Push the FOC Generation's line up please!

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by YoungPrime, May 30, 2012.

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Should we get the highly anticipated FOC figures sooner?

Poll closed Jun 5, 2012.
  1. Yes!

    53.8%
  2. No!

    46.3%
  1. An Army of Bees

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    ...there are Battleship figures?

    ...this is completely different than toys showing up a few weeks prior to the street date of a line. This is asking for a line to be bumped up by almost three months because of another toyline that really has nothing to do with Transformers other than sharing the same parent company, and not only is it completely unreasonable, it's damn near impossible to push another Transformers line out of the blue to retailers who are being clogged with Dark of the Moon and Prime RiD Wave 1.
     
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  2. Murasame

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    Yes, I want Shockwave and Ultra Magnus.
     
  3. YoungPrime

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    That's wave 1.

    2 and 3 were canceled. And wave 1 wont likely sale as well as it would've if that movie wasn't delayed until next Spring.
     
  4. Lbsammills51

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    Shouldn't this be in the Toy Forum?

    Anyways, the Fall of Cybertron game those toys are in part meant to promote isn't coming out until what, the end of August?
     
  5. YoungPrime

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    The importance of such a thread belongs in General Discussions.
     
  6. Lbsammills51

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    How so? This is about toys, not Transformers in general.
     
  7. YoungPrime

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    (sigh) Who in general wouldn't want these toys?

    Seriously you're the only one complaining about it.

    And if it was an issue the mods would have done something about it by now.
     
  8. Lbsammills51

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    I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering.

    Location aside, I think you're seriously conflating the "importance" of this thread, but whatever.
     
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    Poppycock! This thread is highly important! In fact, I just informed the Prime Minister about it this very morning!
     
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    At the Walmart, Target, and TRU in my area, those empty pegs are filled with the new Batman and Spiderman movie toys
     
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    This is my new favorite typo of all time.
     
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    It's been pretty much decided at the retailer level that peg space for GI Joe is already been re-allocated to Amazing Spiderman and the Avengers.

    It sucks for Joe fans like me, since there was a few toys in Wave 2 and 3 I was looking forward to, but I can wait a little while longer. I would love to see FoC/Generations come out sooner, but it's just not going to happen. The reason why retailers break "street date" is because they have stock on hand...in the case of FoC/Generations I doubt any retailers have any cases of those.
     
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    I completely missed that the first time around. I'm tempted to sig that.
     
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    ^ Right? I like it because it can double as a commentary on General Discussion. And of course, when I typed it I was chuckling that it had already been booted to Toy Discussion. :lol 
     
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    I said no because I want the FOC toys to come along side game
     
  16. YoungPrime

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    90% of the figures will be introduces months after. Missing the holiday season mind you.

    And although I'm sure most fans here will still get them. Will the thrill be gone for everyone else?
     
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    There's such a tiny number of Prime toys and they seem to be delaying or missing out so many of them its probably a good idea to get something on the shelves in the period before Xmas and not just dump the lot on retailers just before hand so they then have it sitting there for ages afterwards or it all get clearance to soon and then there's another 6 months with nothing on the shelves.

    If hasbro can't be bothered to release many of the toys there exists moulds for then they need to get something out that means either relenting and actually releasing the likes of Unicron, Breakdown and The jet vehicon repainting yet more stuff can get a bit old though and it would probably be a good idea to make sure the FOC Combaticons are plentiful.

    I suspect if it was not for the ASIAN exclusives this year would be a complete waste of time from a Hasbro USA perspective and even worse for Europe.
     
  18. YoungPrime

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    ...........You know, if you guys weren't all my best friends I'd almost be convinced that you wanted me to fail in these threads.
     
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    Just give me the damn toys.
     
  20. Gen. Magnus

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    Have you considered the impact this would have down the line? If these are released early, later waves would be released early, then we'd have a line that ends early OR we'd have a huge gap between waves in his line. Either way, people will bitch - something I don't want to deal with.