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by **ThunderThruster** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:16 am

With all the releases (and obscure releases) I'm still doubtful that we'll see a proper update to the Mulit-force.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:37 pm

All the recent toys with notoriously peely stickers get rereleased with tampos instead of stickers.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:50 am

Zeedust wrote:All the recent toys with notoriously peely stickers get rereleased with tampos instead of stickers.

Or do like they did for Generations Roadbuster and Whirl. Include a sheet of stickers that you apply yourself. The ones that came with those Generations figures were pretty good and still stick on perfectly to this day.

Sure, some hate to apply stickers, but it was a Transformers staple since the 1980's and with Roadbuster and Whirl, I was hoping that it would have been a continuing trend. Now only the Titan citybots have sticker sheets.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:32 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Zeedust wrote:All the recent toys with notoriously peely stickers get rereleased with tampos instead of stickers.

Or do like they did for Generations Roadbuster and Whirl. Include a sheet of stickers that you apply yourself. The ones that came with those Generations figures were pretty good and still stick on perfectly to this day.

Sure, some hate to apply stickers, but it was a Transformers staple since the 1980's and with Roadbuster and Whirl, I was hoping that it would have been a continuing trend. Now only the Titan citybots have sticker sheets.

I'd be fine that too.

Or even with the factory-applied stickers if they weren't such a problem. On the Grimlock I just got, some of the stickers are hanging off the plistic because they aren't smaller than the area they're meant to go in and expecting surgical accuracy from underpaid third-world factory workers is just not reasonable. And then there's the notorious peeling issue, can you please use a more reliable adhesive?

Honestly, I was fine with the unstickered stuff we used to get, even when other people were whining about the lack of paint. I'd be fine going back to that.

by **Nacelle** » Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:40 pm

These aren't impossible but unlikely

A show-accurate Leozack.

Battle Gaia. I know this was just a repaint but I really like the new colors on his components (especially on Shuttle Gunner/Blast Off and Sandstorm/Brawl). This could just be done as a repaint of some recent Bruticus figure.

A War for Cybertron game-accurate Slipstream.

A Cindersaur who actually has his mythical altmode instead of being a repaint of a velociraptor dinobot.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:44 am

Not an actual Transformer figure per se but I'd love to see weapons packs (like the old Bionicle "parts bags") released, filled with 5mm compatible weapons and accessories. Weaponizers do scratch that itch a little but just simple guns and melee weapons and the like would be cool. Also, if they got in contact with Nonnef and mass produced his combiner feet in proper injection molded plastic I'd buy them, even if they were still kits. Even the POTP feet are a bit too small and limited, and Nonnef's V2 feet (with toe joints!) were probably the best CW compatible feet on the market, even without non-combiner functions; TDW's look good but there are no "generic" options available (they're only available with bespoke upgrades for specific combiners) and PE's are honestly not THAT good.

In terms of actual figures though, Animated Lyzack. She's just the cutest thing ever.

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:35 pm

A Transformer that chops the hands off of toy thieves and package thieves, and takes the scalps of scalpers.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:51 am

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:A Transformer that chops the hands off of toy thieves and package thieves, and takes the scalps of scalpers.

A Transformer that turns into one of those stress-relief squeezy things, because I think one of those might do you some good.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:45 am

Zeedust wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:A Transformer that chops the hands off of toy thieves and package thieves, and takes the scalps of scalpers.

A Transformer that turns into one of those stress-relief squeezy things, because I think one of those might do you some good.

Well, Softimus Prime do exist.

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:19 am

Zeedust wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:A Transformer that chops the hands off of toy thieves and package thieves, and takes the scalps of scalpers.

A Transformer that turns into one of those stress-relief squeezy things, because I think one of those might do you some good.

Maybe..

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:25 pm

There's a softimus prime for that. Though I understand your frustration with people like those, but remember scalpers wouldn't exist if people never gave them money

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:18 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Zeedust wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:A Transformer that chops the hands off of toy thieves and package thieves, and takes the scalps of scalpers.

A Transformer that turns into one of those stress-relief squeezy things, because I think one of those might do you some good.

Well, Softimus Prime do exist.

A Softimus Prime reissue, then. If you need less stress in your life, trying to find someone who's selling a plush robot from over a decade ago might be counterproductive. :lol:

News Credits: 19 · by **blackeyedprime** » Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:10 am

Hasbro has stress covered

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Sat Dec 22, 2018 4:45 pm

blackeyedprime wrote:Hasbro has stress covered

(Snip picture)

Like that, but one that transforms

by **Glarryg** » Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:08 pm

ThunderThruster wrote:With all the releases (and obscure releases) I'm still doubtful that we'll see a proper update to the Mulit-force.

YES. These guys, definitely. If they could bring back the Duocons, they should be able to do these guys, too.

Glarryg

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:04 pm

Actual triple-changing versions of Shatter and Dropkick. I'm not sure those would even be physically possible without completely redesigning them.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Jan 08, 2019 8:31 am

Still waiting for someone to make Guiltor. Heck, at this point I think he'd be ideal as a Flame Toys Furai Model. Don't really need his truck mode since it's more of a gymnastics pose than an actual transformation.

Emerje

News Credits: 33 · by **Amelie** » Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:20 pm

I'm wondering if pseudo Guiltor could somehow be possible if Hasbro do a Leader class Siege Megatron and Optimus Prime with some of the snap-on parts fitting to Prime nicely...

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:42 pm

Amelie wrote:I'm wondering if pseudo Guiltor could somehow be possible if Hasbro do a Leader class Siege Megatron and Optimus Prime with some of the snap-on parts fitting to Prime nicely...

If Voyagers had ball joints it would be easy enough, but as is it's hard swap legs without extensive customizing. Otherwise you could probably come up with something decent for parts from the Weaponizers. Either way it would be far more practical to just get a model.

Emerje

by **Patrickab7** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:31 pm

Even though Bumblebee is obviously the more popular characterization, I'd kinda like to see a Goldbug remake.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:36 pm

Patrickab7 wrote:Even though Bumblebee is obviously the more popular characterization, I'd kinda like to see a Goldbug remake.

And make it his own unique mold, not a Bee repaint. :PRAY:

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:59 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Patrickab7 wrote:Even though Bumblebee is obviously the more popular characterization, I'd kinda like to see a Goldbug remake.

And make it his own unique mold, not a Bee repaint.

Now that's a bit of a tough call... unless Goldbug were to be a first release. You see, Goldbug uses Bumblebee's toy head, albeit stylised:

Transformers G1 1987 Goldbug (Goldback) Gallery

Transformers G1 1984 Bumblebee (Bumble) Gallery

So a Goldbug toy could easily be redecoed into a toy-accurate Bumblebee toy...

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:04 pm

G1 Goldbug was still his own unique mold, even counting the head.

This make be think that there's a baffling omission in the Siege line so far. NO BUMBLEBEE! :shock:

So how about a new Siege deluxe Bumblebee, with his altmode based on his very first G1 appearance on Cybertron? But here's the twist. Give him a face-changing gimmick so that he get the G1 toy face as a battle mask mode.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:50 pm

Amelie wrote:I'm wondering if pseudo Guiltor could somehow be possible if Hasbro do a Leader class Siege Megatron and Optimus Prime with some of the snap-on parts fitting to Prime nicely...

Anyone remember Construct-Bots? It's probably a bit too late now, but in retrospect that might have been a good opportunity to try mixing Optimus and Megatron parts into a makeshift Guiltor.