william-james88 wrote:Rumours Substantiated by some evidence:
Other Headmaster Transformers will be available and their smaller headmasters will be able to interact with smaller vehicles made for them, along with the base modes (such as the one of Fort Max and Blaster). The class for the little headmasters which may be bought individually, are rumored to be called "Titan Masters".
I'm beginning to wonder if one gives credence to the idea of "Titan-Masters" being sold as small figures along with an animal/Vehicle hybrid accessory (sounds not unlike those Avengers:AOU toys to me), then perhaps that feature will be unique to the carded toys - as all the Base mode larger toys seem to just have a very simplistic Vehicle for them to sit in - a little jet, a little car or a little drill tank respectively with no obvious evidence that they can turn into anything else.
william-james88 wrote:Rumours Substantiated by no evidence
Alpha Trion with beast kibble found on his robot mode. He should also turn into a ship.
I'd actually forgotten about the Rumours of a boat Mode Transformer - I think that Rumours been floating around (pardon pun) for a long time now.
william-james88 wrote:Rumours for 2015 that did not pan out
I will now list the rumours at the beginning of the year that didn't turn out to be true:
The Constructicons would be MPs when released by Takara
MP Tank Megatron
MP Ratchet
MP Shockwave
MP Blitzwing
MP Galvatron
And of course, let us not forget the G1 reissue of the Dinobots and how well that turned out.
One can speculate how some of those might have resulted from poor communication we did get a Tank Megatron and it is the same size as MP-10 I can see how he could be easily misidentified.
I think the idea of the Constructicons being MP's might also be a misunderstanding springing from designer interviews where it was said that he'd tried to push it as far towards MP standard as he could inside the cost limit place on him. If there was a rumour before that I missed it.
MP Ratchet and Shockwave may still show up - it always seems to take ages with MPs - Heck ratchet is pretty much inevitable to be made as a slight remould of Ironhide inside another 12 months.
MP Galvatron rumour has been floating about for a couple of years - but I suspect that is just wishful thinking - however it's quite possible both Galvatron and Blitzwing's rumours sprang from the 3rd party toys both have got or are getting in the MP style all it takes is one person to see something and get the wrong end of the stick and the rumour spreads. the Old X-Transbots prototype Galvatron could easily be mistaken for a MP prototype if someone saw a picture of it in passing and out of context.
It seems perfectly reasonable to make assumptions about what MP's will get made as Takara keep showing posters at events showing the sort of things they'd like to do those posters usually contain things like the Constructicons, Dinobots, Shockwave, Galvatron, Super Ginrai or even Predaking.
It seems quite possible even likely that someone can hazard a pretty good guess as to what will get made in 2016 or 2017 for example ; Super Ginrai seems pretty likely so does Victory Leo. Ratchet is a virtual certainty and I might even speculate a chance that Slicer might show up as an exclusive of some kind. Ratchet is a virtual certainty.
But some of this may be down to wishful thinking - the problem is that a lot of what Takara might have liked to have made has already been done to such a high standard that it's difficult to imagine any thing Takara might make would be better especially the other Dinobots or Blaster.
It is at least imaginable that a better Shockwave MP style toy could be made. Likewise I'm sure a Takara Designer could do really good Predacons too - but they might want to leave that for a while.
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