What are some possible Haslab redecos?

[MrBlud]

Since the floodgates are apparently open with Hasbro releasing a tweaked version of the Haslab Proton pack, what are some different versions of Transformers Haslabs you want to see or think they’ll do?

Hasbro has done the following Transformers Haslabs

Unicron
Star Saber and Victory Leo
Deathsaurus
RiD Optimus and Magnus
Liokaiser

Splendid Convoy immediately jumps out to me but personally I’d much rather have the aborted OTFCC Defensor scheme. There’s also a couple of black repaints they could turn to I suppose.

Unicron is a big one I feel like people would buy. The only question would be tweaking it enough the first buyers wouldn’t feel put out. There’s the Cybertron Dark Unicron scheme or possibly some of the G1 proto colors.

Rescue Force for Liokaiser but that seems like a risky bet.

 

[LordGigaIce]

Unicron

Maybe one of the mods orange and dark grey-centric colour schemes?

Star Saber and Victory Leo

There was a Nemesis Star Sabre and Victory Leo from Robot Masters.

Deathsaurus

Red Geist from Brave of Legend Da Garn? I know Brave is a BanDai thing these days but they don't need to call it out as Brave. Just... what if Deathsaurus had a red repaint?

RiD Optimus and Magnus

Yellow Splendid and OTFCC Defensor are the big ones, yeah.

Liokaiser

Rescue Force! The fun here is that they could invent Rescue Force decos for the Breast Force guys who were never ported to Rescue Force.

A totally off the wall idea I had though? Generations styled versions of Bayverse Decepticons.

Leozack- Megatron
Guyhawk- Starscream
Hellbat- Nitro Zeus
Jallguar- Wreckage
Drillhorn- Bonecrusher
Killbison- Brawl
Deathcobra- Blackout

Would never happen, but it's an idea.

 

[Princess Viola]

If they redecoed Haslab Unicron surely Energon Unicron would be one.

 

[Shadewing]

Red Geist from Brave of Legend Da Garn? I know Brave is a BanDai thing these days but they don't need to call it out as Brave. Just... what if Deathsaurus had a red repaint?

SG Deathsaurus

 

[MrBlud]

If they redecoed Haslab Unicron surely Energon Unicron would be one.

I love that scheme but have neither the room nor money to spend $600+ on a 26inch version of it.

Plus it’s different enough that people that want a G1 Unicron likely wouldn’t buy it either.

That’s why I feel like one of the proto colors is a better bet for decent sales.

 

[Sabrblade]

The Entity:

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Please tell me I've already done this because I am way too tired tonight.

...

YES!

 

[Haywire]

Redo Deathsaurus into a Red Geist approximation, but make it Esmeral. If Hasbro can't get the rights, make it a 'new' character (wink wink, nudge nudge, knowwhatimean?)

 

[CoffeeHorse]

 

[Sabrblade]

There is also SG Unicron:

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I made this like a day or two before the deadline got extended.

 

[ZacWilliam1]

I don't think there are any Transformers ones I would buy. I mean I like the idea of Splendid Convoy or Red Geist existing but I doubt I could afford to bite on either.

The only Haslab object I'd like to see reissued honestly is for Joe: Night Force Crazy Legs released as normal Crazy Legs in his original colors.

-ZacWilliam, Crazy Legs was like Mercer and Sky Patrol Airborne for me. A nobody character who I loved the toy of as a kid way more than I cared about any of the big names.

 

[Undead Scottsman]

I'd take a straight reissue of Unicron, but I don't think I'd bite on a redeco unless it was to make it more accurate to the '86 film. Not that I have anything against those repaints, just against paying like $600 for them.

EDIT: From the recent Mark Maher interview

TFW x Mark Maher Q&A – AOTP, Haslabs, Commanders, More!

Capping off our week of big TF news and serving as an appetizer for the upcoming fanstream, we have another surprise for the fandom as Transformers designer extraordinaire Mark Maher has been gracious enough to answer some of our burning questions in another edition of our Hasbro employee Q&A...

news.tfw2005.com

Q: Is the Liokaiser Rescue Force repaint something you’re interested in?
A: Of course!

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

There is also SG Unicron:

I always wondered how that was supposed to work back when all the Unicrons were one Unicron. Was this one just like his multiversal Jiminy Cricket or something?

 

[MrBlud]

Due to non-linear time, that likely only happened because Unicron was split in the future.

 

[Sabrblade]

I always wondered how that was supposed to work back when all the Unicrons were one Unicron. Was this one just like his multiversal Jiminy Cricket or something?

This one came about specifically because of the singularity concept being done away with, as a resulting visual expression of that.

 

[LordGigaIce]

Singularities are dumb and only existed because Furman had it in his head he wanted Unicron in the Armada comics to be the same Unicron he wrote in the 80s. Duuuuummmmbbbbbb

Anyway, I passed on HasLab Unicron so I doubt I'd pick up a repaint.

I'm a JG1 weeb so I went in on the three Victory ones, but only Red Geist interests me out of the potential repaints there. Nemesis Victory Sabre just doesn't speak to me, and Rescue Force would be fun but not something I'd feel compelled to get.
Red Geist on the other hand (or whatever else they'd call him to get BanDai's lawyers off their back) would go nicely with my Brave collection.

Finally the Omega Prime repaints. I'd be interested in Yellow Splendid, but honestly? You can pick the OG one up. May be costly but it's doable with smart saving if you really wanted one (G-d I should have bought one for $20 back when I had the chance in 2008).

But OTFCC Defensor? Cool deco and it was never actually made (outside of an allusion to it on a Titanium repaint).
So that's the money choice there, a deco the original was never available in.

 

[unluckiness]

IMO Haslab toys are too big and expensive for me to pick repaints of anything up without significant merit based on the character it represents. I can barely talk myself into buying the initial versions most of the time lol. None of the ones released so far have had any significantly popular or media-relevant repaints except maybe yellow RID Optimus and even that is a bit questionable.

Is prototype colors Unicron cool? Definitely. Can I see 8,000 shelling out what would probably be anywhere from $600-$800 for it? Not so much.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Singularities are dumb and only existed because Furman had it in his head he wanted Unicron in the Armada comics to be the same Unicron he wrote in the 80s. Duuuuummmmbbbbbb

Given he originally wanted to have a sort of "G1 vs. Cybertron" Transformers crossover around the idea, I think it was kind of neat.

I forget exactly how it went, but it had the Cybertron Autobots and the G1 Autobots at odds on destroying/saving Unicron because of the black hole thing, if I remember correctly, with doing the one in one universe affecting the other due to their whole singularity deal.

I wish we'd gotten to see it pan out.

 

[lastmaximal]

IMO Haslab toys are too big and expensive for me to pick repaints of anything up without significant merit based on the character it represents. I can barely talk myself into buying the initial versions most of the time lol. None of the ones released so far have had any significantly popular or media-relevant repaints except maybe yellow RID Optimus and even that is a bit questionable.

Pretty much this. I'd be excited about the prospect of any redecos, as someone who LOVES alternate color schemes and offscreen/lower-tier/more obscure versions of this and that. Yellow Splendid is at the top of my list, and Energon or Prototype Unicron would be cool, and Rescue Force would be amazing. The dark-themed Robotmasters redecos of Star Saber and Victory Leo would be nice too. But I'm priced right out of ALL of it, so it's just different degrees of FOMO sadness to me.