Super 7: Super Shogun Optimus Prime

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Slender102, Feb 18, 2020.

  1. User_96283

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    Haha hey I love rub signs, don't throw that on me :p .
    And toyhax has you covered for those anyway.
     
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    They look like soap bottles. But hey if thats your thing, to each their own.
     
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    If someone with a better QC track record made this, I'd buy it. I loved my old Shogun Warriors. Definitely needs more launching missiles too. I have annoying cats to harass.
     
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    I’d think on a collectibles site you’d be smart enough to realize you’re on a collectibles site.

    And it’s not “to each their own” when you specifically call out “people who buy these things.”

    But yeah sure to each their own.
     
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    Brian Flynn loves vinyl toys he has a massive collection and put a tremendous amount of effort into making this right. It’s going to be excellent if you’re a fan of these.
     
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    I know there are people out there that like these, but I will never understand how there is a market for them.
    I was excited for the Toynami Shogun Godzilla because the Mattel Shogun Warriors Godzilla was the first Godzilla toy I ever had -then I saw the price!
    I literally had people try to convince me that the price was part of the appeal.
    As I said, I don't understand it.
     
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    Its my thing and I'm gonna each my own. :) 

    Can't wait til this is out!
     
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    I have no interest on Super 7 Sofubi, nor care for the exorbitant prices they demand. But I absolutely understand niche production demand niche pricing. I kind of respect people who DO buy these Super 7 though, no doubt some might buy them as in investment (or for the exclusivity/rarity bragging rights), but I do believe many genuinely love the nostalgic designs. As whenever I chance upon antique stores I enjoy looking for those sofubi-like robot toys that's made of hollow metal tins dated in the early part of the 20th century. So I get it.

    We all collect TF for different reasons. Why judge?

    TF wasn't a big part of my formative life BTH. I prefer Gundam & Macross because those designs look far more advanced than low-budget cartoons TF... back then I found TF's designs to be too simple and its toys too inaccurate looking to the cartoon. But Dinosaurs turning into robots!? That's way cool dude! So I only bought/asked for Dinobots in terms of TF toys. And I hadn't watch any TF cartoons past the first season - I just had no access to it (went to boarding school for years) - and I didn't even know there was an animated movie!

    Then I saw the first Bayverse movie, found it awesome for nostalgia-sake, but I bought no toys. I only got sucked back into TF toys collecting BIG TIME after a friend's 6~7 year old kid asked me to help him transform his Leader Class OP. I was like "Wooooooahhh, the engineering is crazy complicated" and I absolutely was amazed by how far CAD helped advanced TF toys designs. That really pulled me into all TRANSFORMING TF things hard, because I love the ENGINEERING aspect of it.

    So, if you want to label me, I'm more of a "Transformation engineering" fan than a TF lore fan (I know, I know, it's blasphemy! But I *DID* went back to watch G1, BW, TFA and anything after TFP). So again, we all collect TF products for different reasons. Why judge?
     
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    I wish someone would round up all the plastic Super 7 uses and apply it elsewhere.
     
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    Huh. It must really bother you they’re doing so well then, picking up license after license. Haha.
     
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  11. protohuman

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    Welp, I'll bite. If it wasn't so big and expensive I might be interested in it. Even though I hate super7/neca/funko (I know they aren't the same). *oldman voice* At comic con twenty years ago you use to see these things in all shapes and sizes of ultraman, kaiju, pokemon, basically you name it, there was a cheap mass produced product that are available at swap meets across South America. All the lost art talk just reminds me of the same old hype these companies always try to conjure. Not saying they are liars though, it's true to an extent. When I worked manufacturing aircraft parts, the quality and integrity of labor and management was a complete joke. I would hate to see what it's like assembling cheap toys.
     
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    What you refer to as "calling out" I refer to as "leaving a comment with my opinion". I rarely hit the reply button and engage personally to someones comment. I just reply back when someone quotes my comment as you did. Thats when I get an alert. Nust saying.
     
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    Pretty much the intelligence level I was expecting.
     
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    It's like there needs to be a Non-Transforming Transformers News and Rumors board.
    I feel like this thread (and all non-transforming Transformers not-made-by-Hasbro threads) would be better off in The ToyArk sub-forum. Mainline TF fans are a different breed.
     
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    So are you Bert or Ernie ?
     
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    That’s an excellent idea.
     
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    That would make sense, as that sub-forum tends to be popular with collectors who've been around and who would appreciate a toy like this.

    But it'd be a shame, too, since this is clearly Transformers news, and such a move would simply be catering to a handful of TF fans who get all worked up every time they notice that something they don't like or understand has the audacity to exist.
     
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    I know this is for Optimus, but all I can think about in this pic is TraaaaansZoooooorZeeeeeeee!!!!  Ahhh, the 80s....
     
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    There are a ton of TF product lines that I don't "understand" (read: I won't buy) but I just don't feel the need to bashing them because I know some people like them. Besides, the market forces will determine the viability/real interest of these products anyway, WHO AM I to be so arrogant to say something shouldn't exist?

    Honestly, I don't buy a whole lot of TF stuff - be it transforms or otherwise - partly because it's just me protecting my wallet, thinking about $-to-fun ratio and be selective due to my limited shelf space.
     
  20. Shin Densetsu

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    If there wasn’t a market for this Super7 Prime it would be nothing more than a financially suicidal pipe dream by a guy wanting to see Optimus Prime as a figure in his Jumbo Machinder collection. It costs much because there won’t be many produced and finding a factory that could pull it off factored into the price. You may not like it. However Hasbro and Takara signed off on it and the money they got from licensing it may somehow and in some way, end up towards r & d on some mainline Transformer or MP you do end up liking. So at that point, everyone’s happy in the end.

    A successful brand usually is open to licensing so it’s cool to see Hasbro and Takara being open to seeing their Transformers characters in more lines than just the ones you’d find at Walmart.
     
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