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what 2 combiners teams/gestalts would they like to see in the TF Prime cartoon/toy line. lets assume they'll be 5 man combiner teams.

Lets also take into account with the Exspensive CGI,Were lucky if we get 2 combiner teams. expecting anything more than 2 seems un-likely.

I wanted to ask this combiners question to members because at the recent 2011 SDCC convention. it was sort of revealed/hinted they were thinking about doing combiners for TF Prime.

If I had to select a Autobot combiner team & a decepticon combiner team for TF Prime. I'd select the 5 G-1 styled/persona dinobots that merge to form a gestalt called Dinoking. I'd select the 5 1986 G-1 styled/persona Predacons that form Predaking. the limb bots would be deluxe sized. while the core team leaders would be voyager sized.

At SDCC Hasbro/hub hinted at possible dinobots for TF prime cartoon/toy line. I figured all 5 might as well be combiners that form a gestalt. to save money on CGI fees/labor. Personally it doesn't make sense to create a few non-combining dinobots & then 2 combiner 5 man teams. might as well incorporate the dinobots as combiners to save CGI cost/labor.

Something that isn't based on G1 characters.

Gomess wrote:Something that isn't based on G1 characters.

Sooo... what, like Magnaboss or something?

Ya know what would make an interesting combiner? If MECH designed one. It would be new and different to have the only combiner in a TF universe be one that was designed and used by humans.

Shockwave wrote:

Gomess wrote:Something that isn't based on G1 characters.

Sooo... what, like Magnaboss or something?

Ya know what would make an interesting combiner? If MECH designed one. It would be new and different to have the only combiner in a TF universe be one that was designed and used by humans.

Personally,from a CGI cost effective/labor point of view. it makes sense for TF Prime to have the core cast of autobots & decepticons as 5 man combiner teams that form a gestalt. this would save money on CGI designs,less new voice actors needed,no time wasted fleshing out the individual combiner team mates persona's. examples: bulkhead,optimus prime,bumblebee,arcee & wheeljack would combine to form a gestalt combiner. the decepticons combiner members could consist of megatron,starscream,soundwave,knockout & breakdown. All that would have to get done is create 2 CGI designs for the gestalts,hire 2 voice actors or use prime/megs as the gestalt voices like rid did for runiation.

Tigermegatron wrote:Personally,from a CGI cost effective/labor point of view. it makes sense for TF Prime to have the core cast of autobots & decepticons as 5 man combiner teams that form a gestalt. this would save money on CGI designs,less new voice actors needed,no time wasted fleshing out the individual combiner team mates persona's. examples: bulkhead,optimus prime,bumblebee,arcee & wheeljack would combine to form a gestalt combiner. the decepticons combiner members could consist of megatron,starscream,soundwave,knockout & breakdown. All that would have to get done is create 2 CGI designs for the gestalts,hire 2 voice actors or use prime/megs as the gestalt voices like rid did for runiation.

That would be bad. Nobody wants to see that; it's a terrible fanfic idea. It's like every time I see someone suggest that the Dinobots should combine. No, they shouldn't, because they don't fucking do that.

Anyway: G means original characters/ideas/etc. instead of just rehashing G1. Which I can kinda get behind.

I am grumpy today.

I'd like to see something new myself. Maybe not even 5 member teams. I've always thought Railracer from RiD was a great gestalt Transformer with only 3 members.

Onslaught Six wrote:

Tigermegatron wrote:Personally,from a CGI cost effective/labor point of view. it makes sense for TF Prime to have the core cast of autobots & decepticons as 5 man combiner teams that form a gestalt. this would save money on CGI designs,less new voice actors needed,no time wasted fleshing out the individual combiner team mates persona's. examples: bulkhead,optimus prime,bumblebee,arcee & wheeljack would combine to form a gestalt combiner. the decepticons combiner members could consist of megatron,starscream,soundwave,knockout & breakdown. All that would have to get done is create 2 CGI designs for the gestalts,hire 2 voice actors or use prime/megs as the gestalt voices like rid did for runiation.

That would be bad. Nobody wants to see that; it's a terrible fanfic idea. It's like every time I see someone suggest that the Dinobots should combine. No, they shouldn't, because they don't fucking do that.

Anyway: G means original characters/ideas/etc. instead of just rehashing G1. Which I can kinda get behind.

I am grumpy today.

Theirs hundreds thousands upon thousands of Transformers fans who want to see the 5 G-1 Dinobots combine into a combiner gestalt.

Sparky Prime wrote:I'd like to see something new myself. Maybe not even 5 member teams. I've always thought Railracer from RiD was a great gestalt Transformer with only 3 members.

Honestly,I wouldn't.

It's my eventual dream to see all the G-1 USA Hasbro combiners from the 1980's to receive new mold updated homage super poseable molds in the proper size scale.

We've already got a few G-1 combiners with new molds in proper size scales thanks to energon & the movie verse. which are. superion,bruticus,devestator & the ROTF legends sized devestator.

I want the rest done like as follows: (1) 1986 Predacons,4 deluxe limbs & one voyager size core leader razorclaw. (2) Menasor,4 basic sized limbs & one deluxe core leader motormaster. (3) terrorcons,4 basic limbs & one core leader deluxe hungarr. (4) Computron,4 basic limbs & one deluxe core leader scattershot. (5) Seacons,4 basic limbs & one deluxe core leader snaptrap. (6) Dinobots,4 deluxe limbs & one voyager core leader grimlock. I realize grimlock wasn't a g-1 combiner but fans wanted this for decades since 1985. (7) Monsterbots,6 or 5 basic sized robots that combine to form a combiner gestalt.

Maybe, but I wouldn't want a Dinobot combiner either. Part of what made them so much more bad ass than the Predicons was the fact that they could hold their own against them without combining. They didn't need to, they were that bad ass.

Tigermegatron wrote:It's my eventual dream to see all the G-1 USA Hasbro combiners from the 1980's to receive new mold updated homage super poseable molds in the proper size scale.

While I think that'd be cool, I can't see them doing that in the Prime series. If they ever do introduce a combiner, I get the impression with how the series has been going so far that they're more likely to go with a newer inspiration.

We've already got a few G-1 combiners with new molds in proper size scales thanks to energon & the movie verse. which are. superion,bruticus,devestator & the ROTF legends sized devestator.

The Energon combiners only used 3 molds though, repainting two of the limbs to complete the gestalt form instead of 5 individual molds.
Also, there was another Devastator, repainted from RiD Landfill for the Universe line.

And then there were the Power Core combiners, albeit not based directly on G1 gestalts and the limbs had no robot modes, it it clear some of them were intended as homages.

Dinobots,4 deluxe limbs & one voyager core leader grimlock. I realize grimlock wasn't a g-1 combiner but fans wanted this for decades since 1985.

You haven't heard of "The Beast Within" comic book I take it? I think a lot of fans prefer the Dinobots as they are. Them as a combiner would be... over the top, as that comic goes to show.