Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
This is why many TR/POTP figures based on characters that were already done before in CHUG don't hold much appeal to me. Like POTP Windcharger. IMO RtS Windcharger is just a damn excellent figure. No, not as slavishly G1 accurate in appearance, but I don't need it to be. If I want to play with a super G1 accurate Windcharger toy, then I'll go play with my G1 Windcharger toy. I'd rather CHUG focus more on being modern reinterpretations of classic characters rather than being "Poor Man's Masterpiece." Look at toys from the very early Classics line like Classics Mirage. That's a brilliant figure. And so are Generations toys like Warpath, Kup etc. No, they're not slavishly G1 accurate, but who cares? They're still really good toys and there's also a cool element of originality and creativity by giving them new imagined designs.
I think in some cases, it's nice to have multiple versions of the same character. Take Blurr for example, the Pre-CW version and the TR versions are totally different - one's a headmaster that turns into a futuristic vehicle, and the other has a nicer weapon that can be nicely hidden in its semi-realistic vehicle mode. Only thing these figures have in common is the name and colour scheme.

Classics Mirage (who I don't actually have) looks good, but the CW version would make for a nice homage to the G1 cartoon episode "Masquerade" when you account for the combiner gimmick.

But circling back to Blurr and pre-CW Transformers; the engineering on the 2010 Pre-CW figure seems more complex than a lot of CW/TR/PotP figures, and I don't think the mould has been used that often; so I reckon they can still sell and make money from that design.

Another really good figure is the RtS Legends Megatron. That mould design was released in the RtS line and in a couple EZ Collection waves in Japan, but that's all we ever saw of it - unlike the Legion Rippersnapper who we've seen heaps of times (all the Grimlock repaints *shudder*). I can see why they'd want to avoid releasing another Megatron with a gun alt-mode (political correctness reasons), but I think it's a good mould that should still have a lot of mileage left.