Video Review of Transformers Earthspark Deluxe Megatron

DeathReviews wrote:As a fan of the Megatron character, I gotta say I'm not impressed by the Earthspark offerings so far. I didn't really need the video review to conclude that the figures look cheap.

"But they're made for KIDS - ya gotta unnerstand!"

Yeah, I get that. But I've seen other kids toys that look a hekkuvva lot better than these. And poor Megatron - that face looks all gormless and simpering. A far fall for the leader of the Decepticons. Small, hollow, flimsy - all perfectly cruel and perfectly accurate descriptions. I skipped out on pretty much the entire Cyberverse line because the figures looked too child-like for my taste. But at least they had some that appear to have been decently engineered, and they seemed to give proper respect to Megatron. But I see little evidence of that so far for Earthspark. I hope the kids like 'em - but I sure don't.

Flashwave wrote:I don't like the vehemence that he comes across with his complaints, never have. And every figure does not need to be an engineering Marvel. Complaining about a figure that has Ankle Tilts, and enough range for most normal humanoid poses because it doesn't tip far enough for your liking is bizarre. And complaining about its plane mode whilst you have it balanced on a flight stand by his Accessory and not a structural part of the figure seems counterintuitive. There aren't many figures I would trust would be supported by an attached piece like that.

But he raises some fair points this does feel overly simple for the price point. Maybe thT is a trade off for other figures in the wave, but given that one is a Retool and the other a redeco that seems unlikely.

DeathReviews wrote:As a fan of the Megatron character, I gotta say I'm not impressed by the Earthspark offerings so far. I didn't really need the video review to conclude that the figures look cheap.

"But they're made for KIDS - ya gotta unnerstand!"

Yeah, I get that. But I've seen other kids toys that look a hekkuvva lot better than these. And poor Megatron - that face looks all gormless and simpering. A far fall for the leader of the Decepticons. Small, hollow, flimsy - all perfectly cruel and perfectly accurate descriptions. I skipped out on pretty much the entire Cyberverse line because the figures looked too child-like for my taste. But at least they had some that appear to have been decently engineered, and they seemed to give proper respect to Megatron. But I see little evidence of that so far for Earthspark. I hope the kids like 'em - but I sure don't.

william-james88 wrote:As for cheaper toys, like the one steps, I have 0 problems since they are a perfect stepstone drug for the harder stuff later, and some are very well made for the age group. And they are sold at a cheaper price point.

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:As for cheaper toys, like the one steps, I have 0 problems since they are a perfect stepstone drug for the harder stuff later, and some are very well made for the age group. And they are sold at a cheaper price point.

admitting the worst, eh? One step chanhers dont need to be majic, I have and like repugnus, but when you look at a figure like Cyberverse one step bumblebee (the one made new for cyberverse), you know they could do better with the budget.

william-james88 wrote:Also, one step bumblebee is great, it's a fun design that works really well for younger kids (like 2 years old). My kid loves that toy and it got him into more transformers toys. They could add more paint if that's what you are getting at, but in terms of transformation design, they really hit a sweet spot for young kids.

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:...
I don't wan't to restate my still valid point

-Kanrabat- wrote:you'll need a parachute to get off that sky-high horse you're riding.

william-james88 wrote:
Here is the review along with some screenshots.

primalxconvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
Here is the review along with some screenshots.

Thanks again for 100% supporting YouTubers with such specific moral compassary! They couldn't make it in life without places like Seibertron behind them all the way!

The TF community salutes you for such peachy tips!

...

primalxconvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
Here is the review along with some screenshots.

Thanks again for 100% supporting YouTubers with such specific moral compassary! They couldn't make it in life without places like Seibertron behind them all the way!

The TF community salutes you for such peachy tips!...

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
Here is the review along with some screenshots.

Thanks again for 100% supporting YouTubers with such specific moral compassary! They couldn't make it in life without places like Seibertron behind them all the way!

The TF community salutes you for such peachy tips!

...

Enjoy your Transformers knockoffs.

Emerje

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
Here is the review along with some screenshots.

Thanks again for 100% supporting YouTubers with such specific moral compassary! They couldn't make it in life without places like Seibertron behind them all the way!

The TF community salutes you for such peachy tips!...

[color=#40BF00]Thank you again for your off-topic post that repeats the same content from the past couple years at this point.

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
Here is the review along with some screenshots.

Thanks again for 100% supporting YouTubers with such specific moral compassary! They couldn't make it in life without places like Seibertron behind them all the way!

The TF community salutes you for such peachy tips!

...

Enjoy your Transformers knockoffs.

Emerje

I will indeed continue to enjoy perfectly legal products whilst being upfront and honest about what they were procured and/or where they were bought from, thanks!

Not at all. I've simply given credit where credit is due. Nothing but positivity and support in the my previous post, which I think is worth doing so whenever possible. This is a great website, with fine, morally upstanding staff. The TF community is a better place with you all and your efforts posting YouTube reviews of this nature.

Emerje wrote:Not according to your own sources you used to defend them them...

In Hasbro's eyes PvP is a perfectly acceptable and legit review channel and they're more than happy to provide him with thousands of dollars worth of review samples...

Sounds genuine..

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:Not according to your own sources you used to defend them them...

Incorrect. The thread concerning KOs contains a plethora of evidence to the contrary. Again, I'm sorry you have found such information difficult to understand. Your opinions regarding myself are thus irrelevant, null and void.

In Hasbro's eyes PvP is a perfectly acceptable and legit review channel and they're more than happy to provide him with thousands of dollars worth of review samples...

Incorrect. There is no evidence to support your erroneous claims. Again, your opinions regarding myself are irrelevant and inaccurate.
My previous comment did not not mention "bad" at all; simply my support for this site's position.

Emerje wrote:Your thread used information from the FDA on generic food and drugs and laws on replaceable parts for electronics and vehicles that can't be applied to anything but those specific things...

You have blind hatred for the guy so you dismiss everything he does as illegal...if Hasbro cared they would have had the channel shut down a long time ago, they have that power. They don't care.

Feel free to PM if you want to continue this, the forum is getting tired of your attitude. Emerje

primalxconvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
Here is the review along with some screenshots.

Thanks again for 100% supporting YouTubers with such specific moral compassary! They couldn't make it in life without places like Seibertron behind them all the way!

The TF community salutes you for such peachy tips!

...

primalxconvoy wrote:I've even engaged with your PMs on the subject and received similarly inaccurate opinions from you regarding that topic in those messages.

primalxconvoy wrote:(Waaah, PvP, waaah!)

DeathReviews wrote:Aren't the first of these Earthspark things supposed to be on store shelves for the Holiday buying rush? If so, Hasbro is running out of time. "Black Friday" is only 2-odd weeks off. Granted, based on what I've seen so far, I have no interest in getting any of them.

But if these things are 'made for kids', then Hasbro needs to get a move-on in getting them on store shelves in time for the holiday-crazed kiddies (and their parents) to SEE them...

chuckdawg1999 wrote:This is only a rumor, but it makes sense with what I've seen thus far. A LOT of retailers have run into a problem with supply, they've been getting too much too soon as the factories overseas catch up. That explains why since August and earlier some of us have gotten figures that weren't expected until early next year, like the 60th anniversary Spiderman figures and some GI Joe Classified. Transformers obviously have been affected too. Stores have been getting stock in, pushing it out to shelves, clearance or otherwise, and liquidation stores like Ollie's. The concern now is that because of the early releases, there won't be stock for the holidays. Unless stores are able to adjust their supplies, the Earthspark toys might be at the end of a very long line with the ROTB toys that may not see shelves until next year.

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:This is only a rumor, but it makes sense with what I've seen thus far. A LOT of retailers have run into a problem with supply, they've been getting too much too soon as the factories overseas catch up. That explains why since August and earlier some of us have gotten figures that weren't expected until early next year, like the 60th anniversary Spiderman figures and some GI Joe Classified. Transformers obviously have been affected too. Stores have been getting stock in, pushing it out to shelves, clearance or otherwise, and liquidation stores like Ollie's. The concern now is that because of the early releases, there won't be stock for the holidays. Unless stores are able to adjust their supplies, the Earthspark toys might be at the end of a very long line with the ROTB toys that may not see shelves until next year.

Wouldn't ROTB toys likely have a street date for next spring anyway, though? The Cyberverse packed ones are showing up now, but the movie packaged ones would never come out this early to begin with.

Emerje

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:This is only a rumor, but it makes sense with what I've seen thus far. A LOT of retailers have run into a problem with supply, they've been getting too much too soon as the factories overseas catch up. That explains why since August and earlier some of us have gotten figures that weren't expected until early next year, like the 60th anniversary Spiderman figures and some GI Joe Classified. Transformers obviously have been affected too. Stores have been getting stock in, pushing it out to shelves, clearance or otherwise, and liquidation stores like Ollie's. The concern now is that because of the early releases, there won't be stock for the holidays. Unless stores are able to adjust their supplies, the Earthspark toys might be at the end of a very long line with the ROTB toys that may not see shelves until next year.

Wouldn't ROTB toys likely have a street date for next spring anyway, though? The Cyberverse packed ones are showing up now, but the movie packaged ones would never come out this early to begin with.

Emerje

I mean the Cyberverse branded ones. There should've been more out by now besides Prime right?

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:This is only a rumor, but it makes sense with what I've seen thus far. A LOT of retailers have run into a problem with supply, they've been getting too much too soon as the factories overseas catch up. That explains why since August and earlier some of us have gotten figures that weren't expected until early next year, like the 60th anniversary Spiderman figures and some GI Joe Classified. Transformers obviously have been affected too. Stores have been getting stock in, pushing it out to shelves, clearance or otherwise, and liquidation stores like Ollie's. The concern now is that because of the early releases, there won't be stock for the holidays. Unless stores are able to adjust their supplies, the Earthspark toys might be at the end of a very long line with the ROTB toys that may not see shelves until next year.

Wouldn't ROTB toys likely have a street date for next spring anyway, though? The Cyberverse packed ones are showing up now, but the movie packaged ones would never come out this early to begin with.

Emerje

I mean the Cyberverse branded ones. There should've been more out by now besides Prime right?

Hard to say since Walmart pretty much gave up on Cybererse, Prime is the only figure on the shelves right now. I haven't been to Target in a few months so I can't really speak for their current Cyberverse selection.

Emerje

Ultra Markus wrote:i miss the days when the animated transformers shows had better toys the last time we had any was with Prime

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:This is only a rumor, but it makes sense with what I've seen thus far. A LOT of retailers have run into a problem with supply, they've been getting too much too soon as the factories overseas catch up. That explains why since August and earlier some of us have gotten figures that weren't expected until early next year, like the 60th anniversary Spiderman figures and some GI Joe Classified. Transformers obviously have been affected too. Stores have been getting stock in, pushing it out to shelves, clearance or otherwise, and liquidation stores like Ollie's. The concern now is that because of the early releases, there won't be stock for the holidays. Unless stores are able to adjust their supplies, the Earthspark toys might be at the end of a very long line with the ROTB toys that may not see shelves until next year.

Wouldn't ROTB toys likely have a street date for next spring anyway, though? The Cyberverse packed ones are showing up now, but the movie packaged ones would never come out this early to begin with.

Emerje

I mean the Cyberverse branded ones. There should've been more out by now besides Prime right?

Ultra Markus wrote:i miss the days when the animated transformers shows had better toys the last time we had any was with Prime

william-james88 wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:i miss the days when the animated transformers shows had better toys the last time we had any was with Prime

Big disagree right there. The RID 2015 line had some truly inspired designs and it is amazing how some translated to toys. RID warrior fracture outbeat any other toy in terms of complexity for the pricepoint that year.

Through RID we also got a top notch legion class.

william-james88 wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:i miss the days when the animated transformers shows had better toys the last time we had any was with Prime

Big disagree right there. The RID 2015 line had some truly inspired designs and it is amazing how some translated to toys. RID warrior fracture outbeat any other toy in terms of complexity for the pricepoint that year.

Through RID we also got a top notch legion class.

AcademyofDrX wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:i miss the days when the animated transformers shows had better toys the last time we had any was with Prime

Big disagree right there. The RID 2015 line had some truly inspired designs and it is amazing how some translated to toys. RID warrior fracture outbeat any other toy in terms of complexity for the pricepoint that year.

Through RID we also got a top notch legion class.

I collected all of RID Legion except for a couple figures that weren't distributed in the States. Amazing quality for that scale, and the designs mean there were a lot of very unique toys. Legion Springload comes to mind, a tiny frog truck, fantastic.

william-james88 wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:i miss the days when the animated transformers shows had better toys the last time we had any was with Prime

Big disagree right there. The RID 2015 line had some truly inspired designs and it is amazing how some translated to toys. RID warrior fracture outbeat any other toy in terms of complexity for the pricepoint that year.

Through RID we also got a top notch legion class.

I collected all of RID Legion except for a couple figures that weren't distributed in the States. Amazing quality for that scale, and the designs mean there were a lot of very unique toys. Legion Springload comes to mind, a tiny frog truck, fantastic.

Yeah, this is the scale where you can get a lot of fun decepticon designs we didn't get properly in other classes, within a similar scale. So Springload in his correct alt mode, but also Clampdown and Groundpounder.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:i miss the days when the animated transformers shows had better toys the last time we had any was with Prime

Big disagree right there. The RID 2015 line had some truly inspired designs and it is amazing how some translated to toys. RID warrior fracture outbeat any other toy in terms of complexity for the pricepoint that year.

Through RID we also got a top notch legion class.

I collected all of RID Legion except for a couple figures that weren't distributed in the States. Amazing quality for that scale, and the designs mean there were a lot of very unique toys. Legion Springload comes to mind, a tiny frog truck, fantastic.

Yeah, this is the scale where you can get a lot of fun decepticon designs we didn't get properly in other classes, within a similar scale. So Springload in his correct alt mode, but also Clampdown and Groundpounder.

Agreed with all of this. People are still sleeping on RiD2015 toys. that was such a good line

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:i miss the days when the animated transformers shows had better toys the last time we had any was with Prime

Big disagree right there. The RID 2015 line had some truly inspired designs and it is amazing how some translated to toys. RID warrior fracture outbeat any other toy in terms of complexity for the pricepoint that year.

Through RID we also got a top notch legion class.

I collected all of RID Legion except for a couple figures that weren't distributed in the States. Amazing quality for that scale, and the designs mean there were a lot of very unique toys. Legion Springload comes to mind, a tiny frog truck, fantastic.

Yeah, this is the scale where you can get a lot of fun decepticon designs we didn't get properly in other classes, within a similar scale. So Springload in his correct alt mode, but also Clampdown and Groundpounder.

Agreed with all of this. People are still sleeping on RiD2015 toys. that was such a good line

Emerje wrote:Sounds like a good idea for a top 5 list.

Emerje

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:Sounds like a good idea for a top 5 list.

Emerje

Like top 5 RID? I did that list a while back.

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ine/41587/

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:Sounds like a good idea for a top 5 list.

Emerje

Like top 5 RID? I did that list a while back.

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ine/41587/

No, I meant top 5 RID legions.

Emerje