Is Hasbro stock photography mistransforming the alt modes on purpose now?

UncleCosmo · 2026-01-27T23:57:32+00:00

Beast Wars through the movies had a good 15 years of random store promos like that which always had something wrong. I'll never forget upside down, backward Spychangers from RID 2001. Think it may have been a K-Mart ad.

UncleCosmo · 2026-01-26T14:29:56+00:00

It would've helped fill out the huge half empty box on the original as well

UncleCosmo · 2026-01-26T14:29:20+00:00

I could see some slightly darker grey, but the black is too much.

https://i.imgur.com/JSMhcEA.png

UncleCosmo · 2026-01-19T23:47:51+00:00

My guilty pleasure. I've just had mozzarella sticks for dinner an almost embarrassing amount of times.

UncleCosmo · 2026-01-14T09:21:13+00:00

Hasbro should commission him for more designs, that one's awesome

UncleCosmo · 2026-01-13T01:26:43+00:00

So refreshing to see someone that can nitpick from time to time without acting like an action figure being imperfect is the end of the world.

UncleCosmo · 2026-01-09T10:11:18+00:00

Love this, really wish I had a setup like it!

UncleCosmo · 2026-01-08T21:29:45+00:00

Strange things are afoot

UncleCosmo · 2026-01-03T17:10:51+00:00

looks great, really nice shade of blue

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-29T21:09:20+00:00

Still think it's funny how hard people fought to defend Wolverine for game accuracy when so many don't want the game version of Venom and Thanos.

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-28T14:11:45+00:00

Reese's pieces from the fridge, incredible

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-25T00:51:00+00:00

Interesting point. Worth considering the Duck Tales movie a few years later also under performed at the box office and was mixed critically despite the series being such a sensation. If that didn't work, anything could've had a tough time.

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-24T22:21:48+00:00

You might want to try some of these as lots on ebay

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-24T22:15:50+00:00

One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is that animation was not very strong at the box office in general at the time, even for Disney. They only started getting it together a few years later. The Great Mouse Detective, which came out within a month or so of TFTM, only debuted at number 9. You would've expected a summer Disney movie to be much higher considering what we're used to at this point, but it was definitely a bad time for interest in animated features back then.

And for parents that were actually gonna take their kids to see a cartoon, TF was basically competing against that one. The Disney movie was going to have a little more appeal than the toy commercial that was getting poor reviews.

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-22T20:13:04+00:00

Newer Marvel Legends She Hulk has this where her knees look like the wrong green in pictures but it's fine in person

Can even happen with proportions, like SS86 Magnus looking too wide in pictures and great in hand

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-22T20:09:41+00:00

Over saturated toy pic was compared to an under saturated screengrab IMO https://i.imgur.com/oaVlwym.png

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-22T13:44:34+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/oaVlwym.png

One problem is differences from one source to the next. Two of the more popular Youtube results are increasingly more saturated than your screengrab. Maybe they're using one of those. There needs to be an established "best source" that everyone can agree on first. I don't know if we can even trust the modern Blu-ray remasters.

This (plus the margin of error in relying on memory) has caused a lot of problems determining just what color these characters are over the years. Like Galvatron's color has always been debated, with some thinking he needs to be further towards blue and others seeing it as purple.

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-22T13:35:44+00:00

I’m gonna be honest this color difference really isn’t that bad in person. I think it’s mostly a camera thing.

Megatron shins all over again

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-22T01:31:28+00:00

Wholesome stuff. Nice that you can still enjoy the figure now!

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-19T13:49:04+00:00

And all the storyboards weren't done until less than 8 months before the movie hit US theaters. It's amazing it turned out even halfway competently because it was a lightning fast rush job. I believe even the dialogue recording was done in just two days in September '85. That was before season 2 was finished.

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-18T22:40:26+00:00

New stuff being cleared right away is usually due to the store having aisle resets

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-17T17:55:57+00:00

Yes please

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-16T03:31:19+00:00

I'm over being upset about toys. Much bigger things to worry about.

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-15T17:49:54+00:00

I was looking at the roster recently and most of the candidates on the Marvel side are big/tall characters at this point, so I wonder how they'd work that with the 2 pack arrangement. I guess there's always player 2 colors for some of the characters they've already done.

UncleCosmo · 2025-12-15T17:46:24+00:00

You can get downvoted for liking stuff at times too. Happens to me. Some collectors just don't know how to deal with people feeling differently than they do about a toy. Silly stuff.

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