Hasbro took away SWTF minifigures!!!

[138 Scourge]

Grandma Talkin'!

I like the character and all, but JT's name for him from awhile back is still hilarious.

[JediTricks]

Wanna put money on this? It's gonna be "our budget couldn't afford it anymore" I bet.

I bet you an Ego Puff Point!

Well, I suppose it's a draw, though it's hardly a fluff piece and they're not making TF Crossovers a single brand, so that strikes against your original claim while mine is rock solid:
http://www.actionfigs.com/index.php?cat ... cleid=1916

ActionFigs.com: While your Comic-Con display showed new Star Wars Transformers with Grievous' Starfighter, the TIE Bomber, and the V-19 Torrent (which didn't have the correct tag on it in the display unfortunately, and we've yet to see the vehicle mode - could we get a photo of that?) with their minifigs inside the cockpits, it appears the newly repackaged SWTFs have no minifigs at all. Have you guys really removed the minifig concept from the line, and if so, why? Doesn't that detract from the whole point of the Star Wars characters piloting mechs aspect? Will the minifigs displayed with the 3 new SWTF molds displayed at Comic-Con not be included with those sets?
Hasbro: While we were originally concerned that kids might get the Star Wars Transformers confused with "real" Transformers, our research has shown that there is no confusion. Therefore, the reason for their being has vanished, and due to costing they became an easy choice to remove along with the original "spinny thing" that showed the two modes.

[onslaught86]

I'm impressed that they went into so much detail, but that's still a poor excuse for removing them from the finished figures designed to use the minifigs, and seriously detracts from play value. I'd much rather have seen a phasing-out starting with new moulds that aren't designed to use them. Alas.

[BWprowl]

I was just too busy laughing at Hasbro's coining of the highly technical marketing term: "Spinny Thing".

[JediTricks]

I'm impressed that they went into so much detail, but that's still a poor excuse for removing them from the finished figures designed to use the minifigs, and seriously detracts from play value. I'd much rather have seen a phasing-out starting with new moulds that aren't designed to use them. Alas.

I hope they don't phase out the cockpits, that's part of why I dig 'em, and part of why I haven't bought any of the Marvel ones as they lack the concept.

I was just too busy laughing at Hasbro's coining of the highly technical marketing term: "Spinny Thing".

It's apt. I hate that thing, totally useless.

[onslaught86]

I hope they don't phase out the cockpits, that's part of why I dig 'em, and part of why I haven't bought any of the Marvel ones as they lack the concept.

I'd rather no cockpits than cockpits with no minifigs, is all.

[JediTricks]

I'd rather no cockpits than cockpits with no minifigs, is all.

Really? I loved the cockpits in the G1 figures that had 'em, even if we had no figures to go in them. While I'd always prefer figures to not having them, I love the little cockpit details and imagining myself inside those cockpits piloting away.

[onslaught86]

Hmm, true, true.. But without the minifigs, I don't think they should compromise the designs for the gimmick. They could design better toys if they didn't put so much resource into the cockpits, to be sure. Less fun, but potentially better. And without the minifigs, why not do so?

[JediTricks]

Hmm, true, true.. But without the minifigs, I don't think they should compromise the designs for the gimmick. They could design better toys if they didn't put so much resource into the cockpits, to be sure. Less fun, but potentially better. And without the minifigs, why not do so?

I can't think of 1 where the cockpit has sacrificed anything from the bot mode though. On Luke X-wing they merely dumped the original cockpit and made a new one in bot mode.

[Dominic]

Yeah, the the Luke X-Wing was a perfect example of the line being gracefully designed, what with that cumbersome bot mode and all.

Dom
-well, it nicely sums up the line if nothing else.