DOTM wave 6 cancelled

[Lord_Zed]

No Soundwave doh! My trust for Hasbro is at a low.

[crankcase76]

you have to be having a crack at us Hasbro!!! first you don't even have the common sense to finish the movie line here in Australia.and now the lines are cancelled. then you expect us to wait for some crap line of movie/animated line re-release and then market them as a new series and then expect us to shell out huge dollars for them. and then you will probably then cancel that line as well when you decide that it is no longer profitable to continue that line even if other countries have to be missed. come on .... i was so waiting for the rest of the movie line to be released here and to finish my collection.. i can just add one thing, THIS SUCKS!

[griffin]

People shouldn't be surprised by this for two reasons.

1 - it has happened with almost every series before.... because...

2 - toy companies aren't going to end a series while it is successful. They're going to keep milking it for as long as it is profitable, usually in 12-month blocks (to cover their annual Toyfair cycle). But if a series suddenly fails or sales don't hold out for the entire 12 months, they're not going to keep producing the rest of line at a loss. Especially if retailers have stopped buying from them.
It's annoying for being a tease to us collectors, seeing what they had planned for that next cycle, but that's just the way the retailing environment works - producers offer their next year's worth of product in advance, and if it sells well, we get to see the whole range produced by the factories. If not, they stop whatever they were making at the time (creating limited edition figures that are hard to find) and cancel the production of the following figures.
It sucks, and I hate it as a completist collector, but realistically it'd be stupid for Hasbro to produce items now at a loss, when they can put it off until later if it has a better chance of selling in another line. (like they are doing with the Movie Mirage & Evac Legion toys, being in TFPrime packaging)

[5FDP]

I'm confused... we're all supposed to hate the movies but we get angry when the toy line is prematurely cancelled Grrrrr Hasbro (did I get that right?)

[Doubledealer]

I'm confused... we're all supposed to hate the movies but we get angry when the toy line is prematurely cancelled Grrrrr Hasbro (did I get that right?)

I'm not angry, I liken the situation to someone removing the Derelict range from the Myer clothing department.

[crankcase76]

I'm confused... we're all supposed to hate the movies but we get angry when the toy line is prematurely cancelled Grrrrr Hasbro (did I get that right?)

sort of, i didn't mind the movies, but i would not say that i hate or loved them. it is just the fact that now the last three toys i need for my collection is going to be the hardest to aquire. which sucks because now that they are rare you will have to shell out huge dollars for them.

[GoktimusPrime]

I'm confused... we're all supposed to hate the movies but we get angry when the toy line is prematurely cancelled Grrrrr Hasbro (did I get that right?)

I don't hate the movies - I enjoy them, but I recognise that there are serious flaws in them too (especially ROTF and DOTM -- TF1 was the best of the lot).

Also, you can be a fan of the toys without being a fan of the movies per se; for example some people enjoy toys from Beast Wars Neo (which does offer some great moulds with original/unique alt modes) even though the show itself is rather lack lustre (seriously nothing interesting happens until the final Unicron arc toward the end) or Car Robot/RiD (which is a decent show considering that it's targetted at a very young audience, but there's not much in it to engage adults). I've never been a great fan of the Armadaverse cartoons, but I do like some of the toys. Cybertron was the best of the Armadaverse lines, but Galaxy Force really doesn't engage me (and I refuse to watch the Cybertron dubs).

*sigh* Overall this is why I don't like it when Transformers are developed as screen characters first and toys second; cos you end up with crap like this -- characters who appeared on screen who don't get toys. Same thing happened with Animated (e.g. Omega Supreme, Constructicons) and now the same thing's happening with some movieverse characters too. I much prefer the regular way when Transformers is developed as a toyline first, then canonical characters second. That way the toys are already in existence and it's up to writers to make them cool and interesting (Furman'd!).

The annoying thing is that during DOTM instead of releasing characters like Leadfoot, Soundwave, Mirage etc. sooner, they instead gave us more repaints of Bumblebee. These frivolous repaints should be saved for the tail end of the line when things are winding down. But instead we had them fairly early on, and original characters like Leadfoot et al. get shafted. So great... we're gonna miss out on Leadfoot, Wheeljack, Soundwave etc., but let's all be real glad that we got Nitro Bumblebee, "84" Bumblebee, "covered in glyphs" opaque Bumblebee, Cyberfire Bumblebee, Scan Series Bumblebee, Mobile Battle Bunker Bumblebee, Cyberverse 4 pack Bumblebee, Cyberverse 3 pack Bumblebee, Bolt Bumblebee, Cyberverse 2 pack Bumblebee, Stealth DOTM Bumblebee, Warriors Pack Bumblebee, Ultimate Gift Set Bumblebee etc.! They won't give us Leadfoot, Mirage, Soundwave and Wheeljack in the DOTM line, but thank Primus that Hasbro had the wisdom to give us all those Bumblebees that we've all enjoyed purchasing.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

I'm confused... we're all supposed to hate the movies but we get angry when the toy line is prematurely cancelled Grrrrr Hasbro (did I get that right?)

I'm not angry. Getting angry over not getting a few TFs is sort of overreacting IMO. I was disappointed when we didn't get Animated Arcee and it looked like we weren't getting Wreck-Gar, and I was kinda bummed over no Classics Hot Shot, but anger is something I reserve for big things.
That said, it would be nice if, well, what Goki said. Releasing Soundwave and Quejack before yet another Bumblebee repaint would be appreciated. Living under the auspices of Takara has really made me realise how lacking Hasbro AU is.

[Ace]

Devo.

[SharkyMcShark]

aaaand all the sub $50 and $60 HA Soundwaves are gone off ebay. Only one left for less than $70 now.