Transformers questions by newbies, and not-so-newbies

[KELPIE]

I'm more interested in Monstructor than the Dinoforce to be honest.

I wonder if there's any budget to remould...?

[Paulbot]

They'd probably just repaint. The Dinoforce and Monster Pretender heads should the same I think

[Tha_Phantom]

Shame that Slash has been left out, but I guess we all have assumed Slash is NOT an Anklyosaur. So I thik it's a fair call if it is a new Dinobot called Skar. Oh but I see Skar was in IDW

Yeah, I too was upset hearing that they would ditch Slash, but now seeing that they have to have a certain dino species there for the Dinoking potential I guess that's fair enough.
I wouldn't want them changing Slash's species to accomodate that, so better off to go with a different character.

[Skyfire]

So, I'm getting confused with Legacy vs Legacy Evolution. Is the "4th wave" of Legacy officially the 1st wave of Evolution? I've seen it referred to as both. But are the product (or whatever they are called) numbers actually the same? Or, as far as retailers are concerned, are they different lines? What are your store receipts or toy packagings stating?

[Seraphim Prime]

So, I'm getting confused with Legacy vs Legacy Evolution. Is the "4th wave" of Legacy officially the 1st wave of Evolution? I've seen it referred to as both. But are the product (or whatever they are called) numbers actually the same? Or, as far as retailers are concerned, are they different lines? What are your store receipts or toy packagings stating?

I think the 4th Wave got curtailed and got meshed into the 1st Wave of Evolution / 3rd Wave of Legacy - I imagine we would have had another repack or two if we had a 4th Wave of Legacy. But for the Box collectors, they have kept Breakdown's box the old Legacy styling so that he matches the other stunticons. So no official 4th Wave and instead a new line.

[GoktimusPrime]

It's wave four with an additional line sub-title. Evolution is the latest ... well, evolution, in the modular accessory gimmick thing that started with War For Cybertron's C.O.M.B.A.T. system, which began with Weaponisers, then Fossilisers, now Evolution. The main difference between Evolution and its forerunners is that the modular 'bots like Scraphook are not Partsformers anymore. They can come apart to become accessories for the other bots, but dis/reassembly is no longer part of the transformation; they just transform normally.

*Cybertronian Omnifunctional Modular Battlefield Assault Tech System

[Cat]

While there is the obvious cost of running or upgrading the hardware, it's nothing for a company like Activision Blizzard King which still has servers up for games like the original Modern Warfare and the original version of StarCraft. What a lot of people don't take into account is the tech support element. How many support emails is this old game generating? How often do I need to have my devs go and write new server code to fix an issue? Again, Activision Blizzard can afford all that so they really have zero defence. But for a small dev, it is relevant. It should be noted that Activision Blizzard and EA are the two worst offenders for shutting down old games' multiplayer servers. In EA's case, they want you to play the new version of your favourite game, rather than a two-year-old version so they can sell you new microtransactions. It's less clear what Activision's reason is, but given how much of a horrible, money-grubbing person the CEO Bobby Kotick is, it's likely just a profit thing.

Activision no longer even has the Transformers license so I don't know if the terms of their license would even let them keep the servers going (not that they would anyway, they're cheap so-and-so's). Or am I wrong on the license terminating server infrastructure deals?

[jaydisc]

Or, as far as retailers are concerned, are they different lines? What are your store receipts or toy packagings stating?

Most retailers in Australia create an abstracted identifier for all toys in a line / size class (e.g. Myer, Target, Big W), but some do individually identify them by UPC (Kmart, JB, Zing?), so I presume you're asking about the first type. Myer appears to have updated their listing description for deluxes to now include "Ev", i.e. "Transformers Generations Legacy Ev Deluxe Assortment", so I'm presuming that listing covers the new Deluxes, but the Myer "Item Code" has NOT changed. We'll have to wait and see what Target and Big W do.

[Skyfire]

Thanks members for the info about Legacy vs Legacy Evolution. I was wondering if the lines are the same when it comes to price matching or buying online from random assortments or monitoring online stock. Wait and see I guess.

[DELTAprime]

Activision no longer even has the Transformers license so I don't know if the terms of their license would even let them keep the servers going (not that they would anyway, they're cheap so-and-so's). Or am I wrong on the license terminating server infrastructure deals?

Maybe, maybe not. It would depend on the terms of the license. So I didn't introduce that variable.