As far as I'm concerned, it's the Autobot Brothers who really need remakes even if they have to be Voyagers to keep the firing missiles. Because here's the thing: The Autobot Brothers' molds died. I also think there's room for improvement on X-Brawn and especially Prowl with regard to what parts are made of what plastic.Emerje wrote:As far as I'm concerned the only RID 2001 figures that really need a remake are all of the Spy Changers, Skid-Z (Siege Mirage repaint?), and Towline (Hoist repaint?). Everyone else would either be impossible to improve on or already got proper remakes (Sky-Byte and Baldigus/Ruination). Engineering has changed so much now, and while I don't think they'd all be like TFCC Sideburn, they'd be very different. The car brothers wouldn't be worse, they wouldn't be bad figures, but not better, just different. It would be a heck of a challenge for Hasbro, the lack of chrome parts, firing missiles and rubber tires would be hard to counter.
The Unicron Trilogy had plenty of good stuff in it too, y'know. And also cool gimmicks without which the toys would feel diminished. And given the differences between CHUG and the UT, especially now, that "right effort" seems unlikely to be forthcoming. Most of the efforts thus far have certainly been watered down (T30 Armada Starscream, SIEGE Galaxy Upgrade Optimus) or outright laughable (Combiner Wars Armada Megatron). The one figure that really made a lot of improvements, Universe Hot Shot, still had its faults: No Axlezooka, Jolt couldn't be a rear propeller, and the Hasbro version was missing the launchers.Emerje wrote:I look at the Unicron Trilogy the same way I do G1/G2, just about everything is fair game and can only be improved on with the right effort. RID 2001, on the other hand, feels like sacred ground, it's so good!
Emerje
The one UT remake I'd really want to see, is something that's a bit of a pipe dream but would be a genuine improvement: A Leader-class (because he'd have to be) Leobreaker, with the arm mode transforming as it was supposed to (instead of the final toy's gimped version) and compatible with the original Cybertron Leader-class Optimus.
By the way, on the subject of RiD 2001 and the Unicron Trilogy... It's totally Omega Prime's fault that Armada Megatron has no back-and-forth hip articulation.