RAR wrote:I think the Question was would you like to have the Combiner Wars toy replace the existing "CHUG" ones in your collection.
Rodimus is a good example of a case where you might not want to do that - Mirage (especially with the alternative Transformation and swapped hands) however may be.
Besides isn't Micromaster Rodmus/Hot Rod still Hotrod so what he's based on is sort of irrelevant to the original question.
He's perhaps just a small toy of a usually bigger Character like Optimus & Megatron are too. so come under the banner of "Just a bit of fun" like some might see One-Step changers.
Yeah but I find the whole question irrelevant too. I mean, why would these replace the other ones when they arent meant to. That's like asking "Is generations legends Optimus supposed to replace voyager classics Optimus?". Of course not, it's a different class and as for the deluxes, these have a combining gimick. Why would they replace the previous ones? Next year's trailbreaker would be really dumb to issue if there was any semblance of a goal to replace the one they had just released 2-3 yeas prior. These can be a modernized G1 representation for those who dont have these characters in this scale yet, but they arent meant to replace anyone that came before since they serve a completely new purpose.
GW Megatron though does seem to want to replace the Classics Nerf Gun Megatron, but even then that is a different size class.
These are just new play options featuring fan favourite characters.