>>9225162I know it's a LARP, but...
If you're going to do an update for a character, make sure it either does something new and interesting that the old toy didn't do, or that it is objectively a better toy (or at least a better representation of a particular version of the character) than the old one.
Look at Kingdom Rhinox. Is he better than T30 Rhinox? Tough to say. Some parts of him might be slightly better, and some slightly worse, so it depends on whether you personally value the good bits enough to outweigh the bad bits. In other words, he's kind of a lateral move rather than an outright improvement. So why spend the time and money making him? If Hasbro had its heart set on a Rhinox for Kingdom, why not just re-release T30, and instead use devote the resources that would've been spent on him on some other character lacking a quality update? Would the amount of plastic and metal screws used in T30 Rhinox seriously be so much more expensive to produce that it would undo the savings from not designing and creating a whole new Rhinox mold? Or if you can't make an undeniably better Rhinox, at least do something new and interesting with him, like do an update of the transmetal version of him or something.
Rhinox isn't the only example of this, but he's by far the most glaringly obvious. (I'm looking at you too, Kingdom Waspinator, and I don't care if you have extra points of articulation, Galaxy Upgrade Prime, you look like crap compared to Cybertron Optimus.)
Oh, and cool it with the unnecessarily excessive greebles like on Siege Shockwave, or pointless line-wide gimmicks like battle damage (maybe put that paint budget toward more apps instead). And be more choosy about approving head sculpts, 'cause some of 'em look great, but then some are painfully bad to the point I can't understand how anyone looked at them and thought, "Yeah, that's good work to be proud of. People will want this face."
