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Originally Posted by firmpulse

other than prime and kroes what? i seriously can't remember anything else.

Rescue Bots for the little tykes. Plus the news about Generations continuing alongside DotM instead of being absorbed by the latter or disappearing altogether.

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

True. I forgot about Kre-O. I've been fighting the urge to get back into legos for years, and I those may break my resistance. But I don't consider them real transformers. Just a side oddity. (Simularly as someone who collects Hasbro Star Wars may not consider Lego Star Wars to be part of the offering).
Rescue Bots, not really interested in collecting toys ment four the youngest fans.
Star Wars Transformers, are Star Wars, not Transformers, they're transforming Star Wars toys, ment for Star Wars fans, and have little to nothing to do with Transformers, or the transformers design team, even. They're TFs in name alone.

Prime, by their designs, by fiction, is just more movie. Heavily movie-inspired designs, very movie inspired setting. It's just basically more movie to me.

Like I said, if you don't like any of it, that's cool. It's your opinion and you have a right to it. But those other lines are not, in any way, part of the Dark of the Moon toy line (or any movie line, for that matter). So what I said still applies: there were more Transformers toys and merchandise at Toy Fair than just DotM stuff.

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Originally Posted by webz

Ummm... just coz you aren't interested in it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Transformers has a huge presence at the toy fair. I think it's a healthy selection of TF to appeal to a wide group of TF fans.

Nicely stated....

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Also, TF: Prime has NOTHING to do with the bayformers. The ONLY similarities are Bumblebee's squeaks and Prime's sword arm. That's all. The fiction stands alone and is actually closer to Beastwars than bayformers. I am not a fan of the live action films, and even less interest in TF: Prime, but at least hate it for the right reasons!

....but then there's the second part.

And I wouldn't really consider those accurate reasons, either. Transformers: Prime was meant to be a sequel to War For Cybertron, which was itself meant to be a prequel to the movie trilogy. Granted, Hasbro has done a really piss-poor job of maintaining continuity in that regard, but that was their original plan. So technically, one could consider Prime toys to be an offshoot of the movie lines (and Generations, since WFC toys were in that line).

Personally, I consider TF:P to be a self-contained universe and unrelated to either the movies or WFC. Though I can see some Beast Wars elements here and there, I think the show is mostly a mix between Movie and Animated.

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Originally Posted by Jmacq1

Yeah, but you can't really blame Mattel for speculation and unofficial leaks. It's not like they could suddenly work up another 6 months' worth of product and have it ready for Toy Fair just because some folks had made reasonable guesses as to what was coming.

Never said I blamed them. Just said that it was a miss for me, as in I was disappointed with their showing at Toy Fair. I was hoping for more regarding MOTUC and felt like I didn't get it, especially when compared to all the other things Mattel and Hasbro announced/debuted there.