Universe Armada Minicon Pack

[kup]

the packaging you can hang up like a piece of art, as for the recolour, lazy and boring, i prefer the classics colour. Doesnt matter if the teams have specific colours to id them still lame..

Yeah the contents suck but the packaging is awesome. I won't get it because I hate minicons but the packaging is impressive.

[Pulse]

sheepishly raises hand...

[Zippo]

DOes look nice, but I pass anyways.

[dirge]

A nice display piece, but gee slapping the "Armada" tag on there is (typically) lazy and uninterested.

[STL]

"New packaging, same product: losers!"




(I'm pretty "meh" about these)

*High Five!*

[Golden Phoenix]

Lol

The only reason I would open that is to replace them with better figures and use the box as a display case

[FFN]

I wonder if any of those molds are the weapons ones. They're the reason I like mini-cons.

It's some very nice packaging, something that Hasbro have been doing better and better of late.

Too bad the minicons included in the pack are the Classics ones, and that many of them are fairly bland repaints. The weapon Minicons or even the Armada teams that made up the Sabre, Blaster and shield would have been preferred over the Classics versions.

I believe Hasbro/Takara said the molds for the Armada-era Mini-Cons are not in the best condition due to usage by both companies.

A nice display piece, but gee slapping the "Armada" tag on there is (typically) lazy and uninterested.

Typically lazy? I think not.

These Mini-Con molds were never intended for the 2006 Classics line, but like the Real Gear Robots, they were originally made for the Cybertron Mini-Con 2 packs (that's why some teams were a little weird). So in terms of continuity they were originally intended to be Unicron Trilogy toys.

Since Mini-Cons are representative of the Armada era, they go under the Armada subtitle in Universe. The same will likely go for the 25th Anniversary new-mold Armada Hot Shot coming next year.

[dirge]

Typically lazy? I think not.

Dude... have you ever looked at some of the Universe repaints? Take Razorclaw for example. They stripped him of chrome, changed allegiances without worrying about the logo on his chest and sold him for the same price despite the loss of chrome.

These Mini-Con molds were never intended for the 2006 Classics line, but like the Real Gear Robots, they were originally made for the Cybertron Mini-Con 2 packs (that's why some teams were a little weird). So in terms of continuity they were originally intended to be Unicron Trilogy toys.

Guess what - they're not Unicron Trilogy toys. It's not like these toys appeared in Armada - in fact they were first released several years _after_ Armada. So calling them Armada when they're now Classics moulds just doesn't work.

You don't see people referring to the unreleased G2 Spychanger moulds (Daytonus) etc as G2 toys, do you? They're associated with RiD.

Since Mini-Cons are representative of the Armada era, they go under the Armada subtitle in Universe.

Yes, but only because there's no pride in 95% of Hasbro's repaints

[FFN]

Dude... have you ever looked at some of the Universe repaints? Take Razorclaw for example. They stripped him of chrome, changed allegiances without worrying about the logo on his chest and sold him for the same price despite the loss of chrome.

Yes, but only because there's no pride in 95% of Hasbro's repaints

Then its fortunate that the early Universe (2003) line was not actually done by Hasbro's Transformers team.

Much of Hasbro's redecos in the past five years have been more or less similar to Takara's, and I challenge you not to find heart in the redecos Joe Kyde does.

Guess what - they're not Unicron Trilogy toys. It's not like these toys appeared in Armada - in fact they were first released several years _after_ Armada. So calling them Armada when they're now Classics moulds just doesn't work.

You don't see people referring to the unreleased G2 Spychanger moulds (Daytonus) etc as G2 toys, do you? They're associated with RiD.

Doesn't matter. Thematically Mini-Cons are associated with Armada (given that's where they mostly appeared in), just as Energon stuff is associated with Energon and Cyber Keys are with Cybertron. Given how successful the Armada line was (in spite of collector hatred), it would be safe to assume that there is a large portion of the public that still associate Mini-Cons with Transformers Armada.

[GoktimusPrime]

That's a matter of preferencial perception - the fact is that they're not part of the Armada line. Just as Universe Razorclaw, Nemesis Prime and Depth Charge are not part of the Beast Wars line.