Matty Collector

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It should be noted that, to my knowledge, there's nothing to stop TakaraTomy from having all Movie toys with superior paint decos to their Hasbro counterparts, considering the higher retail price they are sold at (as well as the accompanying higher budgets). Hasbro paints the way they do because they need to sell it to retailers who sell them for $10-12USD. TakaraTomy's versions have a RRP that's twice as much, and have a per-figure paint budget that allows for considerably more paint to be used.

Also note that TakaraTomy toylines with better paint jobs (or simply more paint used, regardless of if its appropriate or not), tend to be non-movie lines, ie, Transformers lines without a big international movie to help sell toys.

I wonder, does TakaraTomy feel that because the big movie helps sell considerably more Transformers than they would normally sell (perhaps mainly to kids), that they don't need to "try as hard"? The movie toys with significantly different paint decos appear to be special collector-focused releases (like Buster Prime and the "Masterpiece" decos).

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It should be noted that, to my knowledge, there's nothing to stop TakaraTomy from having all Movie toys with superior paint decos to their Hasbro counterparts, considering the higher retail price they are sold at (as well as the accompanying higher budgets). Hasbro paints the way they do because they need to sell it to retailers who sell them for $10-12USD. TakaraTomy's versions have a RRP that's twice as much, and have a per-figure paint budget that allows for considerably more paint to be used.

Also note that TakaraTomy toylines with better paint jobs (or simply more paint used, regardless of if its appropriate or not), tend to be non-movie lines, ie, Transformers lines without a big international movie to help sell toys.

I wonder, does TakaraTomy feel that because the big movie helps sell considerably more Transformers than they would normally sell, that they don't need to "try as hard"?

This is a bit off topic but since it's your thread, let's roll with it.

With the exception of a few toys such as Buster Prime, Takara-Tomy hasn't really made much of an effort to improve on the Movie line but then again, Hasbro's movie toys have not exactly been cheap but made of pretty reasonable manufacturing materials with generally satisfying paint application.

It is also possible that this isn't logistically possible as Takara-Tomy and Hasbro seem to be using the same factory to do the production runs for both companies. Since the toys need to match or be close to the release date of the film, it may be simpler to make a single large production for both markets than two separate ones as it has been done for Henkei and United which may require one run to complete before the other can start.

[GoktimusPrime]

IMHO and generally speaking, TakaraTOMY doesn't try as hard as pre-TOMY Takara. (<_<)