Overclocker

No pagini! riding bees coattails again! bites! Good thing you can get a better Stinger and more original alt mode from Radicons!!!

 

The analogies made sense to me... they offered a ton of Primes, and every character was offered in multiple classes (different sized fries), but the variety of the menu was very bland. So it's like going to McDonald’s and having a ton of choices for fries, chocolate shakes, cola, coffee, and cheeseburgers, but you have no salad, smoothies, pies, ice cream, McRib, fish filet, ect. Parents/kids are going to get a burger with fries and a coke reguardless of the size (same with Bumblebee and Optimus), so offering the most assortment with those characters and very little variety doesn’t make for a solid line...

Now I really want some Micky D’s  

 

I'm fond of this mold and the deco looks great; it actually makes me care a bit less about not having a head retool. Anyway Hasbro would usually jump on the chance to do a redeco so it still makes no sense that they wouldn't release it. Also interesting that Hasbro supposedly now thinks Cons don't sell yet Japan, where there's a general belief that villains sell more poorly than heros, is still making this. On some level this would've made way more sense than TracksShot and I say this having gotten TracksShot because I like Hotshot and felt the mold suited him.

I have to disagree with that last part. The platinum editions and SDCC figures gave us no new characters that didn't get toys earlier in the AOE line. They were rehashes of characters who were already there. Even the one figure we thought was Stinger turned out to be a red Sideswipe.
I do agree that they seemed to want to promote both movie toys and Generations simultaneously (in contrast to what they did with DOTM where the Generations line seemed to have died at the time only to come back after DOTM's run ended) and the fact that they didn't want AOE to overstay (seeing as there were far less redecos mainline than usual; there were tons of exclusive redecos but we didn't get the usual tailend waves of near all repaints). However in some ways the line still feels incomplete due to the fact that technically there WERE cons but they didn't really get toys outside of One Steps and a Power Battler. They never covered the Two-Heads and we never got Generations versions of Steeljaw, Stinger (Hasbrowise), or Junkheap. It would've been enough for one last wave and all of them are army builders. It would've been enough for exactly one more wave.

 

Indeed. Sad to see , lots of die hard fans are still willing to fork out their money to buy even the crappiest junk hasbro is releasing

 

YESS.... so few moulds... SO MANY REPAINTS!!!. And of the few molds designed... mostly junk. Shellformer,partsformer,jetformer , kiddie toys,lousy paint aps,smaller size, no lights and sounds... you name it.the worst line EVER

 

He makes the mold better than Bumblebee ever did that's for sure.

It's kind of sad that's all of the Decepticons who got toys in this line.

 

Yes and yes.

 

Just received my payment request on this guy from HLJ.