craggy wrote: Its quite disappointing that TFPrime redesigned him (and he's pretty cool looking from what I've seen)
craggy wrote:but even an upscale of the Hasbro one with modifications to put a smaller bot inside could work.
Mkall wrote:I never liked the Pretender shells. When I was a kid I got a couple as gifts, and I used the inner robot to fight the shells. I'm perfectly happy with how HasTak is doing them these days, although I hope they stay away from the human heads like FunPub tried.
Tsutsukakushi wrote:I also don't want to see any 3rd party Autobots or Decepticons human face looking Pretenders. As TFC turned me off this idea,with there freak show looking wannabe robocop Metalhawk toy.
I only want to see the Decepticon Pretenders monsters. Those bigger pretender beast animals. Mega Pretender Thunderwing.
Nobody gave any feedback on my Two 3rd party Pretender beast ideas for Catilla. Since MMC is creating a voyager Catilla,Does anyone want to see a Leader scale Pretender shell made for it?
How about creating a 3rd party Voyager Pretender shell for classics Minicon Catilla. The Minicon would fit in a hollow torso cavity. Which would allow the Catilla pretender animal shell to transform into a robot mode.
Tsutsukakushi wrote:craggy wrote: Its quite disappointing that TFPrime redesigned him (and he's pretty cool looking from what I've seen)
Are you referring to the Hasbro TFP BH Dreadwing Toys? or something else?
Gauntlet101010 wrote:Here's the thing about Legends and Minicon sizes for Pretenders: those sizes suck. Bots have to be small deluxe size at least to be worth it at all to me and I wouldn't want to sacrifice that for the sake of a gimmick like an oversized shell. That's why I suggested some kind of clip on armour. The robots could hide somewhat and retain possibility in both modes.
Actually, when I think about it the inner robots for the G1 Pretenders were at a fairly good size. Why not just do exactly what they did back then with just better overall sculpting?
Tsutsukakushi wrote:Gauntlet101010 wrote:Here's the thing about Legends and Minicon sizes for Pretenders: those sizes suck. Bots have to be small deluxe size at least to be worth it at all to me and I wouldn't want to sacrifice that for the sake of a gimmick like an oversized shell. That's why I suggested some kind of clip on armour. The robots could hide somewhat and retain possibility in both modes.
Actually, when I think about it the inner robots for the G1 Pretenders were at a fairly good size. Why not just do exactly what they did back then with just better overall sculpting?
I'm not fond of the tiny scale TF toys either. The problem with bigger inner robots is,the shells need to be bigger to house them. Having deluxe scale inner robots will more than guarantee the shells be leader scale.
I wanted the inner robots to be minicon or legends scale,so they could fit inside a cavity in the torso of the pretender shell. this way the shells could have decent poseabilty in the arms,legs,waist & head.
Using the Minicon or legends scale for the 3rd party pretenders might bea good thing. As 3rd parties might be able to use some HasTak minicons & Legends as inner robots. Some of the Classics 2.0 animal minicons can get used for the bigger Pretender Beast shells. Some of the HasTak classics legends like bumblebee,starscream & Jazz could get used as inner robots for 3rd party classics pretenders shells.
Clip on pretender armor might be a good idea. If the clip on armor can form something else like a weapon or animal or vehicle mode. maybe even a battle platform. if it just sits there doing nothing on the side,then it's a bad idea.
I had a few classics pretenders. I think those inner robots were around basic scale. I think even basics would be too big. because the pretender shells might have to be bigger than leader scale to house them. As I want the inner robots to only fit inside the torso of the pretender shell. this will free up place inside the shells to allow the arms,legs,waist & head to have articulation.
I am not looking for inner robots that fit inside the shells like the late 1980's ones did. Because this will limit or cancel out articulation for the pretender shells arms,legs,waist & head.
I'd like to see some inner robots ride the 3rd party pretenders beast. Just add a few attach ports to keep them attached.
njb902 wrote: Hasbro made a mistake in ever making the Pretenders to begin with, not that there is anyway to change that.
craggy wrote:I was quite pleasantly surprised by the way they did the HFTD Bludgeon, mixing the Pretender shell look into the robot, whilst having the whole thing transform into the alt mode of the inner robot. Skullgrin's a great toy too, and Thunderwing would have been awesome if he'd been a tad bigger.
Gauntlet101010 wrote:But I think a blending of the armour and robot worked well for Bludgeon, so that's another route they could go.
Mkall wrote:I'm perfectly happy with how HasTak is doing them these days,
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