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06-18-2021, 08:40 AM | #1 |
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What are your thoughts on the 'Built to Rule' line?
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06-18-2021, 10:13 PM | #2 |
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It was a fun line and Hollow Point and Duke would have been excellent figures in the regular new sculpt lines without the connecting pieces on them.
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06-18-2021, 10:55 PM | #3 |
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I feel the BTR line was a "doomed to fail", simply on basis that merging the Lego styling and the action figure styling generally does a disservice to one or the other. The action figure play pattern is disrupted by having to build the vehicles, and the vehicles aren't going to be anywhere near as sturdy as a dedicated vehicle.
That said, I wonder how the line might have done had the second series actually been distributed to full retail. They were a TREMENDOUS improvement. That said, they DID tool some great figures that I'm forever sad we never saw reused. The Gung Ho figure was better than either the 2002 or 2003 core line versions. The AVAC was pretty nice, but Flint and Firefly were FANTASTIC and I'm baffled Hasbro didn't dust Flint off to incorporate into DTC.
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06-19-2021, 07:54 AM | #4 |
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06-19-2021, 09:19 AM | #5 |
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Yeah wave 2 was very low production if I recall. Cool sets. Have a couple to trade if you're interested. Pm sent.
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06-19-2021, 04:30 PM | #6 |
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“Improved” is subjective, of course. I felt the BTR series did some better builds as time went on. The second series got more…consistent? If I can say that?
I recall BTR being a retail bomb, with a bunch of the smaller sets clogging Dollar General for years. Only a few of the 2004 BTR sets hit “normal retail” and seemed to go right to discounters. But a bunch of the larger sets ended up dumped in the Cincinnati area (Cincinnati being a major test market for Hasbro since the Kenner days), making them exceptionally rare. Among them was the Headquarters, the HISS tank, Ground Striker (featured in the Valor vs Venom film!), Freedom Outpost, and a couple others.
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02-28-2022, 03:23 PM | #7 |
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02-28-2022, 10:18 PM | #8 |
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The concept doesn't work for me. Only sets I got, I got on clearance.
But it did give us a strangely all new Firefly, too bad he has the brick connector limbs. It was odd Zartan wasn't anywhere in the line, the guy who actually transforms his vehicle. Or Destro, who had the Dominator. |
09-11-2022, 01:10 PM | #9 |
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I can see how Lego Joes wouldn't appeal to everyone.
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12-11-2023, 10:50 PM | #10 |
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