If the numbers continue to rise the way they have, this thing will be backed in 6 months. Oh wait, it's over in 8 days. Huh.

 

Hasbro could do that... If they operated like your stereotypical 60ies gangsters.
"Ya only buy stuff from us now, seeey? Or there's gonna be trouble, seeey? I'd hate to have to send the boys over to remind ya who yar main supplier is, seeey?"
I work for an IT company who has tons of clients. This'd be like if one of them threatened to quit unless we stopped also working for a competitor of theirs whom they are accusing of IP theft. Any company would reply to a threat like this with "leave us out of this, settle this between yourselves"

 

Kangaroo Sona dressed up as him.  

 

There are subtler ways, Hasbro could simply give less favourable terms to retailers who sell lots of 3p products. Intel used to do something similar against And, granted they were fined by antitrust, but I don't think any 3p would even dare suing Hasbro.

 

Taking a closer look at the newest pic and looking over the old ones, im really worried about what the articulation of the arms is going to be like.
The shoulders look like they might be really limited, limited in a way that would really have me feeling bad about the whole figure given the price.
I hope im missing something.

 

Indeed. However I'm thinking that Hasbro's intent here is to send a message to Zeta and any other companies that attempt to so blatantly disrespect them. I still haven't decided if whoever calls the shots at Zeta has Devastator sized balls or shit for brains. Perhaps it's both.

 

That's a really good observation & pretty smart/fair concern. The shoulders don't show upward arm articulation to get the hands/arms out to the side. Since you mention it I don't see any hardware to indicate they would move outwards. Surely they would though on something so new & expensive.

 

And your post is sat neatly between two such posts!

 

Don’t know they extent of it (would love for them to show an articulation video to highlight the 50 joints), but he definitely has some degree of outward arm movement.

 

Its up a wee bit more today. Its creeping up there, until it drops again that is.

 

Looks like universal joints on shoulders and upward/downward shoulder movement. The latter probably serves the transformation too. Nothing looking like a butterfly joint. Fairly standard.

 

No, it depends simply on how important you are to the customer. If you are a significant amount of their business, and they can’t afford to lose you, they will likely acquiesce to your demands. If not, they won’t.

It’s all about which party has the leverage over the other.

 

Oooo! Like be the pic. Pretty awesome  

I imagine the box will be very large. I can see this shipping in planet mode with the stand in 2 parts. Giant square box with tons of molded foam padding. Kinda like they did with the barge (tons of cool unboxing vids out there).

 

Articulations are my biggest complaint for the figure. I can let the single jointed knees pass due to the bulk of the leg, but fully articulated fingers and double jointed elbows should have been easy to implement, and at this size you also start to look into wrist articulation. Given the size, an ab crunch to make better kneeling poses would also have been nice. I don't know if how the shoulder works for transformation would allow for butterfly joints, but I would have liked to have them.

 

Continuing Saturday morning’s theme of articulation, any guesses on what the “more than 50” are? Based on pictures, I think I can get to 39, 42 if counting planet articulation. Maybe they are counting the wings? I could also be missing knee swivel, didn’t see anything conclusive.

Head (balll)
Jaw
Teeth
Eyes
Shoulder (up down) x 2
Shoulder (out in) x 2
Elbows (bend) x 2
Elbows (swivel) x 2
Hands (swivel) x 2
Thumb (2 joints) x 2
Index finger (2 joints) x 2
Other fingers (1 joint) x 6
Waist (swivel)
Hip (front back) x 2
Hip (out in) x 2
Hip (swivel) x 2
Knees (bend) x 2
Ankles (rocker) x 2
—-
Planet maw (lensing - open close)
Maw pincers x 2

 

If the head is on two swivels instead of a ball joint and each toe of the feet is articulated we can add up to nine other articulation points. Still need to count the wings and/or the planet mode to go over 50, unless the figure has some articulations we aren't yet aware of.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B29QI_ZpEHy/?igshid=1j62ej28ty7iu

 

Unicron is still a limited piece, the price will only go up on the second hand market.