Transformers Legacy toyline

CoffeeHorse

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I dislike the Menasor approach for anyone but Menasor. But part of me hopes they make it the standard approach for Legacy combiners and get increasingly silly and reaching with how they shoehorn it in, to the point where they have to get creative to continue doing the lazy thing.
 

Haywire

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I would be down for the Aerialbots in G2-deco (still kick myself for not getting that CW set), but probably not in original decos, except for Air Raid. Gonna need Air Raid.

Really wish we would get Leozack and Jallguar to go with the old Destron set. (Also Deathcobra).
 

Echowarrior

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New Aerialbots? Yes. New versions of the Thirteen? Yes. As for the rest...I think the only ones I'll pass on will be G2 Grimlock and Crasher.
 

Shadewing

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I wonder if G2 Grimlock will be the standard Blue? Eitherway I'll probably pass since I got the Toxitron one, I don't need another G2 Grimlock from that mold.
 

Undead Scottsman

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Combiner Wars will be nearly a decade old by next year. I think it's fine to get new figures.

Seriously, 2025 will mark year 1 in the FOURTH toy trilogy.
 

CoffeeHorse

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I was really hoping for the Thirteen to go away forever, but maybe this team will actually do something good with them.
 

Shadewing

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Combiner Wars will be nearly a decade old by next year. I think it's fine to get new figures.

Seriously, 2025 will mark year 1 in the FOURTH toy trilogy.

Pretty much all of them could be done better, especially with those molds being designed to be as versatile as possible. Like I could understand Hot Spot and Onsluaght being remolds of each other, but not in the way they did it. Their g1 toys transform basically the same way, that a heavy remold could easily share the same skeleton. But the CW ones kinda suffer from being alergeic to partsforming anything.

While I hate Carmor Menasor; I will admit that Legacy is vastly superior to the stock retail versions of the CW Stunticons. So I am curious to see how they do the others, when they can't cheat; unless they still do.
 

lastmaximal

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I like avoiding partsforming where feasible. The handfootguns, fine, but integrate whatever else can be.

I hope we don't have to get Commander class torsos every time here.
 

CoffeeHorse

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Someday integrated hands and feet need to become the norm as well. I will die on this hill. Any Deluxe can transform halfway and pretend the hips are an elbow. Combiner limbs should do something that other toys in the line don't already do.
 

Xero

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It'll be interesting to see who the 13 pretools are for. There's no way they have a bunch of new molds that don't have g1 backups in Hasbro's current economic funk.
 

Shadewing

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I like avoiding partsforming where feasible. The handfootguns, fine, but integrate whatever else can be.

I hope we don't have to get Commander class torsos every time here.

Which works for some guys. Silverbolt pulls it off well; As does Starscream/Elita and Hungrr, but they both largely copy Silverbolt. Even Optimus isn't bad, since he's kinda copying Energon Prime; while Motormaster doesn't work at all without an addon imo. Hot Spot kind does it better then Onslaught but both just have have everything fold up on top of their vehicle mode; Hot Shot's makes a passible ladder section, but Onslaught just has a pile of nothing that you plug guns onto. Grimlock has the opposite problem where he has nothing and his torso is just too thin. But I feel the guys that don't.

All the ones that don't work, would benefit with having separate pieces, either to fill out their combined mode or to give them better looking Robot or Vehicle modes. That's probably why we'll see Combiner team leaders being Commander or leader class, just so they have enough bulk and parts to be able to pull off a combined mode.

...I'll be highly amused if they end up copying Star Sabre for Silverbolt, where half the plane is just Silverbolt and the rest is a the combiner parts ala Motormaster.
 

CoffeeHorse

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Quite a bit of EarthSpark is reused Cyberverse molds though.

Not that it matters. Transformers has nothing to do with Hasbro's current troubles. It's one of their most dependable brands.
 

Superomegaprime

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I think I'll wait until the images appear, before making any judgements, thou for me, the one most of note, is the Fallen, will he be inspired by Dreamwave comics or something completely new or will he be a hyrid of G1 & movie?
 

Haze Arquebus

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At least these Thirteen toys will actually be Something and not just Worse Powermasters.
 


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