Creatures Collide Behind the Scenes from Mark

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Seanprime, Sep 26, 2022.

  1. Zodiac1968340

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    Got a second-hand Goldbug at a price of a voyager figure and it arrived today.
    There are QC issues but the figure looks great. IMG_7231.jpg
     
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  2. Neko-bot77

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    After selling the BW bugs from a purchased set, the g1 guys ended up costing me about $30 each. I'd consider giving some of the cost to the Kickback head, but I prefer to think of it as a "freebie".... which cost me $24 later in a 2nd Kickback body :eek: 

    Edit: well technically I got KB #2 several weeks before finding the CC box set, and had him sitting around headless for a bit :p 
     
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  3. Nevermore

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    "Creatures Collide Behind the Scenes" sounds like a dramatic incident on the set of a movie.
     
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  4. Insane Galvatron

    Insane Galvatron is not insane. Really!

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    Black hardware? Is he talking about screws and pins? I didn't notice. I'll have to take a closer look at my figures.
     
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    Anecdotally, I never once saw the first 4-pack in stores. This one I have seen easily over a dozen copies over several stores.
     
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  6. Seeaich

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    Hasbro's brilliant distribution strategy would seem to be flood certain areas of the globe whilst droughting others in alternating fashion, par example here in the UK we didn't even get the scent of Worlds Collide (barring expensive importing from those other areas - I got mine at a reasonable roughly equal to US RRP rom Popcultcha in AUSTRALIA, just before they ran a sale where I could have snapped it up way bargainously cheaper about a fortnight later *Le Sigh*) but the Creatures Collide set is virtually EVERYWHERE here on the UK Fan Channel front!
     
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    Worlds Collide is so common here in Australia, the hobos have started building their houses out of the boxes.
     
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  8. Seeaich

    Seeaich Inaction Master

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    Maybe Marketing assumed Fangry would be more popular in Oz 'cause he sounds like a native colloquial contraction - Dunny, Barbie, Tinnie, etc.? :p 
     
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    Speaking of Bombshell and Shrapnel, I really hope they don't go with a faux cannon/nose on top of Bombshell's head. That sort of thing would really irritate me.
     
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    Why doesn't Kickback's chest open it's like they designed it too then removed the feature.
     
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  11. Q Prime

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    It’s not a Warudaros reference. There was a BotCon set of Waspinator repaints as Waruders, the insectoid enemy faction from Diaclone, one of whom was based on the unreleased Horrorcon Waspinator and later repurposed as ‘Skywasp’. This new figure being based on that design.
     
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  12. Oniconvoy

    Oniconvoy The other black repaint

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    I mean, Skywasp is definitely a Waruders reference in that he’s a repurpose of Parasyte who was sold by Botcon as a new Waruder.

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    Well, for some behind the scenes for me Mark, I've really only wanted one of these figures for both of these Buzzworthy 4 pack sets...the result is your company got zero of my money and they're not important enough for me to pay scalper aftermarket prices. I doubt I'm alone on this, so maybe tell the higher ups to consider paring them down to two packs at the very least and you'll probably move more product.
     
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  14. ScorponokIsHere

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    I'm pretty sure it's Target who demands the four-packs. Target has quite a few multipacks, a lot of them just repackaged Cyberverse something-or-other, but Hasbro uses the Generations multipack opportunities to put out various redecoes they don't have room for elsewhere.

    Sometimes stores want big items. And sometimes that's how we get things we wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
     
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    I don't doubt that it could be a Target demand, just feels like poor marketing, especially considering the economic climate the majority of consumers are living in, one way or another.
     
  16. G.B. Blackrock

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    I definitely hear the "these toys very well might not have existed at all if not for doing this many in a pack" argument. I'm not happy with it, but I would certainly rather the toy (Goldbug, in this case, or Fangry from last year's similarly-blighted set) exist than not exist.

    That said, I'm not quite convinced it had to be "all or nothing." Others have suggested two-packs, or at least grouping the BW figures together, and the G1 (or at least non-BW) figures together, rather than mixing them all together. Either option would leave me with fewer figures that I have less than zero interest in (by which I mean that I was so off-put by paying for figures I don't want that I opted not to get ANY of them). I'm just not up for doing the "sell the extras on eBay" thing anymore. Just takes too much time and hassle.
     
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    So common that it is thought that we won't be getting Creatures Collide at all, because the first 4-pack isn't shifting enough (I wonder why?)...
     
  18. WatermelonSpectacles1

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    what is copper/black hardware?
     
  19. BWIguanusfan2

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    The Dilemma is that the molds wings can only rotate, so it would be unpossible to give it tradition katydid wings. Therefor wacky biologically abdomen on a robotic grasshopper!
     
  20. Flash1087

    Flash1087 Maybe in an Alternate Dimension

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    In the context of the post, I assumed this meant that Goldbug's gun/bazooka was black.