Combiner Cores

[Gustavo Wombat]

We have:
- Firetruck
- Whatever Onslaught Is
- Concorde
- Space Concordes
- Shuttle
- Fighter Jet
- Truck Cab
- T-Rex

Am I missing any? Hungrr isn’t out yet.

It’s a pretty small collection of molds, even counting remolds. What would
you want to round this out, and what characters would fit it?

- Tank, probably Megatron. I could see going with an H-Tank and doing
Armada Megatron, or one of the more specialty antiaircraft tanks.

- Turtle. I just want Seacons.

- A battle station. A little mini Metroplex type thing that combines with
the robots in the area. I’m at a complete loss as to who this could be, and
we haven’t had great luck with battle stations and bases, but it would be.
Fun play pattern if it worked. Preceptor as a research station with a
microscope mode added in?

- Truck with Trailer. Let’s give Motormaster another chance.

- Stealth bomber. Is that the B1 or the B2, can’t remember. We have a bunch
of flying things already, so this would be pretty low on the list. G2
Dreadwing would be a confusing character to do.

[Irrellius Spamticon of the Potato People.]

See here we could have a train. Not that sad excuse that TR Astrotrain was.

Maybe a missile truck. Give Onslaught a chance.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/vityaz_50r6_air_defense_missile_systems_vehicles_u/50p6_tel_truck_launcher_erector_vityaz_50r6_missile_system_technical_data_sheet_specifications.html

Possibly get a bucket-wheel excavator, the biggest terrestrial vehicle on earth. Could redo the constructicons, expand them a bit. Have all 6 constructicons merge with a giant.

Aircraft Carrier. Broadside was weak. Let's make him better. Now he can be a new Aerialbot core, as he had tiny Aerialbots.

Vending Machine. have a vending machine as the core, get like the toaster, the Xbox, blender, and another appliances as the limbs.

Dragon. Not so much Hungrr as maybe a TM2 Megatron style. Mold could work as repaints for Predacons rising, or TLK.

Car carrier truck. The cars disembark and form limbs.

Garbage truck

Deluxe Jazz needs a new release, with the combiner hand forming a jetpack, or backpack, fit in better with his G1 self than the silly chest armor.
Then make a Deluxe Sideswipe, with a jetpack. Like the cartoon.

[Zobovor]

On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 12:25:24 PM UTC-7, Gustavo Wombat, of the Seattle Wombats wrote:

> It’s a pretty small collection of molds, even counting remolds. What would
> you want to round this out, and what characters would fit it?

I liked how the G1 Aerialbots combined with a great, big airplane and the G1 Stunticon cars combined with a big truck. At least those vehicles were to scale with each other. It sort of fell apart after that.

Something like a space dock would be kind of cool. With smaller space craft that could link up to it.

Or a desktop computer. All the guys who formed the arms and legs would be computer accessories... the keyboard, the mouse, the printer, etc. (I'm really thinking outside the box today, I guess.)

> - Tank, probably Megatron. I could see going with an H-Tank and doing
> Armada Megatron, or one of the more specialty antiaircraft tanks.

One of the Walmarts around here still has Combiner Wars Armada Megatron toys from 2015. I don't think we need to see Armada Megatron again.

> - Turtle. I just want Seacons.

You ain't the only one.

> - A battle station. A little mini Metroplex type thing that combines with
> the robots in the area. I’m at a complete loss as to who this could be, and
> we haven’t had great luck with battle stations and bases, but it would be.
> Fun play pattern if it worked.

I like the idea of a mini-Metroplex. I will say that, to me, the base modes of Titans Return were the least interesting thing about those toys to me. Unless they were toys that were supposed to turn into a base, like Fortress Maximus or Trypticon, I just didn't care about those modes.

> - Stealth bomber. Is that the B1 or the B2, can’t remember. We have a bunch
> of flying things already, so this would be pretty low on the list. G2
> Dreadwing would be a confusing character to do.

He could work if you used the Skyscorchers for the arms and legs—Windrazor, Terradive, Eagle Eye, and Afterburner. I'm all in favor of a G2 tribute toy line, incidentally. Bring 'em on.


Zob (loves G2 more than anyone has the right to)

[Gustavo Wombat, of the Seattle Wombats]

On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 6:10:53 PM UTC-8, Irrellius Spamticon of the Potato People. wrote:
>
> See here we could have a train. Not that sad excuse that TR Astrotrain was.

I like TR Astrotrain, but it isn't our classic Astrotrain body. It's a later, or earlier body.

> Maybe a missile truck. Give Onslaught a chance.
> https://www.armyrecognition.com/vityaz_50r6_air_defense_missile_systems_vehicles_u/50p6_tel_truck_launcher_erector_vityaz_50r6_missile_system_technical_data_sheet_specifications.html

I could totally accept that as an alt mode for Onslaught. I wouldn't mind the character getting two combiner core toys.

[Gustavo Wombat, of the Seattle Wombats]

On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 10:09:22 PM UTC-8, Zobovor wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 12:25:24 PM UTC-7, Gustavo Wombat, of the Seattle Wombats wrote:
>
> > It’s a pretty small collection of molds, even counting remolds. What would
> > you want to round this out, and what characters would fit it?
>
> I liked how the G1 Aerialbots combined with a great, big airplane and the G1 Stunticon cars combined with a big truck. At least those vehicles were to scale with each other. It sort of fell apart after that.

The Technobots work well, being all fantasy vehicles.

> > - Tank, probably Megatron. I could see going with an H-Tank and doing
> > Armada Megatron, or one of the more specialty antiaircraft tanks.
>
> One of the Walmarts around here still has Combiner Wars Armada Megatron toys from 2015. I don't think we need to see Armada Megatron again.

That was a terrible version of Armada Megatron, so that was part of it. It got nothing right about the character.

I'm not sure a lot of people are clamoring for an Armada Megatron homage, but any that were got disappointed.

> > - Turtle. I just want Seacons.
>
> You ain't the only one.

I have no idea why I love them so much. I don't even know their names, for the most part. Tentakill, and the rest.

> > - A battle station. A little mini Metroplex type thing that combines with
> > the robots in the area. I’m at a complete loss as to who this could be, and
> > we haven’t had great luck with battle stations and bases, but it would be.
> > Fun play pattern if it worked.
>
> I like the idea of a mini-Metroplex. I will say that, to me, the base modes of Titans Return were the least interesting thing about those toys to me. Unless they were toys that were supposed to turn into a base, like Fortress Maximus or Trypticon, I just didn't care about those modes.

I don't understand the point of the base modes more often than not.

I like Perceptor's weird tank mode, and think of it as a tiny, mobile observatory thing for Convex. Autobots having little research stations makes sense.

I could see Soundwave or Blaster transforming into a communications center, to coordinate other robots in battle. But they clearly transform into discoteques. And I don't understand their alt-modes at all.

But why does Black Shadow have a base mode? What does he do that merits staying in one place like that?

> > - Stealth bomber. Is that the B1 or the B2, can’t remember. We have a bunch
> > of flying things already, so this would be pretty low on the list. G2
> > Dreadwing would be a confusing character to do.
>
> He could work if you used the Skyscorchers for the arms and legs—Windrazor, Terradive, Eagle Eye, and Afterburner. I'm all in favor of a G2 tribute toy line, incidentally. Bring 'em on.

The Predators would work.

> Zob (loves G2 more than anyone has the right to)

I would also love G2v2. Or late G1v2.