by Valandar » Mon May 12, 2008 9:09 pm
- Motto: "It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty, only that you work to make it full."
- Weapon: Particle Beam Cannon
First thing I would do is decide what characters would have Earth modes, which would have Cybertronian, and which would have beast modes.
The Cybertronian mode figures would be scaled bto fit holes in the line after other figures are scaled. The Earth alt modes would have their scales based on their Earth alt modes, and most animals would be Basics, except for those that became mythical or otherwise large animals. For this purpose, I'd have VERY compact cars, and smaller non-car alt modes as Basics, normal automobile and automobile-sized others as Deluxes, and so on.
Yes, I prefer Deluxe sized cars. Most of the movie line cars, plus Ironhide, Ratchet, and the Arcee repaints are thus perfectly in scale.
Any other alt mode would be scaled as close as possible, unless there's no way to squeeze a HYUGE alt mode into even Supreme size class (like, say, a Fort Max recreation), in which case it would be fudged into Supreme or Leader. The opposite holds true, too - if its alt mode is normally TINY, like a scorpion or a beetle, it's scaled to fit whatever is needed in the line (but as close to Basic as possible)
So, let's say we had ten figures: Audrey, Bones, Chaser, Delta, Echo, Fibber, Gobotnik, Halflife, Impeter, and Joint. We decide the following:
Audrey, Fibber, and Impeter are beast-modes. Specifically an elephant, a jackal, and a monkey.
Bones, Echo, Gobotnik, and Halflife will have Earth Modes. Bones will be a hearse, Echo a sportscar, Gobotnik an ice cream truck, and Halflife turns into a nuclear missile.
Finally, Chaser, Delta, and Joint have Cybertronian modes. Chaser is a space jet, Delta a cybertronian sportscar, and Joint a cheesey drill tank.
Now, we begin with the Earth modes. A hearse and a sportscar are vaguely close enough in scale that we can make Bones and Echo both Deluxes. Perhaps Bones has less folding than normal, so that while his robot mode ends up the same overall size as Echo, his vehicle form seems larger. An ice cream truck is enough larger that we make Gobotnik a Voyager, and a nuclear missile is so large we make him the Supreme for the series.
An elephant is larger than an ice cream truck, so we decide to make Audrey an African Bull elephant, and make her an Ultra. On the other hand, jackals and monkeys are much smaller than normal cars, so they're both Basics.
Since the remaining three are Cybertronian, we base their scale on holes needed in the line. As yet we have no Leader class, two Basics, two Deluxes, one Voyager, one Ultra, and one Supreme. So we decide the drill tank Joint is large enough that it will be the Leader. We also decide to put Chaser the jet as a Voyager, and Delta the cybertronian car as a Deluxe.
Obviously this is just an example, and ten figures doesn't make a line large enough for all the size classes, but it gets my point across.
Now the next big thing is the story. What is the new take on transforming robots we're going with THIS time? Is it another reboot, neccessitating a new Prime, Megs, etc? Or is it a look at a section we never got a closer look at elsewhere, meaning all new figures? Oh, wait, that's a stupid question, another reboot as always. *sigh* Never can get a break.
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