The Quintesson dude looks to be a color swap of the Pit of Judgement bailiff. Cybertronian Empire is conceptually a deep cut but has a really simple color scheme.
They also used the designation "trooper" twice outside of Autotrooper and couldn't come up with a better name than "Troop Builder Multipack" for the troop builder multipack.
Eh, trooper's gonna troop...
A generic name for a box of generic troops.
Exactly. See, this is the kind of stuff that pisses me off. You wanna re-do Springer for SS86? Fine, wipe all of the crap off of the Siege mold and call it good. But don't turn around a few years after you've already made a perfectly decent representation and go, "oh wait, we need to redo him and make him bigger and differenter." There are dozens of characters I'd rather see than to remake something like Springer.
That looks really good, I guess it'd look good on any Prowl (side eyes CW Prowl).
Vehicon's are rather slender and skinny with tall shoulders, so while not perfect I think the Elita-1/Minerva mold would work, or make a new Vehicon and use Arcee/Road Rocket.
Leader Soundwave is interesting. My “safe” projection is a retool of Doubledealer for a Machine Wars/Universe 1 style update, especially with the ability to utilize the Siege Cassettes (maybe with some sort of new Selects offering?). Another option might be a repaint of the Earth-style Voyager plus a full set of Cassette companions.
I really can’t think of anything else Hasbro could do with that slot. Part of me would be astounded if they did a Cybertron based version, but I think we would have seen some sort of prefix descriptor if it wasn’t a G1 or G1 adjacent offering.
Hot Shot is an interesting choice, but I’ll have to wait and see how he turns out. Between GS CDF Hot Shot and the Armada based version just released, I’m not sure it would offer me anything the other two don’t.
Except maybe an Excellion repaint…
I really can’t think of anything else Hasbro could do with that slot. Part of me would be astounded if they did a Cybertron based version, but I think we would have seen some sort of prefix descriptor if it wasn’t a G1 or G1 adjacent offering.
Hot Shot is an interesting choice, but I’ll have to wait and see how he turns out. Between GS CDF Hot Shot and the Armada based version just released, I’m not sure it would offer me anything the other two don’t.
Except maybe an Excellion repaint…
In one of the last Pulse videos, they said they'd like to redo G1 Soundwave again in order to make him as tall as Kingdom/Legacy Voyager class Blaster, since Blaster is ever so slightly taller than Siege/Netflix/Legacy Soundwave.
Then again, when they said that, they were talking about doing it specifically for Studio Series 86, rather than the Legacy listing that this new Soundwave is, so who knows? Maybe it's Prime Soundwave.
I can't imagine Prime Soundwave being Leader class given how skinny and not particularly tall or complex he is. He doesn't even have as many minions, with just laserbeak and maybe Ravage if we go by Beast Hunters toys.
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You've convinced me to buy a Prowl.
^ This question still needs to be answered before anyone starts ordering this set with the express intention of doing a head swap between these two molds.
IS FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Wait, no, now I'm gonna have to figure out how to work him into the display and keep it balanced, son of a BITCH--
I'm thinking about putting the extra red-visored Auotrooper head on my Siege Ratchet body as an Automedic.
