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So, given that it's RID 2001's 20th anniversary, what are the odds that we get a Hasbro Selects release of the Ruination figure from UW?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:So, given that it's RID 2001's 20th anniversary, what are the odds that we get a Hasbro Selects release of the Ruination figure from UW?

It had already happened but the possibilities to re-release it with improved hands and feet, along maybe a bonus accessory or two are very high. At the bare minimum, a Bruticus.

This would require hasbro to acknowledge CR/RiD2001. Best we're going to get for a while I nods like Siege UM alt mode.

ZeroWolf wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:So, given that it's RID 2001's 20th anniversary, what are the odds that we get a Hasbro Selects release of the Ruination figure from UW?

It had already happened but the possibilities to re-release it with improved hands and feet, along maybe a bonus accessory or two are very high. At the bare minimum, a Bruticus.

This would require hasbro to acknowledge CR/RiD2001. Best we're going to get for a while I nods like Siege UM alt mode.

Why Hasbro? So far, the Select combiners are ALL Takara endeavor like the original UW Ruination.



Each times Takara did a Select combiner, it always come with new hands and feet, no HFG, plus some new parts.

Still, I expect Bruticus to be re-released first before the way less popular Ruination.

If TT was going to use that mold one more time for a selects release,I'd rather they go wit a new deco -Battle Gaia ( and Guard City by extension). There are still several combiners left to release before they start over again

Sabrblade wrote:If Takara was going to do anything for that series's 20th anniversary, they would have done it last year, not this year. For Takara, 2020 was the 20th anniversary since Car Robots came out in 2000. It was only in Hasbro's markets that RiD'01 came out in 2001. This is a show that has two separate anniversary years on different sides of the Pacific.

Also, Kanra:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Why Hasbro?

Because that was Sentinel_Primal's original question, which you were the first person to respond to, even:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:So, given that it's RID 2001's 20th anniversary, what are the odds that we get a Hasbro Selects release of the Ruination figure from UW?

I actually remember seeing fan-dubbed episodes of Car Robots back when I first got high-speed cable off of some streaming site I think was called Sputnik-7. This was just a bit before RiD 2001 was officially dropped. Good times. Something tells me Hasbro doesn't care though.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Why should Hasbro care? Car Robo / RID was just a filler line with 90% of the toys released were repaints of previous lines. Plus the fanbase is very minor.

If there's any omages or remakes in the work for a new series, the Unicron Trilogy would most likely take priority.

Well, it was Hasbro who did the new-mold Sky-Byte toy back in Thrilling 30 (of course, that was a different Hasbro team, but still).

And, ironically, it was the Hasbro RID toyline that was way more of a smash hit success compared to how smaller and short lived Takara's Car Robots line was in Japan, with the Hasbro line even getting a successor line in the 2003 Universe line.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Why should Hasbro care? Car Robo / RID was just a filler line with 90% of the toys released were repaints of previous lines. Plus the fanbase is very minor.

If there's any omages or remakes in the work for a new series, the Unicron Trilogy would most likely take priority.

Well, it was Hasbro who did the new-mold Sky-Byte toy back in Thrilling 30 (of course, that was a different Hasbro team, but still).

And, ironically, it was the Hasbro RID toyline that was way more of a smash hit success compared to how smaller and short lived Takara's Car Robots line was in Japan, with the Hasbro line even getting a successor line in the 2003 Universe line.

And haven't we seen some of the molds in the Selects Manga? Yellow Convoy comes from RiD 2001, no?

aronjlove wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:We don't even really know if we're getting a complete redo of Menasor at this point. We only heard rumors of a new Leader Class (or Voyager Class?) Motormaster. We don't even know if it will combine. My guess, though, is that he will at least have his more classic double-trailer truck alternate mode. Of all the Combiner Wars characters (that classically were combiners), Motormaster was perhaps the most off-model compared to his G1 look.

He's supposed to be the opposite of Optimus. The cab is his feet or maybe just some shoes while the trailer is the actual robot.

Exactly. All of the other torso bots from G1, like Silverbolt, Hot Spot, Onslaught, Scattershot, and Hun-Gurr, don't really stick out as being drastic departures from their cartoon models or original G1 toys, not quite like Motormaster, who was saddled with having to be a co-tooling with Optimus Prime in Combiner Wars. If no other classic torso bot is redone after Motormaster for a long while, I won't be disappointed. The only combiner TEAMS that might need a complete redo in the more near future might be Devastator and/or Predaking, for collectors who want versions of those two that scale better with the rest of the modern "Generations" styled combiners.

aronjlove wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Why should Hasbro care? Car Robo / RID was just a filler line with 90% of the toys released were repaints of previous lines. Plus the fanbase is very minor.

If there's any omages or remakes in the work for a new series, the Unicron Trilogy would most likely take priority.

Well, it was Hasbro who did the new-mold Sky-Byte toy back in Thrilling 30 (of course, that was a different Hasbro team, but still).

And, ironically, it was the Hasbro RID toyline that was way more of a smash hit success compared to how smaller and short lived Takara's Car Robots line was in Japan, with the Hasbro line even getting a successor line in the 2003 Universe line.

And haven't we seen some of the molds in the Selects Manga? Yellow Convoy comes from RiD 2001, no?

Yes, but that was just a repurpose of the existing Sam's Club toy from 2003.

Just got Spin-Out and Cordon and the Sunstreaker mold is really nice. Had an issue with my Spin-Out's left hip having some mold flash that made it almost impossible to move, but I managed to rotate it enough that the mold flash popped off with no damage occurring, not even a sress mark (definitely not the best way to handle it, but I thought it was glued in place initially )