-Kanrabat- wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Only if they sell
So far, the Kingdom bones and the Legacy rando-Junks proves that UFOs are good sellers.
Yet we are all well aware of the fate of the Weaponisers and Modulators.
-Kanrabat- wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Only if they sell
So far, the Kingdom bones and the Legacy rando-Junks proves that UFOs are good sellers.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Only if they sell
So far, the Kingdom bones and the Legacy rando-Junks proves that UFOs are good sellers.
Yet we are all well aware of the fate of the Weaponisers and Modulators.
Doesn't really change my point that the BW designs that were toy-only in the US but show characters in Japan are clearly on the table, which does include those exact Fuzors.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Nemesis Primal wrote:Don't Torca and Sky Shadow have repaints that were show characters in Japan? That's how Tasmania Kid/Snarl got into next year's mainline roster.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Torca, Sky Shadow or Snarl can't be anything else.
I should have prefaced that the Snarl was I referring to was the Dinobot. Namesakes in the franchise can be such a headache at times...
Modulators did badly, yes, since they all turned into literal bricks and were mostly dependent upon and made to interact with the already poorly-performing Micromasters, but I don't know why you brought up the Weaponizers? Those did well, to the point that Fasttrack and Slammer managed to sneak into the later parts of the trilogy even when they had mostly moved on to Modulators/Fossilizers.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Yet we are all well aware of the fate of the Weaponisers and Modulators.
Imagine if they made him orange again...-Kanrabat- wrote:I'm waiting for the Jiaxus repaint. Maybe they'll just do a "dark" version and call it a day.
Nemesis Primal wrote: Doesn't really change my point that the BW designs that were toy-only in the US but show characters in Japan are clearly on the table, which does include those exact Fuzors.
Nemesis Primal wrote:Modulators did badly, yes, since they all turned into literal bricks and were mostly dependent upon and made to interact with the already poorly-performing Micromasters, but I don't know why you brought up the Weaponizers?AllNewSuperRobot wrote: Yet we are all well aware of the fate of the Weaponisers and Modulators.
First of all, some of them are exactly the same, you just cherry-picked a bunch of examples that aren't. For example, Apache is the exact same as B'Boom, Scuba is the exact same as Claw Jaw, Tasmanina Kid is the exact same as Snarl, Scissor Boy is the exact same as Powerpinch, and Latolata...is allegedly different from Injector, but it's such a minimal difference that I doubt HasTak would make 2 separate figures.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:They are not the same. Just as Cybershark isn't Sky-Byte. Spittor isn't Diver. Iguanus isn't Crazybolt etc, etc The Takara Series repurposed versions of toy-only characters are just that. Except with worse names. It is the equivalent of saying Delta Magnus represents Ultra Magnus.
Not only is ZeroWolf absolutely right in that the gimmick has 100% persisted despite the figures not specifically being called Weaponizers, but also they're still making Weaponizer repaints? We just got Red Cog last year.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:For the same reason. We are a couple lines beyond WFC now. Neither show any signs of being adapted into the wider line, long term. They have both become the Mini-Cons of the WFC line.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:One of the recurring themes of Transformers I've always enjoyed is that of escalation. We start at scouts and infiltrators. This soon gives way to Gestalts, Multi-Formers, City Bots and eventually transforming Planets. Meanwhile the escalation also evolved smaller too. Guns, Heads, ...Power sources, Armour etc They all took on life of their own too.
So firmly in this camp of TF's HasTak will never make, a bot that encompasses all of those small scale innovations. A Powerlinx/Duocon body, with a Headmaster. Armed with a Targetmaster (or two) alongside Weaponiser Armour and equipped with a Powermaster to connect them all to the core body. In essence, a mini-combiner. But scaled in-line with the deluxe sized bots.
-Kanrabat- wrote:So basically, a transformer Matryoshka dolls team. I once suggested it too.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Instead of the "dreaded" Partsformer? We have four bots with distinct altmodes that are also quarters of Tidal Wave. That also form his altmode, when combined into him.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I've mentioned before that I'm not keen on the newer combiners coming with separate hands and feet. Maybe instead, if integrating those components isn't en vogue. They just don't have conventional hands and feet?
-Kanrabat- wrote: Hands are a bit more touchy.
-Kanrabat- wrote: The only disadvantage of such a design is that each members have their own specific spot in the combiner and any "scrambling citying" would be impossible. That's what it would take to have a PERFECT giant robot.
Also, the joints would be SOLID and the combiner would not ragdoll pathetically on the ground like most CW combiners do when trying to make just some basic poses.
-Kanrabat- wrote:That bug combiner would be awesome if they ever remake it in Legacy.
Especially because the original is so damn expensive.
9sholmes wrote:Sorry for this late response! Why wouldn't Paramount make a movie about cybertronian Stardrive?
Stardrive is a triple-changer and has a fourth Dire Wraith mode. Unlike other cybertrionians, Stardrive is one of Rom's Space Knights.
Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I've mentioned before that I'm not keen on the newer combiners coming with separate hands and feet. Maybe instead, if integrating those components isn't en vogue. They just don't have conventional hands and feet?
TulioDude wrote:Do you guys think they will remake every minicon, but with a peg instead of hole?
Emerje wrote:Eh, I don't know, that didn't go over so well the last two times they did unconventional hands.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I still have (and appreciate) Skittle-con. My first non-Beast Wars combiner.Emerje wrote:Eh, I don't know, that didn't go over so well the last two times they did unconventional hands.
These tend to be my go-to examples, when I think about unconventional hands and feet. The Vehicons successfully (imo) demonstrated that it can work en masse.
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