Considering Silverbolt became Cyclonus by changing the jet shell, I wonder if you could turn Sky Lynx into Razorclaw by replacing the shuttle frame with a lion. Maybe tooling the beast legs to add fists somewhere.

The only problem there is where they'd get the other four Predacons from. Unless the shocker announcement is that Sky Reign uses four repainted limbs because the second half of 2016 has extensive retools/new molds for the remaining four Predacons.

 

I think there can be a lot of retool options for Sky Lynx in the sense that the red and blue pieces (e.g. not the white shuttle on top) provide a 'beast base.'

*Drop the shuttle and put two beast heads and a tail on it, remold either the front or back legs slightly to also serve as hands, and you have Hun-Grr.

*Drop the shuttle and put a turtle shell and beast beast head on it, remold either the front or back legs slightly to also serve as hands and remold the other legs to be humanoid legs, and you have Snaptrap

Given that Sky Lynx has a torso mode, the beast base already has a more or less humanoid form and the white shuttle pieces are basically sitting on the combined mode back. I will be shocked if CW continues on past wave 7 or 8 (Bruticus, Masquerade 2.0, Victorian and Computron [unconfirmed guess]) and something like this doesn't happen

EDIT: I should note that while I don't think these remold ideas would necessarily be cheap, they aren't any more extensive than the Silverbolt -> Cyclonus remold and none of the new parts would be load bearing in any of the three molds (unless they stuck w/Hun-Grr's double heads turning into feet)

 

A friend of mind here Driskull suggested to me the other day that Sky Lynx if retooled well enough could work as Razorclaw for Predaking.

 

Can we stop asking for disappointment? How about we just hope Skylynx is his own thing and Razorclaw also gets his own mold?

 

I kinda hope they repaint/retool Skylynx into a new character. I can't imagine them putting enough retooling into it to get a prober bot-mode that isn't a four legged beast like SL's.

That said, if they can, more power to them.

 

Don't. You. Taunt. Me.

I've been looking over all of the current molds for ways to make them work even REMOTELY as Seacons. Even as Cybertronian vehicle Seacons.

Because we already know that's not how Combiner Wars has worked? There's a damn good chance that Sky Lynx, Brawl, and Shockwave will be retooled/repainted for future combiners.

And why is it a disappointment? The alternative to retools is no figure at all. I'm sure many Predaking fans would be more upset that there wasn't a new Predaking than those that would be upset that it was built off Sky Lynx.

If you ignore the white shuttle part of Sky Lynx, the base is a torso and four limbs. We can tell the hind legs have decent jointing as they can be folded in a way similar to Silverbolt's to form the combiner shoulders. And the combiner's legs are formed by standing up Lynx's front legs.

So if you can picture it, stand Sky Lynx up on his hind legs. His front legs are already jointed to be arms, and now put fists on the end. The only tricky part is where does his robot head come from, and that could be where they replace the Shuttle and have a lion's body that can fold over and reveal the bot head.

Alternatively, you could stand Sky Lynx up on his front legs, pose his rear legs like arms (with fists attached) and fold down the Lion's head like the rear of Lynx's shuttle to form the chest and Bot head. Then you get Predaking's head by folding an extra section in the lion body over it.

The only thing that makes Predaking less likely is it means either four new molds for the Predacons or *extensive* retools of existing molds. I dunno how much work it would take to turn Brawl into Tantrum...but if they can pull it off?

 

The alternative to retools is a new figure. Always has been.

How quickly people forget the recent past...

 

Now I can't unsee this.

The way the rear of Sky Lynx's shuttle folds down and around to form the combiner chest would be a perfect way to get Snaptrap's shell/"tails" to flip around to form Piranacon's signature chest plate.

They'd have to get clever to position the tank cannons though. But man I'd love to see them figure it out.

Again, can I live in your world where things don't cost money?

 

Where did I say things don't cost money? They make a new figure, we pay money for it. Done. Costs covered.

 

I'm surprised Hasbro didn't make Sky Link one of the Titan Wars figures seems like he'd fit in better there.

 

And Hasbro just conjures these magical figures and molds from thin-air? Cool.

I wonder if Sky Lynx ended up being like Optimus Prime in Combiner Wars. Like, they wanted to do Sky Lynx for Titan Wars and then somebody said "Hey, we've got this other mold...can we do something with that?" And so we got Sky Lynx w/ a torso.

Similar to how they had Motormaster for Menasor, so somebody suggested they make a Prime that can combine and they did.

Which is why I think a lot of people expect Lynx to get retooled as *somebody*. Because the core mold for all we know started life as Leozack or Razorclaw and then they made him.

Wouldn't be the first time the retool/repaint came out ahead of the original mold.

 

Don't be an ass. I said we pay money for the figures.

 

Sky Lynx is a must, the rest are just meh.

 

That I can agree with.

 

I quite liked the hound paint job

 

Im not a huge fan of blocky animal robots... If the articulation is there, I like that...

Not a fan of the Skylynx character, though it looks well done... The tail feathers are a nice touch... I wonder if the head has a laser inside the mouth?

The other deluxe combiner limbs look so out of place. With the exception of Smokescreen... The red, white an d blue deco looks good for a heroic character...

Im buying Hound for sure.   But easy pass on the rest...

 

As far as it goes, the SL skeleton/frame could be quite versatile. Very few would complain overly much if the belly of the beast is molded for the combiner chest (so that you didn't need the chest shield from G1). Considering again the case of Hun-Grrr (is that the right number of 'r's?), he could have white legs, a purple belly with Abominus-ish moldings, and in place of the shuttle he could have the tail, two beast/dragon heads (detachable like weapons a la Beast Hunters Predaking, perhaps?) and certain details from Hun-Grrr's chest on the back. The front paws become legs, the back paws become arms, etc. Back facing forward would be Hun-Grrr, belly facing forward for Abominus. Easy peezy

 

Regarding potential combiner teams with beast altmodes. Remember that Gnaw/Sharkticon was a leaked (or rumored) upcoming legend? Maybe it will be used as Overbite or Skalor in upcoming Seacons.. Maybe that is why Gnaw hasn't showed up yet, because it would spoil the upcoming Seacons! (Conspiracy mode setting in)
I'd really like all Seacons (except Snaptrap) as deluxes though. But making one of them into a legends gun would make sense as they in G1 had gun altmodes too (sad looking gun modes but still). And if they choose Skalor or Overbite it would be a potential Gnaw repaint/retool.

If they let Gnaw share legends mold with Skalor they might have Overbite share deluxe mold with the Terrorcon Rippersnapper (they are both weird Shark-beasts with limbs). Cutthroat and Divebomb of the Predacons could be retools of each other.

I REALLY hope the Seacons, Terrorcons, and Predacons happens next year.
I guess they could retool a few dinobots and monsterbots from some of those too, I'd love to get updates of all three Monsterbots.

 

im the same way. only animal combiner I have is a g1 abominus and im not a big fan of him but he goes with my g1 computron so I kept him.

 

Sky Lynx possibilities as third party titan.

As a combiner its torso looks impressive but I have to agree the legs and arms look iffy at best. I think he would do better with the arieal bots as limbs if here just used as a combiner figure. All that being said I can see potential for a third party group creating a tian class (city bot) by creating add on legs and arms for the figure. His extra parts could even create a cybertronian launch platform for his shuttle form. As an example the add on parts that were used by make toys for omega supreme. As just an idea. Love this remake of this G1 figure.