So let's Predict 2025's Generation Line

Superomegaprime

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I'm predicting that, we'll get a leader or voyager class Thunderwing and a repaint/retool into Skyshadow, Thunderwing is over due for a updated figure and seems to be largely forgotten despite the fact he was a major villian in the old Marvel comics run!

I predict for commander class, we might get Overlord, to break up the Autobot monopoly on the size class as most of the figures in that class have been Autobots with one con so far
 

Darth_Prime

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I don’t see Overlord getting redone so quickly. Other than a silly Titan gimmick he’s pretty good as is IMO.

Im all for Thunderwing.
 

Steevy Maximus

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I don’t see Overlord getting redone so quickly. Other than a silly Titan gimmick he’s pretty good as is IMO.

Im all for Thunderwing.
Quickly? He was released SEVEN years ago. :p

That said, I DO see Commander evolving into less "big, not quite Titan big" to "bigger, more complex, leaders". I mean, potential Commander caliber figures (that haven't been done in Titan or fairly recently) that come to mind are: Overlord, Dai Atlas, Tidal Wave, Energon Optimus, Grand Mal Megatron, etc.

I think Thunderwing is a toss up. He's doable at leader, but I think you might have compromise on the "inner robot" elements. I think he's a popular enough character that Hasbro could do a damn impressive Commander with won't see compromise to his media accuracy or toy features.
 

Sciflyer

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I don’t see Overlord getting redone so quickly. Other than a silly Titan gimmick he’s pretty good as is IMO.

Im all for Thunderwing.

I really do love the TR/LG versions; such great-looking and fun Transformers. But yeah, I would love to see what this team could do with their budget and engineering at the Commander or even HasLab levels. I would welcome a larger, more well-rounded update with each mode getting due focus for that "finished" look and feel.
 

LordGigaIce

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Going off my "Commander Class Thunderclash" idea...

This is part wish list, but I think it's viable-
They lean into G1.5/Euro G1. There are a lot of cool character designs from that era that have never been revisited and they've already hit the fan faves in the WFC and Legacy lineups.

Also Energon? I seem to remember them saying that they want to replicate the Powerlinx gimmick for Generations Energon guys and maybe by 2025 they've figured it out?

Between the weird technicolour epilogue to G1 and a heavy Energon focus...that could be enough to carry a line
 

lastmaximal

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My bias is showing here, but Euro g1.5 is exactly what I want to see. Thunder Clash and Flash, but also Pyro and Clench, and Skyquake and Stalker, etc. Core class non-springy versions of the flipchangers, and the cyberjets too. And then a capsule of Machine Wars redecos. I would be so spoiled.

No doubt there's enough there to FILL a line, but I'm sure we'll need more than that to make it a solid one. If anything, these characters are likely in retool/pretool territory (the only difference these days being who gets put into a wave first). "if we make x, who can we get out of it with a new head? Hurricane? Sure." I genuinely doubt Selects Rotorstorm happened any other way. Although an all new mold for him would be beyond dope.

Thunder Clash, though, maybe? There have been theories about reusing some of the Motormaster tooling (the trailer/base thing is a reach, but idk). And an all new mold has an Optimus redeco waiting to happen.

I'd also love for more Energon stuff -- if they're not going to retool Scraphook into racing truck Rodimus, just give me a new mold for it -- but the Energon weapons aspect in particular seems to have fallen by the wayside as an abandoned Legacy gimmick.

Which is probably just as well. It would be rough to have to track down all the campaign redecos Takara would do (Skids' axe in clear yellow! Elita-1 rifles in clear green! Arcee blades in clear orange!). Hell, all this time later and I still haven't found most of the AOE Legendary Weapons. But I'd probably try anyway, haha.
 
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SG_Roadbuster

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i used a modified Andrew Sorohan template. but here's my prediction/wishlist.
concerning the core class Protectobots, my concept for them is that Heatrock and Skyfeather can form a torso in place of Hotspot. Hotspot being a deluxe though can also sub in for g1 accuracy. and then attach Heatrock and Skyfeather as a jet pack and drill gauntlet weapons.
when Hotspot is retooled to make Hosehead, omitting the Defensor head leaves a space inside the alt mode for Hosehead's headmaster to sit.

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lastmaximal

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In retrospect, it's neat how many of my picks for this quick-and-dirty fill of the Andrew Sorohan (RIP) template have come to fruition in varying ways.

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(Tidal Wave was originally Commander class, but I realized I wanted the full treatment for Thunder Clash -- originally at Leader class -- so I bumped them both up.)

There's still time to give me the rest, Hasbro...
 

Steevy Maximus

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I just hope we get some kind of re-release of Cosmos.
Given the type of line and collecting community Transformers has evolved to…I’m actually surprised we haven’t seen some sort of “Generations Archive” line. Even if that was relegated to “Fan Channels”.

Dust off a “wave’s worth” of older releases, change the packaging, and spread them out over a year? Maybe even do some fan votes for older figures they want rerun. Might even be more compelling than some of the Shattered Glass initiatives. With Nightbird being featured in Rise of the Beasts, this year might have been a good year to rerun the Selects Nightbird. Or maybe the popular Tigertrack. My picks for a “first year”?
Deluxe-
Cosmos (WFC)
Sunstreaker (Earthrise)
Nightbird (Selects)
Cheetor (WFC version)

Voyager-
Starscream (Earthrise)
Soundwave (WFC)

Leader-
Optimus Prime (Earthrise)

Those Voyager and Leader options would have NO problem selling.
 

lastmaximal

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Some of this is already being done with the package refreshes, which seem to have become standard practice since Siege/Earthrise put Siege tailenders (Rung, Astrotrain) at the start of Earthrise. Kingdom repacked Wheeljack, Arcee, and Optimus, (and was slated to do so with Earthrise Starscream iirc), Legacy repacked some Cores and Galvatron notably with some changes, etc.

I wonder if what they're doing with some of the WFC stuff and (apparently) TR Fort Max now can be done with other price points.

I'm sure the Jetfire, Sky Lynx (iirc) and Omega reissues were well-received given how intense the prices for the Commanders got just before that. A lot of these are from recent enough production runs that it may be doable to just ring the factory and order another x amount of units, same everything. Make available via Entertainment Earth, BBTS, Hasbro Pulse, and other online retailers.

Complicating matters is Cosmos being a Walmart exclusive; the veil hasn't fully been lifted on how reissuing those generally works.
 


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