Orthia?

Also, Crasher is an easy skip because the face sculpt...is not convincing at all, but G2 Menasor will be bought

 

The all female combiner made of POTP Elita-1, Moonracer and Novastar with Siege Greenlight and Lancer.

Phil is basically saying G2 Stunticons will be released through different avenues.
And seeing as we have a new non-PR listing for Wildrider next year, he ain't far off.

 

Skip on Crasher unless I wanna be a completionist of this line. But I absolutely love the G2 stunticons colorscheme. The colors just pop so hard while still looking uniform in its own way. Whenever the rest of the team is released I\'ll be sure to pick them all up. In terms of Hotrod I personally prefer the deep red of the Velocitron version over the ss.

Ramble Incoming:

I haven\'t picked SS Hotrod up yet for some reason even though I have always been interested. Now that this version exist I have to get this one and probably still the SS one since I\'m trying to get this kinda multiverse display kinda thing with cartoon colored figures and toy colored figures, marvel colors if those ever come out+APC toys prime characters and movie versions. In other words a multiverse display that will cost a lot of money that I don\'t have. 

End of ramble:

I do wonder what the leader will be like many others. I\'m think it will most likely be a blitzwing repaint into the quintesson army builder thing. It makes sense from a business standpoint. Release an obscure character that fans will armybuild the heck out of that is in an exclusive line so that they might buy more of our product while searching+kids will probably like it since it\'s a cool jet that turns into a cool tank and robot.

 

Nice

 

You're right of course, but I also want to whine about it a little harder. They took about two years to release from beginning to end, two of them were online exclusives listed at different times (one Amazon exclusive, the other Gen Selects), and the quantities for most of them were minimal. At the time they started, they hadn't even secured a specific plan for how they would finish. They technically originally only set out to make the first three.

 

This is to say nothing about Combiner Wars' weird distribution. At least we have a rough timetable for LG Menasor's completion; CW was a bit chaotic when it came to actually finishing teams.

Though it still has nothing on the distribution for the Energon combiners.

 

What was so bad about Combiner Wars, other than Dragstrip being in wave 1 with the Aerialbots, and Air Raid in wave 2 with the Stunticons?

Unless you're referring to the "missing original team members", with Quickslinger and Brake-Neck being released as "May Mayhem" online exclusives (still comparably close to the release of the rest of the teams), Deluxe Takara Groove as another "May Mayhem" online exclusive a year later, and Takara Blast Off as a "Special Edition" figure years later, when PotP was already mostly over.

Still, other than Groove (who had a Legends Class figure as per Hasbro's original plans before Takara decided to do their own Groove) and Blast Off (who did have a Deluxe figure, just not the one people wanted), all the teams could be completed within a considerably shorter time than Legacy Menasor.

 

The most favorable interpretation I could see is how CW formed waves out of the various teams. But due to how product moves on shelves and how waves are shipped out, you rarely saw them align on shelves beyond W1.

They sorta rectified that in PotP, but it was by splitting teams between waves and repacking some limbs in later waves. Not to mention downplaying the various "official" teams in any packaging compared to how they were very much shipped and labeled as such in CW.

 

Ok will Hasbro trickle the g2 stunicons through different waves of Velocitron
. Or will they relese two for Velocitron
, relese two for gen selects And make like Breakdown a Sears exclusive. Or will they cram them into the shatted glass line becase Hasbro just dosen\'t care anymore