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They tried that with the Dinobots and, well. (I love them, especially with the 5mm connections, but my opinion is a distinct minority.)

This could be a good way to get Beachcomber out again-- that wave had *terrible* distribution. (Devcon might be a little tricker. But that would be fun-- G1/reissue-style repacks of characters that didn't have G1 toys. Call it The Lost Series or Secret History or something.)

It's also outsourced in a sense to the *past*-- with legacy characters, you're just supposed to know who Optimus Prime and Megatron and Ferak and Wingblaster and Leader-B and Batman and Scarecrow and Mrs. King and whoever are.

Probably-- all I remember is that it was apparently not the main TF team. (And as has been said, no Takara involvement. TFs made strictly by Hasbro-- and ones made strictly by Takara(Tomy), are usually lesser in some way than the team effort approach.) IMO they should've put experienced...

IMO the Marvel ones benefitted by not being based on specific fictional vehicles. A lot of Star Wars ships are just trickier. There was also less leeway that, say, actual airplanes get. But yeah, "mech version of existing character" isn't really what a lot of us wanted. (It worked okay...

it's a real shame we never got Emu Xaaron

MegaMan has a lot of potential as a quasi-converting toy line-- from transforming robot animals, to robot animals combining with humanoid robots, to multi-stage mecha... Even if just the robots' arms transformed-- that'd be something. Not a lot of directly-competing-with-Transformers X-to-Y...

Yeah, IMO TF X MM is more likely to involve things like a Megatron that turns into a Wily Machine, a MegaMan-themed Optimus Prime, or Yellow Deviltron than any Robot Masters.

TurboMan and NitroMan are RIGHT THERE. (Granted, they're very un-toyetic, and Collaborative has been mostly about Hall of Fame-level TFs or brand new characters, but, y'know, thematically...)

It could be Fourth Declension and be Straxus with a long U [like 'goose']. Or if it's originally Greek, Straxes. (I am certain Straxus was not Greek. His palm tree suggests he or his forbears migrated from somewhere more tropical.)

I don't think we ever found out how Beast Machines Bruticus was supposed to work. It was supposed to have a Spark gimmick at some point, and it's otherwise pretty clearly an unfinished design. I know a lot of figures never make it past concept stages (some were on War for Cybertron packaging...

It's the first time I can remember that store exclusives were re-issued as general retail. (And not as redecoes or retools.) I could be mistaken, but even if I am, it sure doesn't happen often. (That being said, I don't recall any new molds being exclusives until Origins Bumblebee...

Cyberworld seems like a step down from Cyberverse. Reminds me of Dr Who and how they'd attach Cyber to anything Cyberman-related, only cyber-dumber.

Yeah, the C might help- "Blockees" vs "Blokees." It's objectively dumber, so I can see why they didn't.

Lotta crossover potential: Transformers: Primal Rage Transformers: John Prine or if they do "remixes" like Beast Machine(s) Wars: Combiner Machines Armada Wars Power of the Legacy Powerlinx Battles for the Dark Spark

The Truth the Eyes Have Met Before

"Actual" colors in B&W movies can be tricky-- sometimes the art direction would have odd colors because they showed better contrast or otherwise looked better on-screen. So color stills (or actual costumes, props, etc.) of a B&W movie set may not be an accurate reflection of the intention...

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Yeah, a Joe/TF crossover only works when either A) both are active/vibrant franchises, or 2. when it's a ground-up reboot. Grafting a dormant property onto a successful one IMO is much harder.

There's enough zany/wacky kid-appeal character in what we've seen that I half expect Bee to get PTSD during the film. It would, thematically, tie in nicely to Charlie's depression in her movie. In this essay I will