Yeah, while Barricade doesn't tend to have a roof-chest, the muscle-police-car definitely fits, and anything is better than yet another Datson repaint. Especially if he can get his own head. It'll never happen, but I'd love an original Generations Barricade design and figure keeping his windows and wheels sticking up over his shoudlers.
Nah Barricade should come from a mold with a car chest. Being a muscle car isn’t enough for him to work, especially when the mold has already been used for a police cruiser.
That would be part of the retool. You could make a new head and retool Chase’s chest to be more accurate to Cybertron Downshift, add in Cannonball’s Cyber Planet Key with a new weapon, and you’d get a little more life out of that mold.
You COULD make those from the Legacy Laser Prime mold but do we really want them in that mold? I'd rather a redo if they were going to do them, I find the Legacy Laser Prime mold has an annoying and overcomplicated transformation for a figure that's barely more articulated than the G2 mold, and I know we don't do launching missiles anymore but they could have done SOMETHING with that pathetic trailer
To be fair, the late Derrick J Wyatt did use the Bumblebee character model to make an Earth Mode Animated Cliffjumper at one point. Don't know how that giant chin will fit into the transformation though.
I have this right now, I can say that entire backpack is designed to store his chin. And it doesn't stuck when transforming because of special liftarms, they work well on that endoskeleton and spring locks.
I’m still waiting for the star raider cannonball to be retooled into Cybertron red alert, so then we could have a reverse of how that figure originally happened.
7:01 - Chase would make for a good Barricade (a fact Mark Maher seemingly agrees with when someone pointed it out on his insta) 9:34 - Plenty other bikeformers can be done from Prowl/Chromia. G1 Override comes to mind 13:05 - A Roulette/Shadowstriker (OG deco) 2 pack would be great 13:55 - I'd like to see a Firestar done from Strongarm before the mold retires (similar alt modes) 14:38 - A Cabnus from the Deluxe Prime would be fun 16:04 - Breakdown would make for a solid Oil Pan from the 2010 toyline. (who was *also* a Breakdown repaint). Plus, you could *probably* bullshit a Prime Vehicon from Dead End 24:00/25:57 - Tarn and Laser Prime (cab only) I can easily see being repainted iinto a "legacy" Movieverse Megs and Prime vs pack in selects, or smthn 28:11 - Either Dropkick or Blackout
10:10 the potential redecos that come to mind are Armada Sideways and honestly, I wouldn’t mind if they used that mould for a revisit of Nightbird due to the ninja aesthetic
10:10 I could absolutely see an Armada Sideways from that mold. How they'd do his Headmaster gimmick is a different story, but if they decided to omit that, it could work.
You could also repaint Animated Bumblebee in black and gold as Elite Guard Bumblebee. And with Tidal Wave, Hasbro has the opportunity to fix the knee issue.
14:35 If they somehow get a mold that RID Megatronus can be from, in like 3-ish years, give me that. I like the design for some reason, mask and unmasked. More BBAdventure in general, honestly. The G1-izing could do wonders for some of them.
3:49 Has anyone thought about recoloring it into realistic Tasmanian devil colors? I've been developing this subline idea of a zoo-themed subline with many of Kingdom & Legacy's Beast Era toys.
24:10 Banzai-tron, Blastwave, and- wait nevermind we're not revisiting Cloud. And while I'm mentioning Blastwave, Nightra from the same episode? Seeing how Strongarm was there. We've seen that as long as simple retool/redeco potential is there they're willing to go there. Though I guess I'm more of a boat Banzai-tron person myself.
I want Legacy Chase retooled into Barricade. I want a chuggified Barricade, and I hate the idea of delegating him to a Prowl retool when they’re both so different.
No fr, Prowl is a slim normal police car, Barricade is the type of cop that would break all your bones for littering, the repaint route doesn't fit at all
Chase could be repainted into the throttlebot Searchlight or retooled into the other throttlebots. The Strong Arm mold could easily be used for a true GoBots accurate Smallfoot. Cybertron Bumblebee could be used/retool for another GoBots accurate Pathfinder.
The chest isn't perfect, but I'd be happy to see Hasbro use the Chase mold to make Camshaft so we can finally get the Omnibots (Runamuck/Runabout - Downshift and Datsun - Overdrive)
13:03 Hot Shot could be repainted into that legends class Bumblebee that also use the cybertron hotshot mold. yeah, it's all yellow with a bit of black but they can do some more stuff with it this time. 23:11, that mold has 1 more use as Animated Starscream
I have some ideas for some of these molds 1. Retool Windblade into Maxima from the Machinima series. 2. Retool the Stunticons for Scramble compatibility. 3. Repaint Thundertron into Alpha Trizer (aka Future Cheetor). 4. Retool Sandstorm to be screen accurate. 5. Repaint Astrotrain and Blitzwing into Star Dasher and Fever Dream respectively. (Platinum Edition 2015)
31:46 The only possible further use they could get out of this mold is if they retooled the turret/head and made Animated Blitzwing. And that’s a big IF.
One thing I could see being done with Sandstorm would be to give it a colour scheme based on Machine Wars Sandstorm, whether it is released as Machine Wars Sandstorm or use those colours as a Shattered Glass Sandstorm
At first I thought you meant Barricade from Animated Optimus. And honestly now I want a beefy bruiser barricade from that Optimus. Gimme a police truck.
3:36 Tasmania Kid has one other repaint and it's copy Tasmania Kid from the same episode as nemesis Leo Convoy all of core Maximals besides Diver from Beast Wars II essentially have default black repaint
There is an upgrade kit(from DNA design) for legacy animated prowl that becomes the sidecar and allows him to have an optional samurai mode and its actually pretty decent
Things I'd want to see: - If they retool the core Dinobots into Monstructor, release a redeco to go with the Go-Bots as Monstrous. Maybe a new combined headpiece. - Animated Prowl/Cyberverse Chromia as Armada Sideways. You might have to cheat a bit and just decide on one face, the other or the unhelmeted one. - Assuming we don't get an Armada Jetfire, Astrotrain/Galaxy Shuttle as Timelines Spacewarp. - Velocitron Black Convoy completely unchanged specifically to piss off people who keep saying it doesn't look good.
For the combiner limb molds I wonder if you can retool the combining aspect OUT of them. Then you got four molds you retool/recolor even more. Into who or what? I dunno... ideas? Anything no matter how obscure (except Kiss Players/obvious reasons).
I actually wouldn’t mind any retools based on Kiss Players because I think the designs themselves are pretty good. Just distance it from the source material like Hasbro has done with the Autotroopers and it’s fine with me.
Animated Bumblebee had a ton of repaints originally and his body was used for a ton of different characters in the Almanac. I’d be interested in seeing an Elite Guard Bumblebee or Patrol Bumblebee.
I think Tigerhawk with remolded wings, robot head, beast head and front feet would work well as Prime Beast Hunters Skystalker who was a dragon. And also a straight repaint of Tigerhawk as Universe Razorclaw obviously.
I NEEEEEEEED Tidal Wave in the video game colors. That game is my main exposure to Armada. Yes I watched the show here and there growing up but the game was CONSTANTLY being played by mini me. If I can have a proper rendition of him in those colors, AT THAT SCALE, my inner child will cry. 🥲🥹
You could do a black and grey version of Tasmania Kid to represent the dark clone of him from that one episode of BWII where Nemesis Lio Convoy showed up
Great topic. There are a lot of good legacy molds, but i'd like to see most of them retired or retooled. Edit: I would like Beachcomber and Gears retooled into Windcharger and Swerve.
6:16 I might get the Wasp figure, but I’m not sure how likely it is that we’ll be getting Cliffjumper out of this mold since he was such an obscure character on the show.
I would like to see two multi-packs with: 1. Cyberverse Windblade retooled as either Maxima, Stiletto, or Maximal Airazor and Cyclonus and Blowpipe as Strafe and Targetmaster Rocketbot 2. Cybertron Hot Shot repainted as either Bumblebee, Red Alert, or Getaway and Prime Thundertron as Lio Convoy with Siege Lionizer as his Battle Master sword Hasbro, give us toy-only repaints and toy-only characters
I think the Astrotrain and Blitzwing molds still have one repaint left in them. You even mentioned the Blitzwing one but it seems like you missed the part where that toy was eventually given its own name. That Platinum Edtition 2 pack of Astrotrain and Blitzwing repaints were eventually given the names Star Dasher and Fever Dream and I would love to get toys of them
Chase is an interesting one. Even though he was already retooled as Prime Cliff Jumper, his engineering actually takes a lot of inspiration from Prime RID Wheel Jack. I could see them making that mold into a "revised" take on that character
Just want to note that Legacy United Animated Deluxe Bumblebee has a parts count of 46. In comparison, Siege Sideswipe has a parts count of 39, and Earthrise Hoist has a parts count of 40.
Windblade as Airrazor's pre-beast mode based on that one Takara remold of the T30 figure. Idk I think an stylized Airrazor head with appropriate color scheme would work well on that mold
19:25 The DNA designs upgrade kit is one of my best pickups from last year, easy. I 100% support an official version. Should have happened during Animated's run, should still happen now.
29:48 although there’s no usage for soundwave I have an idea for what the other cassettes can be repainted into tho ? Buzzsaw into garboil and sundor Rumble into enemy Ravage into howlback,blackcat,glit and stripes
28:12 I mean...they COULD repaint him into G1-fied BBM Dropkick, they wouldn't even need to retool anything, Sandstorm already has a mask Heck, I even made a digibash of that a while ago, and I'd say it looks gorgeous, despite me usually not being a fan of my own work
I agree, Shard would look good in a number of different color schemes. the Shadow Striker version of the Sideburn mold should be repainted into Roulette. Calling it now, one of the Stunticons will be retooled into Streetwise. I would love to get Silverbolt retooled into Windrazor, especially if they finally get over their aversion to Transmetals and give us BW Rampage, which subsequently could give us Shockaract. I agree with you about the Soundwave mold. Unpopular opinion, but it's not a great mold to begin with; there are clearance issues, parts of it don't tab together as well as they should, and contrary to what is advertised, the Rumble/Frenzy mold does NOT fit in the tape deck, or at least not very well. The only thing I can imagine them really doing with it is retool the tape door and release it as Soundblaster, but I doubt too many people would want the mold enough to make it worth doing.
I've had the mould since getting the 4-pack, but I only just realised while watching the video how much I'd love to see Energon Downshift from Pr Cliffjumper/RB Chase!
15:10 Does anyone think there's any possiblity of this figure as a leader release of Ultra Magnus (I'd imagine making the shins seperate to the rest of the trailer to plug into the legs) For that mattter what are the odds of it happening with Missing Link?
Metalhawk is a jet with a robotic torso as opposed to Starscream who has his jet mode cockpit as his chest. There are numerous jet Transformers with robotic chests that Metalhawk could be remolded into. G1 Leozack for example. Although obviously he wouldn’t be able to combine.
19:27 Original: Wingblade Optimus Prime exists, albeit a Takara thing as the Hasbruh version apparently did get scrapped (while Arcee & Ironhide somehow survived) 20:19 If you retool it into Ligerjack/Leobreaker, you'll need a repaint of that into the Nemesis Breaker version... 21:21 ...ayo hol' up, they're doing a Skywarp from this like they should've done the first time!? Well then, we need a Thundercracker, too. Also, can we get an extensive retool into TFP Soundwave or TFP Megatron??? 24:21 An actual G2 Gobot Soundwave? (Toyhax has a sticker set to change Tarn up) 26:21 Need a proper Black Convoy, a proper G2 Laser Ultra Magnus, and especially a proper SG Ultra Magnus (instead of that blatant Delta Magnus 🐳💩) 28:31 A new head retool as a proper show accurate Sandstorm...
I thought the Energon Megatron/Galvatron mould would be obvious retool into Animated Shockwave. I'm surprised they have never gotten to that, considering Animated Shockwave was a very liked character, had a very cool toy, and the fact that his whole thing is a reference to that Megatron specifically. I can't imagine them being able to integrate the Longarm Prime gimmick into it, because that would involve changing the entire toy drastically, but I can do without it honestly. I'd just love to own a version of that character.
The first use I can think of for Origin Bumblebee would be redesigning Cosmos into a sleeker space ship. Only for the next entry to be Cosmos. But along those lines, there *might* be some space ship or shuttle that kind of looks like Bumblebee's alt mode? Though the next question would be whether you could then retool the robot mode enough to no longer be Bumblebee.
Hot Shot could also be repainted into Universe Red Alert (who was originally a repaint of his Legends toy), Bumblebee (same again) and movie Breakaway who is a G1 Getaway homage.
I am really surprised we haven't yet seen Swerve (or Outback, for that matter). It's really odd we only got one go at Shard. Ice or Energon colors definitely would have been great. Super Sideburn would be great (and Botcon Shadow Striker and Roulette from the "original" version of the mold). The only real possibility for Sandstorm would be cartoon head, which just isn't worth leader price (and should have been what they did over toy head anyway) I admit, I would be very tempted to splurge for Energon Tidal Wave.
Regarding the Elita/Minerva/Strongarm mould, I really wish they would have done a more dedicated Minerva/Nightbeat figure, and then a Strongarm/Elita mould. Minerva really needed a better alt-mode, Nightbeat needed a redemption after thrilling mg 30, Strongarm needed an altmode that looked like it wasn’t put through the wide Putin filter, and then Elita could work with any lady Autobot mould (plus she was a truck thing in Earthspark).
Magmatron is difficult, but I’d like a Mega Dinobot repaint. Energon Mega Dinobot was the combined form of Grimlock and Swoop. So repaint him in G1 Dinobot colors with a new head as Grimlock, Swoop and Paddles in their individual dinosaur modes.
I’d like a Slicer / SG Wheeljack repaint of Origin Wheeljack. And Exhaust with a new head. When thinking of possible repaints, I look at who previous toys of that character has also been repainted into. Although Slicer and Exhaust don’t have a connection to Origin Wheeljack’s alternate mode, they do have a connection to Wheeljack’s robot mode. And I think it’s fair to give a new Cybertronian form to characters who have no known Cybertronian form.
Breakdown and Wildrider were repainted several times in Combined Wars. Breakdown could be repainted with a new head into Sunstreaker for example. Or Ravage, Tigatron, Jumpstream or Trickdiamond. I don’t think repaints of the new combiner limbs have to be in their own combiner team. They can be stand alone figures that are compatible with the original mold’s combiner.
There are still a few space shuttle characters that Astrotrain could be repainted into. G1 Blast Off for example, or perhaps Shattered Glass Galaxy Shuttle could have G1 Blast Off’s color scheme.
A mouthplated animated Optimus Prime would also be the perfect excuse to make a botcon Toxitron, since he was also a repaint of animated Optimus Originally.
Gears has several Brazilian / Mexican 80s toys that could be turned into new characters. I wouldn’t even mind if the Smallfoot head was used again even though it wouldn’t be accurate to the original Mini-Bots. There’s also Oilmaster who was a repaint of Swerve and Optimus Prime who was a loose G1 Optimus Prime / BW Optimus Primal combination for the OTFCC Double Pretender Optimus Prime.
I feel like the Cyclonus mold has one more in them. Essentially just a SS86 re-release in the more Animation Accurate Colors a lot like what they did with Galvatron (hopefully they fix the yellowing)
@@delaneymiller5822 I remember seeing an image of Depth Charge using Cyclonus as a basis (maybe make a 2-pack with Rampage from Gamer Edition: Megatron).
Cyclonus to Universe Skywarp (who was a redeco of the Deluxe BM Jetstorm). It would be a loose homage - no claws, no cockpit crotch), but I think it would work. Plus, Cyclonus in the colors of the robot he was is just neat.
Chase could be Animated Lockdown! the Animated Prowl mould could be Armada Sideways with some heavy retooling, I'd be fine with a voyager pricepoint if you work in the Minicons
There is a brown and grey generic conehead at the top of the Seekers page on TFWiki I’d like one of the coneheads to be repainted into as a new character. It isn’t shown with wings, so any of the three could work.
I can see a cyberverse thunderhowl out of that thundertron. And it'll be cool to have an aligned version of the vector prime And i would actually like a bayverse deco of that prime!
1 other repaint you could get from Tasmania Kid Copy Kid. to go with Nemesis Lioconvoy. Gears also has about 3 South American variants that can be homaged. Hasbro's shown they're willing to do that with Golden Disk Collection Puffer. Cyclonus still has life in him. Shattered Glass and Gentei Strafe. and at least 4 Animation errors in other character decoes. the most prominent being the "Dirgeclonus" Metalhawk could make for an amazing Pretender Starscream (i've even digibashed it) Options for Sandstorm: Blue Bacchus and Crossblades. there's also a red and white version of Sandstorm that showed up as an animation error at one point.
7:01 For Chase: different head, replace the blue with black, and you got yourself a Barricade.
What about retooling and repainting him into Cybertron Downshift?
Yeah, while Barricade doesn't tend to have a roof-chest, the muscle-police-car definitely fits, and anything is better than yet another Datson repaint. Especially if he can get his own head.
It'll never happen, but I'd love an original Generations Barricade design and figure keeping his windows and wheels sticking up over his shoudlers.
@@Derek_McDurfee while that sounds cool it’s the wrong chest
Nah Barricade should come from a mold with a car chest. Being a muscle car isn’t enough for him to work, especially when the mold has already been used for a police cruiser.
That would be part of the retool. You could make a new head and retool Chase’s chest to be more accurate to Cybertron Downshift, add in Cannonball’s Cyber Planet Key with a new weapon, and you’d get a little more life out of that mold.
6:58 Isn't there an entire TfWiki page dedicated to Animated Bee's body type?
They have plenty of further options to choose from.
Yeah, Furao, Tap-Out, Glyph. . . I'd like a new Glyph and Tap-Out.
26:16 there's still a few characters left of the Laser prime mold.
Sg Magnus, SG Prime , G2 Magnus ... probably some niche 2007 movie Prime
You COULD make those from the Legacy Laser Prime mold but do we really want them in that mold? I'd rather a redo if they were going to do them, I find the Legacy Laser Prime mold has an annoying and overcomplicated transformation for a figure that's barely more articulated than the G2 mold, and I know we don't do launching missiles anymore but they could have done SOMETHING with that pathetic trailer
To be fair, the late Derrick J Wyatt did use the Bumblebee character model to make an Earth Mode Animated Cliffjumper at one point. Don't know how that giant chin will fit into the transformation though.
I have this right now, I can say that entire backpack is designed to store his chin. And it doesn't stuck when transforming because of special liftarms, they work well on that endoskeleton and spring locks.
I’m still waiting for the star raider cannonball to be retooled into Cybertron red alert, so then we could have a reverse of how that figure originally happened.
"I'm sure Hasbro has a hundred ideas for how to use these molds"
And a third of them are more sideswipes
7:01 - Chase would make for a good Barricade (a fact Mark Maher seemingly agrees with when someone pointed it out on his insta)
9:34 - Plenty other bikeformers can be done from Prowl/Chromia. G1 Override comes to mind
13:05 - A Roulette/Shadowstriker (OG deco) 2 pack would be great
13:55 - I'd like to see a Firestar done from Strongarm before the mold retires (similar alt modes)
14:38 - A Cabnus from the Deluxe Prime would be fun
16:04 - Breakdown would make for a solid Oil Pan from the 2010 toyline. (who was *also* a Breakdown repaint). Plus, you could *probably* bullshit a Prime Vehicon from Dead End
24:00/25:57 - Tarn and Laser Prime (cab only) I can easily see being repainted iinto a "legacy" Movieverse Megs and Prime vs pack in selects, or smthn
28:11 - Either Dropkick or Blackout
10:10 the potential redecos that come to mind are Armada Sideways and honestly, I wouldn’t mind if they used that mould for a revisit of Nightbird due to the ninja aesthetic
10:10 I could absolutely see an Armada Sideways from that mold. How they'd do his Headmaster gimmick is a different story, but if they decided to omit that, it could work.
2 different heads like the troop builder multi packs
@larrychilders6599 mmm I dunno. It'd be cool if they retooled that neck joint entirely to allow for headmasters and packed in his.
@Saturnlock maybe if the headmasters could combine to form a core class dude
@larrychilders6599 well core class isn't a thing anymore, so maybe if next small price point is Mini-con 2-packs, that could work.
@Saturnlock I mean have the deluxe be packed on with 2 headmasters that can form a core class dude to sell at voyager
g1 style blackout from sandstorm would be cool
You could also repaint Animated Bumblebee in black and gold as Elite Guard Bumblebee.
And with Tidal Wave, Hasbro has the opportunity to fix the knee issue.
14:35 If they somehow get a mold that RID Megatronus can be from, in like 3-ish years, give me that. I like the design for some reason, mask and unmasked. More BBAdventure in general, honestly. The G1-izing could do wonders for some of them.
3:49 Has anyone thought about recoloring it into realistic Tasmanian devil colors?
I've been developing this subline idea of a zoo-themed subline with many of Kingdom & Legacy's Beast Era toys.
24:10 Banzai-tron, Blastwave, and- wait nevermind we're not revisiting Cloud. And while I'm mentioning Blastwave, Nightra from the same episode? Seeing how Strongarm was there. We've seen that as long as simple retool/redeco potential is there they're willing to go there.
Though I guess I'm more of a boat Banzai-tron person myself.
I want Legacy Chase retooled into Barricade. I want a chuggified Barricade, and I hate the idea of delegating him to a Prowl retool when they’re both so different.
No fr, Prowl is a slim normal police car, Barricade is the type of cop that would break all your bones for littering, the repaint route doesn't fit at all
Chase could be repainted into the throttlebot Searchlight or retooled into the other throttlebots. The Strong Arm mold could easily be used for a true GoBots accurate Smallfoot. Cybertron Bumblebee could be used/retool for another GoBots accurate Pathfinder.
energon megatron retool into shattered glass megatron??
Only if they upscale it to a voyager size. Like Hasbrp please rerelease SG Megatron like they did with Optimus and Ratchet.
@HolyCow0273 NEVER upscale legends figures it never works, if anything kingdom Galvatron works better as a large SG Megatron
He literally mentioned it in the video
@@telaviefilms280 I don't think they meant literally upscale. I think they meant just make a Voyager Energon Megs.
11:16 I'm pretty sure Smallfoot is actually using a completely unique head compared to the retro release
Yes she has a unique head compared to either version of Gears.
The chest isn't perfect, but I'd be happy to see Hasbro use the Chase mold to make Camshaft so we can finally get the Omnibots (Runamuck/Runabout - Downshift and Datsun - Overdrive)
13:03 Hot Shot could be repainted into that legends class Bumblebee that also use the cybertron hotshot mold. yeah, it's all yellow with a bit of black but they can do some more stuff with it this time.
23:11, that mold has 1 more use as Animated Starscream
I have some ideas for some of these molds
1. Retool Windblade into Maxima from the Machinima series.
2. Retool the Stunticons for Scramble compatibility.
3. Repaint Thundertron into Alpha Trizer (aka Future Cheetor).
4. Retool Sandstorm to be screen accurate.
5. Repaint Astrotrain and Blitzwing into Star Dasher and Fever Dream respectively. (Platinum Edition 2015)
Retool Windblade into Vigilem's avatar
Star Dasher and Fever Dream would also mean more Star Raiders, wouldn't mind that.
Adding on to Windblade: The cancelled Botcon Sari Sumdac retool
@@retrosympathizer8776 where was that revealed?
@@Jetthehawk1994 It was only in a book I think that was found after Botcon ended. It should be easy to Google search
26:02 I'm convinced takara will release a premium finish rid scourge with the correct deco.
8:29 Windblade wasn't in Beast Hunters. Did you mean Combiner Hunters?
That’s what I thought of too. I would take that, it was a good scheme imo
Honestly I prefer the titans force set when her colors was based on Fortress Maximus.
6:09 I don’t think a heavy retool would happen because at that point, Hasbro would just be making new molds.
10:23 I felt like Earthspark: Thrash was partially based on Animated: Prowl's design.
Would a retool like that work?
I think it could but, isn't it too soon for Earthspark in generations? Would love to see it tho.
(Here we go again with the Airazor mold tho)
Honestly I want a Rung done from Thrash
31:46 The only possible further use they could get out of this mold is if they retooled the turret/head and made Animated Blitzwing.
And that’s a big IF.
Definitely shouldn’t be used for Animated Blitzwing. Too different a design to use the same colors of the original on anyway.
Use the Prime mold and make a Thunderclash. I did
I'd 100% buy a G1 Dinobots coloured Magmatron!!
One thing I could see being done with Sandstorm would be to give it a colour scheme based on Machine Wars Sandstorm, whether it is released as Machine Wars Sandstorm or use those colours as a Shattered Glass Sandstorm
Chase could be retooled into new versions of G1 Chase, Searchlight and/or Freeway. And if we're doing Spychangers, we could do Crosswise.
7:45 Autobots? No clue. Decepticons? Barricade.
Yeah, I really want a Barricade from that Chase.
At first I thought you meant Barricade from Animated Optimus. And honestly now I want a beefy bruiser barricade from that Optimus. Gimme a police truck.
Animated Optimus and Animated Bumblebee in their “Elite Guard” colors from the original toyline would be a great store exclusive two-pack.
Thundertron was also designed to be cyberverse thunderhowl since he has features of thunderhowl that were not in the original thundertron design
3:36 Tasmania Kid has one other repaint and it's copy Tasmania Kid from the same episode as nemesis Leo Convoy all of core Maximals besides Diver from Beast Wars II essentially have default black repaint
There is an upgrade kit(from DNA design) for legacy animated prowl that becomes the sidecar and allows him to have an optional samurai mode and its actually pretty decent
Boundroad Packrat and Cyrotech 3-pack (call it cobalt creatures or something)
Things I'd want to see:
- If they retool the core Dinobots into Monstructor, release a redeco to go with the Go-Bots as Monstrous. Maybe a new combined headpiece.
- Animated Prowl/Cyberverse Chromia as Armada Sideways. You might have to cheat a bit and just decide on one face, the other or the unhelmeted one.
- Assuming we don't get an Armada Jetfire, Astrotrain/Galaxy Shuttle as Timelines Spacewarp.
- Velocitron Black Convoy completely unchanged specifically to piss off people who keep saying it doesn't look good.
For the Chase mould, a barricade retool is a no-brainer
For the combiner limb molds I wonder if you can retool the combining aspect OUT of them. Then you got four molds you retool/recolor even more. Into who or what? I dunno... ideas? Anything no matter how obscure (except Kiss Players/obvious reasons).
I actually wouldn’t mind any retools based on Kiss Players because I think the designs themselves are pretty good. Just distance it from the source material like Hasbro has done with the Autotroopers and it’s fine with me.
I think that sentiment is unanimous.
Animated Bumblebee had a ton of repaints originally and his body was used for a ton of different characters in the Almanac. I’d be interested in seeing an Elite Guard Bumblebee or Patrol Bumblebee.
I would love to see Shard get a repaint or retool. I think a deep cut to Rock Lords would work well, but it would be really nice to see her
Crime that the Junkeon TrashMaster that LOOKS like Bulkhead, wasn't retooled into a bulkhead
I think Tigerhawk with remolded wings, robot head, beast head and front feet would work well as Prime Beast Hunters Skystalker who was a dragon.
And also a straight repaint of Tigerhawk as Universe Razorclaw obviously.
25:38 Re-PACK, Origin 4 pack
The 3 bots and a Seeker Tetrajet
Either Bitstream or a rerelease of Red Wing would be welcome
I NEEEEEEEED Tidal Wave in the video game colors. That game is my main exposure to Armada. Yes I watched the show here and there growing up but the game was CONSTANTLY being played by mini me. If I can have a proper rendition of him in those colors, AT THAT SCALE, my inner child will cry. 🥲🥹
You could do a black and grey version of Tasmania Kid to represent the dark clone of him from that one episode of BWII where Nemesis Lio Convoy showed up
Great topic. There are a lot of good legacy molds, but i'd like to see most of them retired or retooled.
Edit: I would like Beachcomber and Gears retooled into Windcharger and Swerve.
6:16 I might get the Wasp figure, but I’m not sure how likely it is that we’ll be getting Cliffjumper out of this mold since he was such an obscure character on the show.
I would like to see two multi-packs with:
1. Cyberverse Windblade retooled as either Maxima, Stiletto, or Maximal Airazor and Cyclonus and Blowpipe as Strafe and Targetmaster Rocketbot
2. Cybertron Hot Shot repainted as either Bumblebee, Red Alert, or Getaway and Prime Thundertron as Lio Convoy with Siege Lionizer as his Battle Master sword
Hasbro, give us toy-only repaints and toy-only characters
I think the Astrotrain and Blitzwing molds still have one repaint left in them. You even mentioned the Blitzwing one but it seems like you missed the part where that toy was eventually given its own name. That Platinum Edtition 2 pack of Astrotrain and Blitzwing repaints were eventually given the names Star Dasher and Fever Dream and I would love to get toys of them
Chase is an interesting one. Even though he was already retooled as Prime Cliff Jumper, his engineering actually takes a lot of inspiration from Prime RID Wheel Jack. I could see them making that mold into a "revised" take on that character
Just want to note that Legacy United Animated Deluxe Bumblebee has a parts count of 46. In comparison, Siege Sideswipe has a parts count of 39, and Earthrise Hoist has a parts count of 40.
Leader Sandstorm could be redone as Movie Universe Blackout
Windblade as Airrazor's pre-beast mode based on that one Takara remold of the T30 figure. Idk I think an stylized Airrazor head with appropriate color scheme would work well on that mold
I wonder if we'll get 2007 movie Getaway/breakaway from Legacy Cybertron HotShot
a Universe capsule line would be the perfect place to redeco Skyquake/Dreadwing as King Atlas.
19:25 The DNA designs upgrade kit is one of my best pickups from last year, easy. I 100% support an official version. Should have happened during Animated's run, should still happen now.
Magmatron into Beast Wars Grimlock, Swoop, and Paddles.
3:28 Repaint as a raccoon
29:49 Repaint Soundblaster and Marvel/purple Soundwave already!
I’m still waiting on my purple G2 motor master. Hasbro, where is it?
14:30 I believe that the age of the Primes Micronus Prime figure is gonna use his R.I.D. 2015 design
6:09 I was messing around with my dinoking set and actually realized that goryu (the t-rex) can actually mimic his original alt mode pretty well
16:25 there's retooling him into Wildrider, as he was initially a retool of him, but that is literally it.
29:48 although there’s no usage for soundwave I have an idea for what the other cassettes can be repainted into tho ?
Buzzsaw into garboil and sundor
Rumble into enemy
Ravage into howlback,blackcat,glit and stripes
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Doesn't probably have anything to do with that, but I had an idea of getting this Prime and slightly customizing him into Orion Pax
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I mean...they COULD repaint him into G1-fied BBM Dropkick, they wouldn't even need to retool anything, Sandstorm already has a mask
Heck, I even made a digibash of that a while ago, and I'd say it looks gorgeous, despite me usually not being a fan of my own work
I agree, Shard would look good in a number of different color schemes.
the Shadow Striker version of the Sideburn mold should be repainted into Roulette.
Calling it now, one of the Stunticons will be retooled into Streetwise.
I would love to get Silverbolt retooled into Windrazor, especially if they finally get over their aversion to Transmetals and give us BW Rampage, which subsequently could give us Shockaract.
I agree with you about the Soundwave mold. Unpopular opinion, but it's not a great mold to begin with; there are clearance issues, parts of it don't tab together as well as they should, and contrary to what is advertised, the Rumble/Frenzy mold does NOT fit in the tape deck, or at least not very well. The only thing I can imagine them really doing with it is retool the tape door and release it as Soundblaster, but I doubt too many people would want the mold enough to make it worth doing.
We still haven't had a G2 Ultra Magnus repaint out of Lazer Prime, So that's at least one more Repaint I'd like to see from that mold.
I've had the mould since getting the 4-pack, but I only just realised while watching the video how much I'd love to see Energon Downshift from Pr Cliffjumper/RB Chase!
15:10 Does anyone think there's any possiblity of this figure as a leader release of Ultra Magnus (I'd imagine making the shins seperate to the rest of the trailer to plug into the legs)
For that mattter what are the odds of it happening with Missing Link?
Metalhawk is a jet with a robotic torso as opposed to Starscream who has his jet mode cockpit as his chest. There are numerous jet Transformers with robotic chests that Metalhawk could be remolded into. G1 Leozack for example. Although obviously he wouldn’t be able to combine.
19:27 Original: Wingblade Optimus Prime exists, albeit a Takara thing as the Hasbruh version apparently did get scrapped (while Arcee & Ironhide somehow survived)
20:19 If you retool it into Ligerjack/Leobreaker, you'll need a repaint of that into the Nemesis Breaker version...
21:21 ...ayo hol' up, they're doing a Skywarp from this like they should've done the first time!? Well then, we need a Thundercracker, too. Also, can we get an extensive retool into TFP Soundwave or TFP Megatron???
24:21 An actual G2 Gobot Soundwave? (Toyhax has a sticker set to change Tarn up)
26:21 Need a proper Black Convoy, a proper G2 Laser Ultra Magnus, and especially a proper SG Ultra Magnus (instead of that blatant Delta Magnus 🐳💩)
28:31 A new head retool as a proper show accurate Sandstorm...
I vote we call Thundercracker colors Cybertron Starscream "Ion Storm" in order to distinguish him from actual Cybertron Thundercracker
7:01 I think Prime Wheeljack could work from Chase with enough retooling. The original Deluxe had almost the exact same transformation scheme.
I thought the Energon Megatron/Galvatron mould would be obvious retool into Animated Shockwave. I'm surprised they have never gotten to that, considering Animated Shockwave was a very liked character, had a very cool toy, and the fact that his whole thing is a reference to that Megatron specifically. I can't imagine them being able to integrate the Longarm Prime gimmick into it, because that would involve changing the entire toy drastically, but I can do without it honestly. I'd just love to own a version of that character.
The first use I can think of for Origin Bumblebee would be redesigning Cosmos into a sleeker space ship. Only for the next entry to be Cosmos. But along those lines, there *might* be some space ship or shuttle that kind of looks like Bumblebee's alt mode? Though the next question would be whether you could then retool the robot mode enough to no longer be Bumblebee.
13:15 roulette,shadowstriker and universe 2003 sideburn ( a.k.a shattered glass sideburn ) repainted and retooled from sideburn
Hot Shot could also be repainted into Universe Red Alert (who was originally a repaint of his Legends toy), Bumblebee (same again) and movie Breakaway who is a G1 Getaway homage.
I am really surprised we haven't yet seen Swerve (or Outback, for that matter).
It's really odd we only got one go at Shard. Ice or Energon colors definitely would have been great.
Super Sideburn would be great (and Botcon Shadow Striker and Roulette from the "original" version of the mold).
The only real possibility for Sandstorm would be cartoon head, which just isn't worth leader price (and should have been what they did over toy head anyway)
I admit, I would be very tempted to splurge for Energon Tidal Wave.
Regarding the Elita/Minerva/Strongarm mould, I really wish they would have done a more dedicated Minerva/Nightbeat figure, and then a Strongarm/Elita mould. Minerva really needed a better alt-mode, Nightbeat needed a redemption after thrilling mg 30, Strongarm needed an altmode that looked like it wasn’t put through the wide Putin filter, and then Elita could work with any lady Autobot mould (plus she was a truck thing in Earthspark).
14:19 absolutely not!
You can use that truck mode for so many characters!
Magmatron is difficult, but I’d like a Mega Dinobot repaint. Energon Mega Dinobot was the combined form of Grimlock and Swoop. So repaint him in G1 Dinobot colors with a new head as Grimlock, Swoop and Paddles in their individual dinosaur modes.
I have the 3rd party upgrade kit to give Prowl his samurai look. It works great, and it does transform into the sidecar. Can't recommend it enough.
I’d like a Slicer / SG Wheeljack repaint of Origin Wheeljack. And Exhaust with a new head.
When thinking of possible repaints, I look at who previous toys of that character has also been repainted into. Although Slicer and Exhaust don’t have a connection to Origin Wheeljack’s alternate mode, they do have a connection to Wheeljack’s robot mode. And I think it’s fair to give a new Cybertronian form to characters who have no known Cybertronian form.
Breakdown and Wildrider were repainted several times in Combined Wars. Breakdown could be repainted with a new head into Sunstreaker for example. Or Ravage, Tigatron, Jumpstream or Trickdiamond.
I don’t think repaints of the new combiner limbs have to be in their own combiner team. They can be stand alone figures that are compatible with the original mold’s combiner.
I'm gonna say retool prime as prime with his jetpack as a leader class
That Jhiaxus mold could easily be made into Meteorfire
Yeah! Let's get some love for Robotmasters. We have Road Pig, we can retool it as Robotmasters Sideways.
There are still a few space shuttle characters that Astrotrain could be repainted into. G1 Blast Off for example, or perhaps Shattered Glass Galaxy Shuttle could have G1 Blast Off’s color scheme.
Hear me out: heavy retool sandstorm into DROPKICK
Having a triple changer like sandstorm would be kool in a gi Joe crossover line.
Windblade can be turned into Vigilem from IDW when he turned into Windblade.
A mouthplated animated Optimus Prime would also be the perfect excuse to make a botcon Toxitron, since he was also a repaint of animated Optimus Originally.
16:13 I can see them Repainting Breakdown into Jumpstream
Can’t wait for this year’s toy line version of this video series of sorts. I wonder which one will get the answer of Transformers prime Megatron.
Ok might be crazy. But the windblade mold. Imagine a heavy retool into a prime universe starscream
Gears has several Brazilian / Mexican 80s toys that could be turned into new characters. I wouldn’t even mind if the Smallfoot head was used again even though it wouldn’t be accurate to the original Mini-Bots. There’s also Oilmaster who was a repaint of Swerve and Optimus Prime who was a loose G1 Optimus Prime / BW Optimus Primal combination for the OTFCC Double Pretender Optimus Prime.
I feel like the Cyclonus mold has one more in them. Essentially just a SS86 re-release in the more Animation Accurate Colors a lot like what they did with Galvatron (hopefully they fix the yellowing)
@@delaneymiller5822 I remember seeing an image of Depth Charge using Cyclonus as a basis (maybe make a 2-pack with Rampage from Gamer Edition: Megatron).
It also means we can probably get Movieverse: Terradive and his recolors as well
Cyclonus to Universe Skywarp (who was a redeco of the Deluxe BM Jetstorm). It would be a loose homage - no claws, no cockpit crotch), but I think it would work. Plus, Cyclonus in the colors of the robot he was is just neat.
Chase could be Animated Lockdown!
the Animated Prowl mould could be Armada Sideways with some heavy retooling, I'd be fine with a voyager pricepoint if you work in the Minicons
There is a brown and grey generic conehead at the top of the Seekers page on TFWiki I’d like one of the coneheads to be repainted into as a new character. It isn’t shown with wings, so any of the three could work.
I can see a cyberverse thunderhowl out of that thundertron.
And it'll be cool to have an aligned version of the vector prime
And i would actually like a bayverse deco of that prime!
1 other repaint you could get from Tasmania Kid
Copy Kid. to go with Nemesis Lioconvoy.
Gears also has about 3 South American variants that can be homaged. Hasbro's shown they're willing to do that with Golden Disk Collection Puffer.
Cyclonus still has life in him. Shattered Glass and Gentei Strafe. and at least 4 Animation errors in other character decoes. the most prominent being the "Dirgeclonus"
Metalhawk could make for an amazing Pretender Starscream (i've even digibashed it)
Options for Sandstorm: Blue Bacchus and Crossblades. there's also a red and white version of Sandstorm that showed up as an animation error at one point.