steals_your_goats wrote:Hellscream9999 wrote:steals_your_goats wrote:So if the Computron rumor pans out (which I really think it will) who do you think the 6th member will be? I'm thinking it's going to be a shockwave retool personally. Alt mode fits the technobot aesthetic plus he's like the only combiner wars mold without a redeco/obvious redeco.
Probably - unless they remold powerglide into an unmanned drone or something - unlikely - so, yeah, I think it'll be a re-color of shockwave, which would be great 'cuz then it'd be
another great reason to go in on the set
See I'm still torn on going Hasbro or Takara. The transmissions rumors said the limbs would break down as such
Aerialbot retool as strafe (air raid?)
Stunticon retool as lightspeed (probably the Wheeljack retool)
Groove remold as afterburner
And nosecone will use the brawl retooling.
So with this I would have to assume that strafe would get the "Takara treatment" in the form of a new mold or at least a blastoff remold.
So on one hand we (assumably) will get a 6 man combiner team with an interesting legends class guy.
On the other hand we (assumably) will get a new mold/new remold limb but will likely have to pay more for a 5 man team and wait until the end of the year.
That's not necessarily true; you said the rumors state that the aerialbot would get
retooled - probably to the extent that scattershot was retooled - and if they can get a strafe out of that, why would TT make a new mold?
I never once thought that TT would just make bigroove and blast-off on their own, and out of their own pocket, rather hasbro wanted the motocycle mold started, and TT decided to prioritize it, and then re-purpose it for the defensor set - kill two laserbeaks with one stone.
Beyond the fact that I don't really see any resemblance between Blast-off and Strafe, it seems far more sensible to remold skydive as it already has the tail fins, the general shape and attachment points for wings, and the ability to have the arms utilized in a similar fashion as Strafe.