This stuff is suited to toystores like Early Learning Centre. They won't sell violent war toys. They did stock some early waves of TFA though. We've seen some radical changes with Transformers over the years, and I've sometimes wondered if you could go one change further and take the war and violence out of Transformers. Transforming robots is cool enough as it is, we don't need them loaded up with guns. Yeah, that's exactly what these are.
They're not. They're "Heroes/Squad/Whatever" style, which is cutesy and cartoony, but not necessarily TF:Animated. Just looking at them it's fairly obvious they're more a cutesy-fied mix of G1/Classic and Movie in details.
no, they're clearly based on rescue heroes, and are clearly a transformers/rescue heroes, cross over! which is weird, since rescue heroes, was made by mattel
Looks really doofy to me, but I know my kids are going to be into them, which means I'll be into them as well.
They're cute. Little kids should really get a kick out of these. I like the idea of a non-violent branch-off of TFs.
That's the same kind of logic that gave us walkie tallies in e.t. instead of guns. With that kind of thinking we may as well take out any form of protagonist from the whole franchise.
Early Learning Centre was selling movie toys not so long ago, their policy's seem to have changed a fair bit.
I hate to say it but I love these (and it will keep my boy and nephew out of the good stuff) And having caught an episode of Hero Squad once or twice, I'm all for a unique continuity Hero Transformer spin off. (as long as it doesn't supplant the more mature lines, although the bayverse can go )
Yeah, these are fun. Will be adding them to my collection of transforming oddities, and buying them for the nephews too. And the Bee and Prime playsets are just...well, a must-own for me.