by Blurrz » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:04 am
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- Weapon: Electro-Laser Cannon
To be honest, nothing. The figures from each series defines the era. As much as I appreciated the attempts with Dinobot and Hot Shot, neither really gave me the feeling that I was going to replace their predecessors with those figures. I'm not even one who'll back up G1, but there's such a diverse cast from that Universe, albeit from comics, the cartoon, and fiction, that have yet to receive any love in toy form.
As much as I'd give figures like Dinobot and Hot Shot a chance, it just doesn't compare to the original. Figures to be made in this day and age - trying to homage a toy made 10+ years ago is going to have to make sacrifices. The quality and thickness of plastic in today's figures is shoddy and has seen better days. Paint applications and quality control are laughable. Don't even discuss distribution or the declining size of deluxe figures.
I'd think that Beast Wars reincarnations would have no chrome, and to be honest, the majority of the best BW figures shouldn't even be bothered with. Optimal Optimus, Depthcharge, and Tigatron are beauties. You try to remake BW into Classics, and where does that figure even belong? It's going to look ridiculous next to BW toys, and I'd rather not create my own fiction to fit that character into the Neo-G1 verse.
Looking at any characters from Armada, which we've already seen with Hot Shot, will just get butchered. Jolt is just an aside. It's next to useless as it doesn't benefit or interact with Hot Shot, other than to pop on to his one powerlink port. Articulation and poseability may increase but the cost is just too high for an Armada purist like myself. The interactions with mini-cons gimmick is what the line tried to sell to begin with. Sure, a rendition of Optimus Prime or Megatron would be appealing for me, but is it going to be big enough to replace the original, and is there even a big target market for that?.. No.
R.I.D. is quite possible, but it's just going to be repaints or remolds like this year's TFCC Sideburn. Energon is much as the same as Armada. It's a gimmick-heavy line that if you're going to redo a character or two, it's not going to belong with the original toy line, and unless it gets some canon fiction love, it's not going to belong in the Classicsverse for me. Cybertron and Animated are far too early for this.
The only line that I see that's viable for this is Beast Machines. And the question pretty much goes - do people want Beast Machines to be redone, or shall we get back to focusing on G1? Like for goodness sake, a year ago we didn't have Classicsverse Jazz, Kup, or Wheeljack!
I'd like to see Beast Wars main cast brought back in brand new molds 
. (Minus Dinobot as we've got a nice update already)
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