Classics collectors, what lies ahead? I see that all the major characters from 1984 to 1987 have been made; unless Hasbro feels like giving us the rest of the Dinobots and combiners. I have a feeling the Dinobots will be made soon because of the upcoming movie. I think figures of Broadside, and the 4 main Autobot Headmasters will be made too. I see Hasbro is moving on to the other generations as well which is great. Beast Wars and Beast Machines figures, I will still buy because I grew up in the 90s, and they are still part of G1. Armada Starscream and the new Sky-Byte figure, I can still find justification in buying them because they are part of the IDW G1 comics. I am no Geewunner, but I like my collection to be focus, and to have a start and an end point that I can see as I like a sense of completion after everything is over. If Hasbro starts mass redoing figures (like the upcoming Jetfire figure) or starts pushing out mostly Generations figures from the Unicron Trilogy onwards in the next Classics toy line, I might have to throw in the towel as I have space constraint issues too. What about you guys?
I don't think we've had anyone from 1987 yet, really. I'm hoping that changes soon, though, because like you I want the Autobot Headmasters.
And Insecticons and Reflector and Brawn and Gears and Soundwave and Shockwave and Blaster, etc. There are still a LOT of character holes that could/should be filled, as well as lot of do-overs that could/should happen ala Prime, Grimlock, Powerglide, Galvatron, the Constructicons, every combiner team leader that ended up as a stand-alone figure, so on & so forth. That said, this many years later and still so many character gaps unfilled, I think I'm done caring, let alone anticipating what's next for this line anymore, especially with the influx for so much awful IDW stuff now shoehorned into the mix vs. what the line used to be template wise. But that's just me.
I wish they'd make a Generations deluxe Slugslinger along with all the other Targetmasters from that era. Also , as long as Hasbro keeps bringing the Beast Wars characters I'll be buying them up.
Classics literally and actually Finished in the west 2 years ago when they stopped making Universe 2.0 and Henkei what you have now is a Videogame & Comic related toyline called "Generations". So perhaps the Question should be what should be next in "United" or 'Asian Exclusives' toylines as they at least are intended to be part of the same mileu rather than a replacement of it. Or to put it another way Takara Springer is not the same Character as Hasbro's Generations Springer.
I'd love to get some more bots from 87 and on. Specifically Needlenose, Spinister, and Chromedome. I'd also love for them to continue to venture into non G1 lines more. A new deluxe Beast Machines Obsidian or Jetstorm would be awesome.
There's still quite a few characters out there, at least for my own G1 Classics collecting purpose. Sure we'll continue to get various Primes + Bees, but I'm still waiting for updates of: -Trypticon -(non-Bug) Throttlebots -the Clones -Headmasters: Apeface, Snapdragon, Siren, Hosehead, Fangry, Squeezeplay, Horri-bull (we're getting Nightbeat after all) -Targetmasters: Sureshot, Crosshairs, Pointblank, Triggerhappy, Slugslinger, Misfire, Quickmix, Landfill, Spinister, Quake, Needlenose (and Scoop too) -non-Cybertron repaints/FoC of Soundwave and Blaster (+ the crapload of cassettes) *didn't include a lot of chacters we got via third parties
Same old, same old. Keep a lookout for yet another updated/different designed Prime, Bumblebee, Starscream and Megatron. Probably another Grimlock after them. A new Soundwave again, and so on. With a few other characters randomly thrown in that fit the aesthetics of the going rate at the time. See, people think that Classics is one big unified line, but so far the only thing they are unified on is picking up the character selection where each previous iteration left off. Classics was based on the simplicity and robust feeling of the Cybertron toys, but without Cyber keys. Universe 2.0 was based on realistic vehicles, more or less and engineering of ROTF. Generations was based on the mix and match weapons system of the very late HFTD toys, and inherited the size of those figures as well for a while. Generations [with FOC onwards] focused on smaller, universally articulated figures regardless of their alt mode, and interchangeable weaponry that the RID line was built upon. So yes, there is a lot to still see in those lines. The iteration AFTER AoE will inherit things from that line, and so on.
So much more! Roadbuster and an update jetfire. they're making arcee. i gotta catch up on 3rd party predaking.
Jeeze man...howabout more Pretenders? Headmasters? Powermasters? Triggerbots and Triggercons? Sparkabots and Firecons...Duocons.. There's still a ton of stuff to do. What about G2? Lazer Rods? Rotor Force? Cyber Jets? More G2 repaints of Classics characters?
Just give me the missing combiners and everyone else from the show and ill be happy as i have very good toys from orginal lines e.g beast wars amarda energon and so on
Still waiting on a proper and well done Galvatron (Universe version doesn't quite cut it) and Rodimus Prime (toys designed for Hot Rod don't cut it for Rodimus), and Motormaster to fill out the 86 Combiner team leaders (Hot Spot could use a more unique mold also IMO). A lot of new characters from 1988 had "realistic Earth modes" and fit the general attitude Hasbro seems to have for Classics/Universe/RtS/Generations having realistic alt modes. +-MWG-+
Haha, that is funny because I only collect the Japanese Classics toy lines. I find the Japanese toy lines a lot more focus and have a lot less repaints. I am a completionist, so having each figure being numbered makes things a lot easier for me. I usually buy the Hasbro version if it helps me fill up a gap when the Japanese figure is an exclusive because I do not buy exclusives.
Trypticon. That walks. Big one there. We don't have much to go from 84-86, so we should hopefully see some Headmasters and other 87 figures, along with some G2 repaints here and there. For later lines, I'd really only need updates for figures that were bad in their original lines or don't fit, such as all the BW figures so far, Rattrap, Waspinator and Rhinox, who all have mediocre looking toys. I can see a lot of the simpler UT toys getting updates, though I might hold off from those unless they make a character I really like. We also have one proper combiner now, so hopefully Hasbro can develop a better engineered team of Constructicons. I would also like a larger Sky Lynx.
