On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 10:08:50 AM UTC-8, Ultra Magnotron wrote:
> Yo! How is everyone? Long time no discussion...
>
> So I have been gone for a long time. I do check in and read
> posts every now and then, but to be honest Hasbro is changing.
> I am not one to be afraid of change. I love change! Change is
> supposed to be good; it keeps things from getting stale. The
> change I am seeing from Hasbro is bad.
The Great Cheapening a few years back really has bit the toylines pretty hard.
> Hasbro is turning the Transformers line into something that is
> far below my age demographic. I did manage to get my hands on
> some RID 2015 toys and as hard as I tried to enjoy the EZ
> transform gimmick... I can't. I just can't do it! They do
> have some toys with a decent number of steps and some interesting
> transformations, but not enough. The alternative to the main
> line are the ones aimed at collectors, in other words the
> expensive sh*t I can't afford. Hasbro doesn't have anything
> in between these... so... I have come to realization that I'm
> kind of done. This isn't a permanent done. This is just a "when
> Hasbro has a toyline somewhere between 5 year olds and 'millionaire
> rich people' I will return to the hobby" kind of done.
Combiner Wars seems to be that. I think the quality has dropped a bit from the glory days of Generations with the Great Cheapening, but you're pretty much who those are made (with shoddy materials) for.
Return Of The Titans will bring back Headmasters in a big way.
> For now I've got all my current toys to enjoy and I'll be playing
> with those. And only those...
And slowly, bit by bit, they are breaking...
> To make matters worse I understand that the movies are now leaking
> into the TV shows, so I won't be watching the TV shows until that
> mess is done (and that could be decades from now by the looks of it).
I don't follow this -- they are their own separate continuity from the movie. There are some movie elements brought in (the gdmf allspark cube in TF:Animated). Has RID2 done something?
> To sum this up I'm not abandoning Transformers. Transformers is
> abandoning me. There are is no product for me and nothing in the
> Entertainment category is aimed at me.
There's a very, very G1 video game, and I think a Generations cartoon is coming out.
> So... Hasbro is the one
> forcing me away from Transformers. And it's too bad. I really enjoyed
> Prime and I love the 80's stuff... there was some cool 90's stuff
> too... Spattered in that decade here and there. But for the forseeable
> future it's all downhill from here.
The new toys leave me feeling a little disappointed more often than not.