So is the RID line mostly done at this point?

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  1. AOEGalvatronRox

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    Honestly, I hope RID15 is coming to an end soon. I know my opinion may not resonate well and may very well be unpopular but the show is really just terrible and the figures are just taking up shelf space in stores that could otherwise be occupied by Titans Return figures. Sorry, but for a show that's supposed to be a continuation of Transformers Prime, it's really not all that good.
     
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    We are getting movies next year, and we know Generations is still going to be running strong unlike last time. RID needs to wrap up by the end of Winter so they won't have to compete for the pegs.
     
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    I've never watched the RID show, and I didn't care for most of the toys, purely based on their art style more than anything. I particularly don't like the heads/faces on most of the characters.

    But every toy line has its stand outs, and I grabbed these ones while looking for other toys a few months back and am quite happy with them.
    I also have the leader class Megatronus somewhere, and he is my fav character (not toy) design out of that show.

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    No, your opinion is very popular.
    Its just a bit biased.
     
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    My son and I really enjoy RiD and we hope it continues, but I see why it's not everyone's cup of tea.
     
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    For me RID2015 is too much like Animated meets Prime toylines,sure the proportions are better than Animated but from the figure standpoint they just seem too cartoony.And another thing I don't like is how they did away with such established characters and did such characters as Bisk which looks nothing like a lobster but a crab,so I honestly don't know what Hasbro was thinking giving him that name.

    And that Reindeer looking crap figure that could give Armada Megatron a run for his money as biggest antlers ever.Basically what I'm saying is RID2015 has had its run and its times for something new,pure and simple.
     
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    Have you ever handled Thunderhoof? The Warrior class version is one of the most fun deluxes I've had before Titans Return came along. And the character in the show is one of the best too
     
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    Most people just hate RID because its finally something original with fresh characters for the most part and not the same Starscream vs Megs vs Bumblebutt vs OP BS over and over and over again.
    They can't see that if you take this show for what it is and give it a fair chance its actually quit entertaining and they can't judge the toys fairly because they hate the characters for not being the same characters we always get to see over and over and over and over again.
    This show will probably last another season and a movie, because that's what Prime got but apparently they think people who like RID shouldn't have that because they don't like the show, and after that Hasbro will probably again give in to this mentality and give them their animated 3.0.
     
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    ^ No most people hate it because it pales in comparison to Prime to them and thats sad. I personally take it as something different from Prime and I LOVE this series, had I compared it to Prime and I'd probably still love it. Heck, unless you actually have the figure in hand you can't say if its shit or not. Most of the Warriors are some of the best and probably the most fun I've had with figures in recent years. The designs are unique and an interesting spin with unique robots like Thunderhoof, Bisk, & Steeljaw. While I love how G1 CW & TR is I can't help but say that RID15 is a breath of fresh air.
     
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    And you said I was biased. I gave the show a chance and it's just not my cup of tea. It tries way to hard to be light hearted and funny. And I collect the toys. While I miss the complexity that the TFP figures had, I think the RID figures are rather enjoyable and if distribution in my area didn't suck ass, I would collect more RID figures. And touching on your "they think people who like RID shouldn't have that because they don't like the show"; yeah TFP fans don't have the mentality of "if it's not like a certain Transformers universe, it's garbage" like the Geewunners.
     
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    The Adventure release in Japan basically killed the Transformers brand as a commercial toy line: most retailers won't stock TF toys, even TF: Legends items, on account of how they shelf-warm. I'm not talking about small shops, I'm talking about Toys'Rus.
    DUH, how many freaking Bumblebees and Optimus did they think we would buy? One month they release the special armor toys, and the next they release the exact same toys in slightly different colors in 2 packs. What were they thinking?
    Specially harmful was Optimus who got a toy release in every size at every wave, even if he was not appearing until the end of the first season (as a full character, not the visions sent to Bumblebee).

    RiD/Adventure clogged the toyline with Ops and Bumbs and infinite versions of the 4 autobots, and left out the most interesting part of the show: the animal themed decepticons, who were all more interesting characters and would have been incedible toys: Hameerstrike, Vertebreak, Filch, Nightstrike, Scowl... I'd love to have any of them.
     
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    Well i'm glad to see i was wrong then :) 
    We all get a little biased sometimes.
    I liked Prime toys too, love my Ratchet and Soundwave, and first wave RID toys arent grand but guys like Fracture and such are real fun i think.
     
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    Really hope the line ends soon. I'm tired of seeing the empty Generations pegs everywhere just because they cant get rid of the unmoveable always fully stocked RID clogging the shelves.
     
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    The line was mishandled with so many boring repaints of the same characters. More beastcons (or Decepticons in general) appeared too late which was a shame because they had more interesting designs.

    Oh yes, there's Origins Drift and Jazz. Nice figures. But oddballs in the entire line.
     
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    So you live in a world where Rescue Bots doesnt exist? They are on season 4 now.

    Animated meets prime sounds awesome to me. Both toylines had great ransformations and original designs. RID is like that too and you are really missing out if you dont get Thunderhoof. You can keep your simplified 5-6 step CW deluxes, I would much rather have nice complex and original TFs like Thunderhoof and Fracture.

    But thats because Hasbro has way less waves for the generations toys. The Gen toyline has only 4 waves coming out this year, each with 4 new toys, while RID has at least 6 different wave assortments this year (counting revisions) where each wave reissues a ton of previously released toys. So what you see isnt shelwraming but simply the newest issued wave: Transformers Robots in Disguise Warriors Wave 6 Revision 1 - Hasbro - Transformers - Transformers at Entertainment Earth

    As for RID ending toyline, it wont. We just got some more app updates with these energon style combiners. The reason we dont get as much coverage is because nobody cares. Its the only line where we actually learn of new toys from finding them in stores already or seeing them at a show. None of us knkew of Windblade, scorponok or Bisk until we saw them at a show, this will be the same thing. We will see new warriors in New York.
     
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    No, I just don't know anything about Rescue Bots so I didn't know what season they were on but someone corrected me after I made the post. Out of all the Transformers shows its weird that Rescue Bots of all things would last the longest.

    Anyway to update based on recent events, RID as a line is only done at RETAIL. They can release all the waves they want but only one steps will see the light of day on pegs while the Warriors you have to order online. Distribution is shitty as hell, in terms of Warriors I've only seen the first two waves at retail for a while now and only now did I see the Fracture wave. Once I saw Wave 3 & 4 but that was last year and in all my trips out of town and to Toys R Us, I've only seen the Masked Megatronus ONCE. The only size I've seen restock is the one and three steps, and they seem to sell fast as my local Walmart barely has them on pegs for a while.
     
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    RiD has at least two new waves of traditional Warriors coming, and then there's whatever the Crash Combiners are that comes next. It's doing fine as a toy line, and as long as the toys are selling the show will live on.
     
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    Wasn't it said by some Hasbro Rep at Botcon in response to why they didn't show much RID - that "They didn't think anyone cared".
    Even John Warden who works on the Transformers Brand regularly forgets RID-15/16 and Rescue Bots even still exists.

    I do think it's fair to say that Takara does have ups and down with the Transformers Brand in Japan - I feel sorry for them a bit as I'm not even sure it's that easy to nail down who their consumers are - how old are they - what the parents who are buying them for kids think - and what franchise themes they need to farm to have the best success in Japan.

    It looks like Arms Microns did reasonably well - enough for them to make quite a lot of them anyway.

    If I found out Japan wasn't really feeling the over saturation of a small number of Characters with the brand then I'd agree with them.
    But that seems to be the way they want to market things these days - lots of iterations of the core cast and very few enemy characters.

    That doesn't bother me as much with Rescue Bots as at least any reformatting can play into the story - but that seems less the case with RID-16
    I can't speak to RID's relative quality as I've yet to watch it. I'm not making any judgements against it I just have not got around to it yet.
     
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    Out of curiosity, are you based in Japan? Your comments paint the Adventure line and TFs in general in dire straights, for a line that Takara's continuing for a pretty good long while. I hadn't heard anything to the contrary that Adventure was a good seller, but I hadn't heard anything about Adventure figures taking badly either; same with Legends.

    (I do agree that not differentiating the Scout-sized two-pack figures at all was a really weird and lazy choice, along with some of the EZ figures in the four-packs.)

    Was he talking about people in general, or specifically the Botcon audience? I can understand them thinking what makes up Botcon's audience wasn't interested in hearing about RID.