Car Robots and MMC did it. Although Car Robots didn't just have G1 style combiners.

 

Ocular Max doesn’t exactly count within the history of Takara and Hasbro’s transformers designs.

You can see how much the Car Robots combiner designs suffered.

 

It at least does show that it is possible, but I do agree that I'd take a combining team with partsforming parts like the new pants-formers if it means added height/stability and less sacrifices for the individual bots.

 

Tbf the G1 devastator used alot of spare parts and that design screams "kill me", not to mention the individual bots that suffered on most others.

 

I’m hoping hasbro has taken notice of this trend (consumers more accepting of add on parts) and will follow suit with their rumored upcoming combiner(s)

 

Yes they did they had a reissue of G1 bruticus in new colors and called it ruination.

 

Ah I meant that they didn't have just G1 style combiners.

Still really hoping against hope MMC does Ruination over the G2 repaint, it would look much better and they're actual characters.

 

recent rumors? we have been begging for it since the beginning of the masterpiece line but nothing’s ever materialized

 

I think he's talking about the Menasor for the main line that leakers say is coming for 2022. MP it's so far possibly Raiden but we've heard nothing else from it yet by official sources or leakers.

 

that’ll be sick if it were true. i’m mainly a MP collector now due to space constraints, and i’m wondering if i’ll ever get triple changers and combiners within my lifetime lol

 

Well there is 3rd party MP combiners and triple changers.
Official tho? Eeeehhh, probably not any time soon.

 

Especially considering official MP is more obsessed with redoing the same characters again and again, would it have killed them to put the MP-44 level of engineering into a Blitzwing, ideally in the older style of MP.

 

What did their Menasor/stunticons cost?trying to gauge if I’m willing to drop for this

 

$50 - Breakdown /Wilderider
$130 Motormaster / trailer body
$? - Dead End / Drag Strip

 

$270 if you got the first run leg bots, $280 with the current preorder price (some assumptions detailed below). All prices from www.thechosenprime.com so overseas is probably cheaper. Motormaster is $150, Wildrider and Breakdown (2-pack) was $55 for the first run (new preorders are showing $65). The preorders for Dead End and Dragstrip are old ones priced at $36 each, but Wildrider and Breakdown were originally listed for that too before the price dropped so we are assuming the arm bots price will drop too.

I would expect the price on Devastator to work out to somewhere from $35 - $40 per figure.

 

Why can they get the treads to match? Either both purple both green or both black but one green and one purple..... ugh

 

Purple treads for Bonecrusher, or green treads for Scrapper, will drastically alter their robot modes. If you want them to "look right" in robot mode, then you're going to have asymmetrical shoulders in combined mode.


And black is wrong for all characters in all modes, so...

 

And I for one shall not sacrifice the beauty that is green bulldozer onesie man

 

MS Toys is giving us the BEST toon accurate toys that I ever wanted for my collection. Years of collecting TF since I was a Kid... and now finally I feel comfortable at 200% with my toys. The dream become true.

 

I've always wanted it done where the inner part, with the wheels, is green or purple, and the outer track chain is black.

They way Generation toy did it, I also loved how ToyWorld managed to include real threads, but that would be impossible at this scale, and impractical.