I imagined them all to transform like this:

The Troop Transport > Destroyer Droid: Can be a shell-former, making the "brown" outside of the transport break up into all those "brown" panels found on the Destroyer Droid's body. All the other parts of the Destroyer Droid's robot mode are hidden away under the brown panels of the Troop Transport, and those front guns on the Transport would become the Destroyer Droid's arm guns in robot mode.

Imperial Tie-Interceptor > Royal guard: The ship's wings become the robe of the Royal Guard. the side sections that connect the wings to the body of the ship will become the arms and legs and lower torso of the Royal Guard. The body of the craft becomes the upper torso and head of the Royal guard. The Royal Guard's staff weapon will separate into 2 parts and be hidden away on each of the Tie Interceptor's wings.

Trade Federation Tank > B-1 Battle Droid: The tank's cannon/turret becomes Droid's backpack & the barrel from the turret become the backpack's antenna. Front "bubble" of tank becomes the Droid's body and head. Lower "half-disc" section split apart into Droid's arms and legs. The small guns on each side of the tank remove to combine into the Droid's blaster rifle.

STAP > B-1 Battle Droid: The top of the STAP could become the backpack/main body and it's two cannons could become the backpack's 2 antennas for the B-1 Battle Droid robot mode. The head for the Droid would come out of the top section of the STAP. The lower part of the STAP would fold back towards the handlebars and split apart into the arms and legs of the Droid.

Hailfire Droid > Super Battle Droid: Missile pods detach and will become robot mode's weapons. main body of Hailfire becomes head & upper torso of the super battle droid. the 2 blue sections that hold the wheels of the Hailfire fold in towards the main body and become the lower torso and pelvis of robot mode. The large wheels of the Hailfire do not move! Instead there will be small wheels located on the bottom of the Hailfire Droid's 2 giant wheels. the wheels themselves will split apart (kind like Armada Unicron's "rings") and become the arms and legs for the Super Battle Droid/robot mode. A compartment on one of the wheels that becomes an arm will flip over, exposing the right arm blasters. The removed Missile pods from the Hailfire droid will fit into holes located near the shoulders of the super battle droid, thus giving his robot mode shoulder rockets!

^This way, you would still have a spot in the robot mode's chest for those pesky pilot figures to fit into.

They didn't. That was just an idea for another Star Wars Transformer, and also a way to fit in another type of Tie fighter.

 

Well, everybody knows that there is such a thing at Walmart, as they track everything don't you know! What do you think those ladies standing behind the computer at the end of the self checkouts are doing, helping you work the checkout? hahaha, yeah right, they're just making sure that they get your fingerprints, height/weight, DNA, and, of course, wether or not your buying toys for an adult or for a child. 

 

Actually, the alt mode of General Grevious SWTF was his unicycle attack bike, so it keeps in line with the theme, R2D2 and C3PO never had their own vehicles, well except for the escape pods I guess... But it would be cool if they were to turn the R2 units into some kind of a mini-con to the fighter ships

 

I find that a very compelling argument right there.

Though I do concede that Imperial Guards are not droids. And while these vehicles are not necessarily piloted by the droids depicted, I would say that the association is still strong enough. Being too explicit with the ship-pilot correlation could probably be said to be one of the great failing points of the SWTF series concept.

heh heh... but then, the thing about StarWars fans and the toys (and to a lesser extent with TF fans as well), just because they're bitching about them, doesn't actually mean that they aren't buying them.  

Gotta catch 'em all!  

zmog

 

Some good ideas posted here, but the ones I'm still waiting for are...

Jawa - Sandcrawler
Tuskin Raider - Bantha
Luke/Han - Tauntaun
Imperial Scout - Speeder Bike
Jabba - Sail Barge
Ben Kenobi - Land Speeder (colors fit better than Luke)
Sand Trooper - Dewback

I really would like the Jawa as they're my favorite from SW. (they collect robots)  

 

^Heck yeah!

How about:

Rancor > Jabba's Sail Barge.

Those sails would convert nicely into the spines/plates on the Rancor's back.

 

People want robots that turn into vehicles? MADNESS!

 

 

I've always liked the Trade Federation tank. I had a design for a TF based on that at one point. (a straight Transformer, not a SW:TF) Kind of looked like Blot in robot mode. Very chest heavy but powerfull looking.

My only problem with the tank was realizing that the really badass looking rocket tubes would be pretty useless in rough terain as they are mounted so low and appear to be fixed.

oh and I covered this in my comic  

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showpost.php?p=1659238&postcount=298

 

It's not been 'mostly repaints for a while now.' The last 7 releases were Mace Windu (repaint), Saesee Tinn (new mold), Clone Pilot Gunship (new mold), Luke Snowspeeder (new mold), Commander Cody Turbo Tank (new mold), AT-AT (new mold), and Vader Death Star (new mold). 6 out of 7 is a better ratio than the last 7 alts, or the last 7 titaniums, or the last 7 movie toys. For the most part, the repaints have even had newly-molded heads. The ones that haven't (Fetts and clones) are supposed to look the same anyway. More SWTFs, please!

EDIT: Oops, just looked at my wall of SWTFs, and forgot about the WM-exclusive box set. Make that 6 out of the 8 last releases.
-Tony!

 

I'd buy an Imperial Guard as almost anything. And, what's more, since they aren't droids, is there any reason to think that they won't ever be done?

They've done clone troopers, after all....

 

LOL! True... I guess we're all just Jawas here...  

zmog

 

You know in all the versions of SW have we ever seen the IG actually DO anything? (other than look badass in red capes?)

Would be interesting if some one did a story on them. Are they leftover Clone Troops? Droids? Could they beat a Jedi in combat?

 

Considering how off the current SWTFs robot modes are to the characters, how could droids be any worse?

 

I loves me some deathstar, but loathe me some ewoks. So as long as we don't start seeing ewok transformers, I'm good. That's when I'll scream bloody murder. Let them kill their own franchise, not take Transformers with it.

Because SWTF are roboticized versions of their pilots. Not the actual pilot. The mini guy they give you of them is like the pilot of the mecha. Or at least that's how i always interpreted it. How can you Roboticize a robot? Although personally I want battle droids that turn into the battle droid drop ships etc. Or ones that combine together to form that.

 

jawa to sandcrawler, Y wing or B wing to somthing, and a huge Stardestroyer (deathstar size)are needed

oohhh and who can forget an AT-ST  

 

C3PO unleashed would probably involve a feather boa, 3 male strippers, and a police investigation.

 

I love SWTF as well. Yes, some of the robot-modes are ugly, but I think the line as a whole has more good bot modes than bad. They certainly have improved since the first wave.  

I agree 100%.

I think so ... similar to R2-D2 and C-3PO there aren't any SW vehicles with a strong association with Royal Guards. It's sad ... I'd buy a SWTF Royal Guard.

They've done some stuff in the comics.

-airfox

 

*Ahem* (Scroll down to see the vehicle.)

http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/en_US/players/content.vm?id=66877&resource=features

 

I could only see that *IF* the Interceptor is released first as a TIE Pilot, which is the more widely known version, and then a redeco with a new head as the Royal Guard.

Releasing the Red Royal Guard's Interceptors first would have the same mass appeal as releasing Battle Gaia before Bruticus.  

-airfox

 

Actually, I'd think Battle Gaia would do quite nicely....