Glad you like her, and I wasn't trying to come off as hating on people who do like her (if that was the case, sorry), it's just she's one of my favourite characters from IDW1.0 and MTMTE/LL especially, so it's just frustrating not to have a really good version of her like I do with the T30 Chromia or one of the several Windblades I have  
I guess in this instance I get where people who are frustrated at not having figures who are accurate/close enough to their preferred version of a character are coming from. Despite owning several Windblades I'd still love one which is spot on to the look and proportions of the Windblade comics. The ones we have so far are very nice and come closs but there's always some element a bit off. Mostly in the face. There seems to have been a recent trend with fembots to give them pretty neutral faces, like Siege Chromia or indeed TR Nautica.
But I digress. TR Nautica is not a bad figure in and of itself, just for me personally it doesn't FEEL like her y'know?
Also any potential future Nautica we get must come with her wrench!  

As for Skids, sure thing! Especially if they can figure out how to give him his integrated weaponry  
I also really want Velocity   I'll be honest, despite the canon ship with Skids I always kinda shipped Nautica and Velocity xD

Anyway I think I'm getting off topic here hah!

 

What's the likelihood of the Predacons? I just started collecting TF this year. I don't really want the oversized WeiJang, but with them being sued by Disney and getting arrested, I don't want to miss out on the chance to get a Predaking.

 

I guess pretty low since we just got Predaking two years ago.

 

We'll definitely be getting Predacons, just not the ones you're thinking of!  

 

Me all the way. I’m collecting as many of the fembots as I can and Elita-1 and Arcee are next

Because the tetrajets are too big for characters like Windblade and Elita?

 

Windblade was never in G1 so she can be whatever size they want.

 

Yes and no. She wasn't in the cartoon but she first appeared in a G1 continuity - IDW1.0 - and has been consistently depicted as slightly shorter than Starscream and Optimus, such as in the Star Trek/Transformers crossover which featured a more explicitly G1 version of her.

Agreed. Though a Slipstream Tetrajet would have been nice and might have fit better. Though now I'm wondering how hard it would be to make a custom female Tetrajet from the Siege mold as much of the vehicle mode is connected by a single arm on the robot mode back, so it might be possible to get a suitable fembot body and attach it? Oh great now I have another custom idea xD

 

How many mercenaries have we gotten? Huge wasted opportunity if we don't get Lockdown

 

I think Exhaust was the only explicitly Mercenary figure released.

 

Doubledealer and Snapdragon as well.

 

I thought Snapdragon was a Con? Huh, neat. I don't have the figures and I've only seen some stock photos, so whoops

 

Hopefully we'll get more mercs, even if they slowly release them through the next trilogy

 

I'm sure he has the Decepticon symbol but there was a photo a while back that put him in Mercs with Doubledealer, the same time as when they officially grouped Slitherfang with the Quintessons. Trying to find it.

 

I could see Tarantulas being a Merc, at least in his TM form

 

Having a new Windblade that at least looks closer to her Sarah Stone design if not outright looks like that design would be awesome to have Deluxe or Voyager scale. Likewise with having a new Nautica figure that has her own mold this time. With Hasbro pretty much covering at least the major femmes from G1 it'll make sense to eventually go further into other eras to give us the femmes from there So I wouldn't be shocked if both Windblade and Nautica are among the next femmes to tackle in the future.

 

Id like to see Nautica outside of the comics eventually. Cyberverse has Rack N' Ruin so it ain't impossible

 

I thought it was a nice touch that Dealer was boxed as a Con, had his Autobot logos displayed in box...then you get him out and the inner cardboard and instructions reveal he's a Merc.

Fits with him playing both sides but not being explicit about it. Versus Exhaust who wears it on his sleeve.

You're not supposed to know Dealer's a doubleagent. Defeats the purpose if he's got Merc labels all over.

I'd expect Punch/Counterpunch to do the same.

 

Found it:

 

These early put together have been wrong before, there was one that had Autobots listed as Decepticons and One of the Insecticons as an Autobot if I recall. There are reviews online for Snapdragon now and he hasn't been reported to have a Mercenary faction symbol anywhere on the box or inserts so far as I've seen.

 

Same here.   She would've fit perfectly in Cyberverse when you think about it.