Walmart "Transformers Retro" line (G1-based redecos/retools)

[lastmaximal]

Googling for a Brawn listing took me to a thread on TFW where apparently someone asked Evan about the Bumblebee head; Evan said the tooling for that head had been moved to a different factory after the last run of its use (Goldbug?). Called the mismatch an outcome of a "timing thing".

I'd love if they went above Deluxe. This line would be perfect for that toy-based Hot Rod they had to scuttle from the Speedia 500 capsule. And a proper altmode-packaged window box for the price point (they could maybe do Earthrise OP as another Voyager, or yet another Blaster or Soundwave) would fit in VERY nicely with the earlier Retro Headmasters.

 

[Platypus Prime]

But is he the Charlie Brawnest...?

So far it's been 'deluxe' only but that would definitely leave Prowl and Hound on the table, maybe not the jets? Unless they're just determined to only use things which originally were bubble-carded, but seeing as they're not packed in vehicle mode I don't see why they'd need to keep that level of 'G1 fidelity' anyway. I do hope to see a Cliffjumper without clear plastic, of either the Earthrise or new-version mold, as I don't have either one. I know they did it Buzzworthy-side but I never saw it. Probably the new version would be more G1 mini-bot-ish.

I wish they'd made the Brawn-claws too, they wouldn't have had to be huge, just 5mm ported square blocks with pinchers. Reason being, when G1 Brawn was NEW, my father got in a pretty bad car wreck, and the doctor at the rehab center suggested we bring him some things to fiddle with (keep in mind this was decades before fidget toys as a concept existed) so we got him a Rubik's Cube and a G1 Brawn. The visor-mask and claws stick out for me, due to that.