DOTM wave 6 cancelled

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Originally Posted by SkyWarp91

So Hasbro decides to can a toy-line for a film that made a $1,000,000,000 revenue and move onto making toys for some cartoon show whose revenue value would presumably be much much less?

Whatever works for them.

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To be fair, it's the tail-end of said canned toyline, and a move to the current media baby. Similarly, what with all the repaints DotM seems to have been moving slowly as of late, which in retail-land evidently means move to something new. 'Cos, y'know, it's not like it's 'cos the latest Going-To-The-Toilet Bumblebee repaint might be a bit redundant but some actual new toys would be appreciated, noo...:rolleyes:

I for one hope they rerelease Quejack and Soundwave in Generations, so people can get their hands on them for less than scalper prices.

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Originally Posted by kup

Obviously the toy line did not work that well despite the financial success of the movie.

I know you are a fan of the Bay films but keep in mind that they don't seem to be made with enduring appeal in mind. It is basically a 'get a thrill and forget' sort of deal as there isn't anything in them that is particularly memorable to the typical audience. It's not like Die Hard, Star Wars or another movie which is spoken about for years, decades after. The general populace appears to have forgotten about it after the end of it's theatrical run.

The 'Thrill and forget' audience which has made them their billion dollar Box office smasher are not going to care much about the toys to begin with and are more likely to forget about the movie as soon as it's Cinema run is over. At most they will buy the Bluray/DVD release when it comes out.

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That's actually a good point. And though you are right in that I am a fan of the Bay films, I do think ROTF and DOTM weren't good but only like the toys.

nooooo! i saw the news yesterday and lost the plot.
im a real fanboy of the movie lines and now to not be able to complete the cast.
i hate not being able to complete something i want to so much. errrrr dam you hasbro, hopefully we get them later on as takara or classics/universe

Takara put them out in Japan. It's just the trick of finding them at not-ridiculous prices.
Easy for me, harder for you guys.
Sorry I can't help some of you out:(, but the contract says no and I really like this job.
Today I got to get a class of fifth-graders to say "I eat mushi", mushi being Japanese for bugs.:D

As Kup had said, successful movie does not equal successful merchandise (toys in our case). Just look at Cars or the first Toy Story - those were shelfwarming until the second one 10 years later.
Actually, it seems that just about any movie that released action-figures to cash in on it, failed. Star Wars would probably be the one exception I can think of.

I was disappointed at first at the news of the cancellation of the last wave, I quite enjoyed most of the DotM movie toy line. Part of me would still like HA Soundwave, but the current prices have turned me off. Also I think that for the price they could've at least painted it silver instead of leaving it Hasbro grey.

The deluxe soundwave I liked at first, but the back kibble is just ugly and lazy IMO. The Que/Wheeljack appealed at one point, but now, meh.

So in a way I figure Hasbro have done me yet another favour by saving me some money that has now been directed towards purchasing some of the FE Prime figures (because wtf is up with those RID versions?)

FYI I emailed Robot Kingdom the other day, they stated that Dlx Leadfoot would be back in stock shortly, which they have now fulfilled, unfortunately he's $39 odd but if you are chasing him, nows the time, as for Que and Dlx Soundwave they have no short term plans of restocking him.