Transformers Venting thread!

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Out of the four Bots I got this weekend I can find fault with all for them. Some just the Package though. But Hasblow is getting so sloppy.

Movie Legends Megatron. Card art shows IDW Megs toy is the old Legends G2 Megs.

Movie Legends Grimlock. Card art shows G1 Grimlock but the toy is just a black and bronze Rippersnapper. BUT even worse the instructions are for Energon Crulelock on the back! WTF

Movie Legends Strafe. Card art shows G1 Swoop. Toy is just Legends Windrazor and to top it off...His instructions are for BW TERRORSAUR the original flip changer basic HUGE WTF!!

Next up we have the Predacon rising Abominus set. All the names are mixed up on the pack.

According to the box
Hun-Gurrr is Twinstrike
Windrazor is Hun-Gurr
Rippersnapper is Windrazor
Twinstrike is Rippersnapper
But Blight is right.

Clap clap Hasbro you really do care about your products More and more you are pushing away a lifer to happy 3rd Party land. Cause they do actually care.

[Bidoofdude]

At least Blight is right.

[Mythirax]

At least Blight is right.

^ - He's got something going for him

[GoktimusPrime]

From here:

Weeljack really? Nobody proofed this? The figure though is just brilliant.

The English language to the typical Japanese speaker is like Latin (or other Romance languages) to many English speakers --- it looks cool and fancy, but most people don't know what it means, let alone if it's actually written correctly. For example, I'd be really tempted to get this Megatron shirt featuring a Latin translation of "Peace through tyranny," if not for the fact that the translation is grammatically incorrect*. About 2 or 3 Parra Fairs ago I saw a guy walking around wearing this shirt, and I pointed out to him that the Latin text is incorrect, and he laughed it off. That's pretty much the standard reaction you'll get if you point out incorrect English on stuff in Japan. But hey, at least this is on a product that's aimed at a non-English speaking market who merely sees the English language as being something decorative... it irks me more when I see companies from Anglophone countries like Hasbro or IDW making similar (or worse) errors on products that are directly and explicitly aimed at English speakers**. And of course, most people at TakaraTOMY don't speak English, hence nobody picking it up. But I'd imagine virtually everyone at Hasbro would speak English, with many of them speaking it as their first and only language.

And to be fair, silent letters aren't exactly the most intuitive thing for non-English speakers. Also, be aware that Wheeljack is actually called "Hoiljack" (ホイルジャック) in Japan, which is possibly derived from the Old English pronunciation of "wh" as "hw." The spelling changed in Middle English, and most Modern English speakers pronounce it as either "w" (e.g. when, where, whisky) or "h" (e.g. who, whole, whom). Some English dialects still retain the archaic "hw" pronunciation, as can be heard in TF Prime Ratchet's speech (e.g. he pronounces "what" as 'hwat' etc.). Polar Claw's Japanese name is "White Claw," but the Japanese pronounce it as "Hwite Claw" (ホワイトクロー; howaito kuroo). In Australian English, as with most variants of English, words like "weather" and "whether" sound exactly the same (homophones), but in other dialects which still retain the wh-hw distinction, they're not; 'weather' is pronounced "weh-THer," but 'whether' is pronounced "hweh-THer."

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*It should either be PAX・PER・TYRANNIDEM or pax per tyrannidem.
**Thank Jupiter that that Megatron shirt wasn't aimed at a Latin-speaking audience!

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Picked up AOE Slug and voyager Drift. Slug....what a pile of crap. One of the worst bots ever with all that rubber. So im done with this hasbro garbage. Im returning them both and apart from proper Generations stuff and MPs. Its now 3rd party all the way for me. Sure they are expensive but I would rather pay more for quality than hasbro garbage.

[SharkyMcShark]

Picked up AOE Slug and voyager Drift. Slug....what a pile of crap. One of the worst bots ever with all that rubber. So im done with this hasbro garbage. Im returning them both and apart from proper Generations stuff and MPs. Its now 3rd party all the way for me. Sure they are expensive but I would rather pay more for quality than hasbro garbage.

I reached this point a few weeks ago with Scorn and Grimlock.

Didn't help that the figure I was messing with just before they arrived was the BW 10th Megatron figure (the one that was also used in the Cybertron line). Uses more or less the exact same transformation as Scorn and is superior in both modes.

Engineering and quality wise this franchise peaked in 2009/10 with ROTF/Universe 2.0/Animated. All downhill since then unfortunately .

[Verno]

Hasbro is repeating the same mistake they made in the 80's. They've bred an entire generation of young Transformers fans that can't cope with Optimus Prime not being there. The new RID TV show would be an opportunity to branch away with new characters, but instead, there's Prime, albeit dead, but he's already got 3 toys in the upcoming line.

Give the poor bugger a rest.

[Megatran]

No Megatron evolution 2-pack! Its an Autobot conspiracy I tell you.

[Krayt]

Not making strafe evo the partner to EnergonGrimlock was bad enough...

[Deonasis]

Despite updating my address long ago on both Nippon Yasan and the Paypal account I used to buy it, my MP Wheeljack he is now on his way back to Japan. I have since found the delivery slip went to my old address and after a week of it sitting at the post office they have shipped it back.

Once it gets there I suppose i'll have to pay the shipping again