What characters do you have the Classicsverse version but not the original?

[BigTransformerTrev]

What characters do you have the ‘Classicsverse’ version of but not the original toy?

With more and more obscure characters getting the Generations treatment each year, my ‘Classicsverse’ individual character collection has almost overcome my relatively extensive G1 character collection. If I was to count multiple versions of the same character over different Generations lines then the Classicsverse number is definitely bigger. There are still plenty of G1 characters I have that have yet to get the Classicsverse treatment, but that number is rapidly dwindling and is mainly made up of Micromasters and other little subgroups.

So what Classicsverse/Generations characters do you have where you don’t also own the original toy it was based on?

(Classicsverse = Classics, Generations, Universe, HFTD, RTS, Thrilling 30, Timelines, Titanium, CW, TR, POTP, Siege etc)

For me personally, most of the characters I have Classicsverse versions of but not their originators are Pretenders or Japanese Releases. But of course there are other ones as well I haven't gotten around to adding due to their high prices on the secondary market.

So my list:


Autobots
Airazor
Brainstorm
Chromedome
Circuit
Cloudburst
Crosscut
Firebolt/Firedrive
Getaway
Ironfist/Fisitron
Landmine
Lio Convoy
Metalhawk
Nightbeat
Orion Pax
Optimus Primal
Overair
Repugnus
Road-Police
Sawback/Lione
Shuffler
Slamdance
Stripes
Sundor
Twinferno/Doublecross
Wheel-Blaze

Decepticons
Apeface
Banzaitron
Black Arachnia
Blowpipe
Bludgeon
Caliburst
Darkwing/Blackwing
Dezarus
Doubledealer
Dreadwing (G2)
Drillhorn
Fangry
Guyhawk
Hellbat/Fellbat
Ironbison
Leozack
Octopunch
Overlord
Pounce
Rampage (BW)
Sky Shadow
Skyhopper
SoundBlaster
Strika
Submarauder
Thunderwing
Wingspan




I wont list the hundreds of characters I do have that got the Classicsverse treatment, so I'll just pop in some recent photos




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Honourable shout outs to the following 80's characters I have that appeared in G1 but didn't get a toy in the G1 line, instead having to wait for the Classicsverse treatment

Autobots
Alpha Trion
Arcee
Chromia
Elita-1
Impactor
Junkheap
Moonracer
Nova Prime
Novastar
Scrounge
Sentinel Prime

Decepticons
Acid Storm
Darkmount/Straxus
Ion Stom
Nova Storm
Nightbird

[GoktimusPrime]

For me:

* Artfire
* Greatshot
* Lionizer
* Metalhawk + Vector Prime (Pretender Shell)
* Lione (Sawback)
* Shuffler
* Swoop (blue chest)
* Overlord
* Guyhawk
* Killbison
* Dezarus (sorta)
* Hellbat
* Dai Atlas
* Sonic Bomber
* Roadfire
* Electro

And I have Big Powered incoming.
Basically anything G1 that was never released here, or in the case of Overlord, I just never found in stores. CHUG has been an awesome way for me to fill in gaps in my G1 collection without paying scalperrific prices. Same with some MPs (e.g. Blue Streak, Cordon etc.). And this is why I prefer to see future Generations toys cover "new: (i.e. previously not done) characters that haven't been redone before (e.g. G1 Barricade etc.). Redoing G1 TFs that have already been done as CHUGs before usually doesn't interest me unless it significantly outclasses the previous version... but on the whole I prefer to see "new" characters. And I don't mind seeing proper new characters too like Off-Road, Cybaxx, Slash etc.

I'm not including CHUG toys that never existed before (e.g. Arcee, Alpha Bravo, Rook etc.) as that's obviously an impossible standard.

[KELPIE]

Mine would kinda be the reverse of most 80's kids here.

I had limited 84 cast, cheap figures from 85 cast, then more in 86 and from there a continuing upward trend through to Action Masters.

So any of the classics from the first couple years are kinda new figures to me, while a lot of the stuff from TR and POTP I did have the originals for.... and in that same theme, I'll list characters I'm really hoping to see classic versions of:

Sureshot
Slapdash
Firecons
Dogfight
Backstreet
Windsweeper (botcon doesn't count)
Spinster (again, botcon doesn't count)
Fangry (how we didn't get one out of that Doublecross mould is crazy)
Squeezeplay
Monstructor
Apeface
Snapdragon
Doubledealer (a proper one)
Pretenders (proper ones)

Still, can't be greedy... I never thought we'd get new versions of Flywheels, the clones, P/CP, Monssterbots, Terrorcons Darkwing/Dreadwind, Gnaw.... so it's been a good run before we've come back to Prime, Ironhide, Prowl, Ratchet, Zzzz.....

[Tha_Phantom]

*I'm using the original names of the characters in this list. I know some of them have been renamed due to trademark/other reasons.*

Superion/Aerialbots
Computron/Technobots
Abominus/Terrorcons
Slag
Sludge
Snarl
Inferno
Prowl
Smokescreen
Perceptor
Gnaw
Octane
Punch/Counterpunch
Wingspan
Pounce
Cloudraker
Fastlane
Chromedome
Highbrow
Weirdwolf
Skullcruncher
Submarauder
Skullgrin
Bomb-Burst
Cloudburst
Metalhawk
Landmine
Octopunch
Blackjack
Megatron (G2)
Lio Convoy

[SharkyMcShark]

Literally everyone that isn't Vortex.

If we're counting G2 versions of G1 molds then also Optimus Prime.

[GoktimusPrime]

Spinister (again, botcon doesn't count)

Fixed for you (autocorrect struck again!)
I know what you mean about con/club exclusives not counting, but to me they feel CHUGgish if they're redecoes of CHUG moulds.
e.g. FunPun Clench and Pyro serve as CHUG Obliterators to me since they're repaints of CHUG moulds. Having said that, they stand on my BotCon/FunPub shelf and not my CHUG shelves.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Windsweeper (botcon doesn't count)
Spinster (again, botcon doesn't count)

I know what you mean about con/club exclusives not counting, but to me they feel CHUGgish if they're redecoes of CHUG moulds.
e.g. FunPun Clench and Pyro serve as CHUG Obliterators to me since they're repaints of CHUG moulds. Having said that, they stand on my BotCon/FunPub shelf and not my CHUG shelves.

I don't know if you would count Timelines as CHUG, but I think that CHUG is a well and truly redundant term now. Hence why I use 'Classicsverse' and I reckon Timelines, considering it's reimaginings of characters that have come before, definitely fits under that umbrella.

(Classicsverse = Classics, Generations, Universe, HFTD, RTS, Thrilling 30, Timelines, Titanium, CW, TR, POTP, Siege etc)

So characters I have that are from Timelines that I don't have the original of are:

Autobots
Airazor
Brainstorm
Chromedome
Circuit
Crosscut
Firebolt/Firedrive
Getaway
Ironfist/Fisitron
Landmine
Lio Convoy
Metalhawk
Nightbeat
Orion Pax
Optimus Primal
Repugnus
Sawback/Lione
Shuffler
Stripes
Sundor
Twinferno/Doublecross

Decepticons
Apeface
Banzaitron
Black Arachnia
Blowpipe
Bludgeon
Caliburst
Darkwing/Blackwing
Dezarus
Doubledealer
Dreadwing (G2)
Drillhorn
Fangry
Guyhawk
Hellbat/Fellbat
Ironbison
Leozack
Overlord
Pounce
Rampage (BW)
Sky Shadow
SoundBlaster
Strika
Submarauder
Thunderwing
Wingspan

[philby]

Since Ramjet is the only G1 toy I still seem to have my entire collection now is MP or classicsverse etc

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Misread the question, my vote should have been 'Most of them' rather than 'Some of them'.

I kind of prefer the G1 city/base-mode bots for size reasons - the Titan classes are too big for me to be able to display. Sky Lynx is another G1/Encore-only bot for me - the CHUG version doesn't really get the alt-mode/s right IMO.

Besides that, though, I mostly try and limit myself to one version of each character and/or mold, and I sort of prefer CHUG over G1 where possible.

[DELTAprime]

For me personally, my G1 collection is rather small. It's mostly limited to reissues, though I do have a handful of vintage G1 toys. I get really disappointed when I get most G1 toys. They are just so different from the cartoon model and I really want something that looks like what I saw on the show.

On the other hand the only G1 characters I'm missing from my CHUG collection are Junkheap and Scrapheap, which never got a toy in G1, and Artfire.