spiritofcat wrote:Judge Deliberata wrote:Shockwave for certain. He's the man.
But especially Ratchet & Ironhide. Most people agree their G1 toys sucked bad, and their forms need to be done real toy justice.
Well Shockwave got the Alternator Treatment and turned out fantastic so I don't see a real need for a Classics version.
Ratchet is getting a G1 repaint of his movie version and I suspect Ironhide might get one too.
I'd definitely be interested in a new version of Predaking, Blaster and the rest of the Dinobots.
Don't get me wrong, Alternator Shockwave was awesome (loved the license plate), as is the whole line. But I have this thing about the old guys straying too far from the mold.
When I say mold, I mean the original type of altmode they had. I feel Shockwave should be anything but a vehicle as there are plenty of other characters who do that and really deserve the Alternator treatment (the aforementioned Brawn, for instance, or Huffer - when was the last time either of those two got toys in any form whatsoever?). Energon Shockblast, I felt, was a really good example of what a new version of Shockwave should be like - he still transformed into something unorthodox.
However, with a Titanium Shockwave allegedly in development, I'm kind of inclined to agree that maybe Shockers could be left out just this once...
As for Ironhide and Ratchet, I'll come right out and say it: As much as I've come to like the movie versions, those two just aren't gonna cut it for my R & I needs. A repainted color scheme alone isn't enough to make me look at a toy and think "Yep, that's Ironhide." R & I have been two of my faves ever since I was a kid, and I love them not only for what they look like, but for their iconic G1 characterization, ther personalities.
I can't look at movie Ironhide and think "This is the ornery-yet-friendly veteran with that recognizable drawl who contains within his arms every liquid known to the galaxy, and even half-dead tried to stop Megatron before he got to Autobot City".
And that especially goes for Ratchet. Reason? Marvel comics US depiction. I look at his movie incarnation and I can't think, "This is the party-crazy medic who tried to cook hotdogs with a laser scalpel. This is the guy who was willing to sacrifice his life on multiple occasions to stop Megatron."
"This is the guy who, fresh out of a resuscitation chamber, and with Megatron's mind melded with his own, proceeded to *****-slap Starscream around, dress him down like the cowardly punk he is (sorry, SS fans, I love him too
) and send the Ark crashing into the earth again, killing himself and stopping Megatron and Galvatron from teaming up to cause havoc."
"This is the guy who, in the Marvel comic, arguably more than Optimus Prime himself, embodied everything the Autobots stand for."
And as much as I feel more of the lesser-explored characters like Brawl, Huffer and especially Blaster deserve new takes on their old-school looks-
If Ratchet is not good enough for a Classics - hell, even a Masterpiece incarnation - no one bloody well is.
I do realize that probably came off as a raging fanboy rant of some sort, and perhaps a diatribe on the characterizations within comics has little place in the Toys forum. And of course it's up to the companies and not us to decide who gets in and who doesn't. But the G1 characters, be it their comic, toy, or TV incarnation are inseparable in my mind. Ratchet deserves this.
Ok, rant over.
As an aside, I think that Cyclonus too should be given a Classics incarnation, which would incorporate elements from both Bombshell and Skywarp (even though I know he's been done already) just to mess with the fans.
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