I'm actually kinda stoked for ol' stealth bomber Soundwave here. "Only" 20 bucks and looks to have a really neat transformation with his legs exploding into wings.
I think they let Earthspark have so many unique, original designs and ideas so they could let it fail and say "It's not worth deviating from evergreen designs because people don't care about them". The future's going to be Cyberverse levels of lazy when it comes to toys and designs (and even Cyberverse had some good designs, but they were all shoveled into one-step changers and those half-transforming ones), if Reactivate's cancelled toyline is any indication.
The other half of the show was just "this'll totally get those icky transformer-dudebros angry, teehee!"
Not just last jedi, there's solo and even some force awakens stuff that keeps showing up going up and down in price at various discount chains!
These would be interesting if they weren't still that weird "non MP collector line price but engineering and plastic quality of the cheap gimmick toys and no scaling" thing all of these earthspark figures have.
Those hearts of steel figures engineering wise look like direct KOs of the third party ones from like a decade back watered down like actual knockoffs would be years ago lmao. Also holy fucking shit optimus is just the front of the train that looks fucking disgusting.
Why do they keep using digital renders that always make the figures look worse?
With Deathcobra as the unlockable! They're a little too chunky for my liking but I'm sure I can get over than since they'll just be in the display cabinet.
Another Sky-Byte? Sheeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiit, let's go.
