Sabrblade wrote:Hasbro and Takara kinda wrote themselves into a corner for any potential new Raiden figure when they made both of his rivals (Devastator and Predaking) into Titan class figures. As such, any new Raiden would have to be of similar size to them in order for him to proper fight them on their level.
Moreover, the engineering for Devastator for theoretically be reapplied for a Titan class Raiden since the two shared similar combiner engineering back in their original Diaclone molds.
I agree. Raiden should be a Titan Class figure, sized to go along with Devastator and Predaking. We know we're getting Omega Supreme for Siege. Everyone is expecting that we'll get Scorponok sometime soon. Raiden would round out another three Titans for the entire War for Cybertron line. It would also create a nice parity between the Autobots and the Decepticons for their Titan Class line-ups (at least for main line releases). Each faction would have two cityformers (Metroplex and Fortress Maximus versus Trypticon and Scorponok) and two "smaller" Titans: Omega Supreme and Raiden for the Autobots and the aforementioned Devastator and Predaking for the Decepticons. Yes, I'm anticipating that Omega Supreme will be designed to equal Devastator in mass and stature, since they are quasi rivals per the original cartoon. Even though Omega Supreme isn't an actual combiner like the other three, his transformation scheme was always very modular/partsformer-ish, which isn't that far off from a combiner anyway.