I was talking to someone yesterday about FoC Starscream and it made me realise, Hasbro really should make it a priority to repaint this mould as the Rainmakers for the following reasons:
+ The Rainmakers were always Tetrajets in the G1 cartoon. They never came to Earth and were never reformatted/rebuilt(wateva) as F-15 Eagles. So having them as Tetrajets canonically makes more sense than seeing them as F-15s.
+ Classicsverse already has Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Ramjet, Thrust and Dirge as toys. There's no (official) Classicsverse toy for the Rainmakers (except Acid Storm). Some collectors (like the one I spoke w/ yesterday) only want to collect one toy of each G1 character, and FoC versions of the 'mainstream' Seekers don't interest them because it's the same character (just with a Cybertronian alt mode). Only people who are interested in getting the same character again in the new alt mode would want to get them in the FoC mould. i.e. people who are more interested in further expanding their Classicsverse collection and have no interest in the game.
If Hasbro repainted FOC Starscream as Sunstorm, Acid Storm and "Blizzard Storm" (or whatever name they choose to give to the blue Rainmaker), G1 fans will
finally have G1-accurate toy representations of those characters as they appeared in the G1 cartoon - as Tetrajets, not F-15 Eagles!
I don't mind if they do Skywarp and Thundercracker too, but I think the Rainmakers should come after them. I would prioritise them
above Ramjet, Dirge and Thrust because we never saw them as Tetrajets in the G1 cartoon! (they just appeared on Earth one day as if they'd always been there!
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Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
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Then they just completely forgot about it, and Starscream became an F15 on ancient Cybertron who flew under his own power from Cybertron to Earth, flew all over Earth, then back to Cybertron with Skyfire!
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