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Yeah, I really thought they might do a modular thing with this.

I like little production choices like that, and they tend to do well for setting a tone for a line/series. But I also really love when it breaks down because (more then than now) redecos and retools gotta exist to pad out the line, and especially with offscreen characters (which I miss with a...

It's one reason why I barely engage with any fandom groups outside the Allspark anymore. Here, disagreement and divergent opinions exist, but (not to jinx it) it's quite rare these days that it happens based on someone being straight-up stupid. And when it does it's usually just me and that's...

I think all the Hot Wheels ones have been Autobots?

Well, that's a bit of a relief. I might get this eventually because Nemesis Prime, but... It's not as urgent because of the utterly bizarre swap-o with the little partner guy. What an odd choice.

I'll wait for a redeco on these. They are great designs in both modes, but they just do nothing for me. Hopefully more fanciful or interesting Hot Wheels designs get made. I'm glad it's been successful and hope both companies like it well enough to keep it going for a while. Bring on red Twin...

Would still love this as a WFC/mainline take on Ironhide. And if I were collecting this line I'd prefer an articulated G1 headless toy with an optional upgraded mode. But I'm not so, okay. I do like that they gave it a way to have an optional half-upgraded mode. I'll leave it to actual Missing...

Would love to see this.

Wait. So they make Retro Gears (not pictured) out of Gears and paint a weedy M (W? Wumbo? Wumbology? The study of Wumbo?) outline on the hood... and then make Swerve, who has a sculpted M/W/Wumbo etc on the hood (the entire truck front is nice and different). I mean it's nice to have Swerve...

I wonder if that'd look good with the sides of the chest cube also in red (maybe with some gold), to sell the vibe of Soundblaster's larger, protruding tape compartment. Also, I wish they'd go back to either a comms truck or stealth bomber for Soundwave's altmode, Cybertronian or otherwise...

If anyone is buying Missing Link because it looks like the original G1 toy in var mode, THEY might be the ones who should just buy a reissue (except for Sunstreaker/Cordon).

"When a Liege Maximo and a Liege Centuro love each other very much..."

Ah! That purplish gray should've clued me in. Anyway, fun. I wonder what Cybertronian/vehicle mode Beast Wars stuff is possible now, with even more years of molds available.

I'm blanking on this (Airazor?), but it looks neat. The molds from that entire line need to be used more.

Well, let's not say the pattern isn't meaningful or imply that people are imagining the pattern is there. A year or so of these releases, barring Arcee, fit that pattern. It's a handful of engineered molds (Op, Sunstreaker, Bee/Cliff, and the Magnus armor, with Grimlock upcoming) but they've...

I don't know how many more ways there are to say "this deviates from the thus-far consistent pattern of 'the G1 toy with added articulation' in a big, unignorable way" to explain why some are put off. No one is asking for a straight identical reissue. No one is asking for a WFC/mainline style...

I'd rather they just not include a Hot Rod in that case. Let the old man turn into his own thing, even if that's a modified Hot Rod with an appropriately stubbier front end and a back half that can reconfigure to fit the trailer better.

To be fair, the MP9 does cheat with a shell for the Rodimus altmode front. There's something clever about how well it turns out, but I don't really want it done that way either. I agree that Kingdom's standalone vehicle should have changed a bit to combine -- at the least, the spoiler moving...

I was gonna say, I'd like this AS a mainline take. It's like a more fleshed-out Earthrise take (which was good but hobbled by just being a dressed-up Siege design).