Wow, so much unnecessary hate... And why the conspiracy theories?
And just for the record, these figures, in-fiction,
do not represent G1 characters at all, despite looking like them.
I suppose this is Japan's way of releasing the Generations figures they skipped or had been canceled, while offering something different for the completists to consider. I'm interested to see how it will pan out, especially we're now halfway into the line (they said only 8 figures will be released for Cloud).
One thing's for sure, I'm pleasantly surprised with Doubledealer turned into Starscream and GDO Brawn getting a release.