lol Blokees must really be fucking their ass
>>11800238Blokees literally pays Hasbro to make Transformers.
Maybe they're looking to buy them out or something. They did something similar with kreo.
They have like one million ips beside transformers tho
>>11800238model kits? They better be like the Pokemon ones, or else barf
>>11800238Looking to see how shit these are compared to the worst Revell kits.Definitely not going to get a Bandai level experience.
>>11800238Aren't they all copying late 90s Gundam kits?
>>11800238>in houseI think the funny thing is that most of their branded Lego competitors have been outsourced to other Chinese companies>>11800356Revell and Bandai target older kids, really mostly teens and adults, so obviously Hasbro, who still chiefly revolves around chasing the little kid market, would never make something as sophisticated. Even the kids Bandai model kits target is different from what Hasbro aims for. Bandai kits are meant for patient and intelligent kids, every Hasbro attempt at submarkets like this is for impatient, lowest common denominator kids. Even the logo is clearly meant to be marketed to like 4-9 year olds. Expect something maybe slightly more sophisticated than Hero Mashers.
I care not what retardo Blokees wannabe Hasbro fails at (as they always do), so long as actual Blokees live on.
>>11800594No. Blokees don't require the skill level or paint. They are more like if Lego got into making articulated figures. The kind of thing Bandai has been flirting with for years but doesn't want to do cause it would fuck over SHF.
>>11800611Wait till you find out that Japanese kids aged 4-9 can happily build the same HG kits that the adults do.
>>11800660This is not news to me, anon, but like I said, different markets. Cultural factors and ethnic demographics are a factor, too.Transformers has suffered from this for 20 years since the 2007 movie, where in they found the LCD of kids who lack patience to follow instructions couldn't interact with the mainline toys, so they started offering shitty options like one-steps and non-transforming gimmick figures. It's like when everyone was baffled over the Gundam Miximize announcement a few weeks ago, because they look worse and will be more expensive than comparable HGs. A line like this exists to basically target dumb kids in the international market who can't build gunpla.
Is blokees really that good or is everyone just glazing because they're cheap? All of their figures look cartoony as well, which is why I haven't gotten any because I prefer realistic aesthetics.
>>11800685They are fun to build, look good as is and yeah, they are affordable.
>>11800685Make for fun toys too. Articulation is good enough/playable, and you get a lot of them for cheap.
>>11800685They are just about okay for the price. Entire naming system for their lines is extremely confusing though.Honestly found them a bit of a let down due to the amount of glazing everyone was doing, but at least the price wasn't so high that I felt ripped off.Tempted to pick up a few of those random Stormtrooper blind boxes if I come across them but I view them as a okay middle ground between your more "high-end" import collectables and your "lower-end" domestics.
>>11800685>Is blokees really that good or is everyone just glazing because they're cheap?Because they're cheap.
>>11800685the human/humanoid figures aren't the best compared to higher end stuff or even cheaper domestic lines, but the Pokemon and Mecha stuff is quickly becoming standout. The cheaper blindbox stuff is fun novelty but nothing too exciting, I think a lot of people just have an itch for cheap low commitment figures that are decently painted.
>>11800685It's the new troll
>>11800685They're now the "standard" in fun action figures to play with. --They're already painted, so I've never seen gay stickers on them.--They have attention to a character's accessories, even more obscure ones.--Even if they do a "boring", nearly unsellable character, it's really not a direct hit on Blokees, as there's so little plastic going into a Blokee.--They come with bases.--Unlike most toy companies, they seem "not retarded" when it comes to face sculpts.--Even if you have to buy 1 more variant to get ALL the accessories to one character, again, Blokees are cheap....I just really don't know what I have "bad" to say about Blokees, aside from very confusing "wave" identification and that I somewhat despise the lighting mechanism of the ones with light-up chests. Blokees remind me a lot of the old Microman/Micronauts line, in a good way.
You know what's stellar about Blokees?If you wanted to ELIMINATE a number of toylines from your collection, but just want something small to remember the characters by... Blokees.It's sort of like, if I sold the 9 billion versions of Optimus Prime I have... then just buy his vehicle mode and robot mode for about $20.
>>11800719Optimus is the worst example because there's countless small and cheap toys of him that would be a better keepsake of the character than two sepparate toys that don't transform.
>>11800245>Blokees pays Hasbrojust a tiny percentage. If Hasbro prevents them from using their brands and makes model kits themselves, they will have more profit coming in from those lines, especially for in house brands like TF and Joe
>>11800719That only works if you're broke, and that's your only viable choice. To me that shit's for nephews who keep saying "CAN I PLAY WITH THOSE TOYS THAT ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE AND VALUABLE THINGS YOU OWN?" Nope. Here's a cheap whatever that sort of looks like them. Enjoy.
>>11800738They're cheap, so you can amass a lot of them for little money.
Do you fuckers ever stop feeding trolls
>>11800738>I dont wanna have to build an action figureWhile I don't mind or even enjoy building kits, every one that I have built feels like a flimsy piece of shit when it's done and not something I want to pose or ever touch again after I put it on the shelf. I would be surprised if Blokees feel more solid. Guess I'll have to find out for myself, will see if walmart still has those $15 stormtroopers>>11800719I guess that's an idea but if I wanted to downsize and only keep a couple figures, I would get the ones that feel like the best and most definitive version of the character which I doubt would be Blokees.
>>11800738They aren’t really intensive builds. They don’t really scratch the model kit or even Lego itch, they’re basically just simple figures that skirt around licenses by having to be assembled.
>>11800770>skirt around licensesAll of them are officially licensed though?
>>11800805Yeah, but you can have a license to a character, but not a license to male a "figure" of a character, hence them having to be assembled.Sort of why I had to pay $80 for the combiner "guts" to make Devastator from Asia before Hasbro finally OK'ed to have a Devastator combiner right in the USA given to Blokees.
>>11800722True, but there's also the "format" factor at play too. You could have a few Blokees of your favorite guys, but then a perfectly transforming Dr.Wu figure, while a nice representation of whatever character, would now look a bit out of line with the rest of them.You're not wrong, it's just my personal preference would be to have everybody looking uniform, like they just stepped out of the same cartoon all together. Sort of like... a bunch of Lego minifigures, but then a REALLY good character done very well in some knockoff brand... it'd be the "best" minifig of that character, but out of place with the Lego ones.
If they gonna do model kits, I want some 1/12 bikes in this size. I'd take 6 right away. I'll even take sports bikes.
>>11800825Oh I didn't realize that was what you were talking about. Yeah I tihnk I heard something similar years ago with the lego minifigure blind bags facing some issues with licensed characters since they would fall under an action figure license
>>11800738They make your dick bigger and help you get more back on your taxes
>>11800685If you could buy sh figuarts or figmas for $15-$20 but you have to snap together a few pieces would you? Cause Blokees is just a few changes away from being that. Their Marvel figures are $14 dollars at Wal-Mart right now and have 30+ poa, 3 sets of hands, two heads, and a weapon plus effect pieces. They just need to go from 5 inch to 1/12, incorporate soft plastics, and get something like Hasbro's face printing tech and they'd be the low cost import alternative. Honestly I don't see that happening and them being a Chinese company means that they exist at the whim of the ccp.
>>11801170>and them being a Chinese company means that they exist at the whim of the ccp.there's already rumors the pokemon blokees lines are dead because of a government throwing a temper tantrum over some apparent disrespect from some blokees event near a japanese shrine or something.
>>11801221Everytime this is brought people change the whole thing more and more lol. It was the chinese military being mad at pokemon company for wanting to held a TCG event at a japanese shrine full of ww2 war criminals. There is not a prohibition but the outrage caused some brands to lower their profiles with Pokemon. Chinese brands are slowly launching things again tho, Funism already launched new stuff
>>11800685They make great toys for their price but they do so much of the work for for you I wouldn't call them great kits.
>>11801232Swap out "blokees event" with "TCG event" and everything is basically the same as what you just said though?
>>11800719>If you wanted to ELIMINATE a number of toylines from your collection, but just want something small to remember the characters by... Blokees.So they're Funko Pops with articulation
>>11801255They don't even have a uniform scale let alone style.
>>11800238More like that Hasbro are seeing how successful model kits are and how much cheaper they are to make and want a slice of that pie
>It's not Lego, it's KRE-O!>Its not Blokees it's MaKits!Wow, Hasbro is turning into Temu.
>>11800685Because they're cheap, they're not on the quality level of actual import figures but they're good enough for most people and some releases have a shit ton of stuff.Other thing is they're model kits for people who do not actually want to build model kits but like putting together lego, prepainted and some straight up are just parts in a box without sprues.
>>11800238so all my blokees are worthless now?
>>11800726If hasbro stops them I simply wont buy hasbros and mark it dead
