"Not Lords". If they were actual Rock Lords, I would get them in a heartbeat for Nostalgia, but "sparkless rock beasts that turn into vehicles covered in cake frosting/icing" doesn't do it for me. Attaching bits of cake icing to my regular TFs seems as ugly and irrelevant to the CHUG aesthetic to me as those Primus-awful Fossiliser abominations.
Oh my.
Ok. My two cents? Weaponizers? Meh. They were cool design wise, but they looked like standard Cybertronians, gimmicks aside. Only they looked like generics I couldn't be bothered for. Fossilisers? Creative certainly, and I get why a lot of people like them, but the idea of them being fossils of Predacons and Maximals... eh.... something wasn't clicking. Using the gimmick on Junkions is brilliant though, and that's been fun.
The rock dudes though? I'm ALL IN.
No they don't fit the Generations aesthetic. No they're not carbon copies of the Rock Lords. And I don't care. They're unique, they're different. I feel like for the first time Hasbro's really gotten this gimmick to a point where I can just let my imagination take over. You have your Autobots, Decepticons, Maximals, Predacons, even a Star Seeker, but these rock guys? They're so clearly different from the Cybertronians that my mind is running with the possibilities of what they could be.
The lack of fiction is, for me, a plus and not a minus. Yeah I heard they're based on some characters from some G1 episode, but to me they strike me as entirely weird and alien dudes who I can fit into my collection as not just offshoots of the Autobots and Decepticons, but as entirely their own thing.
And that's very, very cool.
Sorry if the fun was too much for you.
