The Soapbox IV: Top 10 Characters of All Time

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I think this statement beautifully illustrates the obvious disconnect between so many older collectors and Hasbro's modern business decisions. There seems to be a growing number of older, crotchety collectors who have nothing but disdain for nearly everything Hasbro does, while seemingly forgetting the obvious fact that they are not marketing to collectors.

hmm..NO.

Armada sucks because of that, they had sucky toys and a bad cartoon with gimmick centric designs. Many of them were gimmick first and transformer second.

I am sure that if I were still a kid and had experienced proper progressive Transformer lines before that (G1, BW, RID) I would not be all that happy about Armada or perhaps I have always been a collector at heart?

Armada was a regression in design and toy technology. Many of the figures had appallingly simplistic designs (often thanks to the dumb Minicon gimmick) and lacked articulation which design wise were a step back from Beast Wars which by then was already over 5 years old. I am also preety sure that a kid would be smart enough to see the blatant attempt at trying to 'exploit' the popularity of Pokamon with their 'gotta catch all Minicons' cartoon.

The day I see Hasbro producing a new modern line with properly thought out designs, then you would see me change my 'negative' tone to new things that Hasbro does.

Edit: I think that I did change my Negative view on a modern line. Aside from the endless repaints, I did very much enjoy many of the movie figures.