Wait what? ANOTHER 4 pack of a BB recolor, an "essential for G1 completion", and 2 beasts? Wtf.... At least goldbug is a "new character" this time, but still, having to pay for 2 characters I'm not interested in sucks...
He said "essential for G1 completion," so from a completionist standpoint everyone is essential. Even if they were toy and/or comic only. Personally, I hope it's G1 just so we don't end up with Ransack all by himself with no Crumplezone.
It must be the g1 version because Kickback is a Legacy wave 1 deluxe. The last 4pack was 3 repaints and a minor retool. I see Ransack as a Kickback partial....
Technically, the last 4 pack was 1 repaint (Bumblebee from Bugbite), 2 minor retools (Nemesis Primal and Blackarachnia each got a new head) and 1 heavier retool (Fangry)
I'm assuming he won't, since "Bumblebee" in the last one of these didn't. Honestly, if they won't/can't do the VW, I'd rather see him be based on the ER Battlecharger mold. If they're going to blow the alt mode, they could at least give us a better robot mode. I'm assuming we just get the Cliffjumper mold though based on SG Goldbug using it and them already having the head sculpt tooling from him.