Reports are coming in of Toys R Us listing Transformers Animated themed furniture. Frankly, I think this is a bit of overkill on Animated. Hasbro is really pushing this line of toys but the show more or less unofficially ENDED last weekend.
Let’s see, the show started at the tail end of December, it ran for two seasons with no talk of a third, and the toys barely showed up in stores until a few weeks before the finale. Someone in marketing has really been working their brains on this one.The Next big thing is about a year off with the second movie though so with or without a show we’ll probably be getting a ton of animated repaints.
Which si great when you factor in the new Animated themed toy storage bins (shown). On the front of each bin is a picture of one of the characters, allowing you to easily sort your repaints out. All your bumblebees can go int he bumblebee bin, all the Primes in antohers.
Simple!
July 11, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Almost reminds me of the MotU relaunch that they purposely ‘unknowingly’ torpedoed. These companies get so excited with the next thing, they forget the current thing that could make good money. No wonder kids don’t buy toys as much as they used to, each line of toys has a life span of two seconds to their prospective shows. Who are these marketing morons?
I like the bins though, if I had an extra wall I would get some. They would fill with dust and bugs eventually though.