by gothsaurus » Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:33 am
By my count, I'm looking at 6 movie toys to 9 otherwise (Classics/Prime) featured last year. But I get your point. They did have three movie molds — Dirge, Highbrow and Terradive. That was a first.
While I liked the theme, I kinda cringed at the mixing of three toy lines. Styles are so different between the movie, prime, and classics toys. (I know they're at the mercy of what molds and characters are available.) But that said, in hindsight — and with the new head sculpts added — they pulled it off pretty well. It was a pretty unified looking set, and I think that the Prime mold (Megaplex) helped bridge the movie and classic aesthetic.
I thought Strika, Mirage and the Seeker Jets were the stars of the set though. There were some great homages — and I thought ALL of the new heads were knockouts. Glad to see there weren't any issues going from sketch to fruition. I'm also so glad they changed to a screen accurate color scheme on Obsidian. Huge props for listening to the fans on that, too.
It's hard creating a unified set/story, scrambling to find applicable molds, creating the perfect sculpts — and striving to please our very fickle, whiny, snarky fan base. I'd love to see the fans more educated on the difficulties behind the scenes (and how working with a large company ties your hands quite a lot) ... simply cut some slack to the Botcon crew. They do some deep research and throw a bone to a lot of factions... fans of Beast Wars, classics, G2, G1, UK, Diaclone, Action Masters, Beast Machine... and yes, even Machine Wars.
And let's face it. It's the only place we're going to see obscure homages and fan favorites come to light.
So my point. I'd love to see us all go into the convention season with an open mind. Let's see the bots first. Read the backstory. Celebrate 30 Years like it's a party... instead of a back alley skirmish.
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