Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!

Donocropolis

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True, and a lot of them are interchangeable.

Transformers team, please notice this.

The recent experimenting with extra heads packed in is encouraging, and I wish they'd do it more (I would have loved for the Retro G1 Bumblebee to have come with both the Bumblebee head and the Goldbug head for your choice of cartoon or toy accuracy). I am 100% behind the idea of standardized head connections wherever possible.
 

CoffeeHorse

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It shouldn't take that much experimenting. Just pick a standardized head connection. It doesn't have to be the tested and proven theoretically ideal choice. Just pick something and call it settled.
 

LordGigaIce

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True, and a lot of them are interchangeable.

Transformers team, please notice this.
One of my pet peeves with Bandai's Dragon Stars line is that different figures of the same character representing the same base body type will be moulded in such a way that the balljoints on the heads aren't interchangeable.

I don't know Bandai, why WOULD I like to swap heads on Dragon Ball figures? Any ideas?
 

LordGigaIce

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It's weird that this is still a thing in the age of CAD. There is no need to start from scratch on every little piece. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.
I know Hasbro is really investing in CAD, and it's informing how they manufacture moulds.
At the same time given how conservative Japanese companies are... I wouldn't be shocked if TT, Bandai, and the like simply haven't bothered yet.
 

lastmaximal

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The recent experimenting with extra heads packed in is encouraging, and I wish they'd do it more (I would have loved for the Retro G1 Bumblebee to have come with both the Bumblebee head and the Goldbug head for your choice of cartoon or toy accuracy). I am 100% behind the idea of standardized head connections wherever possible.
I was going to say something about Titans Return, but ehh.

I've been hoping for additional/alternate heads for Transformers forever, especially since they became commonplace for things like Marvel Legends and even WWE. These are largely on ball joints, give me a bunch of them already. And not just alternate expressions -- a Bumblebee with a toy and cartoon head, an Optimus with a cartoon and comic head...

Just make them complete intact heads that fit on a neck ball that's standard across the line. No more of this Buzzworthy Army Builder 4-pack "masks on neck bases" silliness that leaves only one functional head at a time.
 

CoffeeHorse

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I would be okay with making the Titans Return neck the universal standard, even for heads that don't turn into anything.
 

Donocropolis

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I would be okay with making the Titans Return neck the universal standard, even for heads that don't turn into anything.

The connection can be a little floppy/loose sometimes, so I would probably prefer a standardized ball joint, but I wouldn't absolutely hate it.
 

CoffeeHorse

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From what I've handled of the swappable heads so far, I'll take connections that are a little loose.
 


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