Posted by: @brasco

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They have other Sy-Klone merch just like they did with Rokkon

They are using the same art as the boxes and they are likely doing the same print on demand situation that all of the youtubers use. I doubt much resources go into them. I also doubt they go on sale since there isn't really any stock. If they were a bit cheaper they would be much better impulse purchases \ add-ons to justify shipping but 65 is too much for a hoodie that I can have made myself for cheaper.

I got my Sy-klones but it shouldn’t be this nerve wracking buying a toy 

Got 'em!

Sy-Klone was easy to get and he's still up. The Terroar and Lord Gr'Asp fiasco was just crap thanks to Walmart. These two really need to get released somewhere else. Anyone think there's any hope for that?

Got my Sy-Klone order in and grabbed the MOTU UNO as well!

Cringer looks like he could be a figure on his own. 

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I know a lot of people have problems with Mattel's pre-order process, but it works so much better than Walmart 's

@andy_wan_kenobi that's certainly true. Things have been much smoother lately. They seems to have upped their bot protection, I almost wonder it cutting the international market was to try and reduce the number of bots.

Geldor and Demo-Man are very out-of-left-field obscure characters, which is something I really want to see more of. I'm so bored of umpteen versions of the main dozen A-listers over and over, ad nauseam.

Anyways, they both look good, but I can't help but feel the Origins team is just flat out copying Classics at this point 😆 

Posted by: @durendal

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I'm so bored of umpteen versions of the main dozen A-listers over and over, ad nauseam.

**Laughs in Transformers fan**

I wouldn't say the team is copying classics because they are picking and choosing what they bring in and changing things. I'm glad that they are not outright avoiding the characters and mythos that it created and working them in.

We also don't know the other considerations that the team has in balancing their budgets. They said the Snake Playset will be a crowd fund and both Geldor and Demo Man look like they are new armor and heads with some heavy parts reuse. Even the extra heads with Demo looks like a repaint of the Alcala head and the skeleton warriors head. I'm hopeful that these efficient uses point to some interesting surprises on Tuesday that have bold tooling budgets or at least the culmination of parts we've seen for a long while like Modulok.

@smitty-81 Is that a thing in that brand? I don't collect Transformers.

@durendal some Transformers collectors have entire shelves for just one character. There's easily 20 Optimus Prime toy in just the last 5 years.

Posted by: @dynamicg

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Tuesday that have bold tooling budgets or at least the culmination of parts we've seen for a long while like Modulok.

There's at least 5 vintage characters that require 95% new parts, some with no potential for reuse. 

And my Sy-Clones have already shipped! That was faster than I expected.

@dynamicg lucky. Hopefully mine ship soon but I got Rokkon early. I don't think I'll get lucky twice. 

Woohoo, Extendar. Been waiting for a long time to get my grubby hands on that figure 😉 He's been missing from my vintage collection too, not easy to get hold of in a really good condition at a fair price. 

The origins version looks great!

SyClone is in the bag, but who knows when that one will ship; my Rokkon is scheduled for the middle of May -.- The joy of being an international collector *sob*

@smitty-81 I belong to a private discord group and they shared how much he paid for it.