Wolfman Jake wrote:If these new combiners really are "Scramble City" types, I can see Hasbro releasing a proper Slingshot and Wildrider further down the line that you can use instead of Alpha Bravo or Offroad. Think about it. They get you two buy these alternate "new" characters as limbs now to complete each combiner, then throw the rest of the proper team members our way later, making us buy two toys we may have passed on had they come later on instead. It's brilliant marketing.
Funny, I was just thinking that this will prompt 3rd party gestalts to go back to the days of Munitioner and Explorer, with at least one company producing the "missing" member of each team. But if Hasbro did the same as well, and timed it just right, that could really hurt the unofficial competition's bottom line.
Being able to swap in alternate gestalt components who're auxiliary members of the same team does have one G1 precedent in the Breast Force, who were ironically not a SC team, and ain't happening on Hasbro's side of the pond soon anyway.
Is an additional issue with Slingshot possibly a licensing problem with his Harrier alt? I thought I heard that somewhere.
As for RIDII, while I'm meh on the animation itself, at least it's somewhere TF hasn't exactly gone before. But that Bee...WOAH! He used that sword to skin a Vehicon for his new armor! Just like how AofE Lockdown skinned those Muppets for their pelts and kept their eyes and innards on mobile life support machines so they could do menial work on his ship! This cartoon really WILL be darker than Prime!
