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Old 07-29-2021, 03:51 PM   #231
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Honestly though it is Takara that is 99.9% MP. Hasbro has little, to no, involvement. Hence they are meant, mostly, for the Japanese market first and foremost.



Hence the Honda City (Skids' vehicle) to celebrate the anniversary ahead of other characters.


I imagine the only characters really not on the short list are Jazz and Mirage. Due to the licensing issues of course.
I'm really excited they might have cracked that nut with the Cliffjumper prototype that leaked. If true, I hope they hurry it up and release all the Porsche based TFs while they have permission to do so. Jazz is such a core G1 Season 1/2 character to me (one of my first two TFs as a kid too).
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Old 07-29-2021, 04:49 PM   #232
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Someone on TFW said that the deal to allow Netflix WFC Bumblebee to have his G1 Beetle alt mode was a limited-time agreement with Volkswagen and we probably won't see that version of the mold again (hence why the Buzzworthy pack that's out now uses the straight-up ER Cliffjumper/Hubcap version). That's super lame. Maybe it was a reason that Bumblebee was in the Netflix set with its more limited release? Because holy crap you're releasing one of the top tier most iconic characters in a short-run specialty retailer exclusive series that a ton of people never got without paying insane 3rd party retailer or scalper markups. They really should've worked out a chance to have earth mode Beetle Bee be in Kingdom or something.



I only thought of this today because my Ark arrived and if you look at the art on the box flap it prominently displays a ton of characters from WFC, all of whom are standard release except for Bumblebee. I also think they're all Kingdom release figures too (the Beast Wars cast, Galvatron, Optimus Prime and Arcee (who were Kingdom re-issues of their ER figures)...) the only things that are on that flap that aren't Kingdom figures are the HasLab Unicron and a shot of the Nemesis which likely isn't meant for any sort of figure release


It's just.... suuuuuper frustrating and I kind of hope that rumor about the limited Volkswagen license isn't true. But given Volkswagen's reticence to be involved in the Transformers at all, I wouldn't be surprised even after they signed off on Bumblebee movie designs (which probably netted them a crap-ton of money)
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Old 07-30-2021, 03:02 PM   #233
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Just out of curiosity, did Nightbird ever have a transformation in the G1 show?
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Old 07-30-2021, 03:10 PM   #234
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Just out of curiosity, did Nightbird ever have a transformation in the G1 show?
No. She was a "female ninja robot" that some dude built for "world peace". What ninja robots have to do with world peace is anyone's guess.
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Old 07-30-2021, 03:11 PM   #235
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Volkswagen and Porsche have been historically reluctant to have their vehicles licensed/associated with Transformers, haven't they? It's why all the rumblings of a MP Cliffjumper have TFW2005 speculating about a potential license acquisition and a potential MP Jazz further up the pipeline.

The beetle mould should've been more widespread. I only got one because of placing backup orders () on HLJ. Never saw/don't recall seeing many of the Wave 2 (?) Netflix stuff on a shelf because of distribution kerfuffles, just Netflix Prime at Metrotown Walmart once.
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Old 07-30-2021, 03:34 PM   #236
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No. She was a "female ninja robot" that some dude built for "world peace". What ninja robots have to do with world peace is anyone's guess.
Let's not act like any of the original series' writers had any clue what they were doing ever.

Let's not forget 'Carbombya'
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Old 07-30-2021, 03:39 PM   #237
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Let's not act like any of the original series' writers had any clue what they were doing ever.

Let's not forget 'Carbombya'
They knew exactly what the were doing with Carbombya.
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Old 07-30-2021, 04:18 PM   #238
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Volkswagen and Porsche have been historically reluctant to have their vehicles licensed/associated with Transformers, haven't they? It's why all the rumblings of a MP Cliffjumper have TFW2005 speculating about a potential license acquisition and a potential MP Jazz further up the pipeline.

The beetle mould should've been more widespread. I only got one because of placing backup orders () on HLJ. Never saw/don't recall seeing many of the Wave 2 (?) Netflix stuff on a shelf because of distribution kerfuffles, just Netflix Prime at Metrotown Walmart once.

They have. Lamborghini too. IIRC Lamborghini and Porsche have been about claiming that Transformers doesn't fit their brand image of being snooty high-class status symbols. Volkswagen does it more for a dislike of the association with "war toys" because it uncomfortably reminds people that the company built vehicles for the nazis during WWII (which Porsche did as well, and the company is now owned by Volkswagen to boot).


I had decent luck getting what I wanted out of Netflix Wave 1, so I gambled on finding any of the wave 2 stuff in store and came up empty. To the extent that I never saw a single wave 2 figure of any kind in a store. Plus Walmart never had them available online as far as I can remember.


I hope against hope that perhaps Bumblebee will be in one of the last Kingdom waves, but I'm not confident. And it pisses me off.
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Isn't kingdom finished after wave 4?
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They have. Lamborghini too. IIRC Lamborghini and Porsche have been about claiming that Transformers doesn't fit their brand image of being snooty high-class status symbols. Volkswagen does it more for a dislike of the association with "war toys" because it uncomfortably reminds people that the company built vehicles for the nazis during WWII (which Porsche did as well, and the company is now owned by Volkswagen to boot).


I had decent luck getting what I wanted out of Netflix Wave 1, so I gambled on finding any of the wave 2 stuff in store and came up empty. To the extent that I never saw a single wave 2 figure of any kind in a store. Plus Walmart never had them available online as far as I can remember.


I hope against hope that perhaps Bumblebee will be in one of the last Kingdom waves, but I'm not confident. And it pisses me off.
Glad we got 3x versions of MP Bee v1. That was a pretty good mold. They all have guns, oddly.
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