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Sun May 20, 2012 5:21 am

when i say the old transformers i don't mean like all the characters we now and live i mean the ones like cityformers and the masters. It would be cool to see all the headmaster in the main line of prime o]r another series or even in the universe/generations

Sun May 20, 2012 5:32 am

The problem is, as I've addressed before, that every series after Beast Wars has a lot less characters in it. And even Beast Wars didn't have many in the cartoon. Transformers would have to at least release masses of toy characters again for all the sub-factions like -masters and cityformers to be viable, rather than a random character or two that happens to appear in the cartoon's 20-ish character roster.

I'm hoping for the same thing though, but I doubt it will happen any time soon.

News Credits: 9 · Sun May 20, 2012 5:51 am

But if TFP runs for years as it was announced, these things could happen some time down the line.

Sun May 20, 2012 5:52 am

it sucks cos i wasnt around for g1 and i hva no money to by the toys so i hope that hasbro runs out of ideas and remake all the old sub-lines of g1 but with a modern twist to them

News Credits: 33 · Sun May 20, 2012 6:32 am

Just keep some hope that the new generations classics line in the next year or two will have a couple headmasters and pretenders in there waves.

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 20, 2012 7:36 am

Armada had Headmasters (Overload, Sideways), Targetmasters (Minicons) and Universe 2.0 had Targetmasters. They're there if you look close enough.

Sun May 20, 2012 7:36 am

Well, Headmasters at least are pretty easy. Armada had a few in Sideways and Overload, so there's certainly the possibility.

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

I suspect we'll start seeing more and more in the Classics/Generations lines as time goes on, once all the Fall of Cybertron figures have come and gone.

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 20, 2012 11:39 pm

I wouldn't mind some more triple changers revisited.

oh oh and some weapons packs. swords, knifes, pistols, guns, and missile launchers.

Sun May 20, 2012 11:59 pm

njb902 wrote:oh oh and some weapons packs. swords, knifes, pistols, guns, and missile launchers.

I've wanted something along those lines since the days of Armada, when Minicons and gimmicks replaced hand-held weapons. But I've pretty much given up on them. Aside from Minicons turning into weapons, of course.

Mon May 21, 2012 8:29 am

orangeitis wrote:
njb902 wrote:oh oh and some weapons packs. swords, knifes, pistols, guns, and missile launchers.
I've wanted something along those lines since the days of Armada, when Minicons and gimmicks replaced hand-held weapons. But I've pretty much given up on them. Aside from Minicons turning into weapons, of course.

Hey now, Targetmasters are great.

But yeah, triple-changers REALLY need updated. Not counting the Dotm HA Basic 'Targetmasters', we haven't had a good triple changer for a few years. Also not counting TFA Blitzwing because it's awful, the last new mold was Universe 2.0 Octane, I believe.

Well, technically RotF Soundwave is a triple changer...but it's more like all of the modes are bad, Mixmaster has a turret mode that doesn't work particularly well, and tfwiki says there was a triple changing Megatron from the same line, which one was it?

I, for one, would REALLY like to see an update to G1 Sixshot and Quickswitch. For bricks, they were engineered pretty well, I'd love to see how they could be done with more modern techniques.

Mon May 21, 2012 9:21 am

RAcast wrote:Hey now, Targetmasters are great.

Indeed they are. Which is why Hasbro should release Arms Minicons. :KREMZEEK:

Question though. How would you guys think a modernized team of Seacons would be like?

I think they would look best if they had Beast Wars Transmetals-like aesthetics with HA basic-style weapon modes and FoC Bruticus-style limb modes.

Mon May 21, 2012 9:32 am

orangeitis wrote:
RAcast wrote:Hey now, Targetmasters are great.
Indeed they are. Which is why Hasbro should release Arms Minicons.

Question though. How would you guys think a modernized team of Seacons would be like?

I think they would look best if they had Beast Wars Transmetals-like aesthetics with HA basic-style weapon modes and FoC Bruticus-style limb modes.

^ Nailed it. Though I definitely think that they should go with metallic paint rather than chrome. xD I mean, it looks really good, but when I'm having so much chrome flaking on a few of my old transmetals and BM figures, ESPECIALLY poor Ultra class Jetstorm, made worse by the fact that his entire upper torso is chromed. x.x;

News Credits: 1 · Mon May 21, 2012 9:42 pm

orangeitis wrote:
RAcast wrote:Hey now, Targetmasters are great.
Indeed they are. Which is why Hasbro should release Arms Minicons.

Question though. How would you guys think a modernized team of Seacons would be like?

I think they would look best if they had Beast Wars Transmetals-like aesthetics with HA basic-style weapon modes and FoC Bruticus-style limb modes.

nice thought. I bought the reissue in december as I never had the originals and I love the team.

Tue May 22, 2012 1:24 am

they should give all the old combiners new molds and make them inter-changeable.

News Credits: 1 · Tue May 22, 2012 3:41 am

dustmancer wrote:they should give all the old combiners new molds and make them inter-changeable.

that would be nice. the only one it would not work for though is devestator, his body is made of 6 bots as apposed to 5 like the others.

we do have foc bruticus to look forward to. I'm going into joyafolific shock in anticipation.

Tue May 22, 2012 8:00 am

njb902 wrote:
dustmancer wrote:they should give all the old combiners new molds and make them inter-changeable.

that would be nice. the only one it would not work for though is devestator, his body is made of 6 bots as apposed to 5 like the others.

we do have foc bruticus to look forward to. I'm going into joyafolific shock in anticipation.

And presumably, if it does well, we'll see more of the scramble city combiners.

Tue May 22, 2012 8:27 am

RAcast wrote:
njb902 wrote:
dustmancer wrote:they should give all the old combiners new molds and make them inter-changeable.

that would be nice. the only one it would not work for though is devestator, his body is made of 6 bots as apposed to 5 like the others.

we do have foc bruticus to look forward to. I'm going into joyafolific shock in anticipation.

And presumably, if it does well, we'll see more of the scramble city combiners.

The existence of that possibility alone fills my burning heart with passionate alacrity. :michaelbay:

News Credits: 1 · Tue May 22, 2012 11:24 am

something else I would like to see is a new rodimus prime(voyager) not hot rod/rodimus but a real honest to goodness prime.

News Credits: 4 · Tue May 22, 2012 2:05 pm

more of the characters from the later series of G1 would be nice. I could do with more members of my Mayhem Attack Squad, and there's a few options to retool and repaint some of the more recent deluxe cars into the original headmasters characters. I know there's already been a Classics-verse Hardhead, but just getting Warpath this weekend, he'd make a good Hardhead.

Ideally, it'd be a line similar to the HA Basics or PCCs, with a good lineup of Headmaster/Targetmaster/Powermaster guys, and Minicons that form their heads/guns/etc. But I'd settle, in fact, be very happy, if it was just those characters revisited without their various 'master gimmicks.