Legacy Line Wish List
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I feel given some creative molding they could do Legacy Armada Megatron and Animated Shockwave out of the same base mold.
And I agree that most Animated versions of the characters are distinctive enough to warrant their own version in some way. The only ones I wouldn’t think would matter too much would be Bee, although a Wasp would be cool.
And I agree that most Animated versions of the characters are distinctive enough to warrant their own version in some way. The only ones I wouldn’t think would matter too much would be Bee, although a Wasp would be cool.
I'd argue the Kingdom/Legacy Beast Wars toys aren't accurate. They dropped the stylized animal alt-modes for way, way more realistic ones.
Rattrap has rat nards, for crying out loud.
Rattrap has rat nards, for crying out loud.
When you think about it, only the Beast Wars MPs have really tried to be cartoon-accurate for the Season 1 beast modes. Even the original toyline pretended it was going for realistic beasts, but the limitations of mid-90s toy engineering combined with the need for them to also transform into robots (which also the first TF toyline to ever try doing so for every toy across the board in 1996-1997), plus the need to add color to some of them to make them really pop, resulted in only somewhat realistic animal designs.
I totally get the appeal of more aesthetic-accurate releases that continue their lines. Would welcome those, as some of the compromises/blended styles in Legacy aren't quite landing for me.
But some are, so those are cool too. It's kind of like when First Edition Bulkhead came about: it was the Animated-originating character with recognizable design cues but in a different aesthetic that still looked good. Vaguely reminds me of Cybertron, which had the old "little of everything" in an aesthetic that was overall cohesive.
Ultimately, though, the thing I guess I want most for Legacy is good fiction. (I almost said "any fiction at all" but I remembered the War for Cybertron Trilogy.) You've got this smorgasbord of characters to revisit and/or flesh out, so many possible dream matches and meet-ups, and it's just kind of sad that there's absolutely nothing going on. Without anything to give it scale or direction it's just flat, a grab bag of names and "member this, we redid it" arranged in waves.
But some are, so those are cool too. It's kind of like when First Edition Bulkhead came about: it was the Animated-originating character with recognizable design cues but in a different aesthetic that still looked good. Vaguely reminds me of Cybertron, which had the old "little of everything" in an aesthetic that was overall cohesive.
Ultimately, though, the thing I guess I want most for Legacy is good fiction. (I almost said "any fiction at all" but I remembered the War for Cybertron Trilogy.) You've got this smorgasbord of characters to revisit and/or flesh out, so many possible dream matches and meet-ups, and it's just kind of sad that there's absolutely nothing going on. Without anything to give it scale or direction it's just flat, a grab bag of names and "member this, we redid it" arranged in waves.
Tarantulas looking like a wolf spider oddly works for me. It's obviously wrong (His name is Tarantulas) but the stance of the legs creeps me out way more than a realistic tarantula would. It just looks like it's going to teleport somewhere the second I reach for the flyswatter, while real tarantulas look sluggish.
Eh. Big Spider is Big Spider to me. They both would squash they same. Granted I'd be more up in arms with BlackArachnia's spider mode. It would be weird if she wasn't a Widow.
Either way though I think Tarrantulas' coloring isn't natural whichever way they went.
Either way though I think Tarrantulas' coloring isn't natural whichever way they went.
So, I’m going to stop back in and wish for some more Throttlebots, now that I got Goldbug. Wide load and Rollbar are maybe out of contention, but the other 3 are COMPLETELY within reason with (by current design team standards, it seems) relatively little retooling. New feet, maybe a new back end for Chase and Freeway, new heads, easy peezy!
I wouldn’t say never. With Animated possibly coming to Legacy. The Animated Constructicons could be great additions. Simple remold of one could give Wideload.
they call me Stretch. Lol
they call me Stretch. Lol
He's already been mentioned in this thread, but Flame is probably the Marvel original character I'd want to see done next.
Feel like he doesn't get talked about nearly as much as Impactor and Straxus and what not, but he's got such striking colors. He's like Hot Rod's unpleasant uncle.
Feel like he doesn't get talked about nearly as much as Impactor and Straxus and what not, but he's got such striking colors. He's like Hot Rod's unpleasant uncle.
I would have said Bumblebee.
I have RtS Lugnut, and as a representation of a beloved character from Animated in a more G1 style, I think he does well. I say that to say, yes, I would love more Animated figures in their original style, but I'm also not against Legacy versions of some of these, either.
(Incidentally, RtS Lugnut is partnered with Transmetal Waspinator in my collection, and they are voiced by Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulsen, respectively.)
The question I have is, they're already talking about Armada and Animated for Legacy, does RiD01 get no love?
(Incidentally, RtS Lugnut is partnered with Transmetal Waspinator in my collection, and they are voiced by Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulsen, respectively.)
The question I have is, they're already talking about Armada and Animated for Legacy, does RiD01 get no love?
You get Scourge and swift kick to the wallet because it's exclusive.
A stripe and a light are extremely minor differences, and Animated Bumblebee's vehicle mode falls well within the range of vehicle modes G1-based Bumblebees have had.
Here, look:
Whether or not the execution meets your standards, it's pretty clear he's intended to be Scourge/Black Convoy.
I'd be surprised if Hasbro was willing to put out that mold again in a slightly different teal and black color scheme, so he's probably the best we're going to get for the next 5-10 years, if not longer.
Finally worked out my wish list, I didn't want to be redundant and just list what everyone else was and then lastmaximal put almost half my list in their post. 
G1/G2/Comics
Slugfest and Overkill
Squawktalk and Beastbox
The Predators and Turbomasters
Minerva getting a toy I feel like Cab and Goshooter should get update as well (I would not complain if it was Hosehead and Siren either, in fact I always like that they're a fire truck and fire chief duo)
Liokaiser, with Leozack (I'm still waiting for Takara to do them).
The Axelerators and Skyscorchers (perhaps the Euro G1 toys could be remolded into them).
Autotrooper
Dreadwing and Smokescreen.
Stardrive, a good design, triple changer, easy repaint potential to have her in both Cybertronian colors and Solstar Order silver, feels like a no brainer to me.
Pharma.
Nova Prime
Beast Era
The remaining show cast for BW
Transmetal Megatron (above all the other transmetals I want him updated)
BW2 Galvatron (Lio Convoy has had multiple toys over years but there has never been a Galvatron to go with him)
All of the show Vehicons
Unicron Trilogy
Sideways
Demolisher
Overload
Crosswise
Evac
Cannonball
Animated
Prowl
Slipstream
Sentinel Prime
Lugnut
Aligned Continuity
Airachnid
Quickshadow
High Tide
Strongarm
Steeljaw
Thunderhoof
Scowl
(phew) Tad longer then I intended.
-Edit- I thought of more.
Glyph and Tapout
Brushfire
Smolder
G1/G2/Comics
Slugfest and Overkill
Squawktalk and Beastbox
The Predators and Turbomasters
Minerva getting a toy I feel like Cab and Goshooter should get update as well (I would not complain if it was Hosehead and Siren either, in fact I always like that they're a fire truck and fire chief duo)
Liokaiser, with Leozack (I'm still waiting for Takara to do them).
The Axelerators and Skyscorchers (perhaps the Euro G1 toys could be remolded into them).
Autotrooper
Dreadwing and Smokescreen.
Stardrive, a good design, triple changer, easy repaint potential to have her in both Cybertronian colors and Solstar Order silver, feels like a no brainer to me.
Pharma.
Nova Prime
Beast Era
The remaining show cast for BW
Transmetal Megatron (above all the other transmetals I want him updated)
BW2 Galvatron (Lio Convoy has had multiple toys over years but there has never been a Galvatron to go with him)
All of the show Vehicons
Unicron Trilogy
Sideways
Demolisher
Overload
Crosswise
Evac
Cannonball
Animated
Prowl
Slipstream
Sentinel Prime
Lugnut
Aligned Continuity
Airachnid
Quickshadow
High Tide
Strongarm
Steeljaw
Thunderhoof
Scowl
(phew) Tad longer then I intended.
-Edit- I thought of more.
Glyph and Tapout
Brushfire
Smolder
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My list:
G1:
Buzzsaw
Any and all of the other cassettes
All the Victory Decepticons, especially Deathsaurus
All the new-character Action Masters
BW:
TM1 Megatron
All the characters added past season 1
Galvatron
Magmatron
BM:
...Everyone
RiD:
Megatron at Commander class
UT:
I'd love either a Commander Tidal Wave in show colors that can combine with Megatron or a Titan Tidal Wave in toy/video game colors. Hell, I'd love to get both.
Would be nice to finally get a good Armada Hot Shot. The Universe one didn't cut it.
Scourge and Evac, though then the temptation to get Metroplex might get to be too much to resist.
Movies:
Barricade and Blackout seem to be the most popular movie-original characters. We've gotten a G1-ified Barricade. I'd love to get a Blackout to go with him.
Animated:
Red Alert
G1:
Buzzsaw
Any and all of the other cassettes
All the Victory Decepticons, especially Deathsaurus
All the new-character Action Masters
BW:
TM1 Megatron
All the characters added past season 1
Galvatron
Magmatron
BM:
...Everyone
RiD:
Megatron at Commander class
UT:
I'd love either a Commander Tidal Wave in show colors that can combine with Megatron or a Titan Tidal Wave in toy/video game colors. Hell, I'd love to get both.
Would be nice to finally get a good Armada Hot Shot. The Universe one didn't cut it.
Scourge and Evac, though then the temptation to get Metroplex might get to be too much to resist.
Movies:
Barricade and Blackout seem to be the most popular movie-original characters. We've gotten a G1-ified Barricade. I'd love to get a Blackout to go with him.
Animated:
Red Alert
I know I mentioned Commander Class Tankor before, but sticking with Beast Machines, Commander or Titan class Grand Mal Megatron as a triple changer with floating head and star ship modes, but also a full robot mode similar to the toy.
A dream which I know will never happen, but this is a thread about wishing.
A dream which I know will never happen, but this is a thread about wishing.