Transformers: Generations: Netflix War for Cybertron Trilogy Deluxe Scrapface

The Netflix Siege series represents everything that is wrong with Hasbro these days. Unimaginative repaints, abysmal quality control, and deplorable distribution. The first two are self explanatory, and you can read more about them in my reviews. Walmart put these up for preorder after/during Toy Fair. They were to be released April 1st (I think, or close to that, beginning of April for sure). I ordered mine that first week. Now I realize that Covid-19 screwed up distribution of all kinds of things, but that didn’t become a big deal in the US until the middle of March. These toys should have been well on their way to distribution by then. The toys should have shipped when they were supposed to. I got e-mails right around the release date saying they would be delayed until May (Ultra Magnus) and July (the rest). I ended up finding all of them but Ultra Magnus in store long before the expected ship date. I’m sure some will blame Walmart for the distribution problems, but if Hasbro is going to announce a release date and the vendor is not going to make good on that, then they shouldn’t give them exclusives. They can sell all their exclusives through Pulse. No reason to make things exclusive to companies that won’t deliver on time.

Scrapface

Previous Mold Use: Siege Deluxe Refraktor, Selects Deluxe Spectro, Selects Deluxe Spyglass, Selects Deluxe Viewfinder

It’s bad enough they released this toy in a single pack once, but to do it twice is a real dick move. On it’s own Scrapface has no meaningful alternate mode. If you ignore that aspect of him, Scrapface does have a pretty cool paintjob.

Overall: Scrapface looks good, but I still hate this toy on principle.

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