Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:42 am
Otherwise snide commentary aside, here's my thoughts on this matter...
We as collectors have been offered a tantalizing, refreshing, swimming pool of goodness to dive head-first into. Details, added features, the promises of shininess...
Unfortunately the pool is shallow, someone is going to break their arm (or wallet), and in the end, a great deal is going to be spent on, let's face it, minor repaints.
What I do not get for the life of me, is how some of us collectors out there will argue against repaints for so long, that they literally **** themselves and stink up the place with something other than their opinion because they can't leave the keyboard long enough to stop complaining about the latest 'Wave 6, Revision #2484723' Case, which is incidentally, all repaints.
But, here! Make them shiny and it's a whole bloody other story.
I love repaints. Let's be clear.
Look at my collection (go ahead, it's a fun thing to do), I am probably one of the worst offenders out there because I love variations; hence I buy every odd repaint I can. Be warned though fellow Trans-fans...you're about to start the game that Star Wars fans enter every single year. You think buying an 8th Han Solo (this time with goop on his boots, otherwise known as the "This is no asteroid sweetheart!" Han variant is tough at $4.99? Try doing it over and over at $20 or $40.
In one regard though, Hasbro is giving folks the detail and paint jobs they would want as collectors. Perhaps though, a heads-up was in order for this one?
And why not? Does anyone think the TF movie line would have suffered without some collectors waiting for the premium line to come out? I don't think so.
Just a thought before the rampant feeding frenzy of purchasing commences...add up what you've spent on the movie line so far. Will it be worth the trouble to hunt these down again? Is it worth the cost to repurchase them?
Lastly, I am not against repaints or even any of these particular repaints. What I take issue with is the idea that we could start seeing truly minor variations sold off as "Premium" lines in the future and without a real heads-up from Hasbro, many of us aren't going to wait around to buy the later line, or are going to indefinitely hold out for "premium" toys which may or may not come. Hasbro just need not bite the hand that feeds it here.
We as collectors have been offered a tantalizing, refreshing, swimming pool of goodness to dive head-first into. Details, added features, the promises of shininess...
Unfortunately the pool is shallow, someone is going to break their arm (or wallet), and in the end, a great deal is going to be spent on, let's face it, minor repaints.
What I do not get for the life of me, is how some of us collectors out there will argue against repaints for so long, that they literally **** themselves and stink up the place with something other than their opinion because they can't leave the keyboard long enough to stop complaining about the latest 'Wave 6, Revision #2484723' Case, which is incidentally, all repaints.
But, here! Make them shiny and it's a whole bloody other story.
I love repaints. Let's be clear.
Look at my collection (go ahead, it's a fun thing to do), I am probably one of the worst offenders out there because I love variations; hence I buy every odd repaint I can. Be warned though fellow Trans-fans...you're about to start the game that Star Wars fans enter every single year. You think buying an 8th Han Solo (this time with goop on his boots, otherwise known as the "This is no asteroid sweetheart!" Han variant is tough at $4.99? Try doing it over and over at $20 or $40.
In one regard though, Hasbro is giving folks the detail and paint jobs they would want as collectors. Perhaps though, a heads-up was in order for this one?
And why not? Does anyone think the TF movie line would have suffered without some collectors waiting for the premium line to come out? I don't think so.
Just a thought before the rampant feeding frenzy of purchasing commences...add up what you've spent on the movie line so far. Will it be worth the trouble to hunt these down again? Is it worth the cost to repurchase them?
Lastly, I am not against repaints or even any of these particular repaints. What I take issue with is the idea that we could start seeing truly minor variations sold off as "Premium" lines in the future and without a real heads-up from Hasbro, many of us aren't going to wait around to buy the later line, or are going to indefinitely hold out for "premium" toys which may or may not come. Hasbro just need not bite the hand that feeds it here.