by ZeldaTheSwordsman » Mon Aug 06, 2018 4:09 pm
- Motto: "Earthrise restock or riot"
Punch/Counterpunch may not have Titan Master heads or even a Titan/Prime Master compatible accessory. Nor is he a combiner limb. But that's because he already had his own unique gimmick that being a headmaster or combiner limb would have gotten in the way of! He was a feature character in "The Rebirth" and The Headmasters, so he fits in with recent figures in that regard, and he does at least have Titan/Prime Master-compatible pegs. Does he have the same gimmick as the main PotP Deluxes? No, but then maybe THAT'S WHY HE'S AN ONLINE EXCLUSIVE!
o. supreme, while I personally don't mind doing combiner limb versions of some of the original Autobot cars, I hotly disagree with the idea that they need to do all of them - the only reason we're even approaching that is because during Combiner Wars, Hasbro decided to just pick Autobot redecoes to do at random instead of applying any real logic. Like, say, referencing the episode "Masquerade" by doing Optimus, Mirage, Jazz, Sideswipe, and Windcharger. But no, all we got of those 5 was Optimus and Mirage. It wasn't until Power of the Primes that we got Jazz and we're still waiting on Sideswipe and Windcharger (though who knows, maybe WFC Seige Sideswipe will be a combiner limb.) They could also have done redecoes homaging Energon Optimus' drones since CW Optimus has some major detail homages to him in torso mode... but they didn't do that either. Just random redecoes that mostly happened to be 1984 characters, with no actual set teams to speak of (so I don't think there are any gaps in the sets, since there aren't any true sets of them to have gaps in). And of course no new molds to give us actual G1 combiners in that style like Abominus (who we at least got in PotP) or Piranacon (who we're still waiting on).
Speaking of Power of the Primes Jazz, I strongly suspect we're going to see a Braver retool of him at some point. He turns into the right kind of car for it, he's a combiner limb, the Prime Armor gimmick could easily be transitioned to the Brainmasters' shields...
And they definitely have the 1989 combiners on the brain - the Cutthroat version of Swoop's mold has Wildfly/Yokuryu's head as an alternate head.
WANT:
* Cybertron Galvatron key, missiles
* Omega Lock
* Primus Cyber Key, coattail panel
* Powerlinx Comettor
* Cyb Jetfire R gun and missile
* RiD Galvy dragon head, beast arms
* DotM Ironhide windshield, R hood assy.
* ROTF Jetfire R JTFR panel
Di Bonaventura is not a credible or trustworthy source. And most fans do like the diversity push, thanks.
Trading MOSC MMPR fliphead Pink Ranger for ER Fasttrack or SIEGE Refraktor