This video was a lot of work I’m not sure if I still really enjoy CZcams I still really enjoy collecting but doing videos takes so much time and honestly I don’t really know if it’s worth it
The Nemesis set including shockwave doesn't make sense once you realize Shockwave was never even on the Nemesis! He stayed behind as guardian of cybertron!
You missed the point of the Dramatic Capture sets. That is Takara and really for the Japanese market. Japan didn't get the other versions of Jazz we got. They will say the same thing about the new Soundwave which is more for our market since many missed out on the Netflix version. Hasbro though has been doing toy and cartoon versions which used to be the difference between them and Takara. You just make your choice. No need to buy everything. And I definitely would stand behind the Autobot 5 pack. It is amazing... I do feel they will give us a new Hound for SS86. I want the rest of the Autobot cars to be produced without the clear plastic and painted windows to match. A lot of those figures they will probably not do again for anywhere between 6 and 10 years. I will be old then, so now is the best time to collect. I just want to complete the G1 cast at least. They keep stretching out the few characters left. They aren't completing teams. That's my only complaint. I hate 3rd party takes.
What chapped my hide was them only redoing the ER Prowl(that so many people missed) once as the damaged version. Yet, Wheeljack and Arcee got repacked and repainted like 5 or 6 times each. That 5 pack should have had Prowl instead of Wheeljack.
Thanks for talking some sense into us man. I’ve been all in on masterpiece for a while and avoided mainline until siege and earthrise hooked me with g1 looking bots that were fun and simple to transform. But yeah the stuff hasbro pulls is insane! Time to try to get out on the Hasbro stuff or at least all the versions.
the new soundwave comes with buzzsaw which means that you still need to buy the netflix version if you want the laserbeak or buy this one to get the buzzsaw
I was watching a clip the other day and they had said that the Leader Soundwave in the pictures that the designer posted pics of isn't gonna have the same paint apps as the Nemesis Bridge set, so those shiny forearms and feet are just gonna be dull grey like Seige/Legacy. B.S. like that is what bothers me. I can't lie and say ill never buy nothing from Hasbro because I've got a seven year old and I pretty much have to buy two of everything. What finally broke me was not being able to find a Tarn in the wild. I had no idea it was gonna get short packed. After looking for months I went to ALI Express and paid $38 for an oversized K.O. of Tarn because I could never find one. It's full diecast, light up cannons and overall just made better. I got two of those for what one Legacy Tarn was going for on Amazon. We got a couple Bludgens so we have experienced the mold. (The Tarn KO is worth the long trip from China BTW). I got sidetracked, great video young man. The only way to hurt Hasbro is to hit them in the wallet. Your not alone, they have soured even the old G1'ers like me. Like protonan said, were never gonna get what we want. It's out there Hasbro just don't make it at the moment.
Very true and yeh I thought about buying that ko tarn too it just seemed a lot better made and just cooler but I was fortunate to get the legacy one I didn’t know it was short packed I just preordered it on big bad toy store thanks for watching
as someone who doesn't have any of these figures, and customizes them I see this as an absolute win but I do agree the have two jazzes one in the five pack the other in the 3 pack lol
Bro, in 2020, 1 year after siege springer came to retail, I picked 2 up at ross for $11 each. Aint no way hasbro selling a slightly retooled one for $55.
Amazing seeing all U young cats into something was into back in the day. Personally do not like any after beast wars/ beast machines. Still own all my vintage G1 Transformers inc Soundwave N most of the cassettes. Can Tell Hasbro N Mattell been cutting corners for decades. Cheerz
Hi! Loved your video. Everything you said its true. I'm a 40yo european, I work but not that I have an awesome buyer power, and here toys are more expensive. Transformers is my favorite brand from childhood, so when Siege got out I thought that was the way to start collecting. 6 years after, I totally regret it. Lately I was capable to sell some old figures like Jazz or Wheeljack that I got the new ones, and not buy figures like 86 Magnus, or 86 Springer. But I look to Prime, Galvatron, Blitzwing, expensive figures, and having SURE there will be better versions, at least colorwise, it makes me really sad. And they will be hard to sell. I would love to go back in time and just collect, for example, fantoys figures, at least all of them have quality and as funny as it looks, after all the spendings those are MP figures that become cheaper than all these chug figures we keep substitute.
Great point on hasbro never making the perfect figure they do this so we have to get the same characters over and over again I won’t be surprised the come out with another g1 optimus
@@crumplezone4286 facts everyone was praising the kingdom one but first moment rumors came about with 86 everyone all of a sudden hates it its sad how a lot of transformers collecters have become consumers
I hear ya. I hear folks say they missed whatever toy and I'm glad that many have second chance to get that toy. I never got Cosmos and I refuse to pay scalper prices so I'm glad him and Galaxy Shuttle are coming back out. whenever that is. I don't buy and resale my toys cause who wants the older version when the new version is . . .there. Just get the stuff you want and don't worry about picking up everything. I think folks feel frustrated with all this which is why on the complaining then buying. I got Siege Springer but I ordered new Springer cause the new stuff with him. I can't explain it with him but I do agree with your points. I figure I can change my mind and cancel. But I have not ordered Soundwave, Blaster, Autobot 5 pack, Nemesis set or Ark set. I got Dietrus and past Hounds. I do hate that new Soundwave has Buzzsaw in with him. Version of Buzzsaw I don't have. That part sucks but I talked myself out by looking at the tapes over the years I do have which has couple of different Buzzsaws. Maybe Buzzsaw and Hound will be re-released sometime down teh line. Perhaps I'll pick up the Ark next year at show. Don't have Teletran. It sucks cause if Hasbro just release just Buzzsaw or just Hound without everything else, I would buy it and love it. Hasbro has already done this to Star Wars crowd. I scoffed at the Nemesis set. I have all three and I 3D printed myself the throne and entire shelf of the base to go in.
I know it’s insane how they put like one 6 dollar toy in a much larger pack that you already have everything else in just to get you to buy it again I hate that they do that although I’m sure it’s good for profits
@@crumplezone4286 It is. Right now I'm sure Hasbro is finding every way with profits cause last year/early this year wasnt the best. They did this with Star Wars by making upteen Mandalorain and whatever else cause I remember over year ago Star Wars friend of mine was commenting on it.
Someone linked your video in a server I’m in. Just wanted to comment to say that you make a lot of sense without over-preaching and it’s something the community needs more (so I hope you continue to make videos). Something interesting that Ive learnt is that western collectors tend to prioritise “value for money” whereas asian collectors prioritise the completeness of a product. A consequence is that products made for the west (legacy, studio series, earthspark) are often compromised by having to fit a certain pricepoint (i.e deluxe, voyager, leader) because that’s how western collectors judge value, whereas products made by takara for Japanese collectors (missing link, masterpiece) don’t have the same budget driven compromises. It explains why most western collectors aren’t happy to buy a masterpiece megatron (or less expensive ko). Siege/kingdom megatron isn’t nearly as good, but it’s just good enough to fill the slot in their collection and it’s cheaper, so it’s better value for money (in their minds).
And at one point I had the same view that they were good enough but when a so much better version is only 2 to 3 times the price why not make the switch especially these people who complain that megatron should be a gun just buy the masterpiece
how in the blue hell do you have BLUE PLASTIC that yellows? Soundwave barely has any yellow on him for god sakes and he's STILL yellowing? jesus christ, HasTak...
Do you wanna hear a joke? Hasbro is rereleasing Thundertron, a still RELATIVELY NEW figure, and not even a that good of a figure to begin with, as a LEADER, with a two RANDOM other repaint figures tossed in there for the heck of it..... Oh, you're not laughing? Well Hasbro sure is!
Very true although I do think the set as a whole is worth it it comes with a voager deluxe and micromaster although I do wish thundertron wasn’t just a slight very slight repaint retool of the voager
Really appreciate it and I am very lucky that my family supports it as well as I do know what I’m looking for and what to sell I look at it kind of like the stock market I’m constantly looking at mercari and eBay
Best way to say it hasbro ain’t shit their such a lazy company and they artificially make collecting a chore especially for people who only want figures of specific characters not consumed by FOMO 2025 is the last year I’m collecting transformers I’m tired of Hasbro’s games and I won’t be supporting them no more
You really don't have to explain why you hate Hasbro, pretty sure most transformers fans are sick of Hasbro being so lazy and having such lack luster designs recently
lol thanks also I avoided making videos for a while cuz even tho I was saying smart shit I had the voice of like a prepubescent boy and I figured people wouldn’t listen to the shit I was saying lol
Smithers: But she's got a new hat!
The Nemesis set including shockwave doesn't make sense once you realize Shockwave was never even on the Nemesis!
He stayed behind as guardian of cybertron!
Very true lol
You missed the point of the Dramatic Capture sets. That is Takara and really for the Japanese market. Japan didn't get the other versions of Jazz we got. They will say the same thing about the new Soundwave which is more for our market since many missed out on the Netflix version.
Hasbro though has been doing toy and cartoon versions which used to be the difference between them and Takara. You just make your choice. No need to buy everything. And I definitely would stand behind the Autobot 5 pack. It is amazing... I do feel they will give us a new Hound for SS86. I want the rest of the Autobot cars to be produced without the clear plastic and painted windows to match. A lot of those figures they will probably not do again for anywhere between 6 and 10 years. I will be old then, so now is the best time to collect. I just want to complete the G1 cast at least. They keep stretching out the few characters left. They aren't completing teams. That's my only complaint.
I hate 3rd party takes.
That’s fair but also what problem do you find with the 3rd party figures ?
And you are right the American markets did need a another earth rise run I considered the legacy one like the same thing
@@crumplezone4286 they are either too stylized, too plain, too small, or too big... they never tend to make anything I seek.
Completely understandable
What chapped my hide was them only redoing the ER Prowl(that so many people missed) once as the damaged version. Yet, Wheeljack and Arcee got repacked and repainted like 5 or 6 times each. That 5 pack should have had Prowl instead of Wheeljack.
That’s an extremely good point they should have they reissued that awful arcee like 3 times
This is the best video to have randomly showed up in my recommendations
Thank you so much
Thanks for talking some sense into us man. I’ve been all in on masterpiece for a while and avoided mainline until siege and earthrise hooked me with g1 looking bots that were fun and simple to transform. But yeah the stuff hasbro pulls is insane! Time to try to get out on the Hasbro stuff or at least all the versions.
Thanks lol
the new soundwave comes with buzzsaw which means that you still need to buy the netflix version if you want the laserbeak or buy this one to get the buzzsaw
Yeh I actually included that point in my original uncut version lol they split teams up
Here here, sir!!!!!! Yes and I want my friggin cosmos!!!!!!
Lol
Hasbro had nothing to do with Nemesis and Ark sets. They are made purely by Takara, they just gave Hasbro some to sell.
I was watching a clip the other day and they had said that the Leader Soundwave in the pictures that the designer posted pics of isn't gonna have the same paint apps as the Nemesis Bridge set, so those shiny forearms and feet are just gonna be dull grey like Seige/Legacy. B.S. like that is what bothers me. I can't lie and say ill never buy nothing from Hasbro because I've got a seven year old and I pretty much have to buy two of everything. What finally broke me was not being able to find a Tarn in the wild. I had no idea it was gonna get short packed. After looking for months I went to ALI Express and paid $38 for an oversized K.O. of Tarn because I could never find one. It's full diecast, light up cannons and overall just made better. I got two of those for what one Legacy Tarn was going for on Amazon. We got a couple Bludgens so we have experienced the mold. (The Tarn KO is worth the long trip from China BTW). I got sidetracked, great video young man. The only way to hurt Hasbro is to hit them in the wallet. Your not alone, they have soured even the old G1'ers like me. Like protonan said, were never gonna get what we want. It's out there Hasbro just don't make it at the moment.
Very true and yeh I thought about buying that ko tarn too it just seemed a lot better made and just cooler but I was fortunate to get the legacy one I didn’t know it was short packed I just preordered it on big bad toy store thanks for watching
as someone who doesn't have any of these figures, and customizes them I see this as an absolute win
but I do agree the have two jazzes one in the five pack the other in the 3 pack lol
I used to customize my figures as well especially the mainline ones
@@crumplezone4286 nice
Bro, in 2020, 1 year after siege springer came to retail, I picked 2 up at ross for $11 each. Aint no way hasbro selling a slightly retooled one for $55.
That’s low key insane I was hard searching for figures at Ross but I only ever found starscream from siege
Amazing seeing all U young cats into something was into back in the day. Personally do not like any after beast wars/ beast machines. Still own all my vintage G1 Transformers inc Soundwave N most of the cassettes. Can Tell Hasbro N Mattell been cutting corners for decades. Cheerz
That’s really cool man
@@crumplezone4286 Yeah I know! Still regret selling all my near mint Beast Wars N Beast Machines years ago...oh well.
Yeh lol but I mean the prices for a lot of the beast wars stuff went down when the reissues came out I sold mine as soon as the listings showed up
Hi! Loved your video. Everything you said its true. I'm a 40yo european, I work but not that I have an awesome buyer power, and here toys are more expensive. Transformers is my favorite brand from childhood, so when Siege got out I thought that was the way to start collecting. 6 years after, I totally regret it. Lately I was capable to sell some old figures like Jazz or Wheeljack that I got the new ones, and not buy figures like 86 Magnus, or 86 Springer. But I look to Prime, Galvatron, Blitzwing, expensive figures, and having SURE there will be better versions, at least colorwise, it makes me really sad. And they will be hard to sell. I would love to go back in time and just collect, for example, fantoys figures, at least all of them have quality and as funny as it looks, after all the spendings those are MP figures that become cheaper than all these chug figures we keep substitute.
Yeh it is funny that ultimately you get something worse with more headache to swap out then if you just went with a more expensive option
Great point on hasbro never making the perfect figure they do this so we have to get the same characters over and over again I won’t be surprised the come out with another g1 optimus
Yeh there’s heavy rumors for a 86 one and every ones hype even tho the kingdom ones already good enough
@@crumplezone4286 facts everyone was praising the kingdom one but first moment rumors came about with 86 everyone all of a sudden hates it its sad how a lot of transformers collecters have become consumers
I know man that’s on god it’s crazy how people flip on something they claimed to love
I hear ya. I hear folks say they missed whatever toy and I'm glad that many have second chance to get that toy. I never got Cosmos and I refuse to pay scalper prices so I'm glad him and Galaxy Shuttle are coming back out. whenever that is. I don't buy and resale my toys cause who wants the older version when the new version is . . .there. Just get the stuff you want and don't worry about picking up everything.
I think folks feel frustrated with all this which is why on the complaining then buying. I got Siege Springer but I ordered new Springer cause the new stuff with him. I can't explain it with him but I do agree with your points. I figure I can change my mind and cancel. But I have not ordered Soundwave, Blaster, Autobot 5 pack, Nemesis set or Ark set. I got Dietrus and past Hounds. I do hate that new Soundwave has Buzzsaw in with him. Version of Buzzsaw I don't have. That part sucks but I talked myself out by looking at the tapes over the years I do have which has couple of different Buzzsaws. Maybe Buzzsaw and Hound will be re-released sometime down teh line. Perhaps I'll pick up the Ark next year at show. Don't have Teletran. It sucks cause if Hasbro just release just Buzzsaw or just Hound without everything else, I would buy it and love it.
Hasbro has already done this to Star Wars crowd.
I scoffed at the Nemesis set. I have all three and I 3D printed myself the throne and entire shelf of the base to go in.
I know it’s insane how they put like one 6 dollar toy in a much larger pack that you already have everything else in just to get you to buy it again I hate that they do that although I’m sure it’s good for profits
@@crumplezone4286 It is. Right now I'm sure Hasbro is finding every way with profits cause last year/early this year wasnt the best. They did this with Star Wars by making upteen Mandalorain and whatever else cause I remember over year ago Star Wars friend of mine was commenting on it.
Man I forgot about that that’s true their profits were bad
Someone linked your video in a server I’m in.
Just wanted to comment to say that you make a lot of sense without over-preaching and it’s something the community needs more (so I hope you continue to make videos).
Something interesting that Ive learnt is that western collectors tend to prioritise “value for money” whereas asian collectors prioritise the completeness of a product.
A consequence is that products made for the west (legacy, studio series, earthspark) are often compromised by having to fit a certain pricepoint (i.e deluxe, voyager, leader) because that’s how western collectors judge value, whereas products made by takara for Japanese collectors (missing link, masterpiece) don’t have the same budget driven compromises.
It explains why most western collectors aren’t happy to buy a masterpiece megatron (or less expensive ko). Siege/kingdom megatron isn’t nearly as good, but it’s just good enough to fill the slot in their collection and it’s cheaper, so it’s better value for money (in their minds).
That’s a very good point and I really appreciate you checking out my channel it’s very true in the differences between western and eastern markets
And at one point I had the same view that they were good enough but when a so much better version is only 2 to 3 times the price why not make the switch especially these people who complain that megatron should be a gun just buy the masterpiece
And my hopes for those new figures went crashing and burning. Yeah Takara Tomy released that mold in the Dramatic Capture Nemesis Crew set.
But we need a new Soundwave to replace the Netflix version that is yellowing already...
That’s true I just hate that there gonna sell this then do a new one
how in the blue hell do you have BLUE PLASTIC that yellows?
Soundwave barely has any yellow on him for god sakes and he's STILL yellowing? jesus christ, HasTak...
@@fduranthesee It's the gray that's yellowing, not the blue.
For real tho I sold of a bunch of figures that I genuinely thought were amazing figures just becuase of their yellowing issues it’s so absurd
im defenetly gonna get soundwave cause im dying for a cartoon accurate soundwave
Entirely fair
@@crumplezone4286 and plus for me its a win since bro that netflix soundwave is like 200 bucks and i can get him plus a new cassete for just 50
I've waiting my whole life for your return
Damn this is a hella good vid
lol thanks
Do you wanna hear a joke?
Hasbro is rereleasing Thundertron, a still RELATIVELY NEW figure, and not even a that good of a figure to begin with, as a LEADER, with a two RANDOM other repaint figures tossed in there for the heck of it.....
Oh, you're not laughing? Well Hasbro sure is!
And on top of that they gave him his accurate headsculp when they could have done it in the first place
lol that’s real af man
Very true although I do think the set as a whole is worth it it comes with a voager deluxe and micromaster although I do wish thundertron wasn’t just a slight very slight repaint retool of the voager
Bro how are you 16 and have such an expensive collection?
I'm 16 and I could afford a masterpiece maybe every one and a half years💀
oh, and subscribed
Job
Job or knowing how to make money even without it
He says in the video that he sells his older figures he gets as gifts, that probably helps
@@spoopy29 What is this mysterious thing you call a "Job"?
Really appreciate it and I am very lucky that my family supports it as well as I do know what I’m looking for and what to sell I look at it kind of like the stock market I’m constantly looking at mercari and eBay
Best way to say it hasbro ain’t shit their such a lazy company and they artificially make collecting a chore especially for people who only want figures of specific characters not consumed by FOMO 2025 is the last year I’m collecting transformers I’m tired of Hasbro’s games and I won’t be supporting them no more
I know I do not want to support a company that’s that money hungry
You really don't have to explain why you hate Hasbro, pretty sure most transformers fans are sick of Hasbro being so lazy and having such lack luster designs recently
I’m not so sure I think I cut it out of the video but outside most of the g1 related stuff they still make amazing figures like magmatron
Cutie
You're 16 you look 20
lol thanks also I avoided making videos for a while cuz even tho I was saying smart shit I had the voice of like a prepubescent boy and I figured people wouldn’t listen to the shit I was saying lol
@@crumplezone4286 na dude you good
If it's. G1 and it comes through takara it not bad