(The thread title's spelled right. ) Which toys do you use as different characters? Like I suppose most of you use Shattered Glass Alpha Trion as Classics Alpha Trion. I personally use Elite Guard BB as Animated Goldbug, and Armada Jetfire as Classics Skyfire. How about you?
Ani. Swindle as Classics Swindle. Cybertron Armorhid as Classics Pipes or Huffer. Whichever I feel like calling him.
I won't pick up a fig from another line to sub in for the line I collect's shortcomings. That's what customs are for. Now I'll name something differently in my collection if there comes a better deco of him. Classics Astrotrain is now Phalanx, Hasbro Powerglide 1 will be Bad Boy once I change his symbol and do some paint swap. Classics Megatron is Megaplex. Classics Starscream is now Background Decepticon #5. Now if I'm doing up a Diaclone version that hasn't been given an official name, then I'll have at it. Red Sunstreaker is Turbo, for instance. But I refuse to stick Titanium Scourge or Cybertron Blurr in with my Classics collection.
I rename a lot of my figures so they can all fit into one big personal canon universe. I have no issues with mixing and matching between lines and in fact prefer the variety over clumping everyone into series specific groups. As such I have toys like classics Dlx Megatron, Uni Galvy and FAB desert Brawl as renamed generic Decepticons while guys like Movie BB and Activator Animated BB get renamed to co-exist with Classics BB. It's to the point where half my "toy" collection is repurposed figures with names from other obscure Transformers or completely original or hell even taken from some G.I. Joes. I went with the Movie Hardtop version of the Cybertron Swindle mold and paired him with Cybertron Brushgaurd. They make a great Decepticon Sniper team with Hardtop as the shooter and Brushguard as the Spotter. I like Ani Swindle as Swindle more because the whole personality with Fred Willard doing the voice is just too awesome to ignore.
Sadly, I cannot do this. Call it insane or OCD but, I can't place toys of varing series among one another. The difference in asthetics ruin it for me.
Botcon Deszarus and Leozak and Dark Scorponok (Black Zarak) as their Classics/Universe versions. (In b4 $200 busted loose MISB shield)
Movie scout Arcee as Classics Arcee Movie scout Huffer as Classics Huffer RiD Wedge as Classics Scoop Spyshot-6 as Classics Reflector Cybertron Metroplex as Classics Metroplex Cybertron Downshift as Classics Wheeljack Animated Waspinator as Classics Waspinator Universe Dropshot as Classics Brawl The only previous ones I've used were RiD X-Brawn as Classics Ironhide, RiD Prowl of Classics Prowl and RiD Sideburn as Classics Tracks.
Animated Blurr as Classics Blurr Animated Swindle as Classics Swindle Animated Swoop as Classic Swoop Titanium Scourge Commemorative Soundwave/Laserbeak as Classic Soundwave/Laserbeak Does putting G1 characters with Classics count as repurposing? If so... Slag, Snarl, Motormaster, Bombshell, Kickback, Shrapnel
I call guys like this "line stowaways." I try to do it as little as possible, but some of it is inevitable. I don't do anything too outlandish... mostly the same obvious choices that folks have already mentioned. Currently in my Classics/Universe collection I have the following stowaways: -Movie Toys R Us Mudflap (I know some rename him Erector or Grapple or Hauler, but I've stuck with his assigned name and just think of him as another random Constructicon. He's a great partner for Heavy Load.) -Cybertron Quickmix as G1 Quickmix -Walmart Jolt, Divebomb, Big Daddy, Breakaway, Crankshaft, Fracture (all retain their names but Breakaway and Fracture, who are of course Getaway and Crasher) -Cybertron Armorhide as Pipes -Movie Scout Crosshairs as Outback -G1 Ravage, Laserbeak, and Buzzsaw as themselves -MP3 Soundwave -Cybertron Swindle -Movie Scout Arcee as Chromia -Overload as Flak -Real Gear Photon as Reflector The Shattered Glass text stories from the Club (plus the Captured Prey Reprolabels) helped in repurposing a bunch of figures as well, lending a hint of legitimacy to it: -Movie Scout Elita-1 as SG Arcee -Grindcore and Warpath as SG Scoop and Crosshairs, respectively -X-Dimension Minicons as SG Targetmasters -Movie Armorhide as SG Huffer -Universe 1.0 Sideburn as SG Sideburn -Armada Red Demolisher as SG Demolisher -E-Hobby Glit as SG Ravage -Movie Storm Surge as SG Seaspray -Movie Hardtop as SG Beachcomber -Movie Strongarm as SG Brawn -RiD Bludgeon as SG Bludgeon -TFCC Astrotrain as SG Astrotrain -Universe Blaster as SG Soundwave (I know, SG Soundwave is really MP3wave... but Blaster makes a much better one in my opinion. And even includes an SG Laserbeak!) I'm also planning on displaying the Human Alliance figures with my Alt/BT collection when those hit, but I don't know if that really counts as repurposing.
Pretty typical stand-ins: - Energon Downshift = Classics Wheeljack - Shattered Glass Jazz = Classics Jazz - Music Label Soundwave = Classics Soundwave - Cybertron Armorhide = Classics Pipes - Henkei Cyclonus = "& his armada" (I use Classics Cyclonus as the main guy) - Botcon Springer, Kup, Elita-1, Scourge, Razorclaw = their Classics counterparts. That's all I can think of from my collection. If I had him, Energon Shockblast = Classics Shockwave.
I mostly keep figures from one line with others from that line. The only crossover I have in my collection is displaying Titanium Scourge with my Classics Decepticons.
I got a few, let's see... -TRU Movie Mudflap as Classics/Universe Erector (Slightly repainted and given new symbols, too, even though the original Erector didn't have Autobot symbols) -FAB Frenzy from TF1 as my main Movie Frenzy stand in ('cause the one in Deluxe Barricade can't stand for squat, and I'm waiting for HA Barricade, too) -Uni. Tankor as Octane (for obvious reasons) -ROTF Cannon Bumblebee as Movie Bumper/Goldbug (Depends on when I actually get the figure. If I want to repaint him completley, it's Goldbug. Otherwise I'll do a slight head mod, tack on an old Spoiler from a Movie Salavage, and call him Bumper)
The only one I could think of right now. Movie Wingblade as Classics Springer. Hopefully, that'll change if Fans Project Springer doesn't get canceled or Hasbro comes with it's own triple-changing Springer. Oh yeah, maybe RoTf Strosphere as my Movie Jetfire.
Straight stand-ins? Nope. Not without some modding/painting anyway. None of which have been completed yet, though.
