When your missus walks out the door coz you can't afford dinner after buying the fifth repaint of Arcee.
When your missus walks out the door coz you can't afford dinner after buying the fifth repaint of Arcee.
Camshaft was where I said enough's enough. It was the first Movie toy where I said, "no I just don't like the look of it and I hated the original toy I'm not going to buy it."
i say you should buy them as it will slowing eat at you sending you mad. always because you were to tight to get that repaint.........
Last edited by The_Damned; 18th February 2008 at 12:33 PM.
I'm with Paulbot. Camshaft was pretty much the last straw for me. And it's not an issue of money. It's an issue of exploitation. I, as a fan. don't want to buy inferior rrepainted toys where there isn't even an attempt to make this figure more appealing in any other way (rename, new weapon etc.). Do I need Jungle Bonecrusher? Hell no. I need Voyager or Leader Bonecrusher, damn it.
Even more importantly, there's a lot of other TFs I could throw my money at on eBay rather than crappy moulds that should never have even seen the light of day.
Finally I also don't feel like my collection's missing anything if all it's missing is an fugly repaint of the same said character. I mean, I'm not going to look back and go "drat, I wish I had bought that really crap repaint. Why didn't I throw my money away?"
Why bother wasting money on a whole lot of toys that are in no way even remotely related to the movie (or TF universe) apart from their packaging? And, IMHO, aren't even that good anyway.
Most of these toys are just that - toys. They will never be "characters" in a movie, comic, cartoon, etc (although they may share the name of an established character). Do you know what I mean?
I like my TFs with personality as well.
If we stop buying every repaint and crappy mold, maybe, just maybe, Hasbro will get the message... Because at the moment they think we will gobble up any rubbish they put out with an Autobot/Decepticon logo on it.
Besdies, there will be another movie shortly, and another huge range of merchandise (with no doubt another million crappy repaints!).
Thanks for letting me vent.