Transformers Haslab Victory Saber Revealed! Crowdfunding Campaign Live!

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Smokie, Aug 27, 2021.

  1. Skalez Convoy

    Skalez Convoy City Specialist

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    Couple of pages back, the thread has added almost 10 pages since the update.
     
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    Dude its 35 year old characters. Slammer just got a figure. Freaking Slammer, the bottom of the barrel of obscurity. Who demanded a slammer to go with their Thrilling 30s Metroplex thats already like 7 years old ? It wasnt 9 year olds. It was grown ass men like you and me. Id argue that Generations is even more adult collector themed than the MP line for that exact reason. How many fan votes has the MP line had ? How many crowd funds has the MP line had ? How many Pulse live streams on weekdays during school hours have featured MP figures ? Hasbro has gone way beyond kids bro. They going where the moneys at and can you really blame them ? Kids will continue to get shitty Cyberverse toys. But adult collectors (and scalpers) will continue to raid Targets at 8 am for action figures while kids are in school. In your mind they can be toys if it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. But if you blatantly ignore the obvious thats gone on with action figures in the last 5 years, youre living under a rock. I get it, calling them "adult collectibles" takes away the charm of the hobby for some people. They want to feel like a kid for the moment. You take that feeling away from them, they go banannas. But yeah man, its almost pointless to call them toys because Hasbro has released the kracken all in the name of $$$.

    To everyone responding to my comments about "adult collectibles" being such a dirty word in the fandom, thank you for your response but I dont have time to reply back to all of you. Consider thie above my one size fits all response. Hopefully it doesnt get deleted.
     
  3. Neko-bot77

    Neko-bot77 Face it, we're doomed.

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    Lol, my bad! Was stuck in BS meetings at work and missed the stream/ didn't go back that far in the thread...

    (R.E.: tier 3 shield)
     
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    It does raise an interesting thought though. I've personally chosen to ignore "The Rebirth" and made Headmasters-Victory *my* official seasons 4-6, with Zone as the finale. Return of Convoy/Battlestars and Operation Combination are just manga and story pages but they could be a *pseudo* season 7. It is from that point (that in my head canon "3 centuries passes" until we get to Beast Wars, and ultimately ending with Beast Machines.

    It's just that the Operation Combination story pages are just as anticlimactic as "The Rebirth" was, so the original series never gets a really strong conclusion. I think its an area of fiction worth exploring. I know some club and convention prose stories did a little to fill in the gap leading up to Beast Wars, but I'd like to see something official. Basically what happens from post 2031-233X when the BW Starts.
     
  5. Missing Sunset

    Missing Sunset i eat the figures lol

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    Slammer? You mean the guy who breaks apart to turn into a bunch of different weapons for other figures? That one gimmick to sell the toys to more kids?
     
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  6. Skalez Convoy

    Skalez Convoy City Specialist

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    blastoff2334 Just a Guy.

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    Nah I mean I really think it’s the shield, Bc it’s shown in all the renders
     
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    I don’t do it because it makes me “feel warm and fuzzy” or “like a kid again” I do it because that’s what they are. You don’t have to call them toys, but denying reality is not a good look.
    You’re acting like kids won’t see something cool on the shelf and want it. Kids in the 80’s had no clue what a Wheeljack was before being introduced to transformers, same with kids these days. They are toys. They are sold in toy stores and toy sections. They are also adult collectibles. It being a toy =/= it not being an adult collectible.
     
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    Tier 3's mystery was so epic, it got skipped over to tier 4!
     
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    Tier 3 is definitely the shield now.
    Which isn’t a surprise.
    I just hope we get it.
    I think If they’d flipped the tiers around of 2 and 3 we definitely would I think more people want that flight stand which is fine but I don’t personally care about a flight stand I’ll probably only put it in that mode once for pictures and then never again I’m more of a bot mode displayer.
     
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    for those that missed it

    Victory Saber shield.png
     
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    Wyldmaxx No matter where you go, there you are.

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  13. Kaynowa

    Kaynowa #MakeTransformersStupidAgain

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    It isn't charm, it's dignity. I'm not gonna hide my toys away and lord over them like they're some shamed secret behind 20 locked doors. These aren't those massive 2-5k statues bigger than some children, these are 20-30 dollar toys in a walmart. Yes this one is bigger and pricier but it's under the same consideration and design philosophy as the toys of the past 2-3 years. I'm perfectly secure in my nerdiness. I collect toys. It isn't that "adult collectible" is a dirty word, it's that you're acting like "toy" is and it's honestly a bad look for you, man. You know why MP hasn't done all the votes and streams? It's because Hasbro has been doing them, not Takara. Takara and the Japanese toy market operate very differently than the global markets Hasbro works with. Yes, adult collectors have been given a more direct focus but they're maybe 20-25% of the Hasbro market. They're a children's toy company at the end of the day and we're buying children's toys.
     
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    Happy that the shield stores away on the back in a stream lined way. I was worried it would be just stuck to the side like the Seed Gundam (strike?)
     
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    They're released in the toy section of walmart and other retailers. So it's a toy as far as I'm concerned.
     
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    Someone get Sabat ready, because they're almost there...
     
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    Kaynowa #MakeTransformersStupidAgain

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    Nah that shield is by far more favored than the stand. Having the more preferred option come after the less is pretty smart, gives a bigger push to the shield and drives those numbers up further
     
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    11 more til it's over 9000!
     
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  20. Skalez Convoy

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    20 locked doors!!! I only have 2... I am such a bad adult collector.

    Edit: I was wrong, only the front door locks.