![]() So I still stand by my belief that it falls back to extreme corporate greed causing severe limitations to the designers.I'm calling incompetence at every level. It would have been quite easy to have Megatron be able to have alternate, combiner deluxe, arms if you wanted to. Mind you, releasing Combiner Wars leaders that don't have the ability to work with the Combiner Wars deluxes seems a bit odd. Cooler, of course, if the cannon was better designed and the legs more reasonable. Even an Overlord redeco of Megatron would have been cool. ![]() But an Impactor remold of Megatron would have been cool. I suspect that you could have had the Commander be Guzzle instead of Warpath, and had Leader Megatron be Warpath if you needed to save the name (which you probably didn't, or could easily have done by reissuing the Warpath legend in the TFP collection.). WTF? While a leader Guzzle might have been a bit. ![]() Oh, and releasing Megatron and Armada Megatron side by side. Designing a Seeker that was remolded (poorly) into Jetfire would have been a lot better than designing a poor jetfire that was remolded poorly into 3 seekers. The remolds are going to give you at least 3 releases and there's no problem with releasing these redecos back to back. Why? It's a leader figure qualitatively worse than a voyager figure from 10 years ago made to represent the same figure. But whoever designed Jetfire and then designed him to be the seekers upon remold did a piss poor job. There's an art to cutting corners and I suspect that someone designed Chromia when asked to do a remold. ![]() Now you're not telling me that someone solicited a TFP remold for Generations - that's someone taking initiative. I see an incompetent Transformer because a strict budget (for profit maximization) was set causing the designers to skimp on every aspect of the design and cut corners everywhere.Look at Generations Chromia. I credit the designers as much as possible because they turn out the best product they can from their passion for the brand, despite the fury inducing constraints placed on them from the top. I know Aaron Archer spoke to this as well post-retirement from Hasbro. It used to be that good companies prided themselves on putting out a quality product over the bottom line. So I still stand by my belief that it falls back to extreme corporate greed causing severe limitations to the designers. It's not all dreamland, and according to the guys I spoke with, people who were former fans find it a difficult fit within the corporate box and the restraints that come with it. I had a conversation with some of the reps about career possibilities/opportunities and during our talk they described some of the hardships that fans endure when they get hired to work at the big H. This reminds me that I need to post the Botcon video I took for Bottalk. For everything Hasbro has done right of late, they've done something incredibly stupid.But incompetence at what level? How are you defining it? I see an incompetent Transformer because a strict budget (for profit maximization) was set causing the designers to skimp on every aspect of the design and cut corners everywhere. Yes, unchecked greed is bad, but this isn't a "greed" issue.
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