worth all this...
Just dunno.

 

I dunno, is it really so hard to stay civil with someone you disagree with? Sheesh.

 

I bought faith leader because it was cool to have a smaller master piece prime but this is ridiculous.

 

Here's my opinion on this whole issue, How i see it is that Hasbro/Takara have had a shit load of time to make Ramjet, Thrust, and Dirge but instead all we have gotten has been a shit load of repaints of the same MP, like come on Sleep convoy, weird greyish/blue screamer and ghost screamer, this lack of effort could have been put to better use by making the cone heads them selfs but no they chose not to. I say good for iGear and I hope this is the kick to the nuts that Has/Tak needed to wake them up and realize that hmmmm maybe we should've done that. Good for you iGear and I can't wait to see pics of Thrust and get my hands on these figures, you have my pre-order.