by craigbarnes88 » Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:16 pm
I will admit I am incredibly unhappy with the handling of power discs this time around.
I was merrily happy when they announced no more blind bags, but I did not realise a side effect would be significantly fewer power discs.
I feel like they don't really know what to do with them, some have seemingly lost their purpose.
The terrain discs to me make little sense. With some terrains in game and some on discs, it's a bit fragmented. I'd rather it was more of an all or none with terrains. (Meaning either all in game, or all power discs. One or the other, not both)
As for vehicles, I'd rather they were power discs. It's a little disappointing that Bullseye and Sven are forever locked in game, when all my other character based vehicles are power discs. This is for personal reasons, as I do consider the horses etc as characters and buy figures to go with their power discs.
As for power ups, well I never used the power up discs to be honest. I'm sure many do, I merely have no opinion on them.
Costume discs on the other hand, I love them. But this year we have had so few. I could probably come up with an alternate costume for EVERY character we have. Some have multiple alternates!!! But this new method of power disc distribution has left us with very few. Last year I had about 12 customs to make from costume discs and I fell in love with the hobby. This year I've had a disappointing 3 so far. With only 4 more announced to come.
I know some people may frown upon the extra expense of these discs, but the costumes in particular I feel give a whole new life to a figure, they give the figure you already own more options. And the more costumes, the more characters you can have out of one figure.