[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Exodus

Dang that sucks...But in a way it completes your 3P of them.

I already had two of the Igear seekers, and had been searching for these two for at least over a year now as Igear has since closed their doors apparently. I'm super happy to finally have them. If only I could find a way to get my hands on their Icestorm/Bitstream that never made it to production, so I could complete my set of Rainmakers.

I've always found their plastic quality and re-design of the mold to be superior to Takara/Hasbro, and the newer mold that Hasbro/Takara uses is an almost exact copycat to the changes Igear made. Plus, the colors on the Igear versions are closer to the animated counterparts. Sure, they lack some of the exact details (such as the tail fin stripes) but it's nothing a quick reprolabel job can't fix.

To be fair, I have the TRU Thundercracker (MP-11 mold), and the Walmart Skywarp (the MP-03 mold, which is garbage and I truly despise), and was looking forward to the TRU MP Starscream, but my TRU only got in one shipment, and I'm just not willing to feed the scalpers two or three times the price for a figure that retailed for a little over 60 dollars in-store when it came out. Couple that with the fact that from the looks of things, Takara has no plans to allow Hasbro to bring the newer MP-11 based Skywarp to the US (not to mention the upcoming Conehead seekers also look to be Asian exclusives,) which to me at this point is yet another flip of the bird from Takara. I'm not sure what their obsession with him is, but until recently, Skywarp is the one character that is continually released either as an exclusive or as a timed release overseas, and as a result is ridiculously priced to import, and I'm tired of it.

Until Hasbro and Takara both get their act together, once the Leader Class Skywarp comes out, I'm pretty much done with Transformers. The rising prices, cheaper plastics, re-use of molds (the seekers is understandable, but some of the Combiner War re-hashes got ridiculous) and cuts in articulation and transformations have pretty much killed the line for me.