It mattered enough to get a response  .


Enjoy your fake shit.

 

I'm just thankful one of my favourite Autobot cars has been done so late in the game.

Sunstreaker, Hound & the Fuso's are just incredible IMO, I can't see them having been possible in this manner with the old lower budget.
Hound has had alot of attention to detail added, multi piece interior seats and all.

We've been blessed to have Jazz & Mirage yet to come, the articulation, paint and accessories will be top-notch.

 

Couldn't have said it better myself!

 

This is my first time ever having an opened Hound figure (I actually only ever had the Binal Tech one and it was sealed), so I'm pretty stoked!

Kinda glad where we are with articulation and detail right now, so once Jazz, Mirage and dare I hope an eventual Blitzwing hit I am sure they will be spectacular!

 

In an of its own? No. But the inelegance being shown as product as a whole is troubling for me.

I mean they are charging Soul of Chogokin money for these things and they are in no way perfect or even close to acceptable for me.

But until they re-release Star Saber at least I have a pretty promising beast war line of masterpieces.

 

I’d say they’re definitely better than SoC stuff on account that they’re extremely articulate, cartoon accurate, and can transform. I’ve seen very few which combine all those features.

 

Perfectly stated!

 

...well i’m just waiting to see if takara eventually releases a toy-based color scheme: dark green, chrome, and realistic detailing...

 

Logically stated. Worthy of your avatar, good sir.

 

Unfortunately, that’s not how knock off, or counterfeit, products affect pricing of the official versions. The counterfeit market takes profit away from the genuine product line because they can sell for a lower price due to not having the same overhead costs of the genuine brand. While it’s not the only factor that contributes to higher prices of genuine merchandise, making up for the loss due to KOs is one factor of higher prices.

Counterfeit merchandise is a growing problem and does have negative impact on legitimate businesses.

 

I have concluded my thoughts on the subject and do not wish to continue any further discussion of the matter. I will admit that many of my own comments within the last few days have themselves, at times been a bit passive aggressive and I can only equate that to having had a rough couple of days in my personal life and seeking to relieve my frustration with online confrontation. Which I'm sure many of you will agree, is incredibly moronic on my part. In the future I will avoid showing my bias towards KOs in official threads. All I can do now is apologize to all parties involved and hope that the matter can be dropped and we can move on.

 

I think that’s ok. There are certain things that just make sense in a forum. There’s a difference between criticism and negativity. Some people don’t know the line and cross it and then get upset when there’s backlash. And then you come in and save the day from people who keep stoking the flames. I’m pretty sure you’ve deleted some of my posts before, which is fine if it’s keeps people civil.

 

Hastak is overpriced.

See above, a fairer price would fight ko's better than anything. Fairer price and availability.

 

That’d be excellent.

Thank you man.

 

Fair is subjective. As the cost at retail have indeed gone up. A simple analogy would be MP WJ anime colors. Less colors, none of the Alitalia fonts plus he has that "hypno lunchbox" of his yet iirc, it costs more than the original MP WJ. Another weird pricing has Inferno costing more that Artfire with the latter being more intricately colored plus a targetmaster to boot.

Takara also has the fallback on, well, we're not forcing you to buy anyway.

Availability? That isn't a real issue as there are 3rd party proxies available. As for 1st party, I heard that HB pulse isn't all that efficient as it should. TakaraMall is for their local market so I'm again forced to go back to 3rd party proxies. The minute concerns of people with disposable income.

 

Well done, man! Responses like this are rarely seen in these kinds of situations. Kudos to you for taking this kind of personal accountability.

Cheers and here’s to moving on!  

 

Or the opposite. If TT sees that fans are willing to buy expensive unofficial MP style versions of their characters and see the companies(KOs) make a profit then why won't we, the 1st party not also get on the same bandwagon?

Also, I haven't yet come across a KO SoC yet. There doesn't seem to be a market for them or its the mainland Chinese who are simply batshit crazy for G! TFs.

On SoCs, on some figs( Raideen,Daltanious and Daimos), they do a lot of "transforming" and parts swapping. I wonder if TF fans would be willing to accept that?

 

Should there be any systemic QC issues on release... we riot!