See? A rut. First Octopunch, then SG Prime, and now these guys. I left them all for last, and now this feels like a big hate parade.
I feel about the Shattered Glass Junkions the same way I did about Shattered Glass on its debut year. I wanted to add to my existing armies and not start new ones. I was really excited when we found out about Hasbro making Junkions. Junkions with three heads, even! That was guaranteed a souvenir set of some sort. And it meant I could double the number of Junkions from three to six. Maybe we’d even get a new head or something, who knows.
But naw dawg, have some mirrorverse Junkions.
Mirrorverse Junkions who borged a bunch of guys I like into more mirrorverse Junkions.
It just wasn’t what I wanted from these molds at BotCon.
At least they’re attractive.
Don’t think of them as Shattered Glass Junkions… think of them as Insecticons that crashed on the planet of Junk!
Shrapnel still works as a “junkish” sort of name, and you can call the other two Scrapshell and Rubbishback :-p
I wish I knew funpub’s reasoning for wiping out the classicverse and bringing what remained of it into Shattered Glass. Did they just feel that with the Wings Universe taking their current G1 focus they needed to wrap up the classicsverse? Did they decide Re-generation made a post-Marvel G1 tangent ignoring G2 redundant? Did Hasbro say it was too focused on core elements of the brand and thus off limits like they did with the Nexus Prime story? But most importantly, why did they have to kill Rad?! I loved that dude! I guess if there’s a death-trend in Transformers it’s to sweep out the old to make room for the new, but killing a whole universe seems…excessive.
It is almost certainly a matter of the Classicsverse being completely redundant now that Regeneration One exists. Destroying it and saving its Earth means they still get some use out of it, as opposed to just completely abandoning the continuity.
Yeah – that and the fact that the Wings universe is now their G1 playground, I suspect.
Back in 2009, the 2005 universe wasn’t in the same continuity as WoH. I suspect that once they lumped them both together, and tell more stories using that world, the Classicsverse started to become redundant. Really, the only thing it really had going for it was that it was the counterpart of the SG universe.
…that said, since Ultra Magnus destroyed it, does that mean that he just secured the everlasting thanks/loyalty of the Gobots?
The 2005 universe still isn’t in continuity with WoH.
I like the idea of making them the insecticons of SG, but meh, they ended up being Soundwave’s cutting practice so meh…meh.
It took me some thinking to figure out how the Borg are the opposite of watching television, but once I worked it out I really liked it. Wreck-Gar’s thing, ultimately, is that he lets his nature depend entirely on other people’s influence, whether it’s directly in Animated or indirectly through their TV broadcasts in G1. SG Wreck-Gar instead makes other people’s nature depend on his influence.
Is it just me or is it odd how the robot sits on the cycle. I do appreciate pegs to hold it in place, but, its sort of like the robot’s you-know-what goes into a hole in the seat to keep it in place… it’s probably just me.
Yeah, it was funny how the Botcon comic was like “Hey Transfans! Remember all those G1 characters that you love but are never shown in media? Well, ha ha, here’s a comic about all of them being murdered!”
According to the comic panel at the con Andrusi has pretty much called it.
Also I’m glad to see SOMEONE else not on the love parade for these figures. I have no desire for them for pretty much the same reasons as you.
Ther are dozens of Junkions whose primary color is green, not orange.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Junkion_(species)/gallery
We need more Junkions! …but not like this.
Hey, if you don’t want them, I’ll gladly take them off your hands!
You can pretend one of them is the Ancient Decepticon warrior, from Five Faces of Darkness, part 4 (I think).
At least, I think that’s the episode he comes from, when they show the Decepticons gaining the ability to transform.
(Not sure what to do with the other two.)
normally, I can ignore the SG canon and just shunt the figures I like into my existing collection. However, I knew I was going to be disappointed in the rumored Insecticon-colored Junkions because their colors aren’t all rusty, which means I can’t just supplant them onto my normal Junkions.
But even that wouldn’t have been a bad thing if they didn’t just use the same deco for all 3 of them. I understand that they’re Wreck-Gars hive and it makes sense in-fiction, but it’s so comparatively boring.
Though I do like their role in the fiction (not the part about them assimilating the Action Masters, but the part about Ultra Magnus recruiting dangerous criminal replicants… the idea that if he can actually influence them not to immediately assimilate him, then it makes his own character more impressive), I’m just not satisfied with the toys
With BotCon troopbuilders, they generally have to all be the same color. That’s what makes them possible, because they are all the same toy, produced many many times. In previous years, that’s why they were so relatively inexpensive. The three 2009 Sweeps were $59, which was amazing, because the run of 1000 of them was actually 3000 of them, which was a large enough production number to make them less expensive to produce.
Of course, this year, the Junkions were $99, which wasn’t really much of a savings at all. Presumably they’re that much because it was discovered, through incremental increases since 2009, that we will be more than willing to pay whatever, and the discount-through-bulk-pricing was not necessary.
yeah I figured that was also a factor in them all being the same color. I wonder if the fact that they also had different heads bumped it up? (sure, the heads were already produced, but more labor to assemble them all separately?)
Possibly. Though the 3-pack price has been rising pretty steadily in price over the years, in quicker proportion than the other souvenir sets. Let’s see.
2009: $49 (oops, misremembered)
2010: $59
2011: $89
2012: $99
So it was just $10 more than last year, but twice as much as they were four years ago. I guess between ’10 and ’11 they realized we’d buy ‘em no matter what.
Stickers! Screw the paintaps, provide buyer-applicable stickers to make them more individualized!
(…I bet there are already reprolabel sets for this, aren’t there?)
No there isn’t, and I doubt there will be. 1.) There’ too few sets to make it worth while for Repro to design them and 2.) No one’s going to ruin the investment (which is what it becomes) by applying 3rd market stickers to the product. I have no problem doing it to a 10 dollar Generations figure, but there’s no way in hell I’m putting anything on my Botcon guys.
I actually kind of want Scrap Iron just to give his eyepiece to Scrapheap, so he’ll have the mold he was intended to have. The yellow wouldn’t really clash with his existing color scheme. Probably not really worth it though
Just realized I meant Junkheap here
Yikes, 180 is a bit steep price to payfor this set from most scalpers. I still don’t think these are not worth this amount for a bunch of rare repaints from the Fan Club no matter how cool the line or spin Hasbro puts on it.