Repackaged Universe Spychangers have shown up at Family Dollar and Dollar General. It appears the new wave (the second dollar stores exclusive one) includes Prime, Jazz and Prowl again, plus, as new additions, the KB Toys exclusive clear repaints of RiD Mirage, Ironhide and W.A.R.S. as “Mirage”, “Hoist” and “Autobot Camshaft”, again in “Universe” packaging.
Thanks to Nevermore and Seibertron for the news.
butz
Found green Mirage yesterday!! Woo-hoo! Also bought camshaft and Hoist. I like my new green Mirage.. might even pick up a second one.
Pimpimus Prime
If you collect Star Wars figures, you're used to the repaints. At least with Armada Prime, we're not seeing the same mold with the same color scheme released 3-4x in the same year. Well, at least this year.
In the case of the Spychangers and even Armada Prime, Hasbro is doing it for the kids, not collectors. It's a way for them to get Optimus Prime without having to shell out $40. Will I buy Armada Prime again? Heck no. Will the 7 year old kid who's never seen Armada but wants Prime? Probably..
Anyway, time to go and try to find some Spychangers. For $2, they're hard to pass up.
Megatronwp38
I picked up prime, jazz, prowl, mirage, camshaft and new hoist today atm y family dollar. I was sad that they did nto have the wheeljack, old hoist and silverstreak though. I never was able to find those G1esque spychangers in KBs.
Automorpher
Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming Hasbro ALONE for this situation. I was thinking of the whole situation as a way to milk us, the collectors, dry. Just look at the Armada STD Optimus Prime alone & see how many variations we're getting from there. Then again, we're also getting 3 ver. of GF Rumble from Takara too.
Of course, you have your point when you're saying that let the people who are interested in getting REPAINTS decide what/which to buy. Yes, I agree, I'm not stopping 'em all, please go ahead & be my guest. What I'm saying is: Don't give us COUNTLESS repaints from a PARTICULAR mold. (eg: Armada's STD Optimus>Nemesis Prime>Universe Ultra Magnus>Cybertron Optimus Prime.) Who knows?? This can go on for AGES & before we know it, the mold had ALREADY become Fortress Maximus after being repainted for the past 30 times.
I do not have the ability to stop toy makers from coming up with countless repaints. What I'm saying is: PLEASE DO NOT USE 1 MOLD & GIVE US A-Z REPAINTS SIMPLY BY RENAMING IT AGAIN/GIVING IT A NEW IDENTITY FROM THERE.
Again, please don't get me wrong. I'm NOT referring to Hasbro but Takara & I meant to use the term "GENERALLY." In the other thread, I'd mentioned that it's been a LOOOOOooooooogggggg time eversince we gotten a Takara Reissue Blaster/Broadcast, isn't it?
Fit For natalie
You must be confusing Hasbro with Takara. Last I checked, Hasbro released stuff non-stop, and follow up the end of a current line with a new mainline, almost immediately. Takara has slowed down to a crawl this year.
KA
yes. yes! bludgeon him with cold hard logic!
dun-dun-dun-dun-NAAAAAHHH!!!!!
Nevermore
That's your opinion, and then you have fans insisting "Hasbro so MUST repaint toy X into an homage to random G1 character Y!"
Who should Hasbro listen to? The guy who says he doesn't want to buy repaints, or the people asking for repaints?
Bottom line is – if you don't like a toy, don't buy it. But don't blame Hasbro for releasing toys which people who aren't you might actually interested in buying.
We are. Plenty.
When releasing one version of a mold is profitable enough for Hasbro so they don't have to re-release the same toy in different colors in order to recoup the expenses for developing and producing new molds.
Fit For natalie
Well, repainting a figure into a different character is just a different way of reusing a mold. Japanese companies seem to do 'Black Napalm [character name]' or 'Burning Fire [character name]' or 'Golden Shower [character name]' variations of the same character or machine.
Every company does it to maximize the usage out of the tooling.
KA
its hasbro.
have you seen their SW toys?
deal with it.
Automorpher
I don't know about the rest of you folks but I'm getting a bit tired of this "REPAINTING A FIGURE TO GEN 1'S COLORS THUS PAYING HOMAGE TO THEM" thing that's ongoing. Is that the TFs trend that's throbbing across the globe now?? WHY aren't we getting NEW figures anymore?? Everything else nowadays is just slapping a new coat of paint over & giving 'em Gen 1 identities accordingly. These days, we're almost certain to see an "A" character being REPAINTED several times down the road whereby we get "B", "C" or even MORE than that. (Sigh!) WHEN is all these going to end??
Nevermore
*yawn*
All of us are obviously aware of which toys are available at Singaporean stores so no-one ever has to inform us.
I bet the movie crew also thinks "All this fuzz over the movie characters' designs – I've known them for MONTHS! Yawn!"
Fit For natalie
Well, the first run of the G1-deco toys were relatively difficult to find in the US, as I understood, or nobody really cared back then, but DO care now because everything is all G1-nostalgia.
Plus, Hasbro has learned in recent years that a good bio can sell toys they've already sold to people.
I got my Prime 2 years ago.
Automorpher
Bah! You can find THESE pieces generally at ALL retail shelves in Singapore & they'd been there for the last 3 WEEKS!! It's nothing new, at least to me. (Yawn!)
Megatronwp38
cool…ill have to look.
racnruin
WhooHoo after I get paid Friday I'll half to hit the Family Dollar near me.I already picked up Op and and Prowl from there past spring they had a jazz I passed on upper corner was bent.
KA
camshafts bio is badass btw. i'm actually thinking of picking him just for the awsum bio.
Automaster
I just found the original G1 Spychangers today at Dollar General after Family Dollar didn't have anything but Prowl.
Prime, Jazz, Wheeljack, Hoist, Prowl, Bluestreak.
With Prime, it's like they couldn't make up their mind if he was Optimus or Scourge since he's still got Scourge's teal on parts of him. Odd and kinda lazy.
Nevermore
Optimus, Jazz and Prowl or Camshaft, "Hoist" and Mirage?
ZacWilliam
Interesting that they kept Camshaft's previous function of "scout" but other than that the bio is completely new and nothing like his japanese bio or his DW MTMTE profile. Should we chalk that up to this being a Universe alt-reality version?
Liokaiser
I saw this months ago at a Family Dollar down the block from me.