Alright, now I'm gonna actually respond to what people have said since I instigated this:
Sentinel_Primal wrote:Not entirely spotless, and also I believe that this leaker has also retired from giving actual leaks.
I did say almost spotless, so we're in agreement there, and they DID say they retired....but have still been leaking things after that statement anyway, namely some of the Beast Wars reissue stuff, the rumored 4-pack of Goldbug, Ransack, Toy Scorponok, and Paralyzer, and they were one of the ones that indicated that the Wreckers stuff is Amazon-exclusive.
AcademyofDrX wrote:I was skeptical originally, but that's also how they did the special teams in Combiner Wars, introducing a limb that didn't fit the G1 origin. In those cases though, there were ultimately later releases of the missing G1 limbs as exclusives. It would be very weird to me if they didn't provide some option for a more traditional Breakdown, even if it's a redeco of another Stunticon that doesn't have the precise alt-mode.
Considering all of the Siege-character-redos-as-exclusives that we just got over the course of WFC, putting out the "wrong" Breakdown at retail and then having the "right" one as an exclusive later after people have bought the "wrong" one just to finish the combiner seems very on-the-table and in-character for Hasbro.
Wolfman Jake wrote:Hasbro wouldn’t do us dirty like that. All indications are that this will be more or less G1 cartoon (Sunbow) Menasor with current Generation stylings, like the strong G1 influence on most of the War for Cybertron Trilogy.
The only indication that exists so far is that we've seen Dragstrip, and the rumor/leak says that Dragstrip is the most G1 Stunticon of this lot. I don't think anyone has explicitly said we are getting SPECIFICALLY G1 Menasor, people just assumed that based on the listings having all the names of the G1 Stunticons because no one really considered it being Prime Breakdown. And in terms of "they wouldn't do us dirty like that"....I feel like the majority of people that are/are gonna be upset by the apparent lack of G1 Breakdown are those also upset that Earth mode "core G1 cast" guys were exclusives, in which case they've already been done dirty.
AcademyofDrX wrote:I'm not going to act like Hasbro doesn't make mistakes, but they don't go out of their way to antagonize the fandom.
They seem quite competent at doing it unintentionally, though.
I am by NO means saying this is 100% true, but honestly? Would barely be fazed if it was, and this might be how they actually get me to invest in some of these Stunticons I was otherwise skipping.