>>6028756I feel the opposite way, TR appeals to me WAY MORE than Combiner Wars did, and I think I figured out why.
There was a pressure with the Combiner Wars figures. You HAD to get all the figures in a wave to get the most potential out of them. The combining gimmick was the WHOLE POINT, so if you spent the prerequisite 15-25 on a toy, you're only getting a small part of the experience, and, in a lot of the toy's cases, what a shoddy part of the experience that was. Honestly, barring some of the Voyagers, and maybe some leftover nostalgia glasses, the vast majority of the CW figures were pretty garbage, and releasing them in line with an across-the-board price hike was just too much.
I wanted Menasor. That's all I really wanted. I bought Dragstrip. I never got the chance to buy any of the others. Sure, I could've just bought any old figure and made a Franken-biner, but it wouldn't have felt RIGHT, you know? So I missed out there. I felt pressured into buying more of the toys, and in so doing I missed out.
With TR, that pressure is gone. Right now, I have Wheelie. That's it. And he is, by himself, a perfectly complete package, and he's great on his own, but his vehicle mode has this big empty space that I want to fill with a Titan Master.
But that's the difference, I think. I *want* to engage in the play pattern in TM, as opposed to CW, where I felt pressured into doing so.
It's the basic carrot vs stick.
