I wonder if figures like Shadowstriker would be better received if they were marketed like the early
Generations and
Reveal The Shield lines: no ties to a specific continuity outside the united design. Honestly, it seems like most of the criticism, my own included, is because the whole "X Universe Character" creates expectations regarding the character's design which eventually fall flat because of the unified aesthetic. Even the better ones have a little something missing, like
Animated Prowl being too bulky or
RID2001 Scourge not having the right colors. Honestly, the only ones safe so far are the
UT and
BW figures.
Also, I really hope they redo
Armada Starscream in the future; the fact he's the only
Legacy Armada without Mini-Con compatibility really stands out.
So, about the leaked listings:
- I hope
UT Megatron ends up going through the same Megatron/Galvatron cycle from each series. And dear Primus, I don't even know if I'm being sarcastic or not!
- Guess the Rock Lord Weaponizers are practically confirmed. Now here's wondering if they're straight-up turn-into-rocks Rock Lords, or if they try to pull a twist in the alt-mode to make them more interesting (like, say, being regular Transformers with vehicle and/or beast modes but a golem-like design instead of regular metal robots, or Modulators with temple-like base modes). But, if I may suggest an out-of-left-field possibility:
I mean, they
were originally meant to be rock beings, already have designed alt-modes, and even their names still reference rocks (
lithos or stone -> Lithone, granite -> Granix -> Kranix, marble -> Marblus(?) -> Arblus).
