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    Kind of interesting that they're putting these out so close to the releases of the new ones. I guess these are more fan targeted than general population

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1 View Post
    Kind of interesting that they're putting these out so close to the releases of the new ones. I guess these are more fan targeted than general population
    Yeah the beastie kids should be old enough now to be all yay! nostalgia. Then you read that it's a Walmart exclusive & settle back with a nice glass of Chardonnay, click on the TFW link & have a quiet chuckle.

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    I love the idea behind this.

    I'm passing on this bunch simply because I own them all and still have them sitting in boxes (sans accessories). Cheetor and Rattrap I had bought for me when I was about 6, and Primal and Megatron I ended up picking up at a fan meet about 20 years later for $5 each. I don't really have the connection with any of them to warrant buying them fresh.

    If we start talking about Transmetals thought... sign me up. By the time they came around I was old enough to pine after them and save my pocket money to go and grab one deluxe per month.
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    IMO this is completely pointless. They were rumored to be Transmetals which would have made a lot more sense, but just putting out the original toys at the same time as the vastly improved Kingdom versions is just dumb.

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    I really want a comment from Hasbro on the Rattrap mould.

    Hasbro said at a Botcon back in the day the mould was lost. So did they find it? Or did they make a new Rattrap mould much like they did for the Dino Cassettes a while back?
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    Did they neuter them
    as in the firing gimmick in optimus primal

    reason i ask is im sure he had a deployable firing arm missle gimmick or something spring loaded missle
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    Those weapons and missiles are a different colour. Mine are dark blue, not baby blue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zommael View Post
    IMO this is completely pointless. They were rumored to be Transmetals which would have made a lot more sense, but just putting out the original toys at the same time as the vastly improved Kingdom versions is just dumb.
    same could be said with the g1 prime and soundwave reissues with er prime and netflix soundwave on the shelf around the same time.

    this is for nostalgia, wonder if we will get rid reissues (hopefully without issues this time) and UT reissues in the next 10 or so years

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaxius._ View Post
    same could be said with the g1 prime and soundwave reissues with er prime and netflix soundwave on the shelf around the same time.

    this is for nostalgia, wonder if we will get rid reissues (hopefully without issues this time) and UT reissues in the next 10 or so years
    Releasing the Transmetal moulds would have checked the nostalgia box and been a nice complement to the Kingdom versions. Instead we get nice new versions and worse bigger old versions. Fail.

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    But then they can't really rerelease the original versions after the Transmetal ones. Might as well do it now while BW nostalgia is high because of Kingdom.

    Is it really a bad thing if people who weren't able to get them growing up can do so now?

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