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Adding to this list: I want Shatter and Dropkick from Bumblebee to be adapted into CHUG just like Barricade is being adapted, even if its just a retool of a Springer for Dropkick. Now for Shatter it does seem she'd need her own mold (as fembots tend to do) not to mention her car/plane combo currently doesn't exist in other triple-changers.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Helicopter and Jet triplechanger à la Switchblade from M.A.S.K.

I see you haven't met Robotbolt/Skyklik/Fumes, on the right:



He was passed over in favor of the (then in development) Astrotrain.

Skritz wrote:Adding to this list: I want Shatter and Dropkick from Bumblebee to be adapted into CHUG just like Barricade is being adapted, even if its just a retool of a Springer for Dropkick. Now for Shatter it does seem she'd need her own mold (as fembots tend to do) not to mention her car/plane combo currently doesn't exist in other triple-changers.

For CHUG, I repurposed Cybertron's Most Wanted Battletrap (the T30 Springer retool) as Dropkick. Shatter is a different story, where she needs to be a whole new mold. Heck, I wouldn't mind a new Dropkick either.

Either way, I loved those two in the Bumblebee movie, and having CHUG versions of them would be splendid

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Helicopter and Jet triplechanger à la Switchblade from M.A.S.K.

I see you haven't met Robotbolt/Skyklik/Fumes, on the right:



He was passed over in favor of the (then in development) Astrotrain.

Oh god he's even the same color as Switchblade! Why was he passed over though? Unless that's a painted prototype, then they obviously reached the final product stage.

Skritz wrote:Adding to this list: I want Shatter and Dropkick from Bumblebee to be adapted into CHUG just like Barricade is being adapted, even if its just a retool of a Springer for Dropkick. Now for Shatter it does seem she'd need her own mold (as fembots tend to do) not to mention her car/plane combo currently doesn't exist in other triple-changers.

Maybe a retooled Tracks?

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Helicopter and Jet triplechanger à la Switchblade from M.A.S.K.

I see you haven't met Robotbolt/Skyklik/Fumes, on the right:



He was passed over in favor of the (then in development) Astrotrain.

Oh god he's even the same color as Switchblade! Why was he passed over though? Unless that's a painted prototype, then they obviously reached the final product stage.

I want to know as well because that copter dude look pretty damn awesome.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Helicopter and Jet triplechanger à la Switchblade from M.A.S.K.

I see you haven't met Robotbolt/Skyklik/Fumes, on the right:



He was passed over in favor of the (then in development) Astrotrain.

Oh god he's even the same color as Switchblade! Why was he passed over though? Unless that's a painted prototype, then they obviously reached the final product stage.

Miles Mayhem issued a C&D...

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Helicopter and Jet triplechanger à la Switchblade from M.A.S.K.

I see you haven't met Robotbolt/Skyklik/Fumes, on the right:



He was passed over in favor of the (then in development) Astrotrain.

Oh god he's even the same color as Switchblade! Why was he passed over though? Unless that's a painted prototype, then they obviously reached the final product stage.

Miles Mayhem issued a C&D...

He was released as a Diaclone in the early 80's (did V.E.N.O.M. have time travel?):

Italian Trasformer release by GiG courtesy of Super Toy Archive

But as said before, two aerial modes is a bit redundant, he also doesn't really look like much in either (the jet more so).

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:(did V.E.N.O.M. have time travel?):

No one in VENOM ever seemed smart enough for that

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:But as said before, two aerial modes is a bit redundant,

A helicopter and space shuttle could have worked better. As an 'in-and-out' of orbit altmode multiformer.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:But as said before, two aerial modes is a bit redundant, he also doesn't really look like much in either (the jet more so).

Plus by the time the line had become successful enough to add more Triplechangers they would have had two more helicopters (Springer and Sandstorm) and two more jets (Octane and Broadside) in the works. Poor guy never stood a chance.

Emerje

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:But as said before, two aerial modes is a bit redundant, he also doesn't really look like much in either (the jet more so).

Despite both being aerial, they both work very differently.

Transforming Rose Tico.

Have we already added this guy to the list? Having recently read 'City of Fear', Flame would be an interesting choice for a figure IE an "evil/mad" Autobot scientist. I'm surprised no cartoons have ever picked up on the character. The colour scheme alone would translate to most media.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Have we already added this guy to the list? Having recently read 'City of Fear', Flame would be an interesting choice for a figure IE an "evil/mad" Autobot scientist. I'm surprised no cartoons have ever picked up on the character. The colour scheme alone would translate to most media.

I'm having a hard time believing that's not Hot Rod with a tank mode. I seriously haven't heard of this character ever

Nathaniel Prime wrote:I'm having a hard time believing that's not Hot Rod with a tank mode. I seriously haven't heard of this character ever

Don't worry, I thought the same, the first time I saw him. Outside of Marvel G1, he has only had a brief visual cameo in LSoTW and a bit part in the last few issues of LL in IDWverse.

His Wiki page

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

Skritz wrote:Adding to this list: I want Shatter and Dropkick from Bumblebee to be adapted into CHUG just like Barricade is being adapted, even if its just a retool of a Springer for Dropkick. Now for Shatter it does seem she'd need her own mold (as fembots tend to do) not to mention her car/plane combo currently doesn't exist in other triple-changers.

Maybe a retooled Tracks?

You just gave me the epiphany of using Road Rage as Shatter. That would work really well!

Awesome idea!

Octus

How about this guy?
Although he never transformed, his altmode was supposed to be one of these...



Personally the Star Wars Transformers never appealed to me, but this crossover would.

Ah has he ever been referenced outside of marvel UK G1? Doctor Who has reached a more global audience since then

ZeroWolf wrote:Ah has he ever been referenced outside of marvel UK G1? Doctor Who has reached a more global audience since then

A blink and you'll miss it, visual cameo in MTMTE #48

Having bungled my custom derived from the Shapeways totally-not-Rewind kit (gonna try ordering another though, maybe) I still want a CHUG scale Flip Sides. Sure she's done precisely bugger all in fiction but I love her concept as a sleeper agent/infiltrator.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Ah has he ever been referenced outside of marvel UK G1? Doctor Who has reached a more global audience since then

A blink and you'll miss it, visual cameo in MTMTE #48

1: Finally, someone else recognizes the pure awesomeness of Octus.
2: Is it really a blink and you'll miss it cameo if it's a still image?

Nathaniel Prime wrote:
I'm having a hard time believing that's not Hot Rod with a tank mode. I seriously haven't heard of this character ever

I think that's why he hasn't made any cartoon or merchandise appearances. It'd confuse the kiddies. Even I thought it was "Evil Hot Rod" before I did more research when I first saw him.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Ah has he ever been referenced outside of marvel UK G1? Doctor Who has reached a more global audience since then

A blink and you'll miss it, visual cameo in MTMTE #48

1: Finally, someone else recognizes the pure awesomeness of Octus.
2: Is it really a blink and you'll miss it cameo if it's a still image?

Yes, if it's easily missed if you don't know where and what to look for.

With crossovers being more and more common (Dr Who crossed over with Star Trek in a comic, featuring the Cybermen and Borg ) I could see Hasbro actually using Octus as an incentive for one

Decepticon Stryker wrote:2: Is it really a blink and you'll miss it cameo if it's a still image?

Indeed it is, when unnamed and unaccredited. For example, Spotlight: Nightbeat featured several, if not all of the Micromasters. How many casually reading just took them for generics?

Still waiting for my Xaaron.