I’ve been listening to/reading a number of recaps and opinions from Toy Fair, and these figures definitely seem to be the hot button issue. Some of them brought up an excellent point that I was thinking about too, it was only a matter of time. Retro, especially these days, have always been a thing. Heck, look how often we see Transformers reissues, and people don’t seem to have as much problem with those. I just bought a Bumblebee one this week, and was happy to find it to go with my reissue Prime and Sideswipe. I have a set of reissued Ninja Turtles figures I picked up at TRU years ago as well. I remember looking at (and wish I could have bought) the reissued Masters of the Universe figures when they were out as well. Honestly, Star Wars is one of the few “big” lines from the 80s that hasn’t done this aside from the POTF2 four pack. They (Hasbro) seem to have gone out of their way to make sure everyone knows they aren’t REAL vintage, from the cardbacks to the date stamps, etc. so hopefully there aren’t any issues there.
It may be that the reactions were just as divided with those other line reissues I mentioned, I’m not as plugged into the various other fandoms as I am with Star Wars. I just wish there wasn’t always so much conflict in our fandom. I am not at all directing this at people here, but just with various podcasts and videos I’ve been taking in from creators I very much enjoy, it seems like many are upset by this. I get they aren’t for everyone, and that’s fine, but I guess they don’t bother me too much. I know I’ll likely pick them up if they aren’t too difficult to find.