Nemesis Primal wrote:Mkall wrote:Sorry Hasbro, I'm calling you out on this one.
This could have been the perfect chance to give us a Bulletbike or Override homage, but instead you make a crappy version of a toy/figure/character when there was already a pretty much perfect Wreck-Gar out there.
I'll go one better, you know who would have
really been a surprise?
I know, I know, wrong faction, but they're reasonably similar in both modes, and
Cybertron/
Galaxy Force homages just don't seem to ever happen for whatever reason.
Actually, I'll throw out a Botcon 2016 prediction:
The Heralds of Unicron.
A boxed set of redecos of CW figures as RiD Sideways (from Groove), pre-Beast Windrazor, Hook, Line, and Sinker... Who combine to form...
G2 Marvel Comics Swarm. Or The Fallen.
Maybe Armada Thrust as a Legends-scale Powerglide redeco chest piece.
There's no way they'd combine to become Unicron with that much purple.
Meanwhile, a strong year for souvenir figures with all Autobot souvenirs. 3 two packs as their own combiner. My guess: Lasercycle Jazz (from Groove), Gobot Bumblebee, Cyberjet Jetfire, Gobot Ironhide, and Thunderclash (Autobot Leader from the Euro line retooled from Motormaster/CW Prime) combine to form Turbomaster Hyperdrive.
Probably with fiction that ties into the General Prime and Sgt. Hound bios. Basically, General Prime and Sgt. Hound were the final phase of a G1/G2 continuity. The war ended and ATB Megatron and Starscream pulled a suicide maneuver, taking out Prime and Hound who were transported to Axiom Nexus by the explosion. My guess would then be that we get a Unicron herald combiner threatening a post-war world without Prime/Hound/Megs/Starscream where Pyro is the leader and the remaining G1 heroes combine to form Hyperdrive, the unproduced RANK 11 Transformer who was supposed to be the boss of the Commander-in-Chief.
Also, you could probably then set up a further redeco the next year with a Thunderclash who becomes Machine War Prime and an ATB Megatron/Starscream release. By that point, I figure, you could be doing a wrap up on the late G1/G2/MW-era apocalyptic stuff and starting to get back into Beast Wars. Maybe a redeco of Oilmaster as a young Double Pretender Optimus Primal or something.
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