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The more I think about this, the more I just wanna say, screw it, do them all!

They shouldn't do exclusives anymore, they're unfair on collectors who can't get them, and they're always shoddy if they're repaints, My Skywarp has two left guns and my Ultra Magnus has loose joints that can't be fixed with a screwdriver.

They should redo Devastator WITH Mixmaster and do it right.

We need Superion and Menasaur, and even leaders Omega Supreme and Metroplex.

Hook, Line and Sinker.

I love the 298364 different topics that are all asking the same thing here... Seriously. I love it!

I'm glad to see so much love for Punch/CounterPunch and Bludgeon!! Definitely 2 I'd love to see for this line. Also, other G1'ers that never got any love after G1, like Warpath, Beachcomber, Seaspray, etc. As Deluxe Classics, they'd finally get their due! New Insecticons, a hardcore badass Cyclonus and Scourge and, oh hell why not, a Trypticon!!!

Sephron1335 wrote:I'm glad to see so much love for Punch/CounterPunch!

Who wouldn't be?

Counterpunch wrote:

Sephron1335 wrote:I'm glad to see so much love for Punch/CounterPunch!

Who wouldn't be?

Methinks Counterpunch is a complete douche...

i'd be happy if they did all the g1 guys but don't screw them up like grimlock and mirage. the combiners would also be nice but devastator was just pathetic in my opinion and why not just make all the seekers for crying out loud! why do they always leave some out? the hasbro reissues left out the coneheads, the tfc collection left out all but starscream, and now we got classics screamer,ramjet, and for the lucky few skywarp. just give us the rest!

I'd like to see these figures as classics:

Razorclaw
Headstrong
Divebomb
rampage
Tantrum

which ofcourse would also give us Predaking!!!



I'd love to see this!!

First order of business should be those G1 characters who had no toys, or whose toys were wildly different from their on-screen designs. I'd have the majority be deluxes, with only the occasional larger ones when alt-modes necessitated it. Personally I'd go for the season 1 and movie cast first.

Deluxe:
Arcee (w/Mini-con sized Daniel in exo-suit, but don't bother making him a Headmaster, repaint as Paradron Medic in a wave with Sandstorm)
Wreck-Gar (later repaint/retool to 2 variant Junkions-w/break apart action)
Ironhide (repaint as Ratchet later, w/new head)
Scourge (w/Sweep variant/alternate head and or paint app)
Seeker (repainted Starscream in blue/purple and grey, like the generic drones seen in many cartoon episodes and in the DW comics)
Cyclonus (nothing special, just toon-accurate)
Alpha Trion (retool of the Scourge/Sweep toy, with Key to Vector Sigma)
Soundwave (mp3 player or tapedeck, either way, same look and transformation as G1, could later be retooled into Blaster)
Rumble and Ravage 2-pack (tapes or memory cards dependant on Soundwave's alt. more posable than G1, and Rumble has his pile-drivers arms as alternates)
Frenzy and Laserbeak 2-pack (again, just updates of the old versions. give Laserbeak the camera attachment from TF:TM?)
Springer (just a nice updated version of the G1 toy, maybe repaint as Paradron Warrior with a new head?)
Kup (detachable limbs as a special feature tp re-enact TF:TM? )
Autobot Cars-Prowl, Bluestreak, Smokescreen (repaints at various points throughout the line)
Brawn (cartoon accurate version)
Sharkticon (re-do of G1 version)
Allicon (Quintesson Guards)
Dinobots (Swoop, Snarl, Sludge and Slag, just updates of the previous toys with toon-accurate details)
Spike, Sparkplug and Chip 3-pack (GI Joe type figures based on pre-movie designs)
Spike and Daniel 2-pack (GI Joe type figures based on post-movie designs with clip-on Exo-suits)

Voyager:
Ultra Magnus (G1/Titanium style cab becomes part of the robot. NOT a Prime repaint! With Matrix cavity in chest?)
Galvatron (update on original toy, with cartoon colours, Matrix on chain)
Grimlock (with G1 style transformation, Wheelie pack-in?)
Shockwave (update of original)
Quintesson Judge and Prosecutor 2-pack (movie based designs)
Sky-Lynx (update of G1 toy)

Leader:
Fortress Maximus (just cause we'd all love it, even a repaint of the old one)


I'd also like the aforementioned GI Joe style figures to maybe be a kind of seperate line, with a bunch of the humanoid characters from the cartoon (and if possible, the comics) included. A couple Nebulons, Carly, Marissa, Dr Arkeville, Old Snake, Victor Drath's bikini wearing chick and the Synthoid bodies that the Autobots ended up in in that episode.

The Time Traveller wrote:They should redo Devastator WITH Mixmaster and do it right.

I'm working on designs already!

Laser Rod Optimus Prime.

Wreck-gar

Shockwave ^-^

What I'd love to see would be Devastator done more to scale with the other figures, that would mean each constructicon made at least at large deluxe scale, or my own preference, voyager scale.

Sure it would cost a king's ransom to collect the full set, and not to mention the frustrations of finding all the figures.

But imagine the towering ausommness.

aside from that crazy pipedream, I'd like to see Jazz, Prowl and Tracks. Maybe some of the none sportscar autobots like Inferno, Hoist and Kup.

It might also be interesting to see Ravage, Rumble and Laserbeak reimagined as Real Gear type figures. The idea of doing them as memory cards for Soundwave might be interesting, but I don't really think it would work. It's always going to be kind of a problem finding an appropriate modern substitute for the original alt modes.

Autobots:

1 Sunstreaker-Confirmed
2 Sideswipe-Confirmed
3 Jazz
4 Red Alert (as a Sideswipe/Sunstreaker repaint)
5 Prowl
6 Silverstreak (Repaint of Prowl)
7 Smokescreen (Repaint of Prowl)
8 Inferno
9 Ironhide
10 Ratchet (Repaint of Ironhide)
11 Wheeljack
12 kup

Decepticons:

1 Soundwave
2 Blitzwing
3 Shockwave
4 Cyclonus
5 Scourge
6 Galvatron
7 Ravage
8 Rumble
9 Frenzy (Repaint of Rumble)
10 Sharkticon
11 Insecticon Shrapnel

Seems like more than what Hasbro would be willing to produce, but there are quite a few repaint possibilities, so who knows?

Sportimus Prime wrote:Autobots:

1 Sunstreaker-Confirmed
2 Sideswipe-Confirmed
3 Jazz
4 Red Alert (as a Sideswipe/Sunstreaker repaint)
5 Prowl
6 Silverstreak (Repaint of Prowl)
7 Smokescreen (Repaint of Prowl)
8 Inferno
9 Ironhide
10 Ratchet (Repaint of Ironhide)
11 Wheeljack
12 kup

Decepticons:

1 Soundwave
2 Blitzwing
3 Shockwave
4 Cyclonus
5 Scourge
6 Galvatron
7 Ravage
8 Rumble
9 Frenzy (Repaint of Rumble)
10 Sharkticon
11 Insecticon Shrapnel

Seems like more than what Hasbro would be willing to produce, but there are quite a few repaint possibilities, so who knows?

as Ramrider pointed out to me when we were discussing repaints:
'Hasbro can get more money out of the same mould'
which basically give them less excuses about not producing some of these figures!

Cyclonus and Scourge
Brawn
Cosmos
Shockwave
Ironhide

Sportimus Prime wrote:Autobots:

1 Sunstreaker-Confirmed
2 Sideswipe-Confirmed
3 Jazz
4 Red Alert (as a Sideswipe/Sunstreaker repaint)
5 Prowl
6 Silverstreak (Repaint of Prowl)
7 Smokescreen (Repaint of Prowl)
8 Inferno
9 Ironhide
10 Ratchet (Repaint of Ironhide)
11 Wheeljack
12 kup

Decepticons:

1 Soundwave
2 Blitzwing
3 Shockwave
4 Cyclonus
5 Scourge
6 Galvatron
7 Ravage
8 Rumble
9 Frenzy (Repaint of Rumble)
10 Sharkticon
11 Insecticon Shrapnel

Seems like more than what Hasbro would be willing to produce, but there are quite a few repaint possibilities, so who knows?

Prowl, Ratchet, Soundwave and Bltizwing are out because they will be in the Animated line. Galvatron is suppposedly on, as is a new Ultra Magnus, but not sure what line UM is in.

The rest of the Dinobots, but I think I'm gonna single out Sludge if I had to pick one, even though my favorite's Snarl(cause he's a Stegasaurus). But why Sludge? Cause I think he get's the least attention of all the Dinobots, and I don't think there's been a long neck type dino Transformer(wasn't Sludge a Brontosaurus, and wasn't that disproved or something?) since him. Closest thing they've made was Magmatron's Plesiosaur mode.

And if they'd make some obscure Japanese only transformers, that'd be great.

The reason I was suggesting repaints is because it may be cheaper and therefore more likely, for Hasbro to do them since the molds I mentioned are already available.

Every time I look at Cybertron Swerve, I see Hot Rod. I'm sorry but the deluxe size on car Transformers really annoys me. Compare Classics Hot Rod with Starscream in vehicle modes and they look ridiculous together. However the Scout Swerve/Clocker mold would fit better with Classics Starscream.

Also we've gotten 2 versions of Classics Megatron and Prime so why not a 2nd Basic Hot Rod.

Why did we get Classics Starscream and Mirage when we had superior versions of them in Robotmasters? Plus Mirage fitted nicely in with G1 Prowl and Cybertron Clocker scalewise.

Plus the reuse of the likes of Starscream and Mirage is geting boring. I know it has something to do with keeping the licence but what about characters like Streetwise, Nosecone and Drag Strip who deserve newer, cooler toys.

On the subject of repaints, anyone else see the resemblance between WW Groove and Cybertron Ransack in both robot and vehicle modes. Think the Ransack mold would look great remolded as WW Groove. Even Clocker as WW Streetwise.

Oh and Shortround as Seaspray. And maybe RM Mirage as Dragstrip.

To end on a positive note, I do love most of the Classics Decepticons especially Ramjet and Astrotrain. Yes and even Devestator.

original ark and nemesis crews redone.

For Classics i'd like to see a Classics Bludgeon and Classics Thunderwing