What vehicle has never been a TF that you'd like to see?

[GoktimusPrime]

The first movie BB was a second generation Camaro. I don't know why you keep calling it a Monaro.

When news of Bumblebee being a 70s Camaro emerged, I recall Australians getting excited and referring to it as a Monaro.
http://phorums.com.au/showthread.php...rs-the-movie!&

Either way, I like it cos it's a more "ordinary" looking car and not as exotic as the Concept Camaro. It's kinda funny that rare and exotic cars have become so common as alt modes in Transformers, that just plain regular cars feel more exotic to me! We've had umpteen muscle cars, sports cars and racing cars... zero Toyota Crowns!

I'd also really love to see a Mini-Con or Legion Class Goggomobil.
Alright, how many of you just had your inside voice go "Jee-Oh-Jee-Jee-Oh"? (;

[Demonac]

When news of Bumblebee being a 70s Camaro emerged, I recall Australians getting excited and referring to it as a Monaro.

I think your memory circuits are faulty.

Either way, I like it cos it's a more "ordinary" looking car and not as exotic as the Concept Camaro. It's kinda funny that rare and exotic cars have become so common as alt modes in Transformers, that just plain regular cars feel more exotic to me! We've had umpteen muscle cars, sports cars and racing cars... zero Toyota Crowns!

The Camaro IS a muscle car though. The movie line gave us other 'regular' cars though: Mudflap, Skids, Swerve, Swindle, Wheeljack, Crankcase, Jolt & Stockade.

[GoktimusPrime]

I think your memory circuits are faulty.

I wouldn't remember.

The Camaro IS a muscle car though.

Yeah I know, but given its age it looks/feels more mundane than a modern muscle car. As a 70s Camaro Bumblebee was able to disguise himself in a dodgy used car lot. As a Concept Camaro he draws heaps of attention to himself wherever he goes (like on uni campuses ). G1 Downshift feels like a "ordinary" car to me as a 1980s Toyota Celica (I knew someone at uni who drove an early 80s white Celica that looked just like Downshift), but I wouldn't consider Downshift to be 'ordinary' because at the time the toy was released, the vehicle was considered current and exotic.

But I take your point, and it was a point I was making too, it would be neat to see more vehicles that were never considered exotic... just plain regular vehicles.

The movie line gave us other 'regular' cars though: Mudflap, Skids, Swerve, Swindle, Wheeljack, Crankcase, Jolt & Stockade.

+1. I did mention the Twins (their ice cream truck mode was another great example of a 'regular' everyday vehicle). Those others you mentioned are good examples too.

And not just cars too... I'd like to see more civilian aircraft like helicopters (like Cybertron Jolt's civvie chopper mode) and air planes. It'd be neat to see a Boeing 737 or Airbus, or civilian biplanes etc. Ditto civilian boats. Ferry, ocean liner, cargo vessel etc. I'd also like to see a mountain bike (as opposed to a BMX) and a non-turbo skateboard (I could accept it having a bulky unrealistic kibblicious undercarriage if it were fairly realistic looking from above).

[KalEl]

I've always wanted an r34 gtr skyline as a decepticon alternator, perhaps paying homage to one of the stunticons or maybe as autobot drift
but alas alternity gave us the r35 gtr so i seriously doubt they'll ever use the older car model for anything

R34 drift, hell yes!

When news of Bumblebee being a 70s Camaro emerged, I recall Australians getting excited and referring to it as a Monaro.
http://phorums.com.au/showthread.php...rs-the-movie!&

Either way, I like it cos it's a more "ordinary" looking car and not as exotic as the Concept Camaro. It's kinda funny that rare and exotic cars have become so common as alt modes in Transformers, that just plain regular cars feel more exotic to me! We've had umpteen muscle cars, sports cars and racing cars... zero Toyota Crowns!

I'd also really love to see a Mini-Con or Legion Class Goggomobil.
Alright, how many of you just had your inside voice go "Jee-Oh-Jee-Jee-Oh"? (;

The monaro was a exported pontiac (we sent our monaros there) and it was the car cut in half and blown threw a shop window in the final battle in the first movie. That was why there was confusion. It was never bumblebee though.

[Firestorm]

hehehe whenever I make up my own transformers I tend to go with unused or rarely used alt modes

so far I've used
Hearse, Limo, Crop Harvester, Bullet Train and my personal favourate a street sweeper

[GoktimusPrime]

wasn't that from the second film? The dark night.
I also love the quote though Alfred is gold.

Oops, corrected.

Im not sure to be honest, the transformers extended universe is so large now that it's a hard one.

Yeah but we're talking about the toy line here, and writers don't have to include every toy into canon (just ask G1 Hubcap! ). Make good toys first, then let writers figure out how to work 'em into canon later. A good toy will sell even without canonical appearance, whereas a bad toy that appears in canon can still shelfwarm horribly. At the end of the day, people want good toys.

The monaro was a exported pontiac (we sent our monaros there) and it was the car cut in half and blown threw a shop window in the final battle in the first movie. That was why there was confusion. It was never bumblebee though.

Thanks! Now I know, and knowing's half the battle!

[KalEl]

Yeah but we're talking about the toy line here, and writers don't have to include every toy into canon (just ask G1 Hubcap! ). Make good toys first, then let writers figure out how to work 'em into canon later. A good toy will sell even without canonical appearance, whereas a bad toy that appears in canon can still shelfwarm horribly. At the end of the day, people want good toys.

I get that, but i'm just saying there has been so many toys over the yeasrs its hard to think of many.

[1orion2many]

The Whacky Races cars and a Banana split buggy

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I'd like to see an Aussie special version of Optimus. Road Train Optimus, with three trailers for him to pull. That's be sweet!

[GoktimusPrime]

I'd like to see more regular electric passenger trains that aren't steam locomotives or bullet trains. Japanese G1 did give us some freight trains and special express trains (similar to XPTs in Australia) -- but few regular urban commuter trains. In fact, the only 'ordinary' electric train I can think of is Suiken (which also happens to be the only Trainbot that I own! Yay! ). But we need more -- and we certainly need some for the Western market! And it'd be neat if it came with a passenger carriage that could maybe open into a battle platform or split up and transform into weapons. I did like how the G1 Micromaster trains' gestalt feet were able to hook up to become carriages (though certainly not for passengers!). I can understand HasTak not wanting to make a Transformer just for the carriage alone.

Hasbro reckons that trains don't sell in Western markets as well as they do in Japan, but I dunno... what kid doesn't love toy trains? Who didn't have at least one train set as a kid? And Thomas the Tank Engine^and Friends still seems as popular as ever both here and in Japan. Trains are awesome! One clever thing about the G1 Trainbots was that they were the same scale as electric trains, so you could fit them on your train set tracks. I reckon they should do the same with say Generations Trainbots... make them Scout or Commander Class. ReproLabels could then release a Melbourne Edition upgrade sticker set where you can cover all the Trainformers with loads of massive graffiti!

Choo-chooOOOooOooOOo!

I'd like to see an Aussie special version of Optimus. Road Train Optimus, with three trailers for him to pull. That's be sweet!

God Ginrai (or "Apex Armour Optimus Prime" ) was a road train with two trailers. S'pose t'would be cool if they released a toy with two trailers, though that would make the toy quite expensive, and knowing Hasbro today they would simplify the toy and chuck in some superfluous electronic gimmick to justify the overpriced RRP (à la Ultimate Optimus Prime ). A more practical idea might be to release an Optimus Prime toy with one trailer, but design the trailer to be backward-compatible with Godbomber/Apex-Armour so that it can hook up to him and form a triple road train with God Ginrai/ApArOP.