Talk: Unreleased toy

OK I have to stop making this, I have to sleep you know :P Well as you can see this is far from being finished and I will attend to this tomorrow, of course you can edit it, cous I have found a few probs of which I have no idea how to fix em! Thanks for your help.Dead Metal 20:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

What Counts?

I'm almost not sure we should even include concept art here, because there's a shitton of stuff that never got off the drawing board - I'm thinking of the movie monster TFs, that dinosaur Scramble City combiner, and all that other stuff in the back of Generations. On the other hand, the G2 Gobots WERE unreleased until they came out during RiD, and the same is more-or-less true of the Universe Seacons. I dunno. -hx 21:37, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

yyyyyyeah, concept art is questionable... --M Sipher 21:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Split the page. Give it an 'unproduced concepts' section. If that gorws big enough, split it off into it's own page.

The subject is broad enough... it's probably best to let it evolve organically. -Derik 22:06, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Since this never went anywhere on Black Rodimus' page...

We really, really need to devise a consistent way of dealing with unreleased product on characters' individual pages. I would ideally like to see it either integrated into the normal toy/merchandise lists with some kind of obtrusive "THIS NAME CAME OUT" indicator or have a separate "unreleased toys" section otherwise constructed just like the normal toy section. Opinions? -LV 22:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Subcategory at the end of "toys" but before "merchandise." -hx 22:45, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Two more Gobots??

This is the first I hear of unreleased jeeps and sports cars in the Gobots line. Anyone have pics?? --Detour 22:23, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

...[1] did, you can search through archive.org I guess... When did this site do down? Did it move? Steve-o's links page doesn't have a more recent address for it. -Derik 22:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[2] all I see here are the four that were released in the RID line... --Detour 22:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I wish I had saved it, but they were part of the massive ton of shit that the Hartmans auctioned off way back when. -hx 23:31, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

FortMax to the rescue! pic 1 2 3 4 And pics from an older auction: 1 2 3 4 --FortMax 00:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

So, what, you just have a big ol' 'misc_tf' folder you save stuff to? "Shit, I bet I'll want that later, enough so that I'll be willing to sort through everything in here to find it." -Derik 01:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Kind of. It's mostly pics of unreleased toys I come across, so it's mostly G2 prototypes from ebay auctions. --FortMax 04:26, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Impressive. This is the first I've heard of the jeep and sports car. Wonder why Hasbro didn't bother to release them in RID... --Detour 05:01, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

You'd think they would have - if you look at the pics of all six together, I'm pretty sure they share molds just like the original six Spychangers do... Parts of the molds might have gotten damaged over the years, though. Who can say? -hx 10:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

According to the Hartmans, the jeep and sports car couldn't hold their guns correctly. That may have had something to do with it. --FortMax 15:06, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Derik, I've talked to Rapido. He's been in the process of rebuilding the site, but hasn't had much time to do it. He says it will be back up eventually. --FortMax 15:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Unreleased toys that eventually got released

Do we list these? I'm thinking specifically about "molds that were meant for one line, canceled, then reused later but not necessarily as the same character" like RiD Bruticus, the Flipchangers, four of the Spychangers, etc. I would almost say they don't count, since they saw release in SOME form. I dunno. What do you guys think? -hx 21:14, 28 May 2008 (UTC)