Okay, but in the original Classics series Hasbro gave us 3 Seekers:
* Starscream
* Skywarp
* Ramjet

I would have preferred:
* Starscream
* Skywarp
* Thundercracker

...unless you think a simple retool would really persuade more parents to have purchased Ramjet over Thundercracker. Even if this were the case, why release Acid Storm before Thundercracker? I can see now appeal advantage to G1-ignorant kids (especially considering how freaking obscure a character Acid Storm was in G1 - having only appeared briefly in ONE episode of the G1 cartoon, whereas Thundercracker was a recurring character across all G1 mediums).

Surely Hasbro could have given us Thundercracker during Transformers Universe instead of Acid Storm. I still don't know why we had to wait half a decade between getting Starscream and Skywarp, then finally getting Thundercracker in retail. Gah.

Quote Originally Posted by UltraMarginal
too many of the seekers would have shelfwarmed like the ravage did. too many of the same thing in a short period of time = shelfwarmer.
And yet they still went ahead and pushed out those pegwarming Ravage repaints. So Hasbro denied us a Classics Thundercracked and denied a Universe Thundercracker, but they were more than happy to throw Recon Ravage and Sea Attack Ravage at us!

And I would say that Thundercracker would have more marketing appeal than Recon and Sea Attack Ravage because he's a whole different character. As I said before, if Hasbro wanted to repaint the ROTF Ravage mould, I reckon they should have tried to make it a new character - so instead of giving us Recon Ravage and Sea Attack Ravage, give us Movie-verse Howlback and Glit. Sure these are obscure characters - no more obscure than Acid Storm. And they couldn't have possibly peg-warmed any worse than Recon and Sea Attack Ravage. G1-ignorant kids wouldn't know the difference, and fans would be more attracted to them.

There just seems to be lack of consistency in Hasbro's approach to repaints...