(snipped for length).Originally Posted by griffin
You're 100% right. On both counts. We are getting too many Optimus Primes, Because... he sells. As much as (for the sake of example) I've been hanging out for Hubcap, kids won't know who he is. And for every Minibot fan like me there's a Tilarta (for example) who has made it clear he's thoroughly uninterested in Hubcap. Multiple Primes are a safe bet for HasTak - moreso than Hubcap would be!
But hey, they're finding ways to stretch the moulds without clogging the shelves with 700 Bumblebee & Prime variants (as was the case around 2009-2012 in the movie lines) - so doing it through Pulse & exclusives is a smarter way of reusing the moulds. Sure, it means I'm paying more for my Hubcaps (yes, multiple), but I'm happy to pay a little more if the Selects model means Hubcap is a viable release for Hasbro.
It's a lazy repaint, but it's one that will sell well enough to the broader fandom while helping HasTak get their $$ out of the mould. In my view, if this helps the CHUG lines continued viability, great. I won't be buying it, but the longer the line goes on, the sooner I will see the Huffer and Pipes toys I'm waiting for.
So... long live safe Pulse/Generations repaints, I say.
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