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banzait...@gmail.com
Aug 20, 2016, 11:42:51 AM8/20/16
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ATT,
Well, late last night I discovered yet another massive failure from Hasbro's design team. You know how they advertised that pm prime's battle station mode connects to fort? Well, guess what - he doesn't.
Legally, (yes I am starting a class action lawsuit) you can completely miss transform him and hook him up backwards, but it looks like a complete mess. Also, the connection is so weak, it pops off if you breath on it. I haven't found anyone on the interwebs that has figured this out, and the instructions are completely useless.
How in the hell does stuff like this happen? Do they not have any type of model check or peer review? Do they even give a shit about their customers? I was really looking forward to this play feature, and am furious over how incompetent the design is.
The only good news here is that is "looks" as if blaster does connect, but I haven't verified this for my self.
-Banzaitron
Well, late last night I discovered yet another massive failure from Hasbro's design team. You know how they advertised that pm prime's battle station mode connects to fort? Well, guess what - he doesn't.
Legally, (yes I am starting a class action lawsuit) you can completely miss transform him and hook him up backwards, but it looks like a complete mess. Also, the connection is so weak, it pops off if you breath on it. I haven't found anyone on the interwebs that has figured this out, and the instructions are completely useless.
How in the hell does stuff like this happen? Do they not have any type of model check or peer review? Do they even give a shit about their customers? I was really looking forward to this play feature, and am furious over how incompetent the design is.
The only good news here is that is "looks" as if blaster does connect, but I haven't verified this for my self.
-Banzaitron
Irrellius Spamticon of the Potato People.
Aug 21, 2016, 12:12:27 AM8/21/16
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Waiting for Mindwipe and Sixshot
Zobovor
Aug 21, 2016, 3:54:01 AM8/21/16
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On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 9:42:51 AM UTC-6, banzait...@gmail.com wrote:
> How in the hell does stuff like this happen? Do they not have any type of
> model check or peer review? Do they even give a shit about their customers?
Just barely got Fortress Maximus tonight, and I don't have any other toys that turn into playsets so I can't check the connectivity feature for myself.
> How in the hell does stuff like this happen? Do they not have any type of
> model check or peer review? Do they even give a shit about their customers?
As to your questions, I think you probably already know the answer. Fortress Maximus is a huge exercise in cost-cutting. Pretty much every aspect of the toy. They must do play testing on some level, but you've got to figure that it's a toy in a big room with dozens of other Hasbro toys and lots of other kids swarming around. Kids are going to pop the head in place, listen to the cool sound effect, and then shoot each other with Nerf guns. They probably answered a quick survey about whether or not they thought Fort Max was cool (of course they did; he's a giant robot) and there's your test marketing.
I feel your pain. For the record, though, connecting playsets together has never really been my thing (I only owned Skystalker and Skyhopper and I don't think either of them had the right ramps to link together, and I never had a Ninja Turtles sewer playset to plug into the back of my Technodrome).
Zob (maybe they'll release a version of this toy that doesn't suck... oh, wait, it was called Metroplex)
Irrellius Spamticon of the Potato People.
Aug 21, 2016, 8:26:29 AM8/21/16
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