The Fun Publications clubs have changed membership wording that your membership now ends at Dec 2016 instead of stacking on 12 months to your current membership. Word is Hasbro is pulling the license to be handed to the new group offering to do multiple bigger, better conventions around the world for Transformers.
fucking finally
The dicksucking is real.
WHAT is the legal status of the new TF Club runners being able to re-release older exclusives (BotCon & otherwise)?
>>5352646
i dont know if u guys have ever gone to botcon but i akways looked forward to it every year
i will miss it
>>5352646
Yeah because I'll sure miss the experience of waiting in line while a bunch of sweaty men not wearing deodorant walk around, and having to deal with that little troll Walky trying to sell me his books.
>>5352651
You act like fan conventions won't still happen. The one year between the old guys and FunPub there was still essentially a Botcon.
I just hope it means better prices. The cost for these fucking repaints is ridiculous.
>>5352651
there will still be a BotCon, guaranteed. it just won't be run by funpub.
Fuck this.
Funpub does the best comics.
Now we' ll be stuck with IDWasteofpaper
>>5352652
>a bunch of sweaty men not wearing deodorant
Best part of conventions, anon.
You sure it's not just because of the year ending?
>>5352672
Only when they are sounding you in a hotel bedroom with their penises out.
But on the convention floor I ain't want that.
>>5352675
Tell me more, anon.
Damn no more cons in shady hotels infested with bedbugs...
>>5352680
> Desperate Shut in She Autist
> Desperately want sex
> Go to Botcon
> Cosplay as Slutty Megatron
> All the shut in neck wards drool
> All takers welcome later in room 635
> Constant stream of cocks and cum since everyone finishes in about 30 seconds...
Makes me wet just thinking about it.
>>5352688
My dick is diamonds, anon.
>>5352695
> 4chins
> AllAges
DrCoxWhereDoYouThinkYouAre.gif
>>5352695
I guess you'll have to spank me then, anon.
>>5352667
Shit taste/10
>>5352674
There's no pro-rating for memberships which would last less than 12 months. If you renew in July, it's the same price for a handful of issues as it is for someone getting a full year. Many renew in Feb as it's the unofficial "new" start of content for the Club newsletters.
>>5352688
Even if landwhale, that's alriiiiight,
>>5352646
Hasbro is a company that has always expressed more interest in profits than fans.They will reboot any franchise that isn't making money. They ignored bronies for 3 years because, surprise surprise, internet fanboys that draw porn never actually buy official merchandise.
>>5352658
If it's run by a Chinese company, look at the price of Chinese exclusives. Hopefully they're not stupid and don't realize what the market will be willing to pay.
>>5352806
Whatever. It's just luck that we got what we wanted for a while. As soon as suits sabotage something, then act like it was the invisible hand of the market making something less profitable, I'm out. Nothing we can do about it, unless we want to be submissive consumers like MotU fans. We'll see how stupid things get.
Whatever. There's 3rd party products for now, and TFCon in Canada and USA at least for the north-east of North America.
Oh no, now where will the fandom elite meet when they leave their mother's basement once a year?
>>5352990
Big deal. Botcon exclusives are always lazy repaints. You might get a retooled head, which lately has been too small for the bodies. Being "deprived" of $50 repaints isn't something to get stressed over.
>but Botcon makes stuff that won't happen at retail
Number one, that's Hasbro bullshit & lies. Number two, it''s overpriced deluxes and if I won't pay $60-$90 for a 3P deluxe that's a new mold, I'm not paying it for a Botcon repaint.
>>5353017
you forgot the guys who bring their mothers
>>5353019
There's always overpriced Japanese exclusives to fill the void.
>>5353527
that's not Jin's mother, that's his wife. And stop calling Jin a brony, he only supports hasbro by buying their toys, that doesn't make him a brony!
>>5353553
So, he's a phony brony?
Fuck him
>>5353527
Oh yeah, like Transfan2.
>mfw the Funpub Defence Force is going all out with their "funpub a good con, they dindu nuffin" stance
>>5352646
I love how this guy and probably others on TFW are surprised at this. Like, really? I saw this coming for awhile, and like another anon pointed out, its always been obvious Hasbro cares more about profits than fans and collectors. The quality in both the toys and shows has declined within the last few years following the release of the last movie, its been obvious to me anyways that the franchise was slowly going down the drain.
Not to say it won't come back again with the next movie, but even with that, its sad that the only thing keeping the franchise alive and relevant are the shitty CGI-fest of a film series.
Oh, I hope Rik Alvarez gets the contract!
>>5354395
>he doesn't expect a giant company to care about profits first and foremost
But you can also argue a big reason why the license is going away is the frequent bumbling of funpub. Remember the whole subscription service fiascos?
>Dear Gender Graduate,
>I did once attend a lecture, given by a Primax Cluster Arcee about this topic. In her home dimension, the war had ended early relative to most dimensions, but lasted long enough for Cybertron to open relations with several organic planets. Arcee was a biologist protoformed with a male frame, and sent to observe some of these worlds post-war. On one world they had gone onto, Arcee stumbled upon what organics call "gender dysphoria disorder" and studied this phenomenon closely. Originally Arcee was fascinated by the organics "transformation", but eventually realized her interested stemmed from her own transgender nature. Going back to Cybertron, she released a document on this, and soon many other Cybertronians took on her research. There were differences in how Cybertronians interacted with this new idea-the Decepticon Overlord, for example, is what some would call genderfluid. Others referred to themselves with feminine pronouns, but felt no need for reformatting, such as the Decepticon Howlback. And others experienced massive dysphoria, as Arcee did, a result of a disconnect by the programming for the brain chip and spark by Vector Sigma and the CNA of the body forms. Those who chose do do so underwent reformatting and replace bits a pieces of their genetic code to help the process along.
>As for the former, she did mention Archadis, a later day Predacon protoformed in a female body, as a transgender male. And let us not forget that there are entire streams with little concept of gender.
t-thanks, FunPub
>>5352806
>They ignored bronies for 3 years because, surprise surprise, internet fanboys that draw porn never actually buy official merchandise.
I'm pretty sure they ignore bronies because no one wants to be associated with them. Especially since /mlp/ just hates them anyway.
>>5354605
Hasbro does give more care and acknowledgement to the Transformers fandom than any other fandom and company.
>>5354567
Might as well go scorched earth if they're losing the license.
>>5354567
Holy shit is there really gonna be a panel discussing this at Botcon? Glad I decided to not go to it now.
>>5354567
This is the worst thing I have ever read in regards to Transformers.
FunPub needs to leave yesterday.
>>5354654
Remember when this franchise was just good toy robots shooting pew pew lasers at bad ones?
>>5354641
Trying to get those SJW bucks now? Fuck these people.
>>5354753
And boy do I miss it. Now everything has to be some insightful commentary about transpotato lesbians from kenya. I think adding more fembots is fine because it adds some variety and means we can have some new characters but I'd prefer we not go on these long winded rants about gender in a series that is trying to sell toys to kids and manchildren.
shit bitcon is done???
>being this loyal to a "fan club"
>>5354777
Good lord, every one of his posts is basically "Funpub did nothing wrong, TFW is evil." Why is he even a member there?
>>5354796
Pete's dual?
>>5354949
Could be.
>>5354605
You do realize the ideal company for 4chan in general would be one that sucks consumer dick while screwing over themselves.
>>5355652
>You do realize the ideal company for 4chan in general would be Japanese and gets sucked off while screwing the consumer in the ass.
fixed
Pick of superior 1:18 Avengers.
Hasbro should just take on the fanclub themselves, do like a subscription box or something.
>>5355688
And they'll half-ass it like they do everything else and it will be scrubbed in 6 months.
>>5355689
Still better than FunPub because maybe they'll use god damn PayPal.
>>5355692
They'll just use Funpub's fax machine. Not like they'll need it anymore.
>>5355694
Look.
The entire point of the Fax machines was yo ensure only older TRUE collectors had access, because youngins have no idea what a phone line is much less a fax.
So we went all digital and had to gradually increase the price over the years to keep the kids out.
>>5352609
It's ending? weird, no news sites have done articles about this.
I dont mind, I already have the best exclusives, Runabout and Runamuck
>>5355823
I still want that Halloween-colored Piranacon.
>>5355823
No news site is reporting it because FunPub refuses to comment.
>>5355875
Like my good asian friend once said, "supplies, supplies."
>>5355680
>getting mad about literal children's toys
Oh subjectanon you're assmad about Japanese companies will never cease to be hilarious.
>proud of having these things
Sometimes some people do deserve to go down on a sinking ship.
I never expected one of the founders of Botcon to be such a whiny bitch.
>>5355875
Each board of those sites have a thread about it. None will make it a news story because they font want to lode their free club stuff they get
>>5355694
and charge you a processing fee for it. The last two cons had a 6 and 8 dollar fee to register with their online system, the only way to register for the show
>>5356060
>free club stuff they get
Like that's anything to mope over.
>>5356000
Nice trips.
Anyway, I don't feel bad about the Botcon legacy getting shitcanned anymore.
>>5352609
>Plastic bubble packaging for an exclusive
Are you kidding? I thought we were past this when they released Botcon Windrazor
I at least will morn the fact we never got the BW Uprising figures.
fucking hell this should have been next years box set.
>>5354605
>You say "Hasbro caring more about profits" like it's a bad thing. What company doesn't pick profits over collectors, doing otherwise would be stupid. Besides, it's not like they ignore or hate collectors.
Unless you're stupid, the question isn't profits vs collectors but _more_ profits vs collectors. Some of the shortcuts they take for that extra fraction of a cent per thousand units are just stupid. There's fucking price parity with Takara at this point and we have nothing to show for it.
>>5356201
Don't even get me started about how the TFCC is run, with its sky high prices behind a MattyCollector-esque subscription.
We'll never get the GI Joe Shattered Glass set now
>>5356189
Who honesty cares about the packaging, especially for what are effectively kid's toys given "premium" paint? The only reason I keep my Figma boxes is so I have something to store them and their accessories in if I ever need to move.
>>5356196
Most of those ideas were suggested (and done) by Diabeetimus.
>>5356240
To be fair, that actually looks pretty good, at least from this photo. Dunno if they're severely THIN YOUR PAINTS up close.
>>5356201
>Some of the shortcuts they take for that extra fraction of a cent per thousand units are just stupid.
That's still called "making money in whatever way possible", retard. It's what companies are supposed to do. It's not news.
>>5356240
I know but these should be legit toys is what i'm saying.
they're fantastic, unique and memorable IMO.
>>5352646
This isn't just FP dicksucking (I'm sure there is some of that) this is probably mostly just the usual Chicken Little reaction.
FP is no longer going to do Botcon? Clearly this means no conventions or exclusives EVER AGAIN. There's no way another company couldn't just come in and provide the same or better service, nope.
>>5356249
Go be a day trader or banker and stay the fuck out of fields where the product matters you beady eyed little Jew.
>>5355890
>being this disillusioned that you don't see the similarities between yourself, fun publications and its fans
it'll be ok, Patty. Maybe someday you'll find out life isn't as horrible as the one you're living.
>>5356306
He's just stating the cold reality of a publically traded companies will be as tightwad as possible when producing their products.
No need to attack him, since he hasn't stated his own views
>>5356291
No it is just FP dicksucking. That guy is one of their biggest defenders. If it wasn't for him, Funpub would have stopped using the seeker mold years ago.
>>5356291
CybertronCon will be the future.
but can they give us some Uprising toys.
>>5356537
Seen that. Why they ever thought gold plastic was a good idea is beyond me. More gold bots have been lost to GPS than famine, water and cosmic rust combined.
>>5356545
To be fair, it did take a few years for most GPS toys to break. It's not like they knew it when they made the first batch. That doesn't excuse the continued use, but it's not like Black Zaraks were breaking out of the box in the 80s.
From another, more cynical, viewpoint, they are selling toys, and most kids keep toys for a handful of years at most on average. So as long as it lasts a few years, 90% of the intended audience wouldn't even notice.
