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  2. Big s
    I have a feeling that the Ghorman massacre part two won’t be till the last batch of episodes
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Nah, you got about nine hours left. DARK.
  4. M'Kyuun
    I think there's a caveat to observe, however, regarding the higher prices and declining quality of toys: demand. I don't know about any of you guys, but I can't remember the last time I saw a kid in the action figure isle looking at, well, anything. Today's kids are largely fixated on electronics and social media and not so much on little plastic figures. I think the market is absolutely dependent primarily on people in their forties and up, with a contingent of younger folks buying toys, but not to the level we were invested in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Toys were our method of escapism, acting out imaginary scenarios, telling stories, or just having physical manifestations of those things we saw and liked on the big and little screens at the time. Video games were rudimentary when we were kids- there was no realism, no Horizon: Zero Dawns with gorgeous realistic landscapes and fluid movement to realistic looking humans and creatures. Cartoons filled that role to a lesser extent, and to that end, kids for the past three or four decades have no idea about the splendor of spending a Saturday morning glued to the tube for four hours straight watching back to back cartoons, making the hard choices when two shows you like are on simultaneously and there's no DVR to simply record one. Of course, we had VCRs, but if you forgot to set it or the tape was bad quality, or someone inadvertently taped over your show, such was life. I'm digressing. The point I want to make is that while we older fans and collectors bemoan the declining quality of our precious playthings, from Hasbro's POV (I'm not sure how the toy situation is in Japan, but it seems to be booming in China), I think the decline in interest, and thus sales, from what is ostensibly their target market, i.e. kids around 8-14, has fallen off significantly thus their reluctance to pour more resources into their production and seek other avenues, like video games or movies, to keep them relevant and profitable. I think they're fully aware that it's the older adult fanbase keeping the line going, but we are getting older and eventually 20, 30, 40 years down the line most of us will be one with the Matrix, so, while I wish far more resources were being thrown at Transformers, they have a responsibility to themselves and their shareholders to invest in things that will be profitable in the future, and sadly, I don't think that will be plastic figures, even super-cool ones that can turn into other things with a few twists, turns, and flips. With that bit of reality in mind, I try to be thankful for what we do have, and for the commitment we see from the designers who share their passions for these things. I'm glad Hasbro made the smart move to put them on these streaming events, as it creates a personal connection to the toys and it lets us see that there's true creativity and desire to make good toys in spite of constraints. It's easier to forgive some of the flaws knowing that their hands are often tied by budgets and other factors. Finally, I say it often, but it bears repeating: we're most fortunate that Transformers not only still exists as a living property, but one that's to all intents thriving when so many other 80s toylines are as extinct as the dinosaurs. I'm grateful.
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  6. Mog
    Seriously, I need some Ghorman’s getting massacred. Gotta fire up a rebellion.
  7. Duke Togo
    It can and has. This is the way. Also, is it 9PM yet? I need more Andor.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Oh come on, Star Wars was already double dipping with May the 4th and Revenge of the 5th. It can't annex the whole bloody month.
  9. TangledThorns
  10. Thom
    A real cool collection of Macross builds!
  11. Big s
    All I know is that that mando bro better be bringing the tacos
  12. Bolt
    A thing of beauty!
  13. Big s
    Did they just mess up and make that alternate head and then just get lazy and not change it in the fighter and gerwalk? Just wondering since it’s labeled as 1D
  14. Big s
    Always great seeing some love for those Zentraedi designs
  15. oshanmacross started following Macross Books
  16. Papa Rat
    Seen on HJWEB Hand brushed lacquers over dark base coat.
  17. Paulmilo97
    Paulmilo97 joined the community
  18. Duke Togo
  19. Radioguy
    So, apparently the restock of the Fugu will remove the Macross-specific tampos, and include Jetfire-specific stickers now. Hopefully those stickers will be available separately from buying another copy of the whole figure.
  20. ArchieNov
    Time to buy a new one I guess...
  21. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Ecco was hard game to beat. Not like Chakan the Forever Man hard, but a challenge nonetheless. The plot was quite good, it has quite an unexpected turn IIRC.
  22. shazam
    Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 1:6 Droideka Blogger Photos
  23. sh9000
  24. sh9000
    Update on the packaging.
  25. sh9000
  26. sh9000
    The World of Andor.
  27. sh9000
    https://variety.com/2025/film/global/john-wick-spinoff-caine-rina-sawayama-akira-1236386658/
  28. mikeszekely
    I've played the original, and I can't say I cared for it much. But one of my close friends is a hardcore Sega fan; he'll probably be stoked to hear about this.
  29. Big s
    I remember it got good reviews way back when it came out, but I never cared to play it back then.
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