Earthrise Galactic Odyssey Collection (5 sets)

[Sutton]

I’m really confused as to why Ratchet always seems to get the exclusive route. He seems like a pretty bankable main cast kind of character. Plenty of recent toylines have had a Ratchet as one of the main guys, but we can’t get a G1 one without it being some obscure exclusive?

Exactly. Save the exclusives for the more obscure characters. That route makes sense, and actually adds some exotic sort of charm to characters that would otherwise not make sense at retail.

[Bidoofdude]

Exactly. Save the exclusives for the more obscure characters. That route makes sense, and actually adds some exotic sort of charm to characters that would otherwise not make sense at retail.

I’m actually super on board for this two pack. It makes sense and adds a lot of charm having the two characters in a lore setting. Just make it widely available though for the love of god!

I’m already stressed through the roof with having to source the rainmakers (seems like a nigh impossible task at this point), and even just Earthrise Thundercracker and Skywarp, mainstay major cast members of the Decepticons.

[SMHFConvoy]

Social media has blown up with people all over the world upset with the amount of exclusives and how in cases that they're only accessible to US residents.

[griffin]

Social media has blown up with people all over the world upset with the amount of exclusives and how in cases that they're only accessible to US residents.

They didn't seem to care last year when we were all complaining about the record number of exclusives (at that time), so I doubt they will care this year.

[SMHFConvoy]

They didn't seem to care last year when we were all complaining about the record number of exclusives (at that time), so I doubt they will care this year.

Personally, I don't have a problem with the exclusives, if I can't get one, I'll make one, I have the tools and the skills.

However, even though these complaints fall on deaf ears, Hasbro is pushing into film and television content because toy sales aren't as strong as they were in the 80's and 90's. Transformers doesn't occupy as much of the aisle as it used to, when you look at the amount of Cyberverse warming the shelves you get the feeling that the TF brand is reliant on the adult collectors and a lot of them are getting older, a lot of them are tired of the same characters getting new figures in each year's theme - yes kingdom has Beast Wars but what about the line for 2022? Back to the evergreen cast? This is why raising the issue is important because at some point they'll need to listen because people will stop buying exclusives because of scalpers or because they can't get the toy in their part of the world.

[griffin]

It looks like the reveals for the Galactic Odyssey packs will be spaced a month apart, as opposed to weekly reveals for the GEN Selects packs... and since they are all Amazon Exclusives, Hasbro has set up a special promo page for them on Amazon America.