Biggest letdown of the year

[insane666]

I'll wait for the KO to show up on ebay.

[CAF]

You are right ken. For the most part what I have said and been asked to clarify again and again is falling on deaf ears.

Carry on.

[Devastator55]

Biggest let down is toys r us emailing me telling me my 40% off cw Megatron backorder is cancelled... =(

[Protoman]

The pricing of retail toys this year has been the biggest letdown

[Dangard Ace]

Biggest letdown is that I still haven't gotten my pre-ordered Chrome Gutter from a Canadian retailer.

[Sun Swipe Prime]

Originally Posted by CAF

Obviously you have taken offence to my point and chosen to turn it into a personal attack. If you like it, that's cool.

Quite the contrary. I just find it really funny when someone calls the kettle black and want to see how long they can do so before seeing their own reflection.

Originally Posted by CAF

Takaras recent 3 well actually 5 have a less appealing design criteria than the company had before them.

Less appealing? Judged by who? You? What are these criteria? You never seem to want to get into specifics? Why is that? What makes Lambor > than Tracks?

Originally Posted by CAF

The particulars are obvious and need no rehashing.
I think you just want to be right instead of understand the concept of how sales are being perpetuated by hype, preorders and cognitive dissonance.
The insane amount of butthurt you are displaying over it suggests to me that it's pretty much a conversation with irreconcilable differences.

No you are right that this is about cognitive dissonance. It's about you, in this thread and others, wanting to hate on Tracks, Ironhide, Ratchet, Hotrod, Laserwave, and expecting everyone else to come along and drink the hater-aid.

When not everyone does, instead of chalking it up to taste, you try to justify your stance by setting it up as being objective, that Tracks and the others are objectively bad toys, and you are the objective champion. The poor misunderstood and unheard champion.

This allows you to place those who disagree in the realm of falling under the magic spell of hype, thus allowing you to "reduce the importance of the cognitions", meaning our opinions don't matter because we've been brainwashed by Takara.

How about them apples? Taste like cognitive dissonance to me.

TL;DR? I think this cognitive dissonance can be summed up by a age old phrase. He who smelt it dealt it.

Originally Posted by CAF

MP-10, the nissans, lambos, new seekers, magnus, - Loved by almost anyone.

Ironhide, Ratchet, Tracks, Hotrod, Laserwave- Mixed bag of love em or hate em.

Notice a pattern?

Yeah, the first bunch have been released, and all the others, with the exception of Tracks, haven't. And Tracks hasn't reached the wider audience yet. So pretty much nobody has them in hand.

And you do realize that "Loved by almost anyone" can mean pretty much the same as "love 'em or hate 'em" , right?

You just said some people love them and some people don't for both groups.

[Darth Cylon]

DéjÃ* vu. This thread is the same as this one.

http://www.cybertron.ca/boards/showthread.php?t=61457

[CAF]

Man, some people sure get pissy when you are forthright about something, even if it really doesn't affect them. maybe a warm glass of milk before your mom tucks you in for bed. Cry yourself to sleep...

[Sun Swipe Prime]

Originally Posted by CAF

Man, some people sure get pissy when you are forthright about something, even if it really doesn't affect them. maybe a warm glass of milk before your mom tucks you in for bed. Cry yourself to sleep...

Forthright? That's a joke. You have to have something of worth to say in order for that to mean anything.

Cognitive dissonance.

[laffy]

Holly cow all I wanted to know is if anyone else felt that tracks was a let down and wanted to see there view as I was stocked at first when he was was announced and sadly now in hand he's quite a major letdown compared to other releases.. But now seeing grown Men taking gabs at each other for there views in almost any post posed in this or other groups this has to be the #1 letdown of all time come on guys if you don't agree please move along and don't post simple as that..