Just make all of the Lamborghinis beasts with the Cheetor mold . . .

If the Terrorsaur mold (retool) doesn't get milked, I'll be shocked. Lot of good options to put across Selects and other exclusives

 

Why not Filch?
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Or Inferno as a fire ant! That would be so weird and awesome.

 

(Don’t yell at me!) Just pretend Tigertrack is pre-earth Cheetor?

I do like the idea of G1 figs getting repainted into pre-earth BW characters and vice versa.

You could do a really nice BW Ironhide from Rhinox if you don’t skimp on the paint apps. I’d give the Datsun Bros Cheetor’s mold. Airrazor for Windblade and Nightbird (as already mentioned).

 

I have a feeling I would rather have a Junkion 4-Pack instead of what this When Worlds Collide 4-Pack is going to be.

My favorite idea for When Worlds Collide 4-Pack would be the Deluxe Insecticons since they are beast insects as metal robots, but I doubt that will be the case. It would be a good way to start to permanently merge the brand series together.

 

I get that joke!  

 

Tigertrack is Gobots Pocket. Change my mind.

 

... oh god it IS him..!

 

Never try to outsmart insanity, you’ll always lose. You sir, are crazy.

 

He was always more Sunstreaker to me. Especially the head.

 

That is who I used him for.

 

There's a guy who did customs of Airazor as the main three Seekers and they're gorgeous. Though I wouldn't argue with them split between birds and dinos.

Not to nitpick, but there's already a BW Ironhide.

I also kinda like the idea of shuffling things around a bit. For example: Grimlock and Snarl aren't both dinosaurs.

 

God, I would love to get that as a genuine Sideswipe or Sunstreaker repaint.

Hail Lobster.

 

I would love a shot at Fractyl. He is way to expensive on eBay for me to buy... at least when he’s available.

 

Dude, they are literally mainline figures made exclusives, they even take up a number in the ER mainline. How could you accuse them of pushing others out? How could my argument of making these figures non-exclusive pushing other characters out when even they are exclusives, we still don't get other figures as you have pointed out?

 

...Are you under the impression that ending exclusives would make Hasbro add extra waves to the main ships-to-all-stores portion of their lines to fit them all in, when Transformers lines/sublines have been getting shorter to keep product from stagnating towards the end of a line and thus to make retailers more likely to order them, and thus adding more waves would likely put some retailers off? Or that they'd expand the number of figures per wave, which again would likely make these lines a harder sell to retailers?

 

I mean, if you just buy Sunstreaker and call him Pocket" aren't you 90% of the way there?
paint the head silver and arms all black if you're hardcore?

 

Yeah, or Tigertrack and swap his lower arms around and half transform his chest.

 

No, what I think is hasbro shouldn't make main characters that most dedicated fans would want to get as exclusives, say those popular G1 figures. As for cross over figures like T-wrecks and giga-watt, I think they are the deserved exclusives because they fit into these categories. As for your comments, I just don't think what you said was true, because your argument is exclusives are making the product line short. However, in fact, the product line doesn't gets shorter. It is still the same length. The ER line still has like 40ish product, which is significantly shorter than the siege line, with 50+ figures. I'm not seeing any siege figures being leftovers when ER released it's 2nd or 3rd wave, apart from a few Leader shockwave and battle masters due to price tag and popularity of the figure. This means 50+ product line is no where near clogging up the section and putting retailers off. So there's no reason to make a 40+ line full of exclusives. The clogging up is really down to the retailers. The wave 1 figures are getting over ordered, so every collector can get one and they still have a few left in the store. This is evident when looking at retro head master line, I haven't seen any wave 2 figures left apart from a few returned and opened box, while there are like 7 or 8 hardhead just sitting there for an eternity until they hit clearance.

 

I don't believe exclusives are making the lines short, I'm saying for a fact that the lines are getting shorter to keep refreshes more frequent and to stop product from stagnating, and that ending exclusives won't put those figures back into the mainline. Exclusives are something entirely extra to the mainline, in terms of how the line is sold to retailers.

And when I say lines are getting shorter, look at POTP, Siege, ER, Kingdom vs the preceding Titans Return, Combiner Wars, Thrilling 30, etc. They dropped the length of a Generations line from a year and a half down to just a year, and the explicit reasoning for that from Hasbro is that it's to keep product from stagnating, and make retailers more likely to buy all of the waves.