Rumour on multiple toy/cheat mode.

[TheDirtyDigger]

Don't bother man. Some people in this forum believe Hasbro bears them personal ill will.

Me for one.
A. Archer still hasn't forgiven me for that terrible joke that went wrong at our high school prom.
How were we to know he'd go crazy after we drenched his gf in pig's blood?


I'm sorry Aaron!!! God...how many times do you want me to say it???

[dirge]

Hasbro do need to get some credit here, as the movie toys don't have the 18 month design period of normal TFs toys. They have to be rushed out in about half that time, and even still, some elements that are added to the animations in the movie, aren't in the toys (like Prime's sword). To have to rush out a huge number of toys, with exceptional sculpting and auto-morph features, bonus gimmicks like combining, just have to be sacrificed due to lack of time. It's not because of laziness.

Fair enough - I wouldn't call it laziness. I would call it trying to do so much in that short timeframe.

Personally, I'd rather see half the junk stripped out of the movie line this time around (Slammers, 2/3 size classes of the leader characters, peripheral stuff like the walkietalkies) so that the designers are able to focus on the core toys. Considering how badly some of this stuff sold last time around (the Slammers only moved when everything else was gone in the leadup to Christmas, the Prime & Megs voyagers took a long time to sell), I'd rather see fewer toys given more designer time each.

[GoktimusPrime]

*nods* focus on quality rather than quantity

[kup]

I would actually be more understanding of Hasbro's predicament here if they did not use the same 'lacking' approach on their other most recent non movie lines which have the same production cycle as any other.

[GoktimusPrime]

Everything in the Movie news section is a spoiler if the movie is not yet out, so it is redundant having 'spoilers' on every post. We just have the rule of not having spoilers in topic titles, because they show up on the main table and topic listings. Everything else is hidden in the post itself.

No plot details are to be posted in non-spoiler topics until after each movie is released.

My understanding of this rule was that plot spoilers couldn't be posted in threads that weren't marked as containing spoilers. Has that only been my interpretation? If not, could that rule be re-worded better to make it clear that even topics not marked with a spoiler warning can still contain spoilers? *shrug*

[griffin]

I will re-word it. This section was set up before the first movie came out so a lot of the parameters was guess-work. Now that it has passed, I can make some refinements to fix up the flaws.

[MV75]

Personally, I'd rather see half the junk stripped out of the movie line this time around (Slammers, 2/3 size classes of the leader characters, peripheral stuff like the walkietalkies) so that the designers are able to focus on the core toys. Considering how badly some of this stuff sold last time around (the Slammers only moved when everything else was gone in the leadup to Christmas, the Prime & Megs voyagers took a long time to sell), I'd rather see fewer toys given more designer time each.

Oh heck yes.

No more robot replicas, or that TECH stuff (which is still peg warming at my local bigw). And no more "ultimate", unless it really is ultimate, as in robosapien style ultimate.

But I expect to see shelves full of mighty muggs, slammers and bumpers. Sigh.

[GoktimusPrime]

And no more "ultimate", unless it really is ultimate, as in robosapien style ultimate.

...or if they're gonna give us a Universe Fortress Maximus! (can I have an A-men?)

[Golden Phoenix]

...or if they're gonna give us a Universe Fortress Maximus! (can I have an A-men?)

A-MEN Brotha!

[Pulse]

...or if they're gonna give us a Universe Fortress Maximus! (can I have an A-men?)

You mean one of these badboys...

Hallelujah!