I hate it. Really hate it. And this comes from someone who had a complete Beast Wars collection. I have no problems with beasts. I have problems with laziness and pandering design.
Prime (to me) was about design and elegance -- the fusion between the clean lines of Animated and the ambitious engineering and more realistic vehicles of the movie bots. This just takes a steaming crap all over that and takes good designs and pours awful colors and eXtrEEme Dino spikes over everything.
I do not believe for a second that the actual toys will look
anything like this. Already the toys are starving for paint apps. Somehow they are going to pay for more plastic and more paint? Don't think so. Not without a price increase. And those spikes are
so going to be the soft plastic -- there's no way from a safety point that they'll be hard spikes.
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Originally Posted by Scrapper6
Why are we being forced to get crappy re-tools of pre-existing molds when the Beast Era cast got an upgrade you could consider to be an entire different toy if you wanted to with Transmetals and Transmetal Twos?
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So much this. I don't really care for the TM2s, but at least they went and designed new toys. This is like the worst excesses of TM2 (garish colors! pointless overdesign! spikes everywhere!) but with overused molds that the stores can't get rid of now. Somehow eye-bleeding paint choices and spikes are supposed to transform shelfwarmers into money? I don't get it. More than that: I don't want it.
For the few molds that are actually new, I have one word: lazy. These look like transformations that are little more than "stand up and reposition". Even Predaking. Predaking was king of the combiners. Now he's warmed over Scourge. Not an improvement, and choosing that name for such a lazy design (but it has spiky edges! lots of them!) is, to me, rubbing salt in the wound. I have met Predaking, and you, sir, are no Predaking.
The upside is that I have
zero interest in the whole line. I have most of the molds already. The rest are boring. So I can save a lot of money and skip the long and frustrating process of tracking down the figures in a hobby that Hasbro seems to be doing its damndest to run into the ground. Thanks, Hasbro!