New Hasbro Trademark applications - Gobots?!

I hope Leader-1 is a Seeker repaint.

Then they should bring back Cy-Kill using RiD Sideways mold, or even Cybertron Lugnutz...

OR Animated Prowl.

I wouldn't be suprised if Sparkplug turns out to be a version of Hasbro's Mio pup.

Covenant wrote:Gobots? I'm all for them. While to me they never matched up to Transformers, I still loved them as a kid and their slightly cheaper toys always seemed to end up as gifts for me, thus my referring to them off & on as "the poor kid's Transformer", with love, natch.

Gimme some new mold Leader-1 lurve!

Original Sin wrote:Then they should bring back Cy-Kill using RiD Sideways mold, or even Cybertron Lugnutz...

OR Animated Prowl.

Animated Oil Slick, if not new killer mold entirely.

I'd rather they NOT use an animated mold for that. Keep it compatible with Crasher/Fracture.

Personally, despite general opinion of Universe Silverbolt being crap, I hope that's the silver Leader-1 redeco. Either way, Silverbolt or seeker, I'd want a new, rounded off head.

Animated Oilslick makes a fantastic base-mold for Cy-Kill. I've seen two kitbashes since it first occurred to me, and both were dammed fine.

Leader-1, if he's not going to be a remold, I hope he's a repaint of Jetfire. Silverbolt is already gray, so repainting him into Leader-1 would be a waste. Besides, I was hoping for a repaint of Silverbolt as Whisper.

If they can't do better than a deluxe, I'm hoping they combine the seeker molds. The Classics Starscream mold obviously looks more like Leader-1 in jet mode, but the Ramjet mold's legs are more true to Leader-1. If they could simply transplant Screamer's non-conical head and longer nose onto the Ramjet mode, I think that would be decent.

Also Classics Hound => Smallfoot, and Classics Cyclonus => Fitor.

If I had to bet though, I'd lay odds on another Minicon gift pack done up as Gobot homages. I noticed the other day that most of the Gobots have minicon analogs. Maybe it's because of the comparable aesthetics. The Minicon Abrams Tank that came out in Classics 1.0 had an identical transformation to that Super-Renegade Panther Tank (Destoyer?).

I wish Gobots were not part of Transformers. I liked them separate from each other.

If it's just a repaint, I'd likely have to pass on a Classics Seeker repaint. I've already got that general mould 6 times (All the US released Seekers, save Acid Storm) and it would take Sunstorm in the appropriate Orangey colours or a new damn head to make me get that mould again. If they gave a Leader-1 toy his appropriate head (granted, it'd need to be a bit more square to fit in the Seeker headspace) then I'd be all over it; especially if he had a more Toy than Cartoon accurate headsculpt.

I thought Bandai owns the rights to Go-Bots or Machine Robo?

Zeds wrote:The day the old gobots become part of TFs is the day I stop collecting. Death knell for the line IMHO!

Then... er... why are you still here? It's already happened. Time for you to mosey over to some other hobby. Maybe you could collect Star Wars figures? But then, there's just been a Star Wars/Soul Calibur crossover, so that's probably ruined that for you.

ZoneDaiatlas wrote:I thought Bandai owns the rights to Go-Bots or Machine Robo?

Tonka owned the Gobots toon and liscenced the Machine Robo toys from Bandai. Hasbro currently owns Tonka, so they own everything Gobotty.

UltraPrimal wrote:I'd prefer new molds, but if they're going to be repaints, Starscream as Leader-1 and Oil Slick as Cy-Kill.

Which Starscream?