I like the idea, but I agree with the notion a bayverse cross form would be a harder sell. Granted they are the most "different". I saw a G1 to Prime Bumblebee in the vid and already felt better about it. More pairings would across many lines would help greatly.

The optimus toy is a little chunky, but I like what you ended up with. Best of luck.

 

So people jump for joy over anniversary sets but say no to G1 Optimus turning into movie Optimus? Double standards much?

This could be the start of something new, I was thinking that the line has hit its peek too. Are you guys telling me that if someone released Evasion Optimus that morphed into AOE Optimus you wouldn't buy it?

 

Who's jumping for joy? I didn't buy any of those garbage packs. A bunch of old molds with random paint jobs. Just another way to try and move movie product so they get a return on the molds since normal retail is no longer cutting it.

 

weirdly awesome. i hope to buy these at retail in the future...and ones that go from cybertronian to earth vehicles (i know that'll be hard to execute).

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it is possible, we just need eric back in transformers

 

Call me when he decides to apply the idea to reinventing Punch/Counterpunch so the two robot forms are even more significantly different than what we've got now.

As it is, while I applaud the creativity and skill he has to pull these off, the novelty of having toys transform between different versions of basically the same character while simultaneously dropping the alt. mode really doesn't grab me given it would be far easier to just display the two different looks with two seperate toys.

I would not be adverse to more...selective character uses, though. MTMTE Cyclonus <-> G1 Cyclonus, BW Ravage <-> G1 Ravage, IDW Drift <-> IDW Deadlock (a.k.a. pre-reformation Drift), etc.

 

To me I would rather have two figures that go into both modes as opposed to having one figure transform into two robots. At that point you could almost just make a figure with an internal skelaton and just swap out the various outer armer.

Also as people brought up Punch, at least with Punch/Counter-Punch they still turned into vehicle mode.

 

That's a really awesome concept, excited to see if they make any products out of it.

 

This is a cool idea, honestly.

But how about they use that technology for Punch/Counterpunch and Drift/Deadlock?

 

I'd buy that. Or maybe *insert robot name*/ *insert super mode of robot*

 

If Punch and Couterpunch worked and still transformed I'd buy it, the Takara version, any other versions, and the six more of each version I already own!

 

That works so well on so many levels.

I hope Hasbro make this concept a reality.

 

Thank you all, I really enjoy the feedback.
Some people where asking about vehicle modes so I went and transformed my prototypes into shapes that somewhat resemble vehicles. Close enough that you could try to pass them off as Cybertronian vehicles. Obviously a lot more engineering would be needed to make these modes decent, but these were kind of fun so I wanted to share.

Also The Prime BB was always a triple changer

 

The G1/Prime Bumblebee is easily the best of the three because his vehicle mode actually looks like a vehicle.

 

These are really, really clever! Some people are being way too harsh. They're obviously not going to look finished, because they're prototypes.

I think there's a lot of potential in Transformers that shift from one robot mode to another, to provide the "reformatting" effect. I like the "then and now" idea too.

And there are a lot of other applications too. It'd be cool to have an "Orion Pax to Optimus Prime" that works using this kind of thing.

A lot of the time when we get something like this, it's just some kind of armor-switching thing. I like how you have the different structures turn inside out and upside down and stuff so it's an actual transformation, rather than just changing the toy's "costume" so to speak.

Good work, and keep making toys!

 

OOh!! This would be cool! Like a version of Beast Wars Metals Jaguar that's a triple changer that actually changes into a cassette, too.

 

I could see this for maybe one or two characters (Optimus looks pretty good) but that's about it.

I wouldn't expect a vehicle mode. Pretty cool.

 

But if they actually came out they'd be brand new molds. That's like saying that a super secret prototype of RID Bumblebee using the second Vehicon mold is bound to use the Vehicon mold.

 

Wow. Why has Hasbro never tried to make toys like this?

 

I hate to revive this thread but this is the first time I'm seeing actual Transforming mock-ups of these (I had only previously seen the concept artwork on the tfwiki) and I gotta say this concept is sound. I LOVE this gimmick. Robot to robot. And the larger size classes also do a vehicle. Probably explains why I love Punch/Counterounch so much. Love his gimmick. It's basically this. Man, I sure hope they revisit this idea and make it real. I'd buy every one of these things. I love oddball Transforming toys stuff like this. Makes me think of the old Beast Wars mutants. Damn, I hope they make these someday. LOVE EM!