Transformers Kingdom Wave 3 New Stock Images – The Ark, Rodimus Prime, Galvatron And More (Updated)

rikkomba

HasLab Unicron was not a good start.

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GINYU TOKUSENTAI

TOKU-SENTAI
TOKU-SENTAI
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Night Flame

I personally, even being a G1er, am looking forward to seeing some of the Armada designs reimagined with better engineering. They were fun at the time, but a lot of them looked horrible in bot mode. Sorry, I know for some horrible = quirky. Like Costanza. Quirky.

HasLab Unicron was not a good start.

T-Hybrid

It's also funny to say "kids only care about TV these days!" as if the reason most of you want the characters you do and want them to look a very specific way isn't because it matches a cartoon you watched on your screen when you were kids.

FACT BOMB INCOMING. DUCK AND COVER!!!!

It's been THIRTY FIVE YEARS (or 25 in the case of BW) and the CURRENT TF TOYLINE is ALL ABOUT creating the characters in the very specific way we remember from that screen we were stuck in front of as kids.

(Also, let's not pretend that kids are on screens more now than we were back then. The idea of "too much screen time is bad for you" wasn't even mainstream in the early 80s. I knew kids who literally watched TV ALL DAY. At least now kids can watch what they want instead of just what's playing)

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SharkyMcShark

Big with you on this.

The capacity to do intricate panel folding for accuracy is there – look at SS72 Starscream, and the way that the jet mode back folds out of his calves.

Yeah for the size of the figure, SS72 Starscream has an insane level of engineering. Even so, it's a pity they still had to cheat the upper part of his chest with the fake jet canopy.

IDWDrift

Toys aren’t for children anymore, they have their electronics. Plus, it’s bold of you to assume that any child under nine would buy a character that isn’t Bumblebee or Optimus.

Rescue Bots lasted 10 years with Prime and Bee being at the periphery of the cast. My four-year-old has only ever asked for one BB toy compared to his full collection of the Rescue Bots cast (including multiple alt modes), while his only Optimus toys were things people bought *for him* because when they went shopping for robots they bought the names they recognized.

"Toys aren't for kids anymore…" is the single most oblivious and entitled thing a collector can say these days. It's peak gatekeeping.

PrimalMotive

That's so true, kids nowadays barely even play with toys, their faces are always behind a screen

(And those screens have stuff like Paw Patrol and Transformers on them…which is why those toys sell)

It's also funny to say "kids only care about TV these days!" as if the reason most of you want the characters you do and want them to look a very specific way isn't because it matches a cartoon you watched on your screen when you were kids.

PrimalMotive

That's so true, kids nowadays barely even play with toys, their faces are always behind a screen

This is… just wrong. A LOT of collectors are teens, and I’ve seen kids buy transformers first hand almost every time I go to target. I legit once saw a kid spend fifteen minutes convincing his dad to let him get 86 Grimlock.

T-Hybrid

My favorite part about all this anger over his chain guns is that it's coming from people who aren't the target audience. Like some kid is going to know who Rhinox was before they see this thing on the shelf in a few months, let alone start getting out the tape measure to compare gun sizes.

I know if I was a kid and picked up Kingdom Rhinox I'd probably be confused as fuck as to what his weapons are. They're not the length of guns, but he holds them like guns, but they look more like buzz saws and are way taller than they are long.

Just because kids don't know of the source material doesn't mean they're stupid or completely lack analytical skills. It's not that Rhinox's guns aren't accurate, (T30's weren't exactly 1:1 with the show) it's that they don't look like guns.

Fenrys

Bold of you to assume they wouldn't

Before TRU closed I saw a kid walk out with ER Grapple of all characters. I saw a little boy looking at the ER Runabouts. (coincidentally the same day I got mine) I remember once walking through Walmart and a kid was carrying Shadow Raider, the Lockdown redeco from SS, and explaining to his mom how this was the guy with the gun face. This was years after AOE came out.

Kids don't have to have nostalgia to like a toy, and for as much as people say they're buried in their phones… well, yeah, how do you think they find out about this stuff? It's not like G1 is some coveted, forgotten secret text only available to children of the 80's. You can search up these characters, series, etc with ease. A kid could walk into a store, see Rhinox, Google him, and learn more or less everything about the character in the store and walk out with his toy if they were so inclined.

Kids aren't dumb, kids aren't clueless, and kids

IDWDrift

Toys aren’t for children anymore, they have their electronics. Plus, it’s bold of you to assume that any child under nine would buy a
character that isn’t Bumblebee or Optimus.

Bold of you to assume they wouldn't

T-Hybrid

"My favorite part about all this anger over his chain guns is that it's coming from people who aren't the target audience. Like some kid is going to know who Rhinox was before they see this thing on the shelf in a few months, let alone start getting out the tape measure to compare gun sizes.

Toys aren’t for children anymore, they have their electronics. Plus, it’s bold of you to assume that any child under nine would buy a
character that isn’t Bumblebee or Optimus.