Dom wrote:Maybe a new Perceptor? Kup?
What's wrong with the existing ones? I have a real problem seeing a better Kup being made. (Disclaimer: Get that third party head. The only problem is now fixed.)
Is Brawn not getting a new Legends toy? He should. Even if it's a repaint.
Figures I want:
-Thunderclash
-Shockwave
-Kickback (to compliment Bombshell and Shrapnel)
-Reflector (based on the old toy or cartoon)
-most of the Wreckers (aside from Roadbuster and Whirl) still lack proper toys.
These I agree with. Kickback is actually all but announced; Hasbro said they were definitely doing him when Bombshell was announced. Not sure who exactly you mean as part of the Wreckers, though, since the lineup is ever-fluctuating (as it should be), but I assume the mainstay guys like the Jumpstarters and Impactor are who you're talking about. Shockwave needs at least a Voyager to be great; I wouldn't actually mind a Leader class toy of him, but his repaint/remould potential is pretty limited, so a Voyager is more realistic. Reflector is tough; I think the best thing they'd have to do is make just one robot that turns into a camera, and anyone who wants multiples will have to buy three.
-Alpha Trion
-Sky Lynx
-Dirge (current form)
-Swindle
-Blurr
-Riptide
-Wheeljack (has never had a proper IDW based figure)
These, you're crazy on. Swindle is gonna get a new figure in Combiner Wars. (The Combaticons are all but confirmed at this point. Just look at Hot Spot and tell me he isn't made to be remoulded into Onslaught, and looking at the Protectobots, at least one of them is bound to get remoulded into a Combaticon.)
Alpha Trion is a character very few people are actually interested in. Whenever he turns up, nobody is ever excited or glad to see him. It's usually either "Really?
Why him?" or, at worst, "Not Alpha Trion again." No one is an Alpha Trion fan. Anyone who says they are is lying.
Sky Lynx was never going to happen as long as Archer was in charge (reportedly, he used to keep one on his desk as a reminder of "what not to do.") and it's probably even less likely now that he's gone. Sky Lynx is a toy you cannot make in the modern era. Why? He doesn't turn into a robot. And if you change him to make him turn into a robot, then he isn't Sky Lynx anymore. The best chance you have of getting a new Sky Lynx is in some off-the-wall kid focused line where the toys don't usually transform traditionally in the first place. You could probably get away with it in, say, the RID15 one step toylines.
Not sure what Dirge's "current form" is or why he specifically deserves a new toy over any of the other Coneheads. Blurr had a perfectly fine toy but some people aren't happy with that one for some reason. I don't know who Riptide is. Finally, what in the blue hell is wrong with Generations Wheeljack? There is nothing about the IDW Wheeljack that makes him any different from just regular-assed Wheeljack.
Prowl wrote:The Masterpiece [Rodimus] exists, go for it.
That toy is really specifically G1 Rodimus's cartoon model, lack of detail and all, which is a thing that I don't think a lot of people want. I know I fuckin' don't. You're absolutely right on Cloud Rodimus, although I think he would work better with a new head.
I'll never fully understand people who actually like and care about the Mini-Bots.
I think it's our generational gap. Seriously!
How many non-show BW (or BM) Basics are you, for no real reason, inexplicably attached to? I know you, you have at least one, if not a handful. I've got them too. I love Optimus Minor, and BM Scavenger, just for two. Why are these some of your favourite toys in the line? You had them as a child, and possibly were even able to buy them with "your own" money, because they were inexpensive and small, and because they were small, you had them everywhere.
The Minibots are the G1 equivalents. A lot of people may have got Brawn or Gears or Pipes or Beachcomber as their very first Transformer, ever. So they get attached to those characters, for the nostalgic reasons, or because they read the techspec bio 500 times over and know these characters inside and out. That's why. Just think of it like that.
JT wrote:Again, isn't [Autobot Combiner Wars repaints] a rumor at this point?
No, there are store listings, which are almost invariably correct.
Prowl again wrote:Cool toys is cool toys, and if I objectively liked it five, ten, or twenty years ago, why the hell would I not like it now?
And see, this is the huge hole in your argument. Nobody ever--not even Hasbro!--said "Hey, this is a REPLACEMENT toy, and the older one is now invalid." The old one is perfectly valid! But maybe some people didn't like it for x reason, like scale, or altmode, or colour scheme, or design or engineering choices. And that's perfectly fine. Let them buy the new one while you enjoy your old one!
I mean, shit, you said yourself that you aren't fond of Ironhide and Ratchet and wouldn't mind seeing more "stock" or traditional versions of them. What makes you the authority on that? Maybe I think those are perfectly appropriate toys!
Just because Hasbro released a cartoon-accurate Storm Shadow in Retaliation doesn't mean the long-sleeved (but very similar) Renegades SS was any less "valid." They weren't making the cartoon one for me, they were making it for people who bitched that there was one that had sleeves.
How is my douchey zealotry over not wanting to see things I liked shit all over by the company that has the license to
I just...I don't understand why redoing certain characters so primally
offends you. Is it because you'd rather see those "slots" filled with other characters who haven't gotten new toys yet? Because most of that is happening already this year, to great effect.
You make the GI Joe argument, but if you really look at it, the makeup is different than you say it is. Yes, there might be an Optimus Prime here and a Bumblebee there, a Megatron here and a Starscream over there. But for every Optimus Prime they make, they also make a new Brainstorm, or a new Roadbuster, or a new Chop Shop, or Arcee, or an entirely new character like Windblade.
I agree with you on a lot of Dom's points though, there is absolutely zero need to do a new Wheeljack if the intent is to do it "better" than the Generations one. But if they announce later today that, hey, a new Wheeljack is coming, I'm not going to get all frustrated and bitch about how mine is apparently being shit on by the company??? I'll just go, oh, they're making a new one, cool, that's one less thing I have to buy.
Of course, I don't 'get' Wheeljack either (flat-out don't understand why he's so popular) so maybe G1 as medium just straight-up isn't my thing.
Wheeljack is the Doc Brown of the Autobots. That's all it is. He's a crazy-ass inventor guy.
A lot of people got endeared to the GI Joe characters that were in the cartoon. I got endeared to the characters that were in the Fenslerfilm PSA dubs. (The only reason I own Blowtorch is so that I can pretend he's yelling about porkchop sandwiches.)
Scourge wrote:More cool-ass Voyagers because I was really enjoying that size class for awhile there. Overlord! Scorponok!
I can't see either of these dudes working at Voyager scale, but that's because I like big-assed toys for big-assed leadery dudes. This is why the Ultra class needs to come back, it was the perfect middle ground between the often too-fucken-big Leaders and the too-small-for-some-dudes Voyagers. Because, to me, Voyagers are like...they're obvious mid-sized dudes. Like, a Deluxe Roadbuster or Whirl or Blaster or Inferno would be too small. (Thunderwing should have been a Voyager. I bet he would work great as a Brainstorm retool now. Hell, so would Metalhawk.) Overlord NEEDS to be at least Ultra-sized, but Leader would be best. (I could see a good remould of Megatron as Overlord.)