It kinda sucks how after the overpriced skystriker announcement all the "retro" joes went from updated versions of the 25th style modern joes that have been made consistently after constantly for the last decade or so to the same kind of recasted retro figures that a bunch of fans make but break fucking easily because they're held together by fucking rubber bands. The holloweness of the transformers is probably an excuse to try and fit in with the "retro" aesthetic they're now doing with these which sucks because with juas a tiny bit more engineering they'd be able to cover up the hollow bits and it'd be fucking incredible. The thing alot of people don't seem to realize about large figures being hollow figures is it's usually partly a stability thing because if you don't make bits more hollow on larger articulated figures they're gonna fucking fall over if you try doing anything with them. They're charging fucking 40 dollars for their new "retro" gi joe 2 packs which adds insult to injury. I got 2 of those retro cobra troopers, the modern one's based on the 30th/50th part of the 25th line on sale for 12 dollars each a while back. Most of the figures in the retro joe line are straight up redecos of older releases fromt he 25th modernized fiures, but the trooper is actually a completely new mold with more articualtion than the rest of the line. NOT TO CONFUSE THIS WITHT HE 2 PACK NEW RETRO O RING ONESS THEY'RE SOON GONNA BE REPLACING THEM WITH THAT COST 40 FUCKING DOLLARS. My point is it fucking pisses me off how they're going backwards for nostalgiabux alone instead of just having both available. It gets weirder because the deisgns they seem to be basing these bot modes off of are not the g1 retro designs but rather modern takes from the idw comics. This shit's coming out rambly as hell because I'm still barely awake at 6 PM of all times but yeah it's fucking with me how they've been shooting themselves in the foot with gi joe stuff the past several years. It's clearly got a market, a big chunk of classified is practically a "scalper exclusive" line because of the shitty distribution and them over-stocking the snake eyes movie figures nobody wants. Even before classified and with the 25th/30th/pursuit of cobra/50th/retro line a big chunk of the later releases before they cancelled it for classified to exist before rebooting it as a walmart and online exclusive were all online subscription service exclusives that you had to then pay EXTRA money on top of the subscription to buy. It's fucking dumb and it sucks they didn't make the gi joe scaled transformers compatible with the 25th style figures that are somehow confusingly cheaper than the clearly cheaper to produce o-ring figures.
Nothing on their weibo page about any changes. Just a better looking metalic toy version and Mangmotiona up coming video on it doesn't show any changes to the legs either.
Sad thing is is that I spent $150cad less for Moon Studios version (that is all six bots) and not only does it fit in with the rest of my MP's but in combine mode it just near perfect. Only issue I have with it is that the combiner joints are a little too stiff (common issue with 3rd party figures but easy to fix), and some have stiff joints in their individual modes.
bro I don't fucking know I just wanted to make a Simpsons joke
I mostly collect any character that was from G1. Whether it's for current Generations/ Legacy line or MP scale. Kids like the newer designs more and not really into MP scale. Not because of the transformations either but because they don't like the old cartoon all that much (they don't like how bad the animation was, understandable). They also don't the new Metroplex due to how he looks. They prefer the original titan class. They're also no into the Beast Wars stuff. Neither am I really but there's a few MP scale ones I liked and some Gen/ Legacy stuff too.
no, I mean like, G2 hit and I noped the fuck out, but made sure to go "oh lol it's crow and tom servo" on the way out the door
