Transformers: Battle Masters Optimus Prime vs. Megaton Fight Night Sets Sighted at Retail

Amelie wrote:Take note of that full shelf - it'll be that way in 6 months heating those shelves up when everyone is desperately searching for Generations Jetfire or Arcee ECT. Even the photographer didn't buy one (I'm guessing there).

Spleenzorio wrote:It's always fun reading comments from people who are uninterested in a literally brand new product, saying they will sit on shelves for months. As a merchandiser who's stocked Toys R Us shelves I've seen product fly out the door so fast I've had to fill the gaps the next day, regardless of if I think it would sell or not. Surprisingly, little kids (who I'm guessing these are aimed at) may just have different taste in toys than us adults do. Shocking, right?

Lol - need to patronize (I have 13 years of Retail experience, 7 of those at manager and supervisory levels ) - I used to do merchandising in the toy section for the supermarket I worked in. It was usually pretty easy to tell which figures were going to fly off the shelves or gather depressing dust. I guess thats a slightly different scenario as you aren't necessarily going shopping in a supermarket for toys, though, as opposed to an actual toy store.

I often prefer the toys with lots of fun play value if I'm going non-vintage (a big reason I really like Armada toys) as opposed to the collectible ones (I have my G1 stuff for that).

The problem with toys like these are that they're "generic" franchise toys. It could just as easily be Thor\Loki or Batman\Joker than Prime\Megatron and those are typically the ones I see languishing on the shelves for months.

Noideaforaname wrote:I don't get these things. Optimus looks like Optimus, but nobody else looks even remotely like themselves. Usually these sidelines like to be clear homages. I mean, why didn't they just call this Lockdown "Bulkhead" instead? Just seems like these were intended to be something else entirely then they got a bunch of Transformer names slapped on them without any rhyme or reason.

welcometothedarksyde wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:I don't get these things. Optimus looks like Optimus, but nobody else looks even remotely like themselves. Usually these sidelines like to be clear homages. I mean, why didn't they just call this Lockdown "Bulkhead" instead? Just seems like these were intended to be something else entirely then they got a bunch of Transformer names slapped on them without any rhyme or reason.

Hmmm, more like BWII Dirge

Shuttershock wrote:In all honesty, I'm not surprised. These things aren't even trying and they're not worth our anger.

Hasbro boss: Okay, who's the smart-ass who greenlighted these things?

Silence.

Hasbro boss: Sigh... Now I need to find some mean to market those robots nobody know that look like nothing.

A timid intern raise his hand.

Hasbro boss: What now, Junior?

Junior: We could market them as Transformers?

Hasbro boss: I dont see any TF here. These bots look like nothing. You expect people to buy that?

Junior: F...fingers crossed?

Hasbro boss. Whatever. It's better than nothing. Junior, you can keep your job.

Junior: Thank... you?

Hasbro boss: Now get back to work.

Nemesis Primal wrote:I think these would have gone over better if they hadn't tried to pretend they were Transformers-related. Maybe give them their own cartoon or something, something along the lines of B-Daman meets Real Steel or something. But as Transformers merchandise? They just don't fit.