What a ridiculously stupid hill everyone has chosen to die on. Were we calling Kingdom deluxes WFC wave 8? Does anyone announce toy lines based on Hasbro’s retail code? “Oh boy #F2990 is out in stores!!”

It’s a new year with new line with a new name and a new gimmick. To use Hasbro’s internal retailing product code instead of the nomenclature advertised to the consumer is a level of pedantry only possible on this site.

 

Its even come from Bmac the marketing guy its Evolution wave 1

 

The Pulse page for Breakdown is "Legacy Evolution Breakdown", but the box he comes in won't say that. How would you prove it's Evolution once all the Hasbro listings and product pages are gone?

 

With my memory man lol. That’s like saying if all of the MP44 boxes disappeared how would you prove it’s still a masterpiece?

 

After Siege everything* is a blur and has ended up mixed into shelves based on g1 season / g1 release year.

*The kingdom fossilizers are obvious, and are the only BW-style beast figures I've purchased.

 

Thanks, I had never seen the instructions before this. They went through the trouble of keeping the boxes the same for Menasor but didn't for the instructions.

 

It's Breakdown continuing to live up to his name!  

 

I personally don't have any strong feelings one way or another, I was just sharing the instructions. I think it's kind of silly as well. Whether it's called Legacy Evolution Wave 1 or Legacy Wave 4, we fans create our own confusion sometimes.

But for the gimmicks, let's not kid ourselves. I saw a great take by TF collector. The Energon weapon gimmick of last year, and "EvoFusion" for this year are just words someone on the development team made up to impress marketing ( or vice versa) to keep management happy "yeah we have a gimmick", even though it's not a line wide gimmick at all, it's just the weapons doing what they would normally do. But hey that font looks really cool on the package  

 

Aaaand my instructions are different: