Transformers Crossovers: G.I. Joe

[GoktimusPrime]

There was that Titanium Megatron which Dirge gave his lowest review score too

*shudder* That is a crap toy, even by Titanum Series standards (I find all 15cm Titanium Series TFs to be really lame TF action figures). I'd like to see that vehicle done with better engineering.

Snowcat was done well - the only modification they need is to make the cockpit open and close and give it a pilot. The original mould already has a cockpit! I don't know if the seats would need to be remoulded to allow a pilot to sit there, or they could easily just engineer the pilot figurine to fit into the existing seats. But even the existing mould is so much better than any other Crossover TF out there - and I think the reason for that is because the robot mode isn't attempting to look like Frostbite. One my biggest gripes with Star Wars Transformers (and Crossovers now) is Hasbro's insistence on making the robot modes look like the pilots. It just looks stupid most of the time and also places a massive creative restraint on the design of the toy. Making the toy hold a pilot in both modes is hard enough (although this doesn't apply to Marvel TFs) but to make it look like its character-pilot in robot mode really places a big restraint over how they can design the robot mode and engineer the transformation. I've always believed that Crossover TFs would be much better toys if they didn't have that restriction and just allowed designers to make the robots look like - ya know - TRANSFORMERS.

Snowcat's robot mode pretty much blends in with the Energon/Super Link line because the robot just looks like a regular Transformer - it's not trying to look like a human being (Frostbite). Gah!!

So yeah, while I would love to see a TF/G.I. Joe crossover I would much rather see it done like Snowcat and not like Star Wars and Marvel Crossovers where the robot mode design and transformation engineering are compromised because the robot mode has to look like a human. (-_-)

I dislike the other crossovers lines especially their heads. It would be a better concept to have normal bot heads and even make them subtly similar to popular Transformers Characters. Have a Megatron or Optimus Prime head as example.

Exactly! And it's not just the head, but the entire body too. Darth Vader/Death Star pales in comparison with other planetformers because it transforms from a grey ball into a black humanoid with a cape. Primus is the best engineered planetformer because there was no restrictions placed on the robot mode (cosmetically). As a result they could make Primus look like whatever they wanted in robot mode and therefore had greater freedom with engineering the transformation; and so Primus is the least shellformerish of the planetformers with Vader/Death Star being the most shellformerish.

Unicron is semi-shellformerish but that's because they were restricted with trying to make Unicron look like his G1 form in both planet and robot modes, which was a big challenge. And it was a necessary challenge because the toy was a G1 tribute - so I think Unicron was well designed considering what they were trying to do.