The Energon Pub

I was just watching Peaugh's video review for Jeagertron (Lockdown) and I got to thinking about the MMC propensity to make IDW style toys quite often lately.

I do actually for the most part kinda like the MMC stuff - but as I'm not one to gush over IDW I choose to justify that like by proposing to myself the idea that the gangly look of some of them represent a time period of a particular era in Cybertronian History - which is also what I do with WFC/FOC & to explain the bazillion different Bodies toys based on Optimus Prime have.

This got me wondering what other excuse people might make to themselves to fool themselves into being a willing consumer of a product they might otherwise not want too.

Perhaps an example of this is I guess some people like to buy White Optimus Prime Repaints as Magnus and Nemesis Prime even though those characters don't often feature in any fiction and are more of a side canon idea. Likewise a Lion Mode Optimus Prime to a Western eye or The Japanese Characters like Diatlas & Overlord.

So eventually get some sort of offered excuse but sometimes not until much later.

So thinking on those sorts of subjects let me know the excuses and Head-canon narratives you tell yourself to excuse a toy that is an ill fit otherwise ?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

I wasn't going to get any of the Titans Return Deluxes initially, because there were no characters in the first two waves I had any interest or attachment to, but at some point I convinced myself that I could re-purpose Skullsmasher, Mindwipe and Wolfwire as Beast Wars Predacons, because at the time Thrilling 30 Waspinator and Sky-Byte were the only two Predacons on my Generations shelf. Thankfully I ended up really liking Skullsmasher and Mindwipe (haven't got hold of Wolfwire yet), so I don't feel as if I've wasted any money on them.

My first combiner ever is the original Hb Metal Predaking. And I hated it. Really! But hey? My first G1 combiner back in 1991. But over the years it grew on me. The black orange yellow combo. And the fact that back then, it was one of the priciest G1 figs ever. Because of the die-cast but the bruiser is still with me.

Here is another possible example.

Disgusted with how tiny Shockwave & Wreck Gar are as Legends toys ?

Well don't think of them as scale to the other think of them as scale specifically to legends : Optimus, Starscream, Skywarp, Acid Storm, Thundercracker, & Megatron an then don't use those ones with :

Huffer, Cliffjumper, Bumblebee, Tailgate, Windcharger, Cosmos, Pipes, & Brawn
You use those with your deluxes instead.

The likes of CW Shockwave can still function as combiner upgrade sure - but they work an absolute treat as many "Cyberverse Commanders" did.

The exact same issue already popped up with Powerglide too in the DOTM Commander line - you can say - OK he's a big plane so that makes some sense for him to be a commander - but he's also a Minibot - so you can shift him over to useing Powerglide and Hatchet with Deluxes I feel.

Likewise Legends Megatron, Shockwave & Optimus are great with "Legion size" form a few years before like Bumblebee, Beachcomber, Cosmos, Warpath, Wheelie, Jazz, Trailcutter etc...

For that reason i'd actually not mind at all to have a Legends class Inferno and Grapple either - and with all these new 3rd party Legends/legion/scout size characters being made the point is only hammered home further.

But that isn't "quite" the way Hasbro is selling them to you - they are selling them to you as Bumblebee & Megatron being the same size.

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Conversely the issue with something like Deluxe Megatron's and Optimus' seeming real small is also helped out by using them with the likes of Legends Huffer or Legends Bumblebee or Windcharger where they work really great.

So that is another example of how to talk yourself into liking something perhaps.