Combiner Wars Toyline: Rumors, Speculation, Ideas etc

[Demonac]

While it would make a great fan made custom, an official toy of Liokaiser would need to have a bit more effort put into it before I open my wallet.
Hellbat and Guyhawk would work in both robot & vehicle mode, but their combiner modes wouldn't be right.
Drillhorn and Killbison probably could get away with all 3 modes.
Leozak & Jaruga would need to be new though.

[Deonasis]

Hellbat would not be part of my Liokaiser.

[GoktimusPrime]

While new moulds would certainly be preferable for LioKaiser, based on existing moulds, I would say...

* Leozak = retooled Silverbolt
* Guyhawk & Hellbat = retooled Skydive
* Drillhorn & Killbison = retooled Brawl
* Jallguar = retooled Off Road
* Deathcobra = retooled Alpha Bravo

Also, they might be able to retool some CW toys to make Landcross. We might have...
* Wing = retooled Silverbolt
* Waver = significant retooling of Off Road (akin to Skydive-->Air Raid). Much of the robot parts (except the head) may be the same, but all the vehicle parts would be changed to make him a hovercraft.
* Dash = repainted Streetwise
* Tacker = retooled Brawl
* Mach = repainted Firefly
* Tackle = repainted Swindle

[liegeprime]

Hellbat would not be part of my Liokaiser.

Deathcobra then?

[BigTransformerTrev]

From what I read in the latest TFCC mag today in an interview with one of the toylines designers it doesn't sound like there are any plans for bestial combiner teams

Guess it's only the Technobots we can hold out hopes for now

[BigTransformerTrev]

Guess it's only the Technobots we can hold out hopes for now

And now they are saying that's it's pretty much confirmed Scattorshot is being released as just an extra torso, not as a team leader so there goes that dream too

Given the screen shots of Pred Ramhorn as a drill tank I really thought that was an indication that at least Nosecone was in the works. However in the interview I mentioned in the previous post the designer did say they were concentrating on terrestrial vehicles so besides Cyclonus and Sshot no Cybertronian alt modes

[SuspectimusPrime]

And now they are saying that's it's pretty much confirmed Scattorshot is being released as just an extra torso, not as a team leader so there goes that dream too

Given the screen shots of Pred Ramhorn as a drill tank I really thought that was an indication that at least Nosecone was in the works. However in the interview I mentioned in the previous post the designer did say they were concentrating on terrestrial vehicles so besides Cyclonus and Sshot no Cybertronian alt modes

With all the elements for the limb members being available, it's odd for them to not capitalise off by finishing off the team.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Well now we have unconfirmed rumours of both Computron and Lio Kaiser so looks like the Combiner Wars might not be over yet! Of course both could be nothing.

But say they do actually do these two - since we know we are not getting any animal combiners are there any more vehicle combiners from G1 & G2 left to do? All I can think of is G2 Deve that could use the current molds and adaptable configurations. After that they'd have to start making trains and dune buggys and stuff or move into other lines like RID(2001)

[prjkt]

The CW Swindle/Hound mould works pretty well as an armoured dune buggy, I'd be surprised if it doesn't end up getting used as Beachcomber somewhere down the line.

G2 Devastator is almost a given, probably more the yellow variant than the orange due to it being the "real" colour used by such vehicles out in the world, though due to the size I'm not going to say it's a guarantee...

[Handsprime]

I wanna see a train combiner, because then they can redeco and retool it to all the other train combiner out there!