Quote Originally Posted by Bidoofdude View Post
This is really getting out of hand. They're just jumping on the hype train. We're getting FOC Dinobots from Planet X, MP Dinobots from Fans Toys (or Giga toys) and G1 Dinobots from that other 3P. All bases covered. Fansproject is fine, if you like their style, but no more please! We're at a point where third parties are just churning out shitty designs to get on the hype train. Don't mean to sound like a negative nancy, but I saw the GCreations Sludge today and he just looks crap to me. They need to slow down.
I have to disagree with such sentiments, I think this sludge looks pretty decent all things considered, I prefer the FP one myself for certain, but I think they have covered all the basics with this design, G1 look: check, size: check, articulation : check. he looks decently solid, I hardly think they designed and prototyped this whole toy in the paltry amount of weeks that have passed since the other CHUG style Dinobots were announced at TFCON.

For years now we fans have been nagging Hasbro and the the third parties to make dinobots! And all these 3rd parties have seen how much we wanted them and obliged. Now when I look at some of the other forums around and it's all whinge whinge whinge, about getting exactly what they wanted. I don't begrudge all these 3rd parties for releasing variation of the same characters, I think its nice that our voices were heard. If anything I feel sorry for some of them as I'm not sure the market will be able to sustain so many Dinobots. Still for us the fans I think having choice and their being competition between 3rd parties is a great thing.

Sure it's frustrating to get multiples of certain characters when there are still other characters out there we want toys of, and it would certainly be convenient to have all the 3rd parties working in unison, but then then we'd just get another Hasbro IE: "You want a AOE Lockdown, well your only option is this cheap ass one we made, so suck it". I welcome all this 3P competition, and prefer to dwell on the positive, that the desires of fans have finally been answered, albeit possibly with too much of a good thing.

Well that's enough of my ranting, hopefully in future we will have some nice Seacon and Targetmaster wars.