The Random Transformers Thoughts Thread

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Originally Posted by Tha_Phantom

I go with how it's pronounced in the movies, so Jiggawatt for me. But tbh I'll probably switch back and forth and wouldn't even notice if others did the same or not.

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Same here.

You ever think about how Masterpiece Nightstalker came out two years ago and in all that time there's still no whispers of a MP Steeljaw?

I wonder how many people will go into Walmart, see the Titanmaster reissue and think they are a G1 Headmaster reissue???

I got my Super Megatron today. Not sure if I would be more appropriate to call him a remould, or a new mould reusing some old parts.

After about 2015 when we started seeing significant remoulding I started using a new status term, with about 50% new parts as the line between "remould" and "new with recycled parts". Because before then they only bothered to engineer the toys to be able to swap out a small amount of parts to make a new toy/character (heads, wings, accessories).

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Originally Posted by griffin

After about 2015 when we started seeing significant remoulding I started using a new status term, with about 50% new parts as the line between "remould" and "new with recycled parts". Because before then they only bothered to engineer the toys to be able to swap out a small amount of parts to make a new toy/character (heads, wings, accessories).

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Is it still a remould if a toy uses the same transformation schematic/process, but has new bits? Personally I think this is a clever use of (design) resources.
For example, TR Blurr and Brainstorm.

I think the term the Hasbro designers have been using is "Partial Tool" - figures that might share a core design or design elements but have significant moulding differences in key features.

Think TR Scourge, Highbrow and Windblade, and TR Blurr, Arcee, Chromedome and Brainstorm. And more recently the Siege and ER Ironhide.

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Originally Posted by Seraphim Prime

I think the term the Hasbro designers have been using is "Partial Tool"

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That's a decent name for it.

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Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy

For example, TR Blurr and Brainstorm.

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Quibbling, and not really super on topic, but those two are close enough that I'd call them just straight re-tool.

Anyone surprised by the move back to smaller accessories? ER Smokescreen's shoulder guns are considerably smaller than on his Siege iteration.