Parts-forming the way Earthrise Cliffjumper and Arcee do it has no place in a mainline Transformers figure in 2020. Totally lazy engineering (and weird on Cliffjumper since he's about 100 miles from being Sunbow accurate anyways, so why not just make the backpack work) (and I know Arcee's can apparently stay attached, but then it's just 1/2 her car mode hanging off her back with zero actual transformation going on.)
Hell, I'd be down for more Legion class figures, especially repaints of all those G1 ones. I still need a proper Smokescreen in that size.
I don't know if this was meant to be sarcastic but, each generation has a right to enjoy difference content. John Wick and Patton's Speech holding different meanings is what makes them special. While I'd wager that most of my generation has not read or heard either of those, that's ok because "Scott here" to people my age is equal to JW and Patton to you.
John Wick isn't that old of a movie, but you've made a point. The kind of people that watch that channel probably DO find massive awe inspired emotional attachment to what is essentially "Welcome to Walmart."
Or they just... find it catchy? More of a "transform and roll out" rather than "one shall stand, one shall fall."
One thing I really hate is when people jack up prices in an auction non organically. I was looking at a set of minicons on ebay that started out at 14.99. I came back yesterday and some asshole put in a bid for for 45 dollars as the first bid. I understand shelling out a lot for something you want, but how is jumping the price like that at the first second helping yourself?
Why should I pay $95 for a $50 figure with 5 new parts? Why should I pay $35 apiece for the same combiner molds I bought at $15 (which is why I didn't)? In the words of half of MP collectors, I'll wait for the ko.
Whenever I look at Siege figures I am appalled by the cheapness. Their lack of height compared to the superior PW line and the flimsy splattering of paint together with the useless pieces of plastic they used to bump oversized deluxes up to leader class prices made the line the low point of the franchise we all know it as. It's good to see Hasbro listened to the fans with Earthrise and brought us clean figures that don't try to look Cybertronian when they shouldn't.
it's really weird, the hinges would snap, also both scattershot's over time got these really floppy feet which would result in scattershot faceplanting,
I can't remember the last time I bid for something on eBay, but as I recall I put in something close to my highest big, and they automatically registered it at the lowest price needed to be the top bidder. So if I bid $50, but the price was at $25, it would have displayed at $26. Is that not how it still works? And which minicons were you looking at? I have the complete Seacon set, and for the price, I am disappointed. Remolding resulted in design compromises you wouldn't have had with new figures, and I can't think of one figure that doesn't have one glaring flaw, and that's before you get to the stability issues with the combined mode. Given that these figures had a 75% markup from the originals, that's pretty poor QC.
I feel that. I'm also trying to hunt down a specific Hot Wheels Treasure Hunt, and Target has been the only place I can even look. My favorite car in my favorite color, and my only option is paying the Scalpers on eBay at 1500% of its actual cost.
It's this one: Ideally, I wish I could find two, one to open and one to keep in package, but that seems unlikely.
Hot Wheels just has so many shitty weirdo cars that it's rare to see anything recognizable. I haven't had any luck finding sites that catalog what's out there either.