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Seibertron wrote:Carnivius_Prime wrote:I find these more worthless personally. At least with previous TM's I could ignore them cos they weren't based on characters I cared about but these? They is spitting on my Pretender dreams.
FYI ... I accidentally clicked "edit" on your post instead of quote, hopefully I restored your post as best as I could!
I feel the same way. I keep telling the brand team that I want Pretenders. They probably think I'm crazy. But I really want to see the Pretenders done with modern toy technology, whether it's the traditional concept for with a modern action figure type "shell" with inner robot, or with an "inner" robot that can transform into a vehicle AND becomes armor to upgrade the action figure "shell" character (in lieu of fitting in an actual shell). I really don't care about the robot actually being able to go inside a "shell" as long as the robot somehow can "hide" away by either integrating inside of the shell or by becoming an upgrade set for the "shell". I quoted the word "shell" because I'm referencing the humanoid shell character/figure versus the inner robot character/figure.
I think someone will come up with an exciting way to redo these characters at some point that will honor their heritage properly. The Pretenders really struck a chord with me on many levels from their introduction in the comics, to being the first mainline concept to be excluded from the Hasbro cartoons (excluding Mini-Spies and Decoys), to just really inspiring me as a kid. I loved playing with them and I loved having 2 toys in one. I even used to count them as 2 separate Transformers in my figure count when I was a kid. My mom wouldn't let me spend my Christmas and birthday money on Fortress Maximus, but she let me buy all 6 of the wave 1 Autobot and Decepticon Pretenders. While I was disappointed with not getting Fort Max, I loved playing with my Pretenders as a kid. Imagine my joy 7 years later in 1995 when I discovered Masterforce thanks to a bootleg VHS dealer at a comic convention!
Galactic Prime wrote:Pretenders were a stupid concept that need to stay dead.
Hotconvoy wrote:Galactic Prime wrote:Pretenders were a stupid concept that need to stay dead.
And what do you think that Primemasters are?
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
Hellscream9999 wrote:I don't need traditional pretenders, but, since warden has a boner for everything G1, I'm sure we'll be seeing them soon enough, I think they could work with upscaled primemaster shells with additional articulation in the arms with a legends class figure inside, they've easily been the best size class throughout recent years, and this way it wouldn't break the bank or require ridiculous engineering like the mp king exkaiser set
bodrock wrote:I missed out on the G1 Powermasters, and with PotP, I now have Blackwing & Dreadwind -- together, at last.They look great with the New Seekers from TR.
Wolfman Jake wrote:Do we know who's in the other figure slot(s) of Wave 3? I assume it's a repack (or two) from a previous wave.
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