No Droid SWTF to be Released
Monday, January 21st, 2008 3:50PM CST
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Raving Toy Maniac have posted a short "Question and Answer" session they had with Hasbro.
Included in the Q&A session was a question regarding any future releases of Droid characters in the Star Wars transformers line:
2. Any chance of seeing Droid based Star Wars Transformers, like an R2-D2 or C-3PO that convert into something?
Answer: It's a matter of size, character expression, and natural fit between the modes. First, R2-D2 and C-3PO are already robots (well, droids). Generally, Star Wars Transformers make sense in the film context with their character tying into vehicles with which they are associated and there aren't any good ties with the droids and vehicles that are compelling (other than perhaps R2-D2 and a Starfighter). In addition, while R2-D2 would be our first choice, a robot mode for him have to change his silhouette significantly and would not really deliver on R2 that we know and love. That's why the humanoid characters work the best.
Please click here to read the full Q&A session.
Included in the Q&A session was a question regarding any future releases of Droid characters in the Star Wars transformers line:
2. Any chance of seeing Droid based Star Wars Transformers, like an R2-D2 or C-3PO that convert into something?
Answer: It's a matter of size, character expression, and natural fit between the modes. First, R2-D2 and C-3PO are already robots (well, droids). Generally, Star Wars Transformers make sense in the film context with their character tying into vehicles with which they are associated and there aren't any good ties with the droids and vehicles that are compelling (other than perhaps R2-D2 and a Starfighter). In addition, while R2-D2 would be our first choice, a robot mode for him have to change his silhouette significantly and would not really deliver on R2 that we know and love. That's why the humanoid characters work the best.
Please click here to read the full Q&A session.
Credit(s): toymania.com
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Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610582)
Posted by Supreme Convoy on January 21st, 2008 @ 3:56pm CST
Posted by Supreme Convoy on January 21st, 2008 @ 3:56pm CST
Hm... never thought of C3PO and R2D2 being released as Transformers.
Probably it's for the best that they're not turned into vehicles.
What would they turn into anyways?
Probably it's for the best that they're not turned into vehicles.
What would they turn into anyways?
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610589)
Posted by Tigertrack on January 21st, 2008 @ 4:06pm CST
Posted by Tigertrack on January 21st, 2008 @ 4:06pm CST
Perhaps a Blockade Runner and then they could combine ala Chewie and Han... 
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610591)
Posted by Wheeljack35 on January 21st, 2008 @ 4:08pm CST
Posted by Wheeljack35 on January 21st, 2008 @ 4:08pm CST
Funny Transformers are Robots in disguise not people in disguise
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610594)
Posted by Nemesis_Apoc on January 21st, 2008 @ 4:11pm CST
Posted by Nemesis_Apoc on January 21st, 2008 @ 4:11pm CST
Whatevah. SWTF sucks anyways.
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610637)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on January 21st, 2008 @ 4:53pm CST
Posted by Liege Evilmus on January 21st, 2008 @ 4:53pm CST
Could this mark the end of the Star Wars line?
Even though they have the ships dead on, it's still an awkward line.
Even though they have the ships dead on, it's still an awkward line.
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610665)
Posted by Talous on January 21st, 2008 @ 5:15pm CST
Posted by Talous on January 21st, 2008 @ 5:15pm CST
I've enjoied a handfull of the figures out of this line. No surprise really thay arn't going to do Droidformers.
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610683)
Posted by Dragonoth on January 21st, 2008 @ 5:35pm CST
Posted by Dragonoth on January 21st, 2008 @ 5:35pm CST
They used the droids in Star Wars Micro Machines in the mid 90's. The ones where the heads turned into bases, like a storm trooper becoming a scene from the Death Star. C3PO had the cantina scene, I forgot what R2D2 became. I like the SWTFs. Have the Falcon and Vader. I can't think of what Threepio could turn into, but Artoo could open up and convert into a speeder or something. Maybe Yoda's hut?
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610717)
Posted by Starscreams bad comedy on January 21st, 2008 @ 6:11pm CST
Posted by Starscreams bad comedy on January 21st, 2008 @ 6:11pm CST
Does this mean I can still hope for a Jabba The Hut TF that turns into his air barge?
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610803)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 21st, 2008 @ 7:30pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on January 21st, 2008 @ 7:30pm CST
They coulda done Artoo's mech turing into the escape pod he a 3PO were in, in episode 4. That won't change his shape much.
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610870)
Posted by emeraldbeacon on January 21st, 2008 @ 8:45pm CST
Posted by emeraldbeacon on January 21st, 2008 @ 8:45pm CST
The Escape pod from the Tantive IV would make for a natural Artoo, and Luke's Landspeeder was piloted by Threepio in Episode IV. Both would be good fits, if you ask me...
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (610938)
Posted by First-Aid on January 21st, 2008 @ 10:18pm CST
All in all I give Hasbro credit for trying to combine the two...naturally anything to make a dollar, but they do sort of lend to each other. I've said many times that they nail the vehicle modes: they HAVE to...as bad as TF fans are about the designs, Star Wars fans are a billion times worse. If they didn't get the vehicle mode perfect, SW fans wouldn't have bought the toys. With Transformers- with the exception of the Alternators line to an extent- Hasbro has some play with what the vehicle modes look like. I think that's why the movie figures couldn't be dead on: Hasbro could have gotten the bot modes but there's no way with current toy tech to get those bots into a vehicle mode even close to what they were in the movie. In a way the SWTF and TFM '07 toys were similar.
Posted by First-Aid on January 21st, 2008 @ 10:18pm CST
Liege Evilmus wrote:Even though they have the ships dead on, it's still an awkward line.
All in all I give Hasbro credit for trying to combine the two...naturally anything to make a dollar, but they do sort of lend to each other. I've said many times that they nail the vehicle modes: they HAVE to...as bad as TF fans are about the designs, Star Wars fans are a billion times worse. If they didn't get the vehicle mode perfect, SW fans wouldn't have bought the toys. With Transformers- with the exception of the Alternators line to an extent- Hasbro has some play with what the vehicle modes look like. I think that's why the movie figures couldn't be dead on: Hasbro could have gotten the bot modes but there's no way with current toy tech to get those bots into a vehicle mode even close to what they were in the movie. In a way the SWTF and TFM '07 toys were similar.
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (611887)
Posted by rpetras on January 22nd, 2008 @ 10:05pm CST
Posted by rpetras on January 22nd, 2008 @ 10:05pm CST
I still think they went about it wrong.
It would have been cool to have the SW vehicles turn into TF characters.
X-wings into Bluestreak, Smokescreen & prowl. A-Wings into the Lambros. Prime into the Falcon. Etc etc
Seekers as Imperial Shuttles. Rumble & Frenzy as TIEs. Megatron as a star destroyer!
All in all I liked a few of the SW TFs and there were a few more I didn't. The Turbo Tank is bada$$.
It would have been cool to have the SW vehicles turn into TF characters.
X-wings into Bluestreak, Smokescreen & prowl. A-Wings into the Lambros. Prime into the Falcon. Etc etc
Seekers as Imperial Shuttles. Rumble & Frenzy as TIEs. Megatron as a star destroyer!
All in all I liked a few of the SW TFs and there were a few more I didn't. The Turbo Tank is bada$$.
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (611948)
Posted by Fireblast on January 22nd, 2008 @ 11:12pm CST
My thoughts exactly. Of course you need a Unicron who doesn't turn into a planet but a "moon".
Posted by Fireblast on January 22nd, 2008 @ 11:12pm CST
rpetras wrote:I still think they went about it wrong.
It would have been cool to have the SW vehicles turn into TF characters.
X-wings into Bluestreak, Smokescreen & prowl. A-Wings into the Lambros. Prime into the Falcon. Etc etc
Seekers as Imperial Shuttles. Rumble & Frenzy as TIEs. Megatron as a star destroyer!
All in all I liked a few of the SW TFs and there were a few more I didn't. The Turbo Tank is bada$$.
My thoughts exactly. Of course you need a Unicron who doesn't turn into a planet but a "moon".
Re: No Droid SWTF to be Released (612924)
Posted by Mechabreaker on January 24th, 2008 @ 2:34am CST
Posted by Mechabreaker on January 24th, 2008 @ 2:34am CST
eh, never been a fan of the SWTF line, I found it to be too much of a stretch. it's like witnessing Indiana Jones driving the Ecto-1 through the streets of India.
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