TBH I'd expect a SS Cogman to be the TLK mold with maybe minor retooling, but most of the budget spent on a better paint deco. Washes on all the detailed clockwork greebly parts, etc.

It's a really nice mold for what it is, and folks should have their chance to get one. (I got lucky when I was in Tokyo and paid... $25 USD for him?)

 

Shower thought type thing here, but, we know SS is beholden to the same constraints of mold reuse like all other TF lines, and we've seen it used for both new characters like KSI Sentry/Shadow Raider, and retools for alternate movie appearances like Screamer/Ratchet/Prime.

Historically Hightower was first an Autobot, later used for any crane that needed a name when Hook wasn't available, so I'm wondering if Scrapmetal is a Decepticon excavator like he was in ROTF, and that Hightower is a renamed Autobot Trench from TLK since he was also an excavator (just by CAT instead of Volvo) and shared the same robot mode model, plus Hightower is already a name Hasbro has. Hasbro can get two on screen characters from one mold this way, even though it isn't the Hightower everyone is speculating about.

I'd still prefer ROTF Hightower's ridiculous bot mode get a toy of its own, but I guess I'm gonna temper my expectations now just in caseeee lol.

 

Hopefully Cogman is the TLK version but with paint on the exterior.

 

Just had a realization for Scrapmetal; he's going to be made because he's the Volvo excavator and that means he can be reused as Trench and thus we get more characters. Also, I feel like Cogman is a HUGE 'wait and see' thing because I want Warden pinned and questioned about it before coming to any conclusions

 

I was going to say it's bizarre there's no Scrapper, but then again maybe Hasbro is thinking that Scrapmetal looks enough like him they don't need to make one. Maybe.

An overload figure would make more sense than hightower, though.

 

Can we get a new Mixmaster tho

 

Why just out of curiosity? Mixmaster and Longhaul are the two constructicons I thought they got right.

 

Because Mixmaster's toy is a pile of confusion on a good day

 

Blame it on his overcomplicated design.

It’s a miracle he even got one back then. If he came out in AOE/TLK his chance of getting a toy, let alone one bigger than a Legion, would be even lower than characters like Mohawk and Onslaught.

 

that's because back then they still cared about the movie toyline. (they do so again with studio series).
also while the rotf movie was meh,it was the best movie toyline by far.

 

I just liked his design, I still have the original but lost the cool purple missile thing. I also think they could improve the arms and legs sp he can stand easier

 

Do you think Hightower and scrap metal could be oversized deluxes like rotf Megatron was an oversized voyager?

 

Because if Studio Series is planning to give us a titan Class Devastator by giving us the individual Constructicons with built in combiner ports separately to both keep costs down and to keep their rule of giving us one Titan box set a year it would make sense to give us different types of Mixmaster,Longhaul and Rampage that actually include that feature.