Quote Originally Posted by kup View Post
I find the concept rather cool but I can't say I am too fond of the execution, specially the robot mode.
Which really comes down to design vs engineering. Hasbro is always going to have better engineering than some third party, but you'd never see them designing something like this because of what some marketing "genius" has told them will work or not work as a concept.

It's ironic because, sure a micro cassette recorder might be considered lame by them, but if they took a look at something like that in stores, they'd still think it was really cool and still lap it up.

It's the reason why the brand has started to get more and more stale over the years in terms of original concepts and the homages more hit and miss, while the 3rd party stuff rarely misses a beat.