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[The Nemesis]

I'd like to say yes, but unless it blows me away, probably not. Titans are expensive enough as it is and I don't like the idea of paying potentially more while also then having to pay shipping and whatever and never being able to get them on sale (I missed out on Scorponok because covid distribution issues, but I got Devastator, Fort Max, Omega Supreme, and Predaking all at varying sale prices under the $250 MSRP price point)


Honestly I'm also not sure what else there is for Titan class figures that would entice me. It seems reasonable that they're not going to want to go through more Titan combiner sets for a bit given that all the scramble city combiners were released through PWT (aside from Piranacon/King Poseidon though he used PotP terrorcon engineering so it basically counts) but they've also blown through all the iconic huge characters already.


What's left? Redoing Metroplex already? Making a Haslab Primus counterpart to their Unicron (which would likely a) cost nearly as much as Unicron b) probably disappoint people by sharing a ton of engineering with Unicron and c) be a bit more niche appeal since Primus isn't as universal as a character as Unicron is)? Getting suuuuuper lazy and making a blue Guardian Robot retool/repaint of Omega Supreme?


I also wonder if I'm getting burned out on Titans for display purposes. As much as I like the visual of having a massive, towering figure looming over everything else on my shelf, the space required for me to set up Omega or Fort Max is such that it takes away an amount of real estate that I could've filled with 4-6 other, smaller figures. I used to try and have two Titans up on my shelf, but then I was so limited in what I could do with the space that it felt like the choice was take down Devastator or leave a big chunk of my collection packed up in a tote in my storage closet.



They also tend to be less poseable than smaller figures. I feel like maybe I'm griping at this point but when I do my shelf I like to set them up to be a sort of scene. not just everyone standing at attention, optics forward and guns raised.


Right now, for example, I have the two clone-bot packs facing off, Megatron and Optimus at the center of the shelf, clashing weapons, the PotP/WFC fembots posed in the background as a unit, Impactor wrecking a half-dozen Reflectors, and a couple of Movie-esque clashes between the movie-debut Autobots (Hot rod, Springer, Ultra Magnus) and the Quintessons and Soundwave/Shockwave and the Autobot casualties from the movie (Prowl, Ratchet, Ironhide, Wheeljack, Windcharger, and for good measure even though they didn't die, Jazz and Cliffjumper)


And then there's Omega Supreme standing in the background. Claw hand outstretched, sure, but that's it. Because I can't bend him over to interact with the smaller bots without risking balance issues. And I can't easily build up around him to put other bots on an even playing field without taking up even more space in the process. It's worse for the combiners because they're even more unsteady. The only way I ever got Devastator involved was to have the Dinobots attacking and basically hanging off his limbs at various points. And alt modes are right out. I tried putting Fort Max into battle base/spaceship mode and there went literally half my shelf space with no real ways to work in other figures around it except for Micromaster or core/legends sized ones.


I think what I'm saying is that while I'll be sad there are no more mass-retail Titans for the novelty value, I can probably live with retiring the line for a while because the issues as a display-collector kind of feel like they outweigh the "isn't this super cool and amazing?" factor. And I don't think a shift to Haslab is going to make me any more likely to keep going with the line. If anything it might make me less inclined to purchase.