Nobody reasonable said that. Actually, I don't really remember anyone claiming that Warbot Defender was an end-all, be-all Springer. Most of the praise I remember simply came from it being a new-mold Springer that was a triple changer instead of the repaints that Hasbro had put out at the time.Cliffjumper wrote:How can you say that, with 3P Sunstreakers only just emerging in recent months? People were saying that about Warbot Defendor and he got shitted up by a Hasbro mass retail Voyager.
And to play devil's advocate a bit, I think a lot of the NEW SHINY reactions come in instances of the new figures actually being better. Masterpiece Sideswipe is, for the purposes of adult collectors, a much nicer figure than the Classics Sideswipe. But the new figure does actually need to be better (highly subjective, I know) to trigger the effect. I don't know of anyone that dumped their Classics voyager Prime for the Combiner Wars version for example, or anyone selling their Masterpiece Soundwave to get that headmaster Blaster repaint.