I'm not defending jumping to conclusions, but Spacepet didn't exactly make it easy to get info.

I became aware of them when they followed me out of nowhere on Twitter a week or two ago. I checked their tweet history, and found this:

So, I checked their website. Despite announcing plans 3 months ago, on July 15, the site showed only the pic I posted, a non-functional member sign-up page, and a placeholder "news" post.

If you don't want people to guess, don't leave room for guessing.

There isn't enough lime in the world for this much truth. So I graped it.

 

Oh god will you drop the spoiled whining act? Movieverse fans have had to hunt for plenty of figures that didn't get very good distribution either (Human Alliance Mudflap, Red Rampage & Evac, Highbrow & Blueberry Fallen, Axor & Deluxe Rescue Ratchet), only were released internationally (that Ravage Assault Legends/Scout three-pack or whatever it was called) or were outright canceled (Megatron Rising, Sideways Sneak Attack sets, Unite for the Universe Voyager Prime & Megs, the Breacher redeco and one other I'm forgetting).

Plus, without the Movieverse selling like hot cakes, you may not have ever gotten some/many of the Classics figures you and I have enjoyed as well.

Please gain some perspective on this issue so you don't come off like a spoiled brat as you have been so far.

 

And what is this "somewhere else" supposed to be? Third parties that charge you several times more than Hasbro? Generations and RTS both provide more content than all the other third parties and are far more inexpensive.

Most of them are already at stores by now. Even the newer ones are slowly but surely saturating. What you are also forgetting that the entire point of RTS is to make a subline so Hasbro can make more figure than they were allowed to in Generations alone.

The whole Ross fiasco only happened to the later RTS toys. The rest of them are at the big retail chains by now.

The Movieverse basically funds everything Universe and onwards. Sure, Classics existed before the first movie took off, but the Universe 2008 toyline in comparison is MASSIVE. Just because you aren't top priority doesn't mean you're not spoiled.

 

I'd like to see this autobot city they are thinking about releasing. I'd be interested in picking up something like that and a bunch of smaller accessories like spike and daniel.

I have no interest in them releasing all the classics style figures again, though, especially not the ones that I feel have gone out of date.

 

I just told you, but allow me to do it again, using more words.

They aren't free, so you aren't being spoiled? Hasbro gave you the opportunity to buy an official G1 Straxus. That's really the only argument I have to make.

You still could have bought them online. The last Generations wave I saw at retail was Blurr's. I only ever saw wave 1 of Reveal the Shield at retail, but even then it was just the movie repaints, never Jazz or Tracks. But I managed to buy every single RTS and Generations release, via the internet. If you want them, you can get them. This isn't even Hasbro's fault. They can't force stores to stock product, that's up to the stores and their own distribution systems.

Never in my life have I seen an ROTF red rampage, or an ROTF deluxe rescue ratchet.

DOTM is a major movie, and the current line. Selling toys from it doesnt mean it's fans are being spoiled, it means hasbro isn't ******ed.

So, who's really being spoiled?

It's certainly not the Beast Wars fans, the Unicron Trilogy fans, the RID fans, or the Animated fans. You can't go online and buy a new mold BW Rattrap, despite how many people would love to, and jump at the opportunity. You can't buy the most obvious repaint ever, RID Scourge from the new deluxe G2 Prime mold. You can't buy a new mold Armada Starscream, despite him being hands-down the most popular character from that show. Then we have Animated fans, who are the most screwed TF fans there are, one botcon aside. While some of the other lines didn't have botcon toys, at least they were allowed to finish their toy and show runs (yes I know BW was cut short, but it still got continued)

But you can buy an incredible new mold G1 Jazz, or a new mold Wreck-gar that is brilliantly designed to be able to ride itself in vehicle mode. They don't have to do G1. They could have done damn near anything as a supplementary/filler line. They could have put all sorts of new updates for other series characters, or put the last cancelled deluxe animated molds/repaints out in Generations, given it's name. Or taken the animated toys that made it all the way to the resin prototype stage, and made molds for them (Marauder Megatron easily could have gone in RTS, being a voyager). Since they were already designed and sculpted, they wouldn't have cost nearly as much as making the new figures from scratch that they filled both classic lines with. They didn't. They ignored every other series, and focused on G1 and cranked out a ton of new versions of those characters in a very short amount of time, even running two lines at a time just so they could get more of them out there faster.

G1 fans are being spoiled.

 

Spoiled, Smoiled....this changes nothing. The point is that 3rd party toy makers are capitalizing off of Hasbro's negligence.

The End.

 

No it's not because your point is factually incorrect.

The self-centered approach you are taking in regards to this topic apparently knows no bounds...or sense of logic.

 

WHAT negligence?

Seriously, no amount of new G1 product can make you happy, can it? Including a couple repainted classics toys, they just relased around 30 NEW G1 toys in less than a year, and that's negligence? You just can't be satisfied by anything Hasbro does, can you? No matter what they do, it'll never be enough for you, and you'll still say they're dropping the ball.

Meanwhile, as Xaddion said, the "third parties" don't release anywhere near as much stuff aimed at G1 collectors as Hasbro does in a year, and the most popular and successful stuff are add-ons for official Hasbro toys. and somehow, you view them as doing a better job than Hasbro, despite the lower amount of product, and vastly higher prices.

And you're bringing this up in a topic where a group wants to work with hasbro to do re-releases of hasbro's OWN TOYS, with new accessories and packaging. To you, this would be Hasbro "dropping the ball" again, if Hasbro worked with this group, and re-released Hasbro's toys with the group's updated packaging and new accessories. So you are saying that even if HASBRO DOES WHAT YOU WANT, they are still being negligent.

yeah. whatever.

 

Really, and what was this thread about again....?

 

I was thinking the same thing so I'm done.

 

Okay... now I AM starting to think that one of these 3rd party companies is going to eventually ruin it for all of us...

 

So wanting to go the legal route about everything is going to ruin it for everyone ?  

 

Entitled much? Go back to 1984 if you are really getting this upset over toys.

 

So with that very point in mind, did you not stop to consider that maybe there was a reason why information was hard to procure?  

Hmm... Curious...
As I'm not a user of Twitter myself - Is it common practise to check the history of users who decide to follow someone?, Have you performed such investigations with every person who follows you?  
I ask this because it appears that if you were willing to procure this Twitter information, then why weren't you willing to put in that little bit more effort with trying to obtain some detailed facts before reporting this as news?  

As other members have demonstrated, some clarative information did indeed exist but unfortunately it would seem that you may of fallen prey to this 'You've heard it here first!' obsessive approach to TF related news of late, which is sad but, regardless, you've inadvertently caused discussion on the subject, however pre-mature, and for that you should be thanked.   


In time the actual details of this project will be revealed I imagine and all those who have posted ill-informed comments and aspersions in this thread, that have reflected so very poorly on this community towards those pursuing a legal approach to product development; will be educated as to how incredibly off the mark they were and those who have expressed interest/good-will and constructive opinion should be delighted in what they may see.  

 

Funny thing, we got more G1 toys out of Reveal the Shield and Generations than we did in 84.

 

clarify:

Even third party licenses don't mention product until AFTER the license has been secured and the ok has been given. Speculation isn't a buisness model.

The numbers on prime, megs , grimlock and rodimus in those collectors book boxes didn't warrant any more being made.

so, clarify please.

 

second party would be a mutual partnership and not a licensing. For instance, Delphi and GM (most times second party are part of a bigger entity). Marvel and Disney for a more recent example.

 

With time and patience, all will be revealed my friend.  

 

Why on Earth would I consider that in view of the aforementioned tweets, viewable by anyone in the world, mentioning a website and a launch date?

Every? No.

Several? Yep.

Those with funky names like "Spacepet"? Definitely.

Yeah. I totally should've spontaneously decided to visit a thread that doesn't mention the word Spacepet on an Australian site to investigate a group whose Twitter account lists its location as Hong Kong.

Stupid me.

Uh-huh. That's me. GOTS TA GET MAH NOOZ CREDZ.

Which is why I posted nothing after learning of the group on July 7th, even though something TF related was obviously going on. ("Even megatron is excited.") By the 15th, the pic I shared was on the site. And I still waited a day after they put that up, hoping they'd fix their member sign-up malfunction and update their news entry into something other than a placeholder.

Stop blaming me for Spacepet not having their stuff together, but putting some of it up anyway.



Meanwhile, they've tweeted once more, saying they're "now launching in August".