Takara Previews - Combiners, BTs & Reissues!

Took the words right outta my mouth. On superion, who cares, a jet is a jet is a jet. But on Bruticus, I was salivating thinking what the Swindle-like component would be like, only to find that they cheaped out and did repaints. And after seeing Alt Hound/Swindle and E-Strongarm I had my hopes up as to what kind of Jeep they'd be doing.

Ditto. I think I'd rather have had two gestalts with ten separate molds than three gestalts with nine separate molds.

 

And the double up is REALLY lame on the construction team...two payloaders and two cranes? You have a reason to have an air strike team or an army, but I don't know about a gang of construction vehicles. I wish they had at least done the minor retooling like they did on the powered up E-Inferno...

 

I'm especially irritated now that they won't be doing the Protectobots as an E-gestalt. Something like a car mode with a simple but effective repaint as a police car vs a fire chief's car would've been easy and less repetitive than two helicopters.

Yeah, I hadnt even thought about that with the construction vehicles. They could have at least gave one payloader a shovel blade and the other a bulldozer blade, and then one crane would be...well....a crane, the other could have been re-tooled to a cement truck or something else.

As to bruticus, one tank could have had a standard turret, the other a bunch of missile tubes or something. Anything to be a LITTLE different.

But I like the non-uniform look better on gestalts. Thats just me.