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I've never heard this, and hope it doesn't come to pass. First off, SOTA's doing a fantastic job of figures, and I was a little disappointed when Hasbro got the Marvel from Toybiz (Marvel Legends have been lackluster since then), that and KISS players (or anything remotely related) is more of a Takara thing...

if they mean adult by adding a mcfarlane toys style of maturity, then im for it. but if they mean adult as in kiss players, using sex to attract adult men to become interested in the toys, then f' that.

For everyone who saying that this may not come to pass because hasbro has already signed the right to transformers over activision you forget that hasbro has another major property that capcom may be intrested in and that is gijoe. As I said they are trying to get the rights to these characters that not say that they will.

HoosierDaddy wrote:What is kiss play?

It is a Takara product. Basically an offshoot of the BT line. They are plastic alternaters that come with a scantily clad young girl that looks pre-teen.

The concept is that when kissed by the girl the autobots in the line get special powers. So far they have done alternater styled Prime, Hot Rod, Autolooper and Alert.

It is amazing that from what I said people got kiss play the guy who wrote the article only used kiss play as comparsion. He never said that hasbro was going to use the kiss play idea in any way or alternaters. You guys read alot more into this than was said basicly what I think is going to happen is that they will package a detailed capcom character with certain transformers they may be a bigger version of classic designs for all we know. As I have said again and again right now they are trying to get the rights to these character they don't have them yet and they may never get them.

Is there a link to this article?

I think that Shortround made mention that this was a printed article from a magazine in a previous post.

Whoops, that's right. In that case, what was the magazine and issue?

I'd love deluxe sized, classics styled TFs with 25th anniversary GI Joe styled figures (be they of Joe characters, Capcom characters or even-and here's a crazy idea-the human/nebulan/whatever Transformers characters) even if there wasn't much relation in scale (maybe a mini version of the human character to use as a driver?) I'm sure they could come up with some interesting pairings. Larger figures could, of course be made to scale of the pack-in Joe figures.

There's plenty of ways to go for that idea too. If it was purely TF properties the options are ovbious, but if it was a mix of GIJoe and TF franchises they could have the TFs in either their normal forms, with little pegs for the Joes to stand on, or specially designed cockpits of they could make the TFs change into GIJoe/Cobra vehicles (like Cybertooth suggested). Imagine Megatron (or Shockwave) as a HISS tank, with a Cobra Commander to ride about in? Or Hound as a VAMP with Flint riding in him?

craggy wrote:I'd love deluxe sized, classics styled TFs with 25th anniversary GI Joe styled figures (be they of Joe characters, Capcom characters or even-and here's a crazy idea-the human/nebulan/whatever Transformers characters) even if there wasn't much relation in scale (maybe a mini version of the human character to use as a driver?) I'm sure they could come up with some interesting pairings. Larger figures could, of course be made to scale of the pack-in Joe figures.

There's plenty of ways to go for that idea too. If it was purely TF properties the options are ovbious, but if it was a mix of GIJoe and TF franchises they could have the TFs in either their normal forms, with little pegs for the Joes to stand on, or specially designed cockpits of they could make the TFs change into GIJoe/Cobra vehicles (like Cybertooth suggested). Imagine Megatron (or Shockwave) as a HISS tank, with a Cobra Commander to ride about in? Or Hound as a VAMP with Flint riding in him?

Personally, I'm still waiting for my Starscream Night Raven ever since Devil's Due had him in a crossover years ago. Or the awesome HISS SMS version of Optimus Prime from the same crossover. There's some just plain awesome possibilities for character combos, too, though I'd have to request a Storm Shadow / Ravage two pack, maybe with Ravage turning into a Ninja style streetbike for Storm Shadow to ride. Cobra Commander would have to come with the Starscream toy, just because.

Honestly, I'd buy every Decepticon/COBRA pairing because the Cobra vehicles are just that cool. I could imagine many of the Autobot/Joes being shelf warmers for me unless they picked some truly kickass Joe vehicles.