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News Credits: 972 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:50 pm

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.

News Credits: 34 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:56 pm

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?

News Credits: 1082 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:06 pm

Perhaps a Blockade Runner and then they could combine ala Chewie and Han... :???:

News Credits: 26 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:08 pm

Funny Transformers are Robots in disguise not people in disguise

Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:11 pm

Whatevah. SWTF sucks anyways.

News Credits: 8 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:53 pm

Could this mark the end of the Star Wars line?

Even though they have the ships dead on, it's still an awkward line.

Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:15 pm

I've enjoied a handfull of the figures out of this line. No surprise really thay arn't going to do Droidformers.

Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:35 pm

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?

Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:11 pm

Does this mean I can still hope for a Jabba The Hut TF that turns into his air barge?

News Credits: 462 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:30 pm

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.

News Credits: 5 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:45 pm

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...

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:18 pm

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.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:05 pm

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$$.

News Credits: 4 · Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:12 am

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".

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:34 am

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.