Quote Originally Posted by DELTAprime View Post
There has been a Q&A held with Hasbro. There is some good information in this Q&A. I'm particularly interested in the Core Class Dinobots were designed as Monstructor and Dinoking moulds, but it was decided to do Dinobots because they would sell better. Also, no guarantees that we will ever get a Mostructor or Dinoking out of the mould. Also, even the design team can't get a Legacy Cosmos for themselves.
Well that's a shame. I was going to hold off and wait for the Monstructor repaint/remould.

Overall I'm always disappointed by these Q&A's. Peeps mainly asking the same silly questions over again. That said, there were some better ones this time round.

Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
The problem with the Pretender concept is that it can compromise the robot, which is what it did in G1 (contortionists in disguise). Perhaps a better solution is to have the Pretender shells be modular, similar to Siegedom Ultra Magnus' trailer. That way the Pretender shell can be articulated, and the inner robot doesn't have to be as heavily engineered to cram inside a plastic shell.

Or you could have the Pretender "shell" just be a separate action figure that doesn't actually function as a shell.

So for example Hasbro could make a proper CHUG Bludgeon toy that resembles the G1 robot with tank mode etc., and include an action figure resembling the Pretender shell. I don't mind if the figure is smaller, say 9.5cm like a G.I. Joe or whatever (the Pretenders mass-shifted in Japanese canon anyway, while Anglo canon made them go off-world to places populated by giant alien humanoids). Yeah, I know this Bludgeon toy is just a repaint/retool of CW Hot Spot; I just quickly threw this together for a basic visual concept; you get the idea.
And yet, as mentioned here, that cool little Bomburst fits inside the original shell

That said, I'm not overly fussed how we get them, I'd just like to see the characters represented again. Loving Bomburst and Iguanus, although I would have preferred them a little bigger (say the new minibot size). However this amalgamation solution will be a bit of an issue with any of the "human" Pretenders.