@Kurona: Look at my original post again:
Sabrblade wrote:The way I see it, the cartoon casts that need the MP treatment the most, in the order of which each cartoon was made, are the G1 cast, the Beast Wars season 1 cast, a small amount of the Beast Wars seasons 2-3 cast, the Beast Machines cast, the Armada cast, a small amount of the Energon cast, and the tiniest amount of the Animated cast.
Did you ever wonder why I excluded the likes of the much-liked Cybertron and Prime, or specifically noted that only "some" of BW seasons 2-3/Energon/Animated's casts need MPs rather than ALL of their casts? It is because that everyone I excluded from those listed above already has good quality show-accurate toys and don't need MP versions to give us those. My original point was that "the G1 cast, the Beast Wars season 1 cast, a small amount of the Beast Wars seasons 2-3 cast, the Beast Machines cast, the Armada cast, a small amount of the Energon cast, and the tiniest amount of the Animated cast" all need MPs more than anyone else because all of their original toys and their original characters models were the ones that were the least synchronized with each other in terms of both resembling one another and being able to do all of the same things as each other. THAT is why those specific casts need MPs. Not because of any kind of affection the fandom may or may not have towards those characters, but because of how the MP treatment could achieve and rectify what the original takes on these characters failed to accomplish. THAT was my original point, in no way tied to emotion or affection for the characters, but in every way tied to design aesthetics and visual appearances.
Hellscream9999 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Virtually everyone from Armada needs the MP treatment. Their original toys were horribly compromised by the Mini-Con gimmick. Unicron and Tidal Wave are probably the only ones who don't need MPs (all Tidal Wave really needs is a pair of knees).
I'd argue that they need the 'Generations' update more than the MP treatment...
With Generations, there's no guarantee they'd keep their original designs. That Armada Starscream got to keep his (almost) completely intact is nothing short of a miracle. With the MP treatment, however, the original design guaranteed to be kept since the MP line is beholden to each character's original looks (minus Wheeljack's coloration).
Zeedust wrote:Honestly, if they do Unicron Trilogy remakes in any line, I think Vector Prime should be at the top of the list. He's probably the one who hold the most significance in the greater Transformers multiverse, on both sides of the Pacific.
Cybertron Vector Prime most certainly does not need the MP treatment since his original toy was a fantastic representation of the character that matched up so well with his character model was an all around great figure, better than some of today's toys even.
Insurgent wrote:Ahem. More BW MP's have my vote. I'll get the entire cast. Yes I will. Doing Cheetor now makes sense. The engineering can be redone into Tigatron so there's an easy third figure. Because let's face it, none of the BW cast can really be repainted/retooled into someone else except Cheetor and Tarantulas. And Tarantulas is going to be so extreme a remould, they may as well make BA a new mould entirely, just borrow some of Tarantulas engineering.
I could think of a few BW MP redecos/remolds if Takara would be willing to dip into Hasbro-based obscurity:
Optimus Primal --> Burning Convoy, Universe Optimus Primal
Cheetor --> Shadow Panther, Fox Kids Cheetor
Rattrap --> Packrat
Rhinox --> Predacon Rhinox, Fox Kids Rhinox
Dinobot --> BW Grimlock, BWII Thrustor, BWNeo Harhead, Fox Kids Dinobot, Dinobots (2000) Dinotron, Dinobots (2003) Grimlock, SG Dinobot
Megatron --> Dinobots (2003) T-Wrecks
Scorponok --> BotCon Japan 1998 Double Punch, BotCon 1999 Sandstorm/SG Scorponok
Terrorsaur --> BW Lazorbeak, Fractyl, BWNeo Hydra
Waspinator --> BW Buzz Saw, BWNeo Dirgegun, Fox Kids Waspinator/Buzzbomb, TFSS Thrustinator
Inferno --> Antagony