Hasbro Pulse Con 2024 Transformers News & Discussion Topic

[Decepticats]

Grahf, you made excellent points, and I got a chuckle at how you ended.

Hasbro has been sending me, "hey, where have you been?" Spam-mail lately, and to tell you the truth, I have bought very little tf's from Pulse or anywhere else in 2024, which had already seen a steady decline year after year for several years now. It's not financial constraints, though I think my wife is happier to see a spending reduction. The real reason for me is exemplified by these latest Hascon "reveals." I'm not interested in any of these and until Hasbro gets it's act together, I won't be buying anything more from them, and I used to spend at least a thousand a year or more per year for the past decade or so. You can't tell Mr that Hasbro can't use "Selects" to give us some obscure characters like Dogfight, Horri-bull, or Backstreet, just to name a few, at least one a quarter. Going back to my wife, she said to me recently, "wow, you hardly bought any Transformers this year!" Her saying that really got me thinking and I got frustrated me about Hasbro's lack of direction. They may find that when you alienate your customers for too long, they might not ever come back. I've lost hope that we'll see an updated Outback, Windcharger, Tailgate,  or Powerglide,  again, just to name a few, and that's poor product planning and execution. I can deal with a lot of things, like poor qc, but just ignoring fans and then insuling them with tf "reveals" like what we just got, yeah, I'll keep laughing and deleting your emails begging me yo come back...for now. You better right the ship, Hasbro, cause I'm guessing if I feel this way, so do many others, too.

[BaCon]

The last wave of the Legacy United is rolling out the retail with some new in-hand images of the Armada Wheeljack deluxe class figure. The bot with a big gash on the hood is shown in robot and alternate modes. - Read the Full News Story

[BaCon]

After a bit of teasing, DNA Design shows the full reveal of their DNA Design DK-60 KINGDINO upgrade kit for the Hasbro Pulse Con exclusive Dinoking. The new set adds height and weapons to these Japan exclusive remakes. Read on the see the product details and images. You can preorder this set now from our sponsors at bigbadtoystore. - Read the Full News Story

[Grahf]

Oh wow, it's Cosmos. It looks like Cosmos.

And yeah Decepticats, the lack of Generations Selects releases is puzzling. It should but all about lesser known characters and straight reissues so you can make smaller runs that don't need to be shopped to the big box stores. Instead, we get nothing. 

I just wish we'd all stop pretending as if certain characters NEED completely different molds from others. Like Prowl, Jazz, Hound and Skids for instance all transform exactly the same and have the same overall parts layouts. So why do they all NEED to have different molds? Just make a base skeleton that can easily be reshelled and can have certain joints work as needed for the slightly different parts layouts for robot mode. And in this case, make the door wings optional. You can have them out like the G1 toys (or Alternator toy for Hound) or just hide them away as you see fit. Or have the rear of the vehicle turn into the legs differently between Prowl (windshield forward), Jazz/Skids (windshield backward) and Hound (rear of vehicle as the bottom of the feet instead of the underside of the vehicle being the bottom of the feet).

Warpath, Cosmos and Seaspray can all be the same base mold. 

Jazz, Prowl, Hound, Skids, Cybertron Crosswise, Cybertron Downshift and many, many Bumblebees.

Sideswipe, Mirage and ALL the Spychangers.

Tracks, Wheeljack, Sunstreaker, Downshift, Camshaft, the Throttlebots, the Battlechargers and Backstreet.

Punch/Counterpunch, Pointblank, Armada Blurr, IDW Drift, Boss, Euro G1 Jetstorm, Windbreaker, Wildwheel, Hashtag, Strongarm, IDW Bumblebee, Sizzle, NIghtbeat, Bisk, Cybertron Hot Shot, Calcar and so so many more based on the front of the car becoming shoulders/shoulder pads and the placement of the windshield on the back/chest.

Trailbreaker and Turbomaster.

You can even mix things to get others like the front of the Prowl mold with the rear of the Sideswipe mold to get Overdrive for instance. 

And that's all without naming all the redecos and new head retools. 

It's just that throughout the years there's only been so many different ways to turn a rectangular shaped vehicle into a robot shaped form. There's tons of overlap. If you design the figures to be able to pull off the slight differences in transformation from the start then you can easily get a metric shit ton of characters from one base mold. Saving that much money can then open the budget to making sure that every time something in the transformation needed to be changed, it can be done (like door wings vs doors on shoulders for the Prowl vs Cybertron Downshift or doors hidden or doors on shoulder kibble like Punch/Counterpunch vs IDW Bumblebee/Goldfire). This would also free up budget for more characters than NEED to have their own mold.

And while I'm here since it's oddly the same thread, it looks like DNA didn't change anything for the Dinoking set.

The Grimlock/Goryu chest flaps will pop off the ball pegs. The combiner arms will be different lengths. The combiner arms will have elbows at different spots on the arms. The right elbow won't be tight enough to hold weight for very long and the ball joint just won't tighten no matter what I tried. The feet won't stay pegged in. And most likely the fingers will pop off just like the chest flaps but I'm not sure of this since the hand chunks themselves are new in not the fingers too. Oh and you'll STILL need to keep the stock combiner kibble parts with the figures (except for the right arm). 

It's great that they put the combiner feet pegs for dino mode storage on their new feet but they didn't included the robot mode pegs under the feet. So you can't use the feet as giant missile pod shields anymore. I mean they show them being used like BOOMboxes but it looks stupid and it barely works. But leaving out those new ankle connections is bad.

And still bad are the individual weapons. They didn't even bother trying to change their colors to match the Dinoforce. It's bad enough the weapons are doubled, but it's even worse that the weapons are colored for the Dinobots. AND they didn't even include Swoops's missiles this time around.

The new pelvis looks great though. As does the new combiner weapon. I also like that it can become two guns that can be back mounted. But those new heads are amazing. I just wish they all came with new dino heads now.

[LedBlimp]

Still don't understand why there's a G2 Breakdown when many of us could not get a G1 version to complete our Menasor.  Hasbro sucks man!