Sabrblade wrote:Emerje wrote:That's interesting. I'm more than a little surprised that Hasbro would waste money molding something with no obvious use.
Thinking about it I wonder if perhaps Hasbro had originally intended to give Galvatronus limbs and that's where the Seeker, Cone Head, and Counterpunch heads came from? I wonder what else is hidden out there?
Emerje
I think JelZe has a list of which CW pretooled heads have yet to see any use.
One of which that I find to be a rather interesting use is a discarded idea for a new Technobot limb that was likely conceived for Hasbro's CW Computron before the Deluxe Afterburner made from the Deluxe Groove mold was a thing. This idea uses the Rook mold with its pretooled Brawl-based headsculpt (most likely made just in case Hasbro didn't have enough budget to make the whole new Brawl mold that they did end up making) colored in mustard tan and gray as a brand new Technobot named Ironclad, with the Legends Groove mold as Afterburner attached to Ironclad in arm mode.
Now that I did not know
That alternate Brawl-like head for Rook did appear in Club fiction as Shattered Glass X-Brawn, a reformatted SG Brawn. In the same comic, the alternate Hoist head for Trailbreaker was used for the SG Autotroopers.
But yes, most, if not all, CW molds have 2 heads built in. Most have seen use in some shape of form, but there are some unknown ones. Yet again, here are the pairs, as intended by Hasbro:
Powerglide & Viper
Runabout/Runamuck & Hot Rod
Groove & Wreck-Gar
Shockwave & Reflector
Fireflight & Slingshot
Drag Strip & Mirage
Vortex & Blades
Skydive & Starscream
Air Raid & Thrust
Breakdown & Sunstreaker
Wheeljack & Counterpunch
Dead End & Wildrider
Streetwise & Prowl
Ruckus & Ironhide
First Aid & Ratchet
Rook & Ironclad
Swindle & Hound
Optimus Prime & Star Convoy
Motormaster & Nemesis Prime
Onslaught & Armada Demolishor
Brawl, Silverbolt, Cyclonus, and Hot Spot have yet to show their alternate heads, if any. It's quite possible Dezarus is the pretool for Sky Lynx, plus Storm Cloud and Skyburst may be pretools as well: even mere parts can be planned with two heads as Trailbreaker and Hoist have shown.
The rest were designed later, and thus count as true retools.
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- Jelze Bunnycat =:3
Looking for:
- TR Furos (Hardhead's head) and Crashbash (lost him
)
- PotP Punch head
- TR Galvatron right arm (the gun one)
- CW Brake-Neck/UW Wildrider, CW Offroad
- TR Twinferno & Grotusque
- Greenlight, Lancer and PotP Elita-1 (plus repro Victorion hands and feet?)