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10-17-2008, 01:40 PM
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#271 | | ijt333 Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 19,994 Location: Minneapolis Collection Count: all but 28 News Credits: 1 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim Formas  Quality Assurance, Quality Control, or whatever then end up calling it. To paraphrase what Kick said, the price increase is partially being done in order to cover increased QA/QC. Not sure how they're doing that, but you'd assume it would include more personnel or more efficient machinery. | Or taking their business to factories that might charge more but have lower error rates.
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10-17-2008, 01:55 PM
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#272 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 10,848 Location: Static Spark Ward Collection Count: 108 News Credits: 6 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim Formas Quality Assurance, Quality Control, or whatever then end up calling it. To paraphrase what Kick said, the price increase is partially being done in order to cover increased QA/QC. Not sure how they're doing that, but you'd assume it would include more personnel or more efficient machinery. | That, along with the other things Kickback said make perfect sense. Though I think the & in between the Q and the A was the source of the confusion. Quote:
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10-17-2008, 02:40 PM
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#273 | | Look like a million bucks Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,768 Location: The Advent Void Collection Count: A MILLION | Quote:
Originally Posted by shroobmaster Constructicons ain't getting toys yet other charcters with alot less screentime and important-roles are?
That's just dumb. | Nobody else read that and thought it might be because said characters would end up getting MORE screen time in Season 3? And lame as it was, the Constructicons did sorta get their own "death scene" in the same vein as Swindle, Soundwave, Wreck-Gar, Omega Supreme, etc. That could very well mean they'll be out of the spotlight for a while but return later, and finally with toys to accompany them.
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10-17-2008, 03:30 PM
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#274 | | Junior Smeghead Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,832 Collection Count: not enough :) | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chosen Nobody else read that and thought it might be because said characters would end up getting MORE screen time in Season 3? And lame as it was, the Constructicons did sorta get their own "death scene" in the same vein as Swindle, Soundwave, Wreck-Gar, Omega Supreme, etc. That could very well mean they'll be out of the spotlight for a while but return later, and finally with toys to accompany them. | Well it could also be that crazy thing Hasbro some times develops of oh we did that in another line so we don't have to do those characters now. Sort of like how Classics fans would like to have an updated Blitzwing but since there is Animated Blitzwing no update for Classics. Or we have Ironhide in the Movie and Classics line up so that somehow keeps the Animated fans from getting the Animated version of him.
Maybe with Movie Constructicons that means the Animated ones are getting the shaft which is too darn bad because the looks and likely the characters are going to be so different it really begs to do both. And Robot Heroes Constructicons for Animated, Movie, and G1, but I'm a crazy dreamer that way. | |
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10-17-2008, 04:29 PM
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#275 | | Netherlands Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 202 News Credits: 1 | QA? Sorry, but I haven't noticed any increase in Quality. Still loose limbs, poor painting, plastic errors, etc. First get to a "lego" QA standard, then charge for it...
And the Constructicons are a must. They had enough airtime. | |
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10-17-2008, 04:44 PM
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#276 | | Animated FTL!!! Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 11,025 Location: Seattle, WA Collection Count: a Lot. Probably Too many :p News Credits: 3 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Kickback 1) Universe 2.0 was the continuation of Classics but with WalMart's "keep it realistic and we'll keep carrying it" push. Not even joking. It's more of a 'movie carry over' than it is a Classics 1.0 carry over. | Never thought i'd be thankful to Wal-Mart for something...  "all the slammin' shorties in the house say "yeah!""
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10-17-2008, 07:56 PM
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#277 | | Boomdeeada Boomdeeada Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 6,434 Location: Athens, Ohio Collection Count: 1,479 News Credits: 12 | Quote:
Originally Posted by johaneggink QA? Sorry, but I haven't noticed any increase in Quality. Still loose limbs, poor painting, plastic errors, etc. First get to a "lego" QA standard, then charge for it... | Given how recently they changed the price, I doubt you'll see any real changes for a while, given the big delay between things happening at the top to things happening at the factory to the toys actually showing up in our hands. 
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10-17-2008, 08:40 PM
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#278 | | Banned Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 247 | Quote:
Originally Posted by artiepants Never thought i'd be thankful to Wal-Mart for something... | AMEN!!
Go walmart...keep demanding exclusives and we will keep buying them..... | |
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10-17-2008, 09:10 PM
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#279 | | TF Art Lad Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 2,651 Location: Nottingham, England Collection Count: 1. I have one collection. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash from Carolina Well it could also be that crazy thing Hasbro some times develops of oh we did that in another line so we don't have to do those characters now. Sort of like how Classics fans would like to have an updated Blitzwing but since there is Animated Blitzwing no update for Classics. Or we have Ironhide in the Movie and Classics line up so that somehow keeps the Animated fans from getting the Animated version of him. | You're forgetting the key word, "yet". Having a figure in one line doesn't mean there won't be one in the other; it simply means that Hasbro (or indeed retailers) don't want to put two very similar figs on the shelves at the same time. Hence why Universe Ratchet isn't coming out for a while - but we do know it's coming soon.
Oh, and RIRFIB. Some of us remember the toys.
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10-17-2008, 09:47 PM
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#280 | | Aerialbot Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,014 Location: Chicago Collection Count: 140+ | Quote:
Originally Posted by Kickback Alternators didn't have mainstream support. Kids didn't buy it because they were too hard, so parents didn't buy it. Proof that collectors cannot support a line. | that's a really interesting point. I really hope more kids start liking the Classics/Universe toys then.  | |
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