Rated X wrote:Theres nothing thundercracker about this mold, starting with the fake chest cockpit. Even with all the retooling you still got a blue jetfire with a seeker head.
It's blue, has Thundercracker's color layout, resembles him physically, and it turns into a jet, fake parts or no fake parts. That's pretty Thundercracker if you ask me.
And the pointless leader scale that scales with nothing makes it an even bigger joke.
Not that Transformers has ever given a flying flip about scale, but jets are usually way bigger than cars, and a leader Thundercracker is about as close in scale to a deluxe car as we're going to get.
MP Hasbrocracker already exists.
This is a Generations toy aimed at 8-12 year-olds, while MPs are most decidedly NOT any of that. For kids, it's a big simple blue jet transformer, qualities with a lot of appeal. And since they're guaranteed to sell SOME, it's an easy way to get more money off the Jetfire mold. That's why it exists.
This thing didn't need to be created.
Does any toy really "need" to be created? Does fancy jewelry? Do computers? We have certainly created a need for all of these things in our culture, but fundamentally they're all fairly useless. Now, if we accept that we don't need but want Transformers toys, there's definitely some that deserve toys more than others. I'd like a leader Sky Lynx before a leader Thundercracker, personally. But between the ability to sell a popular comic character to collectors, a big blue robot jet to children, and the ease of retooling an existing mold into this shape, I can see why we got this instead of something else. You don't like it personally? That's fine. But don't turn personal disinterest into "it has no right to exist," which is the general implication of your post.
