So, wow. Heck of a lot of stuff to sift through, but I did have a comment to counter shockblast2's ascertion, though my example isn't a store exclusive, as far as I know... Here are a couple of the relevant posts, in case no one wants to go back about 6 hours and 40+ posts ago...
Sabrblade wrote:shockblast2 wrote:They do not do that historically. Did we see Senator Rat Bat? Prime Ironhide? AOE Stinger? DOTM Soundwave? RTS Rumble & Frenzy? Scores of others. Again, doesn't make sense.
However, all of those molds were made by Hasbro, even if some of them weren't released by Hasbro or weren't released in those particular decos.
We got Ratbat's mold when it was first released as Scourge, and we'll be getting the Ratbat head a TFSS Serpent O.R.
We got Prime Ironhide's mold when it was first released as Prime Sergeant Kup.
DOTM Soundwave did get released in Hasbro's Asian markets.
The Rumble/Frenzy mold was going to be released at the end of the Reveal the Shield line a "Demolition Rumble", but it got canceled even though the mold was completed. But, we did get it as TFSS Revwind and Eject (with remolded heads).
Takara might have released them, but only because Hasbro had already made them.
Thus far, Takara hasn't made any new molds or remolds for their counterpart lines of Hasbro's Generations line (meaning United, Japanese Generations, or Legends), so it's likely that Takara's Unite Warriors release of Sling will just be a straight redeco of Hasbro's Generations Firefly. But if it does have a new head, then chances are Hasbro's will as well since Hasbro (not Takara) seems to be the brains behind the Generations molds and remolds.
And who knows? Hasbro's Slingshot might just be the Firefly mold too.
So, the argument from shockblasts is that Hasbro has not released Takara specific releases as store exclusives. That may be true, as I had a similar moment as Sabrblade:
Sabrblade wrote:I frankly don't even know what's being debated here anymore.
The way I see it, it's cool that Takara's releasing Sling in the Unite Warriors lines, even if it's just a reuse of the Firefly mold. And if Hasbro releases their own Generations Slingshot, that's cool too. Gives us seven Aerialbots. All that remains to be seen is if Hasbro's will likewise reuse the Firefly mold or be a new mold.
As for whether Hasbro's ever released something as an exclusive that was a general release from Takara, I cannot recall any examples off the top of my head, BUT I have this nagging feeling in the back of my head that something like this might have happened before, but again, I can't think of anything right now.
As for the whole "G1" (not "Geewun") thing, "Primax" is such an easier thing to work with.
Does a regular release work as refuting the claim that Hasbro doesn't release Takara releases?
Now, I don't mean to suggest that Hasbro is definitely giving us these molds. But I think these pictures show that there is, indeed, precedence for Hasbro doing so in the past. Both Thrust and Dirge were Botcon Exclusives first (with a remolded Thrust and just a straight up repaint of Ramjet for Dirge), then Henkei releases (with a new remold for Thrust and a new remold for Dirge). I bought the Henkei because at the time the argument was that Hasbro would never release these two figures after okaying them for Botcon. Then, son-of-a-gun, the Henkei saw widespread release by Hasbro.
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