If they come up with some interesting colors I’ll bite. I skipped the Fossilizers in the mainline but loved the grape t-rex and orange triceratops.
I think in my mind the rock guys are gonna be from a world where the Inhumanoids more successfully attacked the surface and created a new Infernac Kingdom there, then it was Transformers (Bot and Con alike) vs Inhumanoids. These guys would be either beasts Metlar made to fight TFs or the result of Granites and Autobots teaming up and creating "Granitbots."
-ZacWilliam, there was a second part to this post and in the process of imagining Inhumanoids nonsense I have completely forgotten what is was gonna be.
-ZacWilliam, there was a second part to this post and in the process of imagining Inhumanoids nonsense I have completely forgotten what is was gonna be.
Like I've lowkey been getting into Battle Beasts lately and I've personal canon'd the Monsterbots as Transtectors for White Leo, Platinum Tiger, and Hedgehog to command after getting Cybertronian enhancements. So the idea of more alien options who have their own distinct feel is 100% welcome,
In my own mind the Fossilizers were Maximals and Predacons after a run-in with D'Compose. I could see the rock guys as linked.
That's almost exactly how it was in the Legends manga.
First and most importantly, I've preordered both Armorizers because I dig the idea and want to support them continuing to try new stuff. But I will admit I'm of two (or three) minds on them. On the one hand, I really want to see straight up Rock Lords revisited. I've always loved the idea of toys that turn into rocks which you can throw at your friends! I have a handful of them.
That being said, they were also the flailing attempt at reenergizing a dying toyline that clearly didn't really work.
This is an interesting take on it. I'd love for them to have gone even further with the vehicle design though. I'd like to see even less-identifiable vehicle parts: make the wheels rolling boulders (or someone mentioned the Flintstones' car and that'd work too) and just slits for the windshield.
That being said, they were also the flailing attempt at reenergizing a dying toyline that clearly didn't really work.
This is an interesting take on it. I'd love for them to have gone even further with the vehicle design though. I'd like to see even less-identifiable vehicle parts: make the wheels rolling boulders (or someone mentioned the Flintstones' car and that'd work too) and just slits for the windshield.
tbf I never needed my toys to transform into rocks to have an excuse to throw them around. My sister's ponies and Barbies know of the carnage wrought
You laugh, but my G1 Optimus Prime had his leg broken off that way in a fit of anger at my sister.tbf I never needed my toys to transform into rocks to have an excuse to throw them around. My sister's ponies and Barbies know of the carnage wrought
I’m sure someone will correct me, but isn’t United Wave 1 the first time in years (at least since the whole Themed year thing) that G1 has had NO representation across the ENTIRE product range of a given wave?
Core, Deluxe, Voyager, Leader, there are NO G1, or G1-adjacent (like comic iterations) characters on tap.
That just kind of stood out to me.
Core, Deluxe, Voyager, Leader, there are NO G1, or G1-adjacent (like comic iterations) characters on tap.
That just kind of stood out to me.
Non-Geewunners, we made it!
I've already worked Rock Lords into my continuity, so I guess I can parse these guys as representing the first generation of Cybertronians to land on Quartex, who haven't yet fully adapted.
So it would go Armorizers (Cybertronians wearing armour) -> Rock Lords (built to use native rock as insulation) -> RiD-style Minicons (built with hardened systems and energy shielding).
So it would go Armorizers (Cybertronians wearing armour) -> Rock Lords (built to use native rock as insulation) -> RiD-style Minicons (built with hardened systems and energy shielding).
Would that also include Fixit? The show said he and his look-alikes were Mini-Cons, too.
No, I see Fixit as something else. Maybe some kind of possibly-sparked ancestor of the Diagnostic Drone.
Which RID Mini-Con types, specifically, does it apply to? There were six types: Buzzsaws, Torpedoes, Cyclones, Caretakers (which you've excluded), Weaponizers, and Activators.