Continued from the Greenlight toy review thread

Quote Originally Posted by Maruten View Post
I'll be happy to see the end of these wretched stick-thin molds.
I hear you. They should release a CHUG Strika and consider other female Transformers that don't all look like buxom models. After all, most male Transformers don't look like beefcakes. Most Transformers are fairly androgynous in appearance because they usually follow the Japanese mecha aesthetic, which itself was inspired by samurai armour... and armour is gender neutral. Unlike fantasy armour where women wear moulded breastplates (huh?) or usually an insufficient amount of armour, real life armour worn by women is identical to armour worn by men. Female motorcycle riders, police officers, soldiers etc. don't wear a distinctly different "feminine" style of armour from their male counterparts. Female warriors in real life such as Tomoe Gozen, Joan of Arc or the Scythia Kurgans (real life Amazonians!) never wore distinctly feminine armour. There's no reason why we can't have more future female Transformers that just look androgynous like almost every other Transformer does. I quite like how some of the Cyberverse Seekers are female without much significant change to their overall appearance.

I felt that there was a wasted opportunity when they released Generations Nightbeat but never bothered repainting him as Minerva.

This would make perfect sense since the G1 Nightbeat and Minerva toys are exactly the same mould! If they ever make a new CHUG Nightbeat I would really hope that they'd release a Minerva repaint too (note: the Minerva pictured above is a custom).

And there are other similar characters that they could do the same for, e.g.
* Airazor (f) and Airazar (m)
* Override (f) and Nitro Convoy (m)
* If they ever do the eHobby Gobots as CHUGs then Cosmos could be repainted as Pathfinder and Gears as Smallfoot
* Any Bumblebee toy could be repainted as a Glyph
* If they ever did a CHUG G2 Gobot Bumblebee then he could be repainted as Nightracer
* Any Seeker mould could be made into a female Seeker (e.g. Slipstream) or be reassigned as female (e.g. Novastar etc.). We don't need a repaint/retool of a "female" mould like Legends Slipstream, any standard Seeker mould would suffice (e.g. Siege Starscream)

Aww man, if they ever repainted the Siege Starscream mould as the three Rainmakers...