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I don't know why I have to point this out but if you leave combiner parts out, you form a big robot missing limbs if you can get anything at all. Conversely, you can keep Pretender shells empty and short of picking them up and shaking them, nobody is the wiser. I think it could work as the...

Personally, the characters are what make the Pretenders prominent and I find the very concept of pretenders flawed and in need of reworking. If the gimmick of your toyline is that you can completely ignore the existence of half the package, it's not a very good one is it? Maybe if putting the...

There are two different but similar toylines. The international vintage boats and tanks are standalone robots who don't combine but there's a bunch of current Chinese navy boats that do.

I know it's based on an Iconic American battleship but the robot mode's not really saying America to me, even with the Statue of Liberty Crown. I dunno, maybe it needs more white or a different blue? Never mind, that's definitely Murrican

He was pretty big for the original Generations line but he is huge in the new scale. A new one wouldn't be the worst thing ever.

Pretenders didn't even bother with the inner robot most of the time, so I think it's an acceptable compromise to cut out the middleman and have the shells transform into approximations of the inner robot's altmode.

I’d bet money on it being the designer sculpting a lion face from memory.

Aside from the eyes, that looks exactly as bad. The molded face is just plain ugly.

Yes, it was. It's got an overly long snout with an exaggerated slope, had a derpy facial expression and had fangs sticking out when the mouth's closed.

In my defence, the first photo is basically the same but i forgot to place Wheeljack in-frame.

You're ascribing too much intent when the simpler explanation is that making pretenders with shells means basically making two figures that they'd be pressured by retailers to sell for the price of one. It'd be a budgeting nightmare when they have many other easier to design, more marketable...

Y’now, the hammer’s growing on me.

To be fair, it's probably the only way Monstructor is getting made with pretender shells. That said, yeah, pretty unlikely.

I don’t think it’ll be feasible to retool Omega Supreme from the Kingdom Ark. even looking at the ship modes, the only thing they have in common is the general shape. And the robot modes aren’t close either.

lots of green and yellow this week. Think I’ll keep the red mask because the plain green head is boring and Mirage comics. Don’t like the partsforming chest since ninja don’t use shields, there’s already too much stuff hanging off him and the revealed stuff is a block of yellow. Also had to...

Overlord could probably be done at Commander but Tidal Wave sets precedent for promoting characters who weren’t previously enormous to Titan. Having a base mode may be enough for the team to Titan class him. Another factor is if they also plan to make a Ginrai/PMOP with a core robot around the...

RID Megs would probably have to be a Has Lab if only to compete with RID Optimus/Omega Prime. That dude’s huge and the big wings would probably cut into the mass and engineering. Releasing Galvatron might be a problem but having a straight recolor might reduce costs or backers and make a twopack...

Not terrible but this has got to be one of the worst value for money toys in a long time.

Kingdom Slammer as the Autobot city missile launcher thing. Retool the turret into the launchpad. Think the colors would also look nice in robot mode.

Got Studio Series Springer in today. Here’s a comparison to my cleaned up Siege Springer. Legs are exactly the same as Siege but everything from the thighs up except the forearms is new, even the internal structural parts. The retooling also made him slightly taller. Got a bit of a lemon, with...