Sometimes I wonder if Shatter and Dropkick’s designs would have been simpler to translate into toys if they’d been Duocons instead of triple changers. I think that might have easier to pull off, IMO.

 

but it's officially acknowledged in artwork within his packaging, so tribute or not, it's still officially recognized by hasbro. More so at least than TR Perceptor's tank mode

 

Even Sounblaster has it.

 

Primus, have mercy...

 

This pisses me off so much. I have no idea why Hasbro would rerelease these ugly figures unless they found old stock or something.

 

So is the hinge fixed with a pin on the Bee with Charlie? Because if so, I’ll probably pick one up and sell my SS-01 which I only transformed like twice.

 

I want a Siege style Cybrertonian mode Bee. Woefully underrepresented in that line.

 

It is, I didn’t buy it cuz I’m already satisfied with my ss01 but out of curiosity I looked in the box of one I saw while out hunting today and it does have the pin

 

Because kids like the big robots and the simple transformations. Why do you think Rescue Bots lasted so long?

It's smart of Hasbro to bring that audience over to the mainlines now that Rescue Bots is over.

Voyagers wouldn't have been the right scale, which is what Studio is all about. They didn't do Voyagers for Drift, either.

If you want a scaled triple changing Shatter/Dropkick, then be ready to pay $30 for a smallish Voyager like SS86 Hot Rod.

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In other news, someone asked for the DPCIs of the reissued Cyberverse Armor dudes...