Wolfman Jake wrote:You know, now that I think about it, what would Hasbro have done in terms of characters for the Voyager class had PotP not been cut short? It's easy to think of what we would have gotten with Prime Masters (Pretender shells like Waverider and Stranglehold), Legends (Flywheels, Goldbug, other miscellaneous '87 Minibots), Deluxe (Greenlight, Lancer, Jazz redeco/retool, etc.), and even Leader (Star Sabre, etc.). The only thing I could think of would be a redeco/retool of Inferno into Grapple, but switching out the "ladder" for a crane arm would be tricky, as the bucket is where the combiner mode head hides on the base mold.
My guess: a redeco/retool of the Grimlock mold, and a stand-alone retail Snaptrap (which some people have suggested as a heavy retool of Grimlock anyway, so these two suggestions could be one and the same) ala Betatron Scattorshot. The Grimlock mold presumably has an alternate head we have yet to see, right?
Plus, we know at least two other limb bots have alternate heads/accessories for Monstructor/Dinoking, so that would/could have maybe been a box set, with the torso bots being weird amalgamated single characters like Dezarus? I know, I know, "the TR box sets didn't sell well, two of them might have been cancelled, they probably aren't doing more", I get that that's the general consensus right now, but the combiner box sets sold better than TR, right? They might be saving the big boxes for just full combiners and obviously Titans now, and we just haven't gotten the confirmation yet due to the shortening of POTP.
Grapple would have taken more planning, presumably, given Inferno was already a spare unused alternate CW head with no other retooling whatsoever, so I don't think he would have showed his face just yet. Although given what you just said about the combiner head placement, I'm now imagining a combiner head with a crane hook ponytail, and I'm...honestly not sure how I feel about it.