With the many movie repaints warming the shelfs in stores and anoying almost every fan, with many more set to come in the universe classics 2.0 line and a few in the animated line, I wondered why fans like/dis-like repaints, how pleased/unhappy they were with the figure and the price.

Please share your thourghts and experiences on anything to do with repaints by posting and/or by answering the poll.

I'll be the first to admit i'm an unabashed repaint whore. To me it both emphasizes the fact that they're machines (and it makes sense for them to be mass produced/have certain production models) and it's a way to troop build without buying the same exact toy multiple times. I get a kick out of seeing how different a figure can look with a completely different deco too.
Personally I'd rather buy a figure I love 3 times in different schemes than get 3 different toys I only moderately like, but I can understand why some people don't like them. But yeah, needless to say the Seekers are my Achilles heel.

It all depends on the character the repaint represents. Sometimes I'll skip the original and buy the repaint. I skipped Cybertron Hardtop and got Cybertron Swindle, for example.

Generally the repaints I skip are the ones that are simply the same character as the original, only with a different paint job.

If there is a point to the repaint like 2 characters that once shared the same mold, I might get it. If its a direct repaint of a figure to represent a character who was similar to another(looking at you CliffJumper) I'll feel gyped and normaly pass. If it's just a repaint for the sake of just doing a repaint and coming up with a new bio or pretending it's someone else, I tend to skip.

Rare occasions where repaints are OK with me are things like Seekers, drone style bots like the Energon Terrorcons, or something just plain cool like Nemesis Breaker, and Universe Razorclaw. Figures like Universe Blaster though, get me angry.

I'd rather see things like new figures or at least retooled than new color schemes. Even if they waited a few years between releases, I realy wouldn't mind the rehashing so much. I know it doesn't make Hasbro(as much) money to actualy do the work and make new figures, but tough on them.

I own... maybe two straight redecoes, but for the most part, I support them. They're a chance for people to get molds that they missed out on, or that they didn't like the decoes of the first time around. Now, I don't like simultaneously released redecoes, but releasing a redeco a few years after the original is great. I wish they'd redeco and rerelease certain Energon figures now...

Repaints have been around since the begining of TF History.. its not anything new.. (84 Seekers, I'm looking at you!)

On the newer toys though, it really depends on a number of reasons why I would buy/not buy a repaint.. number one, of course, is the color scheme. A lot of nice molds in the old Universe line that totally sucked donkey balls when it came to how they colored them. And only a handful of them that actually looked good (Skywarp, Inferno-Red Alert, Razorclaw, Nemesis Prime) .. I sometimes like the goofy repaints too.. Like Cybertron Cannonball.. never got Red Alert. The toy itself is so so, but the fact that they made him a pirate and tried to give him an eyepatch is just hilarious. Plus he makes a decent posse for TFA Lockdown.

On the flip side.. I would of loved to have Movie Cliffjumper if not for the fact that his robot face looks like a red skull. (I also think the Junkerbee would of been a better cliffjumper in all honesty) It's just blehk to me.

i'm a big fan of repaints. cybertron cannonball brilliant , cybertron red alert... skip. for the most part i prefer the repaint to the original, cybertron skyshadow, to jetfire, energon dreadwing to mirage, some are pointless and ... i would say wasted effort but no effort was used, energon strongarm to energon energon strongarm or acidstorm.....

there are a few repaints i wish for like alternators skids into soundwave, ironhide or even perceptor.

the only ones i hate are some of the store exclusives like kb toys purple snowcat, or walmarts sideburn. come on hasbro... a purple snow... tank or whatever it was supposed to be and an awsome car with sucky paint applied over only half that scraps off unless you wear satin gloves to handle it.

#1 I only buy them if they look better than the original.

#2 I'm satisfied with not many of mine.

#3 Same price as the original.

If it's a figure I liked to begin with, chances are I'll grab a repaint. Look at my sig for f&%ks sake. I loved the Ti Seeker mold, and have all 4, I don't want to think about how many G1 Sideswipes, or (again) seekers that I have, or plan on buying still, not to mention the 3 MP jets, with a forth one coming soon, then there's the MP Prime(would kill for a Luck Draw Gold version) - Magnus - Prime w/trailer - and 2 different US editions. I have 7-8 G1 Primes, those don't even get a repaint..., but there's at least 5 more that I want to grab. If the repaint just completely sucks @$$ then I may skip it, but it doesn't happen all that frequently though.

There's no reason to think the price should be any less for them, it still requires the same amount of plastic, usually needs new printed material, and it still has to be shipped half way around the world before I can buy it.

I usually just buy for the mold, and will get it in it's easiest to find paint scheme. There are a few exceptions to this. For example, I bought Allspark Power Salvage both for the Dropkick mold and because it was now an Autobot. Same with Camshaft. Universe Sideswipe will be bought because I can consider his robot mode different enough from Sunstreaker, even though it's essentially the same mold with the torso turned around. As for price, they should be the same as the original release.

I buy it if I like the scheme itself. I only ever buy Transformers I like the look of though, I see no point in buying them all. Got the repainted Payload (Wreckage or something)? It's nice, like it. Never got the original, yet it looked nice. Ah well, I'm happy

I usually only buy a repaint if it makes sense like for instance Sunstreaker is being repainted into Sideswipe sure he has a new head but it's the same mold, Prowl is being straight repainted into Bluestreak, I bought the Cyb Smokescreen paint job but didn't get the first release because I liked the Smokescreen version better.

Since I'm choosy about the ones I buy yeah I'm pretty satisfied with them. I mean the white Optimus, and black, and purple Screamer repaints Magnus, and Skywarp at Target in the Classics line were great.

I personally think they should be put together in two figure sets like UM, and Skywarp where they cost about 3/4 of the total price together. I mean weren't UM&SW $25? Separate the two originals were $30.

It really depends on the mold. I don't really have too many repaints and most of the ones I do have are minicons I think. Generally I don't buy a repaint unless I absolutely love the mold or at the least like it more then average. Of course there are those times where I skip on the original but get the repaint because it looks better. It's like Cybertron Undermine and Repugnus. Didn't like the fact that Undermine was just a green dinosaur so passed on him. Liked repugnus a lot for the color scheme. Then again I didn't end up buying either so why did I even bother bringing that up.

Generally though I don't really like buying multiples of figures unless they are small and cheap like the legends class. I usually pick what ever color scheme I like the most and go with that. The only exception to that rule of course is Classics Prime. Man am I obsessed with that fig. You just want to catch em all. Not that that's ever going to happen (stupid clear convoy at stupid high prices*grumble*)

If the original is good I'm pretty likely to get the repaint... but mostly if its G1 Homage

Though my 3 Versions of RID X-Brawn are still some of my favorite.

Used to but not so much now.

The best repaints if any IMO are the ones that have at least been retooled to some extent.

Otherwise I'm increasingly finding it difficult to bother with the same toy twice.

The last time I bought anything repainted was in Cyberton

Nothing since.

I just did a youtube on repaints...editing...and posting soon

I usually buy repaints, either figs I already have and like the mold, or figs I missed, like Armada Red Alert, now Movie Allspark Inferno. Great mold, like it a lot.

I've been pretty happy with virtually all repaints I've bought. I agree with an early reply about how they are machines after all, and are bound to have some sort of mass-production aspect to them. I also like to imagine (I try not to use the word "pretend", I'm 37 after all) that certain Decepticons like to take on a certain Autobot's alt mode, just to get on their nerves or for the psych value. Other way around, too, like Movie Blackout and Evac. FWIW.

There’s a lot to enjoy from repaints. Especially if I already own the originals, I’ll probably buy the repaint.

I’m usually satisfied with them, as I put a lot of thought into what I buy, but I’m usually satisfied with anything I buy. And they should cost just as much as the original, because I know that HASBRO wouldn’t make anything if otherwise.

Amen!!!

There wasn't an option between "I buy most of them" and "I hardly ever buy any".

I buy repaints mainly if I like the character. It helps if I particularly like the mould and its colour. For example, I have the movie Cliffjumper (although I agree that he should have been the '67 mpuld) but glossed over Camshaft and the Cybertron repaints.

Since I'm discerning before I buy a repaint, I tend to be quite happy with them. As Nash said, the same amount of plastic and paint are used in the repaints as in the original, so should remain the same price.

^ This sums up my feelings exactly. I will be getting Universe "Blaster" and using him as a Decepticon spy whose real name begins with "Sound", has "Really fukcing awesome" in the middle and ends with "Wave."

I like repaints. It means more variety in the figures I have to choose from and often gives me the chance to pick up a mold I missed out on the first time around. I'll also sometimes get a re-paint if I like the original version of a particular mold but don't think it's a good fit for the character it's supposed to represent. The repaint isn't claiming to be that character in the first place so it lets me enjoy the mold for what it is.

What I don't like is when characters are made into repaints for stupid reasons. If character A was repainted into character B in G1 that doesn't mean that every subsequent incarnation of character A, no matter how radically altered from the original design, should still be repainted into character B despite the fact that the mold's look and/or altmode no longer makes any sense for character B to have.

The same goes double when they decide that a toy that was merely similar to another (sharing the same altmode and/or transformation scheme) should forevermore be a repaint of that other character regardless of how badly the new molds might fit said character.

What I don't understand when it comes to hasbro's approach to repaints is dishing out wave after wave of filler Energon Scouts. I know back in the day, BM Jetstorm and Obsidian were old time favorites.. but atleast they were good toys! BM Jetstorm saw some fantastic repaints in his career.. but seriously, out of all the things to make a repaint of.. why do they keep insisting on using the same guys over and over again? I am happy they got out of their Armada Thrust and Sideswipe binge though. Some things, once is definetly enough.. not so much in Thrust's case.. but Sideswipe? All bets are off.

some of them, the gestalt limbs were hard to find so i guess they're going back and trying to correct that. i know that i saw 6 limbs, 2 for superion and 4 for bruticus one day at walmart and bought all six thinking there'd be plenty but just being excited to finish them off but i never saw them after that. i'm glad i got them when i did.

if there good i will or some mods to make them into someone else ie sunstreaker and sideswipe. in the classic line

Before I became more of a hardcore "collector", I used to hate the idea of repainted toys in general. Why, because they either sucked and you wondered why the company bothered, or they were better than the original that you already had, and you got ticked!
Through the years my feelings towards repaints has constanly shifted. I mean, technically, toy companies have been recoloring and/or reusing parts almost since the beginning. All early TFs were basically repaints! Sometimes it's just neat to see the possibilities of what you can do with one figure's mold. Early on, with Transformers specifically, I avoided repaints because I'd rather have one of each mold as opposed to spending my meager allowance on the same toy just a different color, even if it was really cool looking. I eventually began picking up repaints now and then if they were really nice...by the time TF Cybertron came around I was almost a total completist to the point where I was buying repaints out of "obligation". I finally saw the light towards the end of the movie line. I just got fed up with repaints and was disgusted at myself for forcing myself to buy EVERY single freaking one! I'm really trying to cut back on toys in general, so nowadays I'm trying my darnedest only to buy really nice repaints that I enjoy. I still slavishly buy one of each mold, even if I don't think the design is that hot....hmmm...to buy Universe Galvatron, or not to buy Universe Galvatron......