How the heck do these people get these images/toys? Obviously not legally. That image looks so covert, with it only catching a small part of the packaging. It can really spoil it a little not being surprised at all when the toys come out and you are finding out stuff about them as you hold them in your hands at the store. I feel for the designers who often put in so much creative effort into the toys, only to see the fans picking over scraps and missing the whole 'picture' or concept until after misleading opinions have been formed.
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Unfortunately that's the nature of fandom. Videogames suffer the most from this syndrome but at least the developers are prepared for it. I'm pretty sure they forsaw leaks as soon as the toys are made to go into production.
Otherwise, looks like a nice feature and a new mould!
Sometimes these leaks work favourably - like when the images of movie Megatron's head got leaked and fans freaked out about it, Michael Bay then decided to have it changed. But yeah, little wonder why some directors like Michael Bay, George Lucas etc. have been known to allow false spoilers to be released onto the web... I don't know if toy designers will ever have to do this. :/
Mech Alive!
It seems the robot mode is much more accurate than the last Leader class Movie Prime.
Last edited by FFN; 3rd January 2009 at 07:55 PM.
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