Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
Yeah but that doesn't explain why Hasbro can't be more clever and creative with their repaints. Look at the Classicsverse Seekers -- a relatively inexpensive concept because you just need to repaint Starscream as Thundercracker and Skywarp, and repaint/retool Ramjet as Dirge and Thrust. It's such a cheap and simply idea that Hasbro should have done with Classics, but no, instead they let it drag on for five freakin' years across Classics, Timelines, Henkei/Gentei, Universe and Generations. They gave us Acid Storm long before they gave us Thundercracker, Dirge and Thrust at retail! Whaaaa? (although at least Acid Storm was a new character and not something like "Sky Cruise Starscream")

I understand the need for Hasbro to do repaints, and I don't necessarily object to the practice per se, but what I'm not fond of is when it's done as a half-bum effort (IMO). Instead of giving us banal repaints of the same character like Battle Steel Optimus Prime, Battle In The Moonlight Optimus Prime, Lunarfire Optimus Prime, Firegutsburst Optimus Prime etc., give us Movie Ultra Magnus and Movie Nemesis Prime... as simple and mundane as these ideas may seem - and I remember a time when I was getting sick of all the Optimus Prime moulds being repainted white and black for Ultra Magnus and Nemesis Prime... but I much prefer it over "Yet Another Optimus Prime"!

The Classics Seekers is down to one thing: popularity. The popularity of Classics took Hasbro by surprise. They had no intention of continuing it, thus when Botcon got them, they weren't going to be produced otherwise. (I've still got my Botcon Seekers, still love them for different reasons to the later releases).

Of course it ended up in drama, but it wasn't malice by Hasbro.

They ended up giving a fair distance between the Botcon release, and their own domestic release. In between that you had the Gentei releases in Japan, so at that stage, you had had two chances to get them.

Acid Storm was neat, I was pleased to have a totally new Seeker. It seemed obvious that the others were coming at some stage.