Ratchet Baja Blast and Ratchet Sweet Lightning.
The Repaint Concept Thread
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Shocked that we have never gotten any kind of modern release referencing these two
Not that I'm much of a fan of the Target Multipacks, but a set featuring these 2 and Glyph and TapOut would be pretty sweet! (A Selects multipack would also be acceptable)
Anything that gets us Glyph and Tap-Out is good in my book
I'm annoyed that we still don't have modern versions of Glyph and Tap-Out from any of the recent versions of the Bumblebee/Cliffjumper toolings.
Well, after the Ladybug fiasco, chances are any red Bumblebee from this current Hasbro team would simply be given the name "Cliffjumper".
They could call it Optimus Prime, Megatron, or even Starscream, as long as they released a red Bumblebee. For that matter, in a multipack, they could place the names for Cliffjumper and Bumblebee in such a way that it was intentionally ambiguous, and when asked to clarify which was which, simply answer "yes".
I've always advocated for red Bumblebee to be Stinger, as in a G1 version of the Bayverse character
Heh, well, during the aforementioned fiasco, Hasbro were like, "Well, we don't wanna confuse people. Just call it 'Cliffjumper'." As if that didn't leave a whole bunch of folks scratching their heads before we got the explanation, lol.
That option actually was floated for the Yolopark toy before they decided they wanted to simply create a completely brand-new character unassociated with any preexisting one ('til Hasbro stepped in, that is).
And, well, a certain someone who worked on coming up with Lady Cliffjumper said he isn't particularly fond of AOE Stinger, so that's another reason (a dumb biased one) the name "Stinger" didn't happen.
But the main allure was in getting to make it a brand-new character altogether, in the vein of most of the 3H-era BotCon exclusives, which I can't fault them for since, yeah, getting to make something brand new all of your own making does sound like a cool opportunity for anyone to take.