by Sabrblade » Sun Nov 13, 2016 10:32 am
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To me, the biggest reason that there hasn't yet been a G2 Defensor Collection Pack yet is because of how Hasbro did Groove.
For Superion and Menasor, they originally removed Slingshot and Wildrider, replacing them with Alpha Bravo and Offroad before eventually doing the two as the May Mayhem exclusives Quickslinger and Brake-Neck. Then, when they did the G2 Collection Packs, they put back in the original members who were previously removed and replaced.
For Defensor, however, they did not completely remove Groove from the combiner. They replaced him as a limb with Rook, but still kept Groove as a Legends class component. After Takara did their Unite Warriors Deluxe Groove, Hasbro eventually imported that figure into the CW toyline as another May Mayhem exclusive, but which they advertised as a component of the then-contemporary Sky Reign combiner, who also happened to be the one complete-team CW combiner who did not have a designated Legends class component (regardless of any possible plans for Wreck-Gar to be Sky Reign's Legends component that might have been dropped).
Speaking of Legends class components, that too is likely a factor in why G2 Defensor hasn't happened yet. So far, every CW Collection Pack has contain a complete-team combiner made up of six components: 1 Voyager, 4 Deluxes, and 1 Legends (we can presume that the Scrounge and Cybaxx that come with Computron count as a single Legends set in Hasbro's eyes much like how the original Cosmos w/ Payload did). For Superion and Menasor, their Collection Packs not only put back in their original team members, but also included the new Legends class members Powerglide and Backjack.
For Defensor, because Legends Groove was not a new member, if Hasbro tried to put him back as a limb like they did for Quickslinger and Brake-Neck, that would render the Legends Groove toy redundant, making there be two Grooves in the set. Hasbro likely wants to avoid having two of the same guy in each set, and also likely would want to avoid creating new characters for the G2 sets that weren't already released as G1 versions in the mass retail line. Therefore, if they used the Deluxe Groove mold as a limb like they did with Quickslinger and Brake-Neck, that would leave G2 Defensor without a Legends class component, which would go against the trend that Hasbro had established for the Collection Packs. But if they were to keep Legends Groove as Groove, then there would either be two Grooves or a need for a different non-Groove limb, which also goes agaist the established trend of the Collection Pack using the original limb characters properly.
Hasbro likely wants to maintain consistency across the board in how they handle these CW Collection Packs, but the presence of two different toys that each serve the necessary purpose of their respective size classes being the same single character, who also happens to be an original teammate character, likely conflicts with Hasbro's desire for widespread consistency with the CW Collection Packs, thereby presenting an obstacle in their doing a G2 Defensor set.
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