On Saturday
Bobby Skullface published his Transformers Masterpiece Wishlist as
part of his Sit Down Saturday series. It got me thinking about what
figures I'd love to see come out from the third party scene for my
Legends scale collection. Not in any particular order, just
spitballing:
The
Aerialbots
Superion is
my favourite Autobot combiner, made more special for me because I
never managed to complete the thing as a kid, either as secondhand G1
figures or the G2 recolours coming out at the time. Their origin
story from the G1 cartoon was one of the three Transformers VHS tapes
at my local video rental place when I was a child. I adore
Silverbolt's character.
I'd also
just like to see Autobot combiners in the Legends scale. We're
drowning in Devastators, IronFactory made an amazing Bruticus and
their own original effort with the Decepticon Justice Division set
and, Magic Square have a Menasor in thr works.
Sunstreaker
The
IronFactory one is too expensive now and only available with their
Sideswipe, a character I already have a toy for. It just feels wrong
to have Sideswipe and no Sunstreaker (plus, I actually do like
Sunstreaker's design a bit better than his brother's).
Astrotrain
Flat out my
favourite Transformers character and toy of all time. For five year
old me there was nothing better: it was a transforming robot who was
a steam train and a space shuttle. If it had also been a dinosaur it
would have been the perfect object.
I have high
hopes for the Mech Fans Toys version that's been teased recently but
I am picky as fuck with this character. I passed on any version that
was a bullet train and there are just a few little problems with the
Siege version that stop me from buying it. And, no, none of those
problems are the size. When Siege Astrotrain was announced as a
Leader class figure I was all for it: he would have been huge against
my Legends and I think that could have worked. No, it was the hollow
back end of the shuttle mode and the bloody
battle damage paintwork.
So,
in theory I'm onboard for the MFT version but we'll see.
Whirl,
Sandstorm and Broadside
This
is my main shortlist for characters I need for my little Wreckers
shelf. I love the Wreckers but it has to be said they're a team of
also-rans, literally cobbled together by Simon Furman from characters
the US comic couldn't be bothered to find a use for. As such even the
official toylines don't revisit these characters much aside from
Springer. I mean: have Whirl, Sandstorm or Broadside had more than
one modern toy?
I
could hope that Mech Fans Toys makes a Sandstorm remould of their
Springer but the other two would have to be original moulds with no
potential second use so I'm not hopeful.
Getaway
Another
themed shelf I have is my MTMTE/Lost Light shelf and that wouldn't be
complete without evil mastermind and frequent quoter of Theresa May
Getaway.
A
MTMTE-style Rodimus would be rather nice, too.
Basically
any Targetmasters
Mechanic
Studios (one of the many heads of the Mech Fans Toys hydra) have
finally popped the seal on Targetmasters with their Hot Rod/Rodimus
set. I know they're kind of dumb and no one seems to know exactly why
they need little robots to stand in for their guns but I always loved
those toys as a kid, especially the Decepticons Targetmasters. I'd
love a decent Legends scale Quake or any of the Targetmasters planes,
especially that one with two cockpits.
Legends
Plus scale Fortress Maximus
The thing
about Fort Max is that as far as Hasbro/Takara are concerned he's a
citybot. As far as I'm concerned, having met him through the UK
comics of my youth he's just a quite tall Autobot. IronFactory did a
great Skorponok and I'd love a Fort Max to match him (or tower over
him by an inch or so). Right now I have the Kabaya model kit version
of the character which looks great but, sadly, has all the
articulation of the G1 original which is to say not much.
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