Transformers Cyberverse Quintesson Revealed and Found at US Retail

I really hope that Quintesson gets a release for the Earthrise line. I just read this whole thread, and seems like it is just wishful thinking. They show a Quint in the Earthrise boxart packaging, right?

Yaujta

Yeah, I also hope the ER figure is worthwhile i like the Quints, so it'll be nice adding them to the shelf.
Meanwhile, I returned this set. Just couldn't enjoy it enough to keep.

I saw them and just couldn't pull the trigger on the price. Ditto the Hot Rod/Sharkticon set. Maybe on sale – but with my limited amount of shelf space, I feel like my money can be better spent elsewhere in the meantime.

geekatron prime

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I second this

I think they go like this..
Hopefully in the cartoon we find out exactly what each face means

Judgement:
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Wraith:
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Also some joke a quintesson would make.

Found the quintesson pack today and bought it just for the quintesson.

Opened it up and immediately regretted wasting $30.

jamarmiller

this is not for sale anywhere on line is it ?

Transformers Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures Quintesson Invasion Pack

Or, if you really feel like paying almost double the price:
Transformers Cyberverse Battle for Cybertron 1 Step Changer Quintesson Invasion 4.25" Action Figure 3-Pack

Venixion

It seems we did get lines crossed. My mistake, but it still makes it no less ridiculous or dumb.

Yeah, I agree. Frankly I've always gravitated towards non-show figures as a kid. There was way more imagination involved with what you do with them.

I don't necessarily believe that every toy needs to be slavish to the show either. These aren't toys for me. I want screen accuracy, but I don't expect my three year old to even remotely give a crap. More importantly, he's gonna dig Bumblebee's spinning laser arm gun thingamabob because he's THREE and does not car if Bumblebee is the right kind of car.

Again, my statement: "Kids are dumb", was mostly meant to be a glib little joke. Of course I agree that sometimes even entirely intelligent children will want hilariously stupid toys. However, kids lack impulse control and maturity which results in them wanting those things regardless of intelligence level.

All that said, the one thing that's kept me from collecting Cyberverse? Scale. There's like three sizes to these figures and none of them fit right with one another and I just KNOW that this Quint won't scale with anything properly.

Venixion

Well I have thoughts about toy marketing strategies from time to time that are less then flattering, but I won't derail the thread bitching about it.

And what if adults buy into something that isn't show only? Does that also make them ridiculous or dumb?

Hm. Maybe we're getting some wires crossed here. I have no real opinion on the validity/value of toys that are "show only". Toys that have no show are fine. Not sure how you got that I don't like toys that don't have a show representation, but that's never been my position.

My comment, IIRC, was mostly regarding one gentleman poster who thought that Quintessons were a weird thing to try to sell to kids. My point was that kids don't care if it is or isn't in a show, and will usually buy anything if it's sufficiently cool/weird/gross/whatever. Whether or not something is supported by a show is irrelevant. That Boglin and those Fugly dolls don't have a show to my knowledge, yet they sold/sell at least in part. That's my point. You don't need a show. Just a fun looking product that'll appeal to a child's mercurial mind and tastes.

In short, there's nothing intrinsically "wrong" about a toy related to a kids' show that doesn't have screen representation in that show regardless of who is buying it – adult or child. That said, sometimes you end up with the Justice Jogger:

I've not been following Cyberverse closely, so I'm sure there's a "Justice Jogger" in there too, and some kid will want it.

Venixion

You were doing good until the "kids are dumb thing." Is it really so hard to believe that a little kid will look at a toy and say Hey thats cool! I want one. I didn't realize that a toy making tv appearances were the only types a kid was allowed to care about?

Maybe the language is a bit harsh, so I'll recapitulate on that. Let me redefine. Kids are RIDICULOUS. My son's best friend at daycare's excuse to not do what she's told is "a bear will eat me". Kids want to eat substances that defy all logic just because it's colorful and has enough sugar to distill Kansas directly into beer.

One of the things I think adult collectors (and marketers, really) can get bogged down into is the convoluted logic that is a child's toy choices and decisions. People spend billions on market testing and whatnot for good reason. It's almost impossible to crack the zeitgeist of the modern Western child's tastes.

That is to say, I think kids are way less complicated than we believe sometimes. What I was getting at is that looking back at some of the things I wanted to buy as a child makes me cringe. Kids want to buy some of the dumbest products on the planet for no other reason than it looks cool, weird, gross or bizarre. Feast your eyes on this Boglin:

This horrifying hand puppet shaped like David Cronenberg's love letter to lower intestinal parasites is something I wanted my parents to buy me as a child. Why? Hells bells, I have no idea. I just did. On top of just looking nasty, it smelled like industrial sludge. So any assertion that some kid might not want something because it's "unfamiliar" or "weird" doesn't really make any sense to me.

I get you might not have liked my choice of words, but I certainly don't think wanting this nightmare turd monster was a sign of any intelligence I had, real or imagined, at the time.  

YoungPrime

I honestly feel the same way about this. I'd like to have peeped in on one of their board meetings when they presented this. I mean the Cyberverse line is clearly meant for children but is it legit to say that they're desperate to keep this line alive when they're releasing a character that never had a real figure at retail prior..?

Yeah, they're betting on a lot of adult collectors just being happy to finally get a semi-real Quintesson figure but I can't give this thing a pass. Especially paying $30 for one piece of watered down nostalgia (they made the main face look shocked instead of menacing).

Let me know when Hasbro quits trying sucker me in. And releases some decent Generations Quintesson's with troops other than Gnaw. It's well overdue.

A toy company releasing toys? Goodness me. There's certainly no precedent of that happening.