Fan outcry over Henkei Powered Commander.

[kup]

Ermm pardon the "blondness", it's friday today,

But is this big hoo-haa all about the City / Shadow Commander Repaint upgrade kit, which in more simple words, Prime in Red repaint City Commander suit?

Yeah that's the one.

[TheDirtyDigger]

Wow almost 3,500 posts here and no clue about a fairly major TF convention.
And no interaction on international boards, now thats dedication

Yeah to me it's a hobby not a lifestyle.

Ermm pardon the "blondness"

So insulting Mel. No energon for you!

These are actions figures to enjoy and play with, not investment pieces!

If only that were a universal truth. Even the Botcon toys are disgustingly overpriced considering the 50 cents worth of plastic they are made up of.

[Golden Phoenix]

The complaining about this annoys me.
It is just a toy and they are going to release another version. It will be different.
It is like the Henkei Seekers.
Its going to be different, so quit your whining. If you bought this as an investment then your doing it wrong!

[SilverDragon]

I fail to understand the outcry. It's simply FP allowing the Powered Commander repaint to be available to everyone who didn't go to TFCon, and at non-scalper prices, to boot. Sounds fair to me.

[autobreadticon]

i actually want a new head for the PC , but that won't go 2 well with bitters

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I was very disappointed that TFCon released their May 11th statement at the first sight of negative fan reaction on the TFW2005 thread, without contacting FP beforehand. And after reading this May 14th statement of theirs, if I am in FansProject's shoes I doubt I would want to release any more item for them in the future.

Yeh, seems a bit weak of them to shift all the blame into FP, especially how they just made the sticker for the TF Con logo insteasd of making something more permanent.

I read some if the stuff and all I saw was
"Wa wa wa!"

I am sorry, but all this whinging gets on my nerves from that lot (and others) they bitch and moan if there is an exclusive somehwere they can't get their hands on and don't give a care for the rest of the world. Greedy buggers!

AS fot eh Henkei Seekers Vs Botcon seekers. There appears to be alrge difference between them , especially thrust and Dirge, so even though I have both sets, I don't mind others having the henkei ones, as they are so different.

Losers, they should enjoy the toys for what they are!

[griffin]

I don't see why people are whinging. It's not even an official Transformers toy. It's just an unlicensed piece of merchandise, that isn't bound by any rules or ethics (that Hasbro or Takara may or may not apply to real Convention toys). This was just a fan-made accessory to a toy, for a 'smallish' unnofficial fan convention in Canada. And marketted (to dealers mostly) that they would be a valuable investment, to drum up interest in their convention, even if it is just for the exclusive item.

At least when BotCon did the 3 Classic Seekers, there was no illusion that Takara would never do them. And at least when they did, 2 are significantly different, and the third is different enough from the BotCon version.

People got over that eventually, and that was a real, legit toy. They should just get over this and focus on Transformers. The real ones.

[kup]

People got over that eventually, and that was a real, legit toy. They should just get over this and focus on Transformers. The real ones.

Fan Projects seems to have reached a point with the City Commander mold in which (generally speaking) fans are considering their products as 'real' as any that Hasbro or TakTom may make.

Yeah I know it is technically a none official product but a lot of people are giving them as much weight and (in their eyes) 'legitimacy' as Hasbro and this has only become reinforced by Fan Projects offering stand alone toys that Hasbro apparently refuses to do or has no interest in doing such as the up and coming triple changing 'Classics' Springer and others.

[GoktimusPrime]

I don't see why people are whinging. It's not even an official Transformers toy. It's just an unlicensed piece of merchandise, that isn't bound by any rules or ethics (that Hasbro or Takara may or may not apply to real Convention toys). This was just a fan-made accessory to a toy, for a 'smallish' unnofficial fan convention in Canada.

+1 qft. Those whingers just sound like a pack of spoiled brats.

[lcz128]

I'm personally a bit miffed that it's come to this :\ While I'm extremely glad I'll be getting a chance to get a Powered Commander - I wasn't going to be using mine with a Henkei Prime anyhoo - he was always going to go on my Classics Prime - once repainted Blue, that is

I just hope that the blue on DIA Commander is going to be dark enough to actually match that of Henkei Prime as the blue is a few shades darker and that actually goes better with the actual Diaclone Powered Convoy colours... hrmm-

Pity there's so much hoohah over it - I understand the two sides of it - and this release will inevitably dilute the TFCon's PC's exclusivity significantly - but if it was also apparently their choice not to have something more 'permanent' to differentiate the release (opting to go with a transparent sticker) that's partly their call too.
Don't know why anyone would say the mould would have been broken and thrown away though :\

Ultimately I really hope it doesn't stop FP from releasing a lot of other cool stuff for the future - still waiting for my classics matrix and megs guns