Exo-Suit Spike & Daniel - BBTS PreOrder
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 10:51PM CDT
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BigBadToyStore.com is now taking pre-orders for Spike & Daniel in Exo-Suits created by ImpossibleToys. The set is listed at $69.99 and is scheduled to arrive in the first quarter of 2009.
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Posted by Bumblebeast on October 22nd, 2008 @ 11:54pm CDT
Posted by D-340 on October 23rd, 2008 @ 12:01am CDT
Posted by Solrac333 on October 23rd, 2008 @ 12:08am CDT
Posted by astrobard on October 23rd, 2008 @ 1:13am CDT
DavidT wrote:.
Not quite sure whats going on with the Alt. mode but I wished they would transform into the vehicle mode like in the animated movie.
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these are from tf headmaster.
Posted by Buttz on October 23rd, 2008 @ 2:37am CDT
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Posted by DevastaTTor on October 23rd, 2008 @ 6:00am CDT
Hell, I can buy MP Megatron on sale right now at this price.
Posted by Bonger on October 23rd, 2008 @ 6:13am CDT
Furthermore, I do ok for myself and can certainly afford the price. However, I hate feeling ripped off. I think 70 bucks for this set will leave me feeling like I just got bent over by some guys in New Zealand.
I am very conflicted. I really want these, but I don't think they are worth more than MAX, MAAAAX, 50 bucks. These aren't exactly huge or overly complicated. The aforementioned 15 each price sounds much more apprpriate to me.
Damn it, I'm probably gonna end up ordering these eventualy, but I'm always going to be sore about this rip off. Too bad I probably won't be able to resist.
Posted by DevastaTTor on October 23rd, 2008 @ 6:22am CDT
Do any of these Impossible Toys figurines do that???
They look like the Homies you'd get for 25 cents out of a gumball machine or Smurfs from the 80s.
I know I'm being harsh here but in today's economy, I would expect companies to do a little more research on what people actually WANT to buy, produce that product, and then price it APPROPRIATELY!
Posted by Covenant on October 23rd, 2008 @ 8:01am CDT
0ptimus__Prime wrote:Impossible toys wants impossible prices.
THIS. The price for such a set is re-gawddamn-diculous. Especially since the bodies look out of proportion and the 'alt mode' is laughable. I mean...
DevastaTTor wrote:I give Impossible Toys credit for trying to fill some sort of gap for those super collectors out there but these and the Animated characters are just plain worthless. If they were 15 dollars a piece, I could almost see some people-not me-stepping up to the plate and buying these. But SEVENTY dollars-that's crazy talk. No way these are worth the price of the City Commander set.
Hell, I can buy MP Megatron on sale right now at this price.
...every bit of that is true.
Honestly? I don't care for Daniel. I liked him a better when I was a kid and my family was calling me by my middle name, the same - "Daniel", and a grown Spike I'd totally dig having as a figure among the collection, especially in a transforming exo-suit, but all that there is a very low level like. Seriously, if you have enough money to blow the asking price on that crap set, I'm happy that a fellow fan is doing so well in this economy but quite frankly you've got waaaaay too much cash to throw away on sub-par customs.
If the proportions were better, they had decent alt modes, the price was around fifteen or twenty, there wasn't any other TF figures I wanted at the time, all the bills were paid, my gas tank was full, and I'd taken the family out for a dinner, I might consider the purchase. But this? Pft.
I just don't buy at all those figures cost so much to produce. And I understand they wish to make money, especially right now, but the recession is here and settling in so if they actually wish to make money they need to work on their products, get their process down on cost, lower prices - again, especially right now, and hope to make cash, because here lately its been a cointoss for "WIN!" and "FAIL!" on their products, and the "WIN!"s I still can't even afford.
Posted by ThunderThruster on October 23rd, 2008 @ 8:05am CDT
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Posted by Optimist_Prime on October 23rd, 2008 @ 10:05am CDT
Posted by Randomus_Prime on October 23rd, 2008 @ 11:46am CDT
D-340 wrote:Wow, those suck.
Couldn't say it much better than that.
Posted by fairplaythings on October 23rd, 2008 @ 2:08pm CDT
Anyway, the company should be super proud of itself for those additions to the transformer family. The five Quints and the upcoming Nightbird are worth the price and really fill in the gap for G1 collectors. But they are really trying to work with items that are already imagined.
But, I think DevastaTTor hit the nail on the head here when he said "would expect companies to do a little more research on what people actually WANT to buy, produce that product, and then price it APPROPRIATELY!" I doubt there was much of an appetite for these two figures here, Bonger aside. And not at this price point.
If Bonger, who really wants the set, is hesistant, then this was a bad choice to market. Because if you put out something that no one wants, then chances are people won't order from you again because they don't want to take the risk.
I'm not sure what else ImpossibleToys can add given that they stick to strict reproductions (as opposed to reimagines or add-ons like FanProjects). Perhaps the Beast Machines Drone that unicron.com was toying with years ago. Or the non-sentient cassette scout of Soundwave that blows up in G1. Or scaled versions of Melissa Fairbourn and Kylie. But again you have to mind the price point.
Posted by Riotflea on October 23rd, 2008 @ 2:36pm CDT
Anyway, I totally agree that these look Homies from a gumball machine... ... ...no, I'd say the quality on these might actually be worse.
I'm sorry, whether you're Hasbro or some dude in his garage, there's just no damn excuse for messing up the execution of a character design that's been SOLID for OVER 25 YEARS.
Head sculpts are lacking, although not as HIDEOUS as the "Sparkplug and Spike" figures of a few years ago.
Also weird is taking the Headmaster suit designs, not trying to do the movie ones instead. i mean hell, the movie is one of the brightest shining moments in the heart of anyone this product would be targeted at.
$10 each is a painful price. The 65 or 70 or whatever they're asking for these is just an attempt to quickly hose "true" (moronical) collectors who think they must own everything, like the world's been nuked and they're the caretakers to a Transformers toy museum.
Posted by joeformer on October 23rd, 2008 @ 6:40pm CDT
Posted by Bonger on October 23rd, 2008 @ 6:52pm CDT
joeformer wrote:Ives always wanted these but jeeeeeez man 70 bucks. What the? Who figures out these prices? Where do they get off charging 70 bucks for two 3 inch figures? This is why we have knockoffs and such. These prices are crazy, makes no sense.
Mr. Teriffic, love the blog...and the more I think about it, that more I agree. The price is crazy. I'm thinking it HAS to be an error. This is the same company that I got my Quint Judge from 2 years ago for 35 dollars which is many times larger and of higher quality. Thoughts?
Posted by DevastaTTor on October 23rd, 2008 @ 7:17pm CDT
Posted by BlackMagnus on October 24th, 2008 @ 8:53pm CDT