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The Quintessons could be the new "mercenary" faction that is included in the earthrise descriptions. They could be filled out with the sharkticon that was included as an option in the fan poll if I remember correctly along with all the other ideas people have had for mercenaries. Unexpected and welcome.

I thought this Impactor was getting the decepticon logo? The image shows a purple autobot symbol, which is kinda cool but different from what I expected.

It's raining seekers! I am glad I like the starscream mold otherwise I would not even consider this. I wish they had at least one more alternate color as they look a little...bland. the brightness and look is decent. Hope this is true and that the price is not excessive nor that it is hard to get. Fingers crossed!

Kind of smart considering the losses they took last year with Toys R Us leaving. It would be a risky venture I think. This guarantees payment for the product. And, if you are an MP collector who is buying the new MP Optimus which retails for almost this amount, heck, why not buy a Unicron too? Unfortunately, I won't be able to get this, but I honestly still like my Armada Unicron. He has posable fingers and a moveable mouth too

Same! I have really enjoyed the siege art quite a bit. This set will be great and the blast effects are icing on the cybertronian seeker cake

A couple of observations. 1. it looks like the battle armor and extra weapons might be going away, at least for leader figures. 2. Maybe Apeface's headmaster will match the titans return line? Sorta looks that way from the picture. Backwards compatibility I hope! Was going to get Astrotrain when he was rumored but I am unsure now. If Blitzwing gets a leader release, I might go for it. Will depend on how they look next to the siege voyagers. I think Astrotrain and Blitzwing should be chunky and a little taller than Megatron but not too big. Cool to be getting some new faces though! Glad these are delayed till the next round of WFC (if that's true). Will give me a chance to catch up on the summer/fall releases.

I'm happy with the Generations offerings. I started down the MP road but was deterred by price. I know my brother will keep on the MP road though, but maybe more selective. It's a great time to collect transformers as there really is a line of great toys for everyone's unique tastes.

So I study production and industry and I don't think rising productions cost can explain all of it but it is on of the options that makes sense. Presence of competing options should not drive the price up but down. The only other one I think is possible is the presence of other high-price licensed figures that you mention. Those non-transforming ones that are pricey and the statues maybe. Honestly, I am not sure. Inflation? Or a combination of these. Also, 55 votes of other and only 2 comments...lol!

Some of these are actually pretty cool. Speaking of coneheads, when are we getting siege versions!

Not a terrible alt mode. From the front it looks ok. Most transformers show their robot mode parts in their alternate transformation. That said, the price of most masterpiece for the quality is not matched any more. hasbro/takara's siege line has shown that we can get good transformers for reasonable prices with masterpiece-alike tooling. I do hope beast wars gets some love though, its a great series.

Hope they make enough refractor figures. Every collector is going to need three of them including me! Maybe a whole case wave of them? but probably not. Also would love to see re-decos of starscream as acidstorm and sunstorm.