Emerje wrote:A. Name recognition is everything and all of the repaints have recognizable names that will help sell them. If they can do Studio Series Thrust at retail with his 5 seconds of screen time anything will sell.
B. Which ones? There's very little they haven't done or hasn't been leaked. We even got repaints we didn't expect like a blue Deep Cover and black Ironhide repaint. Plus it isn't like we don't have more repaints planned for Legacy.
C. All of the repaints of Siege and Earthrise Starscream have only existed as exclusives too (aside from Siege Thundercracker). I would be surprised if any Legacy Armada Starscream repaint wasn't an exclusive as well. When was the last time a Starscream was released that didn't have the majority of its releases sold at mass retail? Classics (eventually)? And they could even do them in two releases, stick Thundercracker and Skywarp on Amazon and Ramjet on Target so Canada can sell him at TRU and go full circle (original Armada Ramjet was a Universe release exclusive to TRU).
A. Non-TF fans don't recognize any Seekers by name other than Screamer, but otherwise yes, I agree with this point.
B. They're still missing Detritus, Hauler*, I believe 5 named Seekers (Sunstorm, Bitstream, Nacelle, Slipstream, & Blackout) without that number even counting alternate decos like more G2 repaints, a whole bunch of Diaclones covering both named characters and just decos they haven't used yet (Loupedal, Delta Magnus, Magna Convoy, Clampdown*, red Mirage, etc), Treds & Treadshot from Warpath, Alpha Trion and/or Devcon from Scourge, Star Dasher, Slapdash from Siege Mirage, Metrotitan-based repaints for Sixgun & Slammer (although Slammer hasn't even been seen yet, so this could still occur), any of the 3 or so repaints/retools people keep saying they should do from Doubledealer, Toxitron, Nova Prime, Glyph & Tap-Out, Guidi's Drift/Deadlock from Springer, a release of Mainframe using his actual color scheme, and any number of repaints/retools of other continuity bots that could be made from existing G1 molds (Demolishor from Impactor, Snow Cat from Siege Ironhide, etc), and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
C. The point I was trying to make there isn't that they would have to be exclusives, I would expect them to be exclusives if they happen. What I was trying to point out was that last time Hasbro released an Armada Starscream mold, the ONLY reuse they actually gave it was Jhiaxus, and all of the Armada Seeker repaints/retools only happened because Fun Pub and Takara did them, NOT Hasbro, which tells me that Hasbro doesn't really care or think there is interest in those reuses. Considering the shared design teams and brand unification now, I would expect Takara to still push for TC, but I don't have a lot of hope for Skywarp or Ramjet.
*These characters do have a leak for them now, though, so I am denoting them thusly
Overcracker wrote:Technically Armada Thundercracker does not exist. Its still Starscream in blue, albeit Super mode Starscream.
Hasbro would still market it as Thundercracker and you know it.