Seriously, 5 points of articulation on vehicle drivers, NOW? When people are going to be looking at you more now then they have since the mid 80's? I don't get it.
To be fair, the articulation schemes on the vehicle driver figures were locked in some time ago--well before the trailers were released and the excitement ignited for this movie.
Hasbro had to make a judgement call and decide how to play this toy line before they had any clue as to how this film would be initially received, so they clearly decided to "play it safe" by spending less. It cannot be changed at this point in time, I think......and there's marketing data for other well-received movie toy-lines that did soft business ( Captain America, Thor) that would advise caution.
Its puzzling/confusing to me why they are going with new-sculpts, but less POAs for the vehicle drivers. If costs are a concern here, then why not Frankenstein the new driver characters out of older tooling and just add new heads?? They'd keep the POAs that make the figures appealing, give us new characters with minimal parts and save $$$ in the process. IF.........IF the POAs are the new routine for drivers, then are they serious about re-using these new tools for figures again down the road--because that will make their bigger price-point items (the vehicles) a lot LESS appealing.
And I don't get why POC was loaded with POAs out the yin yang, and suddenly Retaliation product takes considerable hits on the POAs.
Retaliation is going to see wider exposure regardless, than POC did--this was a given even before the trailers came out, so why ratchet articulation down?
On the vehicles.......its happening again, really. ROC was marketed very timidly with regards to vehicles. We are getting the same thing this time around too, but even more so. Most of the vehicles have been seen before, and most of those seen one form in the last 2 years besides.
At least there's no Mole-pods this time......
Sure, they are modding old tooling again---which is fine, and they are using GOOD items to base these new toys off of...........I'm okay with that. But the old arguments made back with ROC resurface--there's no guts to this toy line, there's no back-bone.
Despite some really nice single-pack figures the whole Retaliation line is half-assed.
Maybe Wave 2 or later stuff will pick up the slack.
