o.supreme wrote:Rysquad wrote:We have Megatrons that don't turn into guns.
Which I don't care for, and don't own.
Rysquad wrote: We have triple changers released with two modes instead of three.
Never heard of this. If I saw one, however I would not purchase it.
Rysquad wrote:At the end of the day though, whatever Hasbro or Takara releases as Omega Supreme is Omega Supreme. It doesn't matter if you, or I, or anyone else that disagrees with the Hasbro/Takara decision. You do not determine who is and isn't Omega Supreme. Your headcannon isn't cannon but that doesn't stop you from making Terminus Giganticus your Omega Supreme.
It appears what you want is a NEW character, a NEW Omega Supreme, and that's fine. If Hasbro decides to develop one for Cybermissions, or the Live Action Movies, or at any point in the future for any of their new brand,. That is fine. Make all the new versions in new continuities you want.
However, None of us can foresee the future, but I'm pretty sure based on as you say, this current design team, we would not see a Generations Omega Supreme that was not faithful to the original. If by some engineering miracle they could make the original Base Mode fully Transformable to look like its original Robot Self that would be amazing...I don't think its possible, but hey, I'm not a toy engineer. I'm pretty sure we wont be seeing one for a while. I bet the Hasbro design team is really glad Trypticon won the fan vote in 2016.(I voted for Tryp by the way...while Omega is my favorite character, I would have liked him as a toy last of those 3 simply because of the feasibility discussion we are having now). My gut tells me 2019 will be Scorponok, or maybe we wont have any titans at all...who knows.
Titans Return was perhaps the most faithful representation of many G1 characters outside of Masterpiece, and even then they took creative liberties. The removal of the stats gimmick, improved aesthetics in both modes, increased interaction with the headmaster figure, the universal headmaster size to allow for greater cross-figure compatibility, numerous characters presented as headmasters who were traditionally not, and additional or different alt modes (TR sixshot's submarine may not be great but I don't think it was meant to be a gun either). Ditto for Combiner Wars as far as not adhering strictly to G1. When Aaron Archer was in charge, we had figures that took cues from the comics, or simply designs that were updated to appear more modern. Kup's earthly pickup truck comes to mind. Perceptor was a research truck instead of a microscope. Classics, Universe, and Generations set out to re-imagine characters across the brand in modern forms, and even with the more traditional approach taken by Warden's team, that still applies. The goal is not and has never been purely to remake the old toys, but to sell the classic characters to old and new fans alike. To bring this back to the main topic of this thread, Power of the Primes is continuing to update many characters with new combined modes, and creating a pseudo-Powermaster functionality with mostly characters who were never powermasters. Pretenders are getting a nod but now they're tiny and become weapons. All of the Titans released thus far make some alteration to their classic form, trying to evoke and update the concept of the original rather than just remake it with modern articulation. This is especially true with Devastator, but I could rattle off notable changes to the other 3 titans as well, and Predaking will have Titan Master compatibility among other unknown changes. All of these are based on simpler figures than Omega Supreme and they still made alterations for the combination of reasons of being better toys, more appealing to consumers, and within the allocated budget. As it has been suggested, a partsforming Omega would be unexciting, a non-partsforming G1 accurate would be Masterpiece Megatron levels of complex, and the original alt mode is a bit abstract anyway, so an update seems likely. You may disagree on this point but to me, Omega is first and foremost just the big sentry guy with a claw arm and the visor face in gray, yellow, and red. I don't care as much about what he turns into as long as those elements of him make sense on the alt mode, and that's why I suggest an update. Hell, I consider the Year of the Snake Omega Supreme to be a very good update of the character. I don't actually own it but I would not be averse to it. I do think a newer toy is in order but I don't personally want or expect it to be exactly like the G1 toy. I've kind of lost my train of thought but I hope I've opened your eyes to the potential of a good Omega to not be almost identical to the classic or one of the 3P remakes.
steals_your_goats wrote:I know I'm alone on this but I truly think that Raiden will be the Titan class figure to end the prime wars trilogy. I know it seems like a long shot, maybe even impossible but I think it would make sense.
Prime wars trilogy is the first big toy event that Hasbro has done since the Unicron trilogy so I definitely think that they'll end it with a Titan. Scorponok and Omega don't fit the gimmick of this line and can't really be made to include it like Trypticon was with Full Tilt. But Raiden would. He's a 6 bot combiner that wouldn't work with the standard CW/POTP system and he's the rival of both Devastator and Predaking. He's the only Autobot combiner that would work at Titan class besides Landcross but his rival dinoking is most likely going to be normal combiner scale.
"But he's so obscure" while true he's definitely marketable:
1) He's an Autobot and "good guys sell"
2) He's 6 different characters and a combiner
3) He's made of trains. Everybody loves trains.
I know this was long and out of nowhere but I've been sitting on this thought for a while and finally decided to post it
It seems most likely that the 2019 Titan will belong to the line following POTP.
It could still be Raiden but I doubt it.