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!

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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.