Movie Toys: A Question

[Verno]

Now, as many of you would know, I'm not an all-round TF collector. I haven't bought a 'current' TF figure that wasn't BW related since a RID Optimus Prime (which I quite liked, but thats beside the point).

But my question is: For those who are mad keen on the Movie-verse toys and such, how do you justify buying toys that are (as far as I know) remarkably similar and the same character to boot.

I'm refering to figures such as Optimus Prime.

The character hasn't changed form since he adopted his Truck-mode in the 1st movie, and from spoilers I've seen, he will have the same model in this 3rd movie and will no doubt have toys made to promote it.

But in all honesty, wouldn't the toy from the 2nd or 1st movie do?

Or is that what being a fan is? Buying the same character over and over and over?

[KaRNiV8L PRiME]

Honestly I felt the same about the first and second movies but when you compare Leader Optimus Prime from TFM1 to Buster Prime in ROTF you understand why you need to "upgrade." Another good comparison is the voyager optimus and Battle blades OP.

Having said that, I did not upgrade BB nor did I downsize to the new deluxe ratchet or Ironhide.

[fatbot]

the leader Prime had a better mould in the second movie, and it's possible that the trailer he is supposed to have in the third won't be compatible with the primes from the first two movies. The others I can't comment on as I didn't buy many of them, I certainly never bought doubles.

[LordCyrusOmega]

I wasn't going to upgrade my toys when the second movie came out however some were better engineered and i like mine to be movie/ show accurate. some i haven't such as Ironhide and ratchet but the others were to ggod to pass up. and i really didn't like movie 1 Starscream

[autobreadticon]

i think people fall into two categories , those who love to collect toys, those who love playing with toys and buy those they want to play with, and then theres me the lone ranger (i love all TFs but i only wish too own a few)

So if someone loved transforming the first Leader Prime for example, they will no doubt be back for seconds (ROTF). But too someone who loves collecting, well....

personally i can't stand the aesthetics of the toys regardless of how wonderful their transformations are. Repaints IMO as a collector is not my thing, i saw a HA BB with a repaint of Human Driver Sam, oh man seriously... glad im not a completists..... oh yeh talking about same characters ahah

[LordCyrusOmega]

Repaints IMO as a collector is not my thing, i saw a HA BB with a repaint of Human Driver Sam, oh man seriously... glad im not a completists..... oh yeh talking about same characters ahah

for years i avoided repaints and even retools but now i see the value. i'll buy a repaint if it represents a different character that falls within that universe but a repaint that represents a powered up character eg Unicron trilogy Megatron/ Galvatron.

I changed my view when it came to the seekers and Bumblebee/ Cliffjumper.