Transformers questions by newbies, and not-so-newbies

[DELTAprime]

When did HasTak start releasing Transformers in waves in order to constantly have new products on the shelf?

I seem to remember as a kid that there were long time periods between stores getting in new product. Though I might be misremembering that, or it might have been because I was a kid at the tail end of G1 and Hasbro wasn't producing as many figures then.

[Bidoofdude]

When did HasTak start releasing Transformers in waves in order to constantly have new products on the shelf?

I seem to remember as a kid that there were long time periods between stores getting in new product. Though I might be misremembering that, or it might have been because I was a kid at the tail end of G1 and Hasbro wasn't producing as many figures then.

Not super sure on the answer to this one, but I thought it’d be interesting to note that Takara even still release stuff differently to Hasbro, with only a handful of toys of various classes at a time. For example, when I was in Japan, it was Legends Soundwave, Ginrai, Brainstorm, Ravage and Laserbeak. They trickle them out in smaller chunks more often, rather than a whole wave every few months.

[Paulbot]

G2 has some of the first examples where new toys in the same size/price came out in waves (the Autobot Cyberjets, the G1 Go-Bots coming later and filling the same spot on the shelves the earlier figures had).

There might be some earlier instances, the Pretenders greyed out in the first 1988 catalogue for instance might have been wave two. The first three Micromaster patrols coming out earlier in 1988 in different packaging too.

Beast Wars was where they really committed to the whole line having just a few set size/price points with waves of new ones dropping at regular intervals.

[Tha_Phantom]

Is there any reason why we've had numerous Gnaw toys but not an Allicon yet? A toy of it makes sense to me since there is a clear robot and alt mode, and it doesn't look like it would be any harder to engineer than Gnaw.

[DELTAprime]

Is there any reason why we've had numerous Gnaw toys but not an Allicon yet? A toy of it makes sense to me since there is a clear robot and alt mode, and it doesn't look like it would be any harder to engineer than Gnaw.

I was thinking recently about this. Seems like Hasbro could do a remould of Gnaw and turn him into an Allicon. Maybe not the most screen accurate Allicon, but it should be doable.

[Tha_Phantom]

I was thinking recently about this. Seems like Hasbro could do a remould of Gnaw and turn him into an Allicon. Maybe not the most screen accurate Allicon, but it should be doable.

I'm sure people would army build them like Gnaw too. So no idea why Hasbro haven't done it yet.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

More obscure character and limited remold potential would be my guess. That said, I'd like one/a few similar to Gnaw, and with a little ingenuity I could see the Allicon transformation possibly working for a chunky and/or Cybetronian-style tank/half-track-type ground vehicle.