Lost Light Crew thread
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 8:13 pm
Because this has been nagging at the back of my head for the past couple hours and I'm really curious to get your guys' opinions on it - what counts for a Lost Light Crew display? Since unlike a lot of displays like say, G1 Season 1, Transformers Prime Autobots, Beast Wars Predacons etc. it's a little hard to say what objectively counts as a main cast display.
I mean, there's some obvious ones. The core cast of Rodimus, Megatron, Magnus, Swerve, Chromedome, Brainstorm etc. etc., but beyond that how far do you guys go? The whole crew including those not seen much like Hound and Hot Spot? And what would you qualify as main cast material? There's some obvious examples like I said there, but what about certain... others, like Trailbreaker, Pipes, Blaster, First Aid and Perceptor? They're rarely in the spotlight as much as others, but are definitely more prominent than the likes of Hoist or Gears.
Another thing to address is how do you deal with guys who have no representation whatsoever? Some characters have little to no toy representation right now - until Titans Return wave 3 drops we're stuck with a not-very-good Hot Rod for one thing - but then there's some that have never had any figures period, perhaps most significantly Rung, Nautica and Velocity. And as far as I'm aware there are no third party figures of them either... it's quite a problem, especially when personally speaking Nautica's one of my favourites. I'm really counting on that rumour that she'll be a Titans Return retool of Scourge or Blurr. It at least makes hoping for them to get toys in the future exciting I guess.
Personally, what I like to qualify as a Lost Light crew right now are those (issue 50-54 spoilers) currently stuck on the Necrobot's planet as I feel those are what generally make up the main cast aside from Riptide and Getaway (issue 50-54 spoilers), as well as First Aid, Blaster and Perceptor because I feel they can eek their way in there... and I really like First Aid, Blaster and Perceptor.
But yeah, you guys go ahead and post what you guys think counts. Remember, there's no real right or wrong here as long as you don't discount Nightbeat I will murder you if you don't count Nightbeat, I'm just kinda curious and I think it'd be pretty interesting to see what everyone personally counts for their display.
I mean, there's some obvious ones. The core cast of Rodimus, Megatron, Magnus, Swerve, Chromedome, Brainstorm etc. etc., but beyond that how far do you guys go? The whole crew including those not seen much like Hound and Hot Spot? And what would you qualify as main cast material? There's some obvious examples like I said there, but what about certain... others, like Trailbreaker, Pipes, Blaster, First Aid and Perceptor? They're rarely in the spotlight as much as others, but are definitely more prominent than the likes of Hoist or Gears.
Another thing to address is how do you deal with guys who have no representation whatsoever? Some characters have little to no toy representation right now - until Titans Return wave 3 drops we're stuck with a not-very-good Hot Rod for one thing - but then there's some that have never had any figures period, perhaps most significantly Rung, Nautica and Velocity. And as far as I'm aware there are no third party figures of them either... it's quite a problem, especially when personally speaking Nautica's one of my favourites. I'm really counting on that rumour that she'll be a Titans Return retool of Scourge or Blurr. It at least makes hoping for them to get toys in the future exciting I guess.
Personally, what I like to qualify as a Lost Light crew right now are those (issue 50-54 spoilers) currently stuck on the Necrobot's planet as I feel those are what generally make up the main cast aside from Riptide and Getaway (issue 50-54 spoilers), as well as First Aid, Blaster and Perceptor because I feel they can eek their way in there... and I really like First Aid, Blaster and Perceptor.
But yeah, you guys go ahead and post what you guys think counts. Remember, there's no real right or wrong here as long as you don't discount Nightbeat I will murder you if you don't count Nightbeat, I'm just kinda curious and I think it'd be pretty interesting to see what everyone personally counts for their display.