SpaceEagle wrote:That's still pretty exciting, I know people would prefer a bigger Dinoking/Monstructor but I s'pose for how small the original toy(s) was(were) I think that's at least cute.
I do have strong feelings on this, but; it is what it is, If it does in fact come to fruition. I agree that core class (the new Legends class) is a nice inexpensive way to collect smaller/less expensive versions of popular characters. It is also a nice way to release characters that are genuinely small in scale (Rattrap, Cassettes, Spike etc...) . Even making the combiner/Volcanicus gimmick again is fine.
Before I get to my objection, I do appreciate the insight that the design team was looking back at the Legion Class TFP Terrorcons/Abominus from 2013, which I hadn't thought about in some time. I purchased that giftset on clearance at Target for my son, mostly as a novelty, but at that time, I wasn't back into collecting, and I thought there were zero chances of getting proper combiners ever again. It was a neat idea, but my son broke it in short order. I paid almost zero attention to TLK toys, so I had no idea that was repurposed into Infernocus. I'm guessing if there were ever to be a new SS Infernocus, fans probably wouldn't want it made out of core class, or maybe they would, because he wasn't that large of a combiner on screen.
At any rate, that is kind of my point. For the few times that Monstructor and/or Dinoking appear in fiction, they are basically the same size as Devastator, Predaking, Bruticus etc... The fact that the toys themselves were smaller was just odd, but then again, there were a lot of odd choices made in the original line.
Why was Scorponok 2/3 the size of his rival Fort Max? It took 33 years to fix that error, but I'm glad Hasbro/TT did. While I'm usually a fan of Animation Accuracy over original Toy accuracy; All that aside, a solid Toy design is all I'm looking for. The Weaponizes and their ilk take old characters and give them fresh new concepts, and the fossilizers were all new, and my favorite part of the Kingdom Line. However if a choice that is made is so nonsensical just because something was a certain way previously, it automatically makes a toy less desirable. (Legacy Blitzwing anyone?)
I mean, here's a good picture of many of the Decepticon Combiners form the original series. There may be some
slight size variance, but which ones obviously stick out?
Now, to be fair, I am aware that in the 90's there were some Micromaster Combiners made in Japan that were canonically smaller. I have most of those, so it only makes sense, but for the record Dinoking & Monstructor were not among them. (Ironically their combined toy form is even smaller than those Micromaster combiners
)
I mean if I knew for 100% certainty supporting core class combiners would lead to a proper sized Monstructor/Dinoking in the next couple of years, you bet I'd double dip for that. The problem is,
we dont know. Such obscure characters are often "one and done", which is my greatest fear if these long awaited characters come out so vastly undersized. Thus, while it can be assumed that sometimes people at Hasbro read certain message forums, I doubt they'll ever see my signature, but I have updated it accordingly, just in case.