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I had an idea for a Spiral Zone/Go-Busters crossover fanfic...

I loved what was there, and think it's pretty ripe for "renegades" style reboot.

It's a shame as I loved Spiral Zone, and the design from the Japanese Toyline of the same name are fantastic, I adore the monowheel motorbike.

Hasbro doesn't seem to have any interest in doing anything with the TV show, haven't greenlit any attempt to rerelease it, and there have been approaches, so I think it may be aother one of Tonka's legal carcrashes where everyone involved owns a piece and it's not really worth anyone sticking their neck out to claim ownership.

I feel that homages and references would be a fun way to expand the GI Joe brand, and give a little love to lines that are unlikely to be acknowledged beyond such capacity.

I was under the impression that Bandai was more the character design aspects, not story or characters.

Also isn't it in rights limbo, given how it's loosely based on concepts from a BanDai series much like GoBots?

We don't need a Spiral Zone reboot, in a decade or so we'll be living it.

Yeah, but it would fundamentally change the base premise of both gijoe and spiral zone. It's either not the world spanning threat it was, or the zone riders are backed up by a competent force. Either way, you compromise the context of both.

Akin to what was done with Matt Tracker in 2008.

Again, not a PURE transplant, but an integration of ideas and concepts into the world of GI Joe.

@Wonko The Cobra Overlord, with help from Dr. Mindbender and Cesspool, develops machines capable of generating a mind-controlling fog. GI Joe stalwarts Flint, Airtight, Lifeline, and Psyche-Out are joined by Colonal Courage to infiltrate these zones and disable the machines. Figures would sport hostile environment suits (Eco warriors cross with Spiral Zone) and make new versions of the mono-wheel vehicles.

Hasbroverse.2 with bought properties: Bravestarr, Ulysses 31, Galaxy Rangers, Shadow Raiders, Manta Force, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Mighty Orbots, Jem and Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines. Seamless.

While acknoledging spiral zone would be pretty boss, I doubt they could actively integrate it into anything else: given the scale of the villains deeds.

COPS, Spiral Zone, Shadow Strikers, Action Man, Centurions, MegaForce. They wouldn’t replicate the old lines, but simply acknowledging their existence would be nifty.

I would love to see GI Joe become something of a “celebration of action figures�. Hasbro has SO MANY old action figure properties, and many could slot into the GI Joe umbrella with relative ease.

G.I. Joe, CyberCOPS, and M.A.S.K. all seem like something that would work from Animated or Prime, though CyberCOPS might have been a bit trickier from Prime.

Rik Alvarez originally wanted the last episode of Prime to spinoff into a new MASK reboot.

The failed Hasbroverse reminds me how so many things could have been spun off from Transformers: Animated and (after that) Transformers: Prime.

Requiem of the Wreckers was post-Revolution, but it was also, you know, a single issue.

But Roche didn't have a series to keep out from the crossovers since Sins of the Wreckers was before Revolution.

Oh wait, that post said Roche, not Barber.

And then seemed surprised nobody particlarly wanted it.

Wasn't Barber among the editorial guys that pushed for Hasbroverse?

He did it possibly due to 616 Spider-Mans marriage reset between Civil War and Secret Invasion.

Bendis kept a tight leash on Ultimate Spider-Man because it was mostly set far away from Earth?

I'm learning so much-

At its worst it was better than MASK, sure.

At it's worst it still stomped all over the failed Hasbroverse. Roberts and Roche kept their respective series well out of that one for the same reasons Bendis kept a tight leash on Ultimate Spider-Man when Loeb and Miller wanted greater control for Ultimatum.

That's so accurate it's physically painful.

The Red Dwarf of Transformers? An interesting, innovative and genuinely funny series that descended into a self referential mess of cliches that continues long after it should have been put out to pasture and rendered nerly everyone thoroughly unlikeable? That seems about right.

MTMTE and Lost Light are the Red Dwarf of Transformers stories, as opposed to the others which are more like Star Wars and Star Trek.

Anyone in CONUS want a Skylynx for $100 shipped?

Maybe an acquired taste in that's in that it's from a fan raised on the UK run where Transformers wasn't taken so seriously in many stories, especially some Earthforce standalones.

so, terrible?

Yeah I think at that point Lost Light is just the '86 movie without the soundtrack.

So, exctly what Triangleman just said.

A few of the same characters.

Now having actually read Galaxies #10, I don't actually see what it has in common with Lost Light at all besides featuring Ultra Magnus, Chromedome, and a spaceship.

So, it's exactly like Lost Light, then.

What if Lost Light was stripped bare of its charm and humor? Galaxies #10 is the answer.

I didn't mean "*exactly* 15 years ago and no other time."

I mean, the comment was about a linewide gimmick of 15 years ago, not a gimmick only present in a minority of toys from that year.

I'd like a western take on the UT for it's twentieth, like a annual CG or anime movie on Netflix that is a condensed retelling similar to the film Macross/Robotech: Do You Remember Love.

Giant Planet had them, Energon had a few. I've been disappointed in Siege for not having something for the Micromasters, Earthrise has with the base bots but they've been wasted here.

Wasn't 15 years ago Cyber Keys rather than Minicons?

By and large, even the worst Minicons have some unique engineering or design elements. The nostalgia factor aside, Micromasters got pretty samey after you got several, especially the "proper" 89 series.