Why?

 

That's what I ask myself with every person who posts and apparently forgets this is absolutely nothing new.

Oh my God this site will self-destruct.

 

Jesus, there has been some serious complete ignorance and hilarity in just the past few pages.  

Heck, I'm sure my baby stepbrother will love that Optimus. It'll put a smile on his face and mine when I see him play with it. Isn't that what Transformers is so loved for, putting smiles on our faces? Mission accomplished by Hasbro, I'd say.

 

Of course it's a huge flaming ball of plastic, these are toys from a Michael Bay movie after all  

 

Of course I wonder how many of these doomsday prophets in this thread will actually acknowledge they were over the top, when we start seeing that Generations is going to continue like it has and the only simplified stuff will be in AOE line.

I promise to come back into this thread and apologize for being wrong, if Hasbro simplifies Generations and the only thing left for adult collectors is Masterpiece.

 

riot? Really, you think we should riot, cause distruction to Hasbro's buildings loot the stores selling Transformers, get police in riot gear shooting tear gas at Transformers fans who are upset that some of the toy line is getting simplified.

Are you insane? Is that your problem?

Hasbro if you're reading this, it might just be better to give up ignore the demands of adult collectors, it seems a few of them are clearly in need of some serious help.

 

I have no problem with the simple sub-line, however these are simplified beyond even the original transformers. I think they could have found a better middle-ground between simplicity and aesthetically interesting. I wish they would have gone the route of Machine Wars flip-changers. One-step conversions, cool and poseable robits.

 

What?!? That's the new MP line and the only type of figure Hasbro is ever going to make plus they are recalling everything made before?!?! Way to FAIL Hasbro. RIP. Good thing I don't buy or collect transformers, they're too mainstream.

 

no it is not the leader class.

 

Holy crap.

We have people freeaking out over a toy... and people freaking out over people freaking out over a toy.

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Now, I don't read every post of every thread or every news item, but am I correct in concluding that the movie line will be the simplified line for the kiddies while the Generations line will carry more complex movie toys?

If that's the case, maybe that should be stickied somewhere, and people can't post in threads like this until they show that they have read and understood that kind of stuff.

Otherwise... damn.

 

All this tells me is that Hasbro is taking steps to ensure that the third party companies don't die.

 

hey woah. Is this TF4 Optimus Prime of the same type series of the Bumblebee, Hound, and Strafe(Swoop) we saw a while ago?

 

Gotta admit- this crossed my mind as well.

But if this really IS some type of Fast Action Battler type toy then we still have to wait and see what the GOOD stuff looks like.

 

pretty much correct. movie toys will be simpler, and possibly the next cartoon series too.

however generations, masterpieces, and ect will still be complex. probably for the best anyways. as i can't recommend leader class rotf optimus prime to any child. which is a shame. because that is exactly who it was designed for.

these are toys, meant to be played with. meant to be battled. i would not be playing with the last movie toys if i was a kid. not if they took so long to play with. not even at all.

i wasn't kidding about the g1 statement i made earlier. i would gladly take back the simplicity of the g1 toys. they were way more fun to play with, and battle when it did not take 10 minutes to transform a figure.

however, i don't think they need to go that far.

as someone else mentioned, going back to the unicron trilogy simplicity would be just fine. especially cybertron. which had awesome toys, but they're all very simple. and as possible as most people want.

my main concern is that the movie toys are going to be full of backpacks that do nothing. then again, i haven't bought a movie toy since rotf.

 

Looks like it

 

i personally want the optimus, just to see how it works.

 

You are almost correct. The AOE line will house all the various gimmicky toys and sublines, while the "proper" figures of typical complexity will have the Generations name as a subtitle to help promote Generations, but still fly the AOE title first.

The real movie toys will have the complete title of Transformers Age of Exinction: Generations, as far as we know.

 

I started a poll thread to get an idea of how many people really are up in arms about this versus how many are okay with it.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans...o-you-feel-about-simplified-transformers.html

 

This kind of post doesn't make you look any better than the over-reactors from the other side.