Henkei classic characters

[GoktimusPrime]

The goodies have often outnumbered the baddies in Transformers... so I'm not sure why it would bother you now some 25 years later! Machine Wars had a perfectly even 50:50 split between Autobots and Decepticons, and Beast Wars came close. Then you have Beast Machines where the Maximals were vastly outnumbered by Vehicons.

[Paulbot]

I wonder if in Henkei they might follow Hasbro's lead and rerelease toys from other lines as 'classic' characters, eg Constructicons based on Cybertron or RID toys or Combaticons based on the Cybertron combiners.

[GoktimusPrime]

I'd rather have new original moulds over repaints. We haven't had an original gestalt since 2004. (-_-) (not including Animated Safeguard)

I wish HasTak would retool Meantime and release him as "Classics" Time Warrior. (T_T)

[kup]

I'd rather have new original moulds over repaints. We haven't had an original gestalt since 2004. (-_-) (not including Animated Safeguard)

I wish HasTak would retool Meantime and release him as "Classics" Time Warrior. (T_T)

I would prefer new molds too but that won't happen unless Tak-Tom decides to have a strong initiative in developing their own toys instead of waiting for Hasbro to come up and approve an overall design.

However I would settle for a good remold of a modern mold to look more G1.

[STL]

I wonder if in Henkei they might follow Hasbro's lead and rerelease toys from other lines as 'classic' characters, eg Constructicons based on Cybertron or RID toys or Combaticons based on the Cybertron combiners.

The feeling I've always gotten with the Japanese market is that it isn't too accomodating of repaints. I'm not sure if that's right to say b/c some of the main cast are repaints in Henkei but in the other lines, we never saw the recolours of many Cybertron toys into their markets. Cybertron Cannonball is a perfect example of that.

I've been doing a bit of research into custom fodder and in all honesty the only toys worth repainting into a G1 homage would be Cybertron, late Energon, and Classics 1.0 toys. The BW molds if they were available could be used for some of the beasts/creatures but I wonder if those molds have survived.

[griffin]

Perhaps TakaraTomy just don't have the demand (or pressure from Walmart) to pad out their line with heaps of recolours like Hasbro do?
It does mean missing out on the chance of getting some recolours/characters that TT would have done a better job on the colour scheme.