How many Sweeps do you need?

[Paulbot]

Now that there's an official Scourge toy about to appear on our shelves, it's a no-brainer to buy multiples and set up your army of Sweeps.

But how many Sweeps should be in the army?

Two? Unicron created two when he created Scourge in TFTM.

Three? A third one appeared as soon as Cyclonus' armada disappeared off screen in the movie.

Five? That's how many TFwiki reports were ever on screen at the same time.

Seven? That's at least how many BotCon suggested there were.

As many as possible??


My childhood perception was that there are three Sweeps, and because the Sweeps used to be Insecticons (well at least two definitely were) they could clone themselves the same way the Insecticons did. So I am thinking I will get three Scourge toys to serve as Sweeps.

[jaydisc]

I'm witchyoo

[Gutsman Heavy]

eh, no Peg. *flushes toilet*

[UltraMarginal]

I'm kind of expecting that at some point there will be an official re-paint of this figure into a sweep colour, I'll grab extras then.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

I'm just after one, while I intend to get 3 sweeps I'd rather have them as different molds i.e. one Titanium, 1 Botcon, 1 Generations and G1 Scourge for Scourge.

[Skullcruncher]

I just buy as many G1 scourges as possible!

[GoktimusPrime]

0.

To me Scourge =/= Sweep (just as Wreck Gar =/= Junkion). As a kid, I only had 1 Scourge and I'd just used that one toy to represent the entire army of Sweeps. You'd just _imagine_ there were heaps of them. Same with Stormtroopers, COBRA Vipers and any other "generic soldier" toy... I never bothered with army building. I'd rather spend the money on getting new toys.

Currently when I play with my G1 Scourge I use my Titanium Series Scourge as my "Sweep". Likewise with Classicsverse Scourge I'd probably still use Ti Series Scourge as the Sweep. If they released a redeco as a Sweep I'd get it, but I'm not going to buy two Scourges and pretend one's a Sweep.

And I generally dislike buying multiples as it just feels... greedy. I don't like the thought of buying toys that are really surplus to my needs if it means other collectors/children are missing out (unless the toy's a chronic shelf-warmer... I don't think anyone would be greatly inconvenienced if I bought a second ROTF Legends Devastator (not that I would)).

[ITZTRU]

In call of the primitives, "Sweeps 6 and 7 came in for a strike." So one would assume there were at least 7 sweeps?

[Vector Prime]

I'm not into army building, but will most likely pick up 2 more Hasbro Scourges to represent the Sweeps (as I already have one) and a United one to represent Scourge himself.

[Doubledealer]

I'm kind of expecting that at some point there will be an official re-paint of this figure into a sweep colour, I'll grab extras then.

+1 Well said m'laddo