Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
After 10 years, the fandom seems to be bored with Movie toys at the moment... and kinda need a break (which we won't get while they are wanting to pump out a new movie each year for a while).
With TakaraTomy doing a heap of Movie Best toys at premium prices (with several more to go), and a few expensive Masterpiece toys from both companies... do we really need another 20 premium/expensive Movie toys? Who's going to buy them all. The general public will be having cheaper TF5 and Bumblebee movie toys clogging the shelves for the next 12-18 months while these premium figures are being released, so they won't be the target market... and discerning collectors already have their wallets drained with Generations, Masterpiece and premium JP Movie toys (not to mention 3P products).
I just don't see these doing well at all, especially if they end up being TRU exclusives, who will make them even more expensive than they need to be.
I don't think fandom is bored with Movie toys, I think we are not happy with what Hasbro is doing and this concept (although we still don't really know the full story) seems to be continuing the problem of too many toys of the same characters/designs (some of which are now 10 years old) instead of more original things.

I suspect the TLK line would have been better received if they'd put some effort into new toys/characters rather than repainting a bunch of AOE toys and giving collectors only a few actual new toys (two of which are the same guy - Megatron) instead of robots like Mohawk, Onslaught, Daytrader, Trench, Canopy, WW2 Bumblebee, WW2 Hot Rod, the WW2 Jet, the WW2 Tank etc.

I do get it though that the 11 year olds who saw Transformers at the cinema are now 21 year olds ready to buy premium/new versions so maybe it's more of a case of we (us older G1 fans) aren't the audience for these?