>>11800238
Blokees 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

>>11800238
model kits? They better be like the Pokemon ones, or else barf

>>11800238
Looking to see how shit these are compared to the worst Revell kits.

Definitely not going to get a Bandai level experience.

>>11800238
Aren't they all copying late 90s Gundam kits?

>>11800238
>in house
I think the funny thing is that most of their branded Lego competitors have been outsourced to other Chinese companies
>>11800356
Revell 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.

>>11800594
No. 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.

>>11800611
Wait till you find out that Japanese kids aged 4-9 can happily build the same HG kits that the adults do.

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>>11800660
This 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.

>>11800685
They are fun to build, look good as is and yeah, they are affordable.

>>11800685
Make for fun toys too. Articulation is good enough/playable, and you get a lot of them for cheap.

>>11800685
They 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.

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>>11800685
the 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.

>>11800685
It's the new troll

>>11800685
They'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.

>>11800719
Optimus 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 Hasbro
just 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

>>11800719
That 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.

>>11800738
They'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 figure
While 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

>>11800719
I 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.

>>11800738
They 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 licenses
All of them are officially licensed though?

>>11800805
Yeah, 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.

>>11800722
True, 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.

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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.

>>11800825
Oh 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

>>11800738
They make your dick bigger and help you get more back on your taxes

>>11800685
If 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.

>>11801221
Everytime 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

>>11800685
They make great toys for their price but they do so much of the work for for you I wouldn't call them great kits.

>>11801232
Swap 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

>>11801255
They don't even have a uniform scale let alone style.

>>11800238
More 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.

>>11800685
Because 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.

>>11800238
so all my blokees are worthless now?

>>11800726
If hasbro stops them I simply wont buy hasbros and mark it dead

>>11801362
>Wow, Hasbro is turning into Temu
kek, this

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>>11801412
Only the Transformers
And only is hasblo makes something decent
Blokees has enough credibility that they could do the same thing so many Hong Kong companies do and make

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OP is either a newfag zoomer.

Hasbro chases trends, just like every toy company out there.

The fact that they even license IPs is because they're riding a trend or hoping it becomes one.

is is from when Funko Pops and bobbleheads were getting popular

>>11800835
hasblo has your fourteen multicolored deadpool vespa's right here, doll face

>>11800238
doubt they can make it cheaper than blokees

>>11804503
Blokees is a wholly Chinese company that owns their own warehouse and factories. The only thing they don't own are IPs and the means of distribution like Ali Express, Crapazom or worldwide retail channels like Walmart.

>>11807587
don't forget because they're chinese, all their employees are actually slaves, so their housing, food, and whips for the slavemasters will be 1/5th of the cost of American Hasbro employees

>>11808453
Based

>>11808453
True, I was licking over the pieces of my action edition Megatron and it had some salty parts that taste like tears.

>>11801412
Is the Blokees Transformers license at risk? Is that why they have Star Wars Galaxy line?

Maybe they will also limit Blokees Transformers to South East Asia only? Disney current limits Marvel and Star Wars Blokees to South East Asia only.

>>11808453
>will be 1/5th of the cost of American Hasbro employees
Hasblo has warehouses but they have no factories and no employees who work at factories except for vendors on contract who allegedly do things like QC shit in China (or Vietnam or whatever hell hole place they use to produce any Hasblo product); this includes there none plastic crack products like MTG table top games and other shit. EVEN those don't have factories with literal Hasblo employees other than 'management.'

>>11808833
Singy Ken

>>11808833
By law, they're supposed to be paid minimum wage. Whether farms have slaves on the down low, who knows.

... but we're talking about Hasbro's sculptors, designers, artists, accountants, engineers, lawyers, chemists, HR karens, and other employees who are making much more than minimum wage and cost more than 10000 cages full of human cattle in China.

>>11808696
Well, Hasbro does outsource the manfucturing to China, who then requires slaves, so i guess that's the only equal part in costs with Chinese toy companies.

>>11800685
Their little $5-$10 kits are fun and slightly addicting but interest fades pretty quick in my experience.

However, their larger scale model kits are some of the best kits I've ever assembled, especially Tarn. I wouldn't be disappointed at all if they discontinued the smaller sets and focused on the larger sets.

>>11800238
Are you the guy that's obsessed with cocks?

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