The cast talks about the rise and decline in value of Classics character figures. Guest Rik Alvarez of PWTT introduces their Kickstarter campaign.
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Rick has Don Internet too lol
I love the Spock head in Bret’s shot
Hugging booth from PWTT @ BotCon!
Beg and beg and beg…
MEtroplex got sommmmmebody fired
SDCC should have been Metrotitan
I don’t think that’s what he meant. The fired thing he definitely should have been Metrotitan.
I like his running change idea.
I’ll just fire him now, then
Damn you done blew up the guest bro
Barb Walters can kiss my ass
IIIIII get the tough answers!
The logic on doing the SDCC Metro is Face palm worthy. Wish RICK had one that battle.
won
WTF I can’t multitask lol
Fuck those kids
Your terrible Swage but I concur
I’m the shit
Who is this fuck in the goatee?
Someone leak the hangout link?
I’m switching to MP
Your just lashing out like a punch drunk wild man tonight
I’ll always be a mixed bag guy. Variety being the spice of life & all.
Sideburn does have a point.
Mr. Spock just shook his head on his desk & I died laughing.
My queastion is why doesn’t my figures I want to get rid of that are CHUG sell? I mean, people don’t even want to haggle.
Maybe to many guys like me. I have almost everything I want because I buy the stuff as soon as I can. Not much gets by me where I have to get it years later.
Because most of the ones you have listed suck ass
You would know about sucking, Mike. 😉
Yep. And I know about making sales, too
BOOM
And here we go!!!
Wow Bret ain’t letting that go. Ha!
I still think it’s an awesome mold. (Sideswipe)
It is. I don’t know why he just put poor classics Sideswipe on blast like that
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are garbage. I hate them almost as much as Prowl.
Sideburn collects bugs. Don’t mind him
One of the reasons I’m clearing so much out is because MP takes up so much space.
I think the whole argument boils down to why people collect each line.
That’s why I skipped a lot of MPs. Sunstorm, Acidstorm, Red Alert…I just buy what I like & deem worthy of that space on my shelves.
I still like Classics because overall they’re cheaper if you get them as they come out. The only reason MP is winning out isn’t cost for me, but rather what they deliver as opposed to Classics.
Think MPs will ever get into Gimmicks like combiners & Headmasters. I’m not holding my breath on that. Classics will though.
Because that is how Thundercracker looks in the latest IDW comics. He’s not meant to be an update to G1.
I’m passing on leader size seekers I totally agree with y’all on that.
GET OUT
LOVE that Cyclonus mold.
Hasbro is going to continue the Classsics/CHUG style figures, regardless of secondary market values. Like Rik said, it’s irrelevant to Hasbro. Resellers are the only ones that are truly on the pulse of what’s hot with collectors right now.
I think we will see more classics Unicron Trilogy stuff eventually.
Swage polite? GTFO lol
I didn’t like that tail weapon on Dinobot. A voyager would be dope
What’d you call me??
Princess. He called you princess, sweetie.
Combiner wars……TOTAL CRAP…..discuss.
NOT crap.
Wow really.
I like how they look backwards, but hate the limited range of motion when turned like that.
It’s my jet in a box, baybee…
“I think it looks too big.” – She
Gigapower is the largest. Fans Toys not Fansproject.
Good show guys. Opened these while listening. Mold flash & tolerances are pitiful on Powerglide but I like them both.
Listening to the show now, and I have to disagree with Megamus; the MP toys will have NO effect on CHUG sales in either the primary or secondary markets. The MP’s have such a limited market due to being exclusives and being expensive. And like Rik Alverez said, while the MP’s are basically targeted at adults, whereas CHUGs are aimed at EVERYONE. And the adult collector market is so small compared to the general public, there is no possible way that the MP’s will ever replace the CHUGs, unless Hasbro wants to start selling them at a MUCH cheaper price with wider distribution.
@Mike, try selling them….see which line flies and which one sits in the tote….
One more thing the title is laughable. Generations/Combiner Wars is Chug & we are at the front end of a two maybe 3 year phase that seems to be outselling all previous iterations of the CHUG era.
Jason Tate, titles are meant to grab attention.
Bret, I don’t doubt the validity of what you’re saying, but you are also only selling to collectors. I just came back from a hunt and while there is evidence that CW has hit all retailers around here, there were very few of them on the shelves/pegs. So they are selling. I can’t help but remember the last time Walmart carried MP figures and how they languished on the shelves until they had to be clearanced out.
We still have MP Prowl in Louisville & Sunstorm & maybe YOTH Prime. Combiner wars are most def flying off the pegs though.
Where is YotH Prime??? I want one…
I have a couple