I'm going to disagree with a couple of your points there Gok, but because we're all entitled to our opinions, I'll just start out by saying I understand where your coming from.

It might not be neccessary by collectors' standards, but it's an excellent marketing tool, and the way they've made things so that it's not just the heads that are compatible - ie Fortmax & Leaders become "bases" and the Legends interact with other classes, either as a "cassette" for Blaster/Soundwave or as vehicles for the Titanmasters, it takes the CW level intercompatibility to the next stage, without seriously hampering the figures that much - look at Wheelie - quite possibly the best Legends class figure I own, fits a Titanmaster in his canopy, yet transforms into a near perfect replica of his cartoon art.

I like that concept. I find it less an exclusive gimmick as it was back in the G1 days, "This guy here's a Headmaster, and this ones a Targetmaster. Over here you'll see a Sparkabot..." and more and inclusive feature across the line as a whole.

Now as collectors we want the characters for who they are, and sometimes who they've always been (hence why when I saw LG Blurr I got quite excited, even though I already had United Blurr, this guy is almost straight out of the cartoon) but kids these days don't know and probably don't care about the last 30 years of history, they've got a cool new toy, with bits and pieces that can be swapped or played with other toys in the line. It's great from that perspective.

I get you on the CW Autobots who weren't combiners to begin with - I already had each of those two waves of DLX figures in previous Classics-verse incarnations, so like you, I passed them up. But for a newer collector, or *shock-horror* a kid to whom the line is really aimed at, it's a way to get these characters that in some cases hadn't been seen on shelves in 9-10 years. I don't see an issue there. We just won't buy figures we don't want/need for our collections, while others buy them, and help fund future releases.

So far I've bought every TR character released, some Takara, but most Hasbro, but if the time comes and a character is released that I already have in another form and I feel is superior, I'll pass on the new one and that's OK.

On Perceptor, I've already got the Classics-verse release, in the form of the very nice and shiny GDO 3 pack release, but the TR one intrigues me as it's in G1 form... so like Brainstorm I may end up have two versions on my shelf, representing different versions of the character (Gen. Perceptor is my IDW sniper, Gen. Brainstorm is straight out of MTMTE while the TR guys may represent their cartoon forms.)

Apart from lack of shiny paint, which is a weakness I've had since I started collecting the Takara FOC line, I'm finding that so far, Titans Return is the strongest sub-line of Transformers Generations, even the Classics-verse as a whole. Looking forward to the seeing future holds down this path.