Quote Originally Posted by fatbot View Post
It doesn't matter about Licensing to make stunticons. Feel free to correct me, but the only one left is motormaster, all of the others have been redone, either as Takara Excluisives, in ROTF or as an Asian exclusive.

Seeing as how they have no truck molds at deluxe size point they won't do Motormaster. Plus we already have a Black Prime (nemisis) and a Purple (Botcon Shattered Glass) at Voyager, which hasbro aren't doing for generations

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there's also the fact that Licensing would only effect some of the ROTF toys, The Brakedown mold for example , may not have the same licensing as an on screen character eg wheelie.
I'm fairly sure I had this discussion a year or two ago over at TFW2005 and the conclusion that was reached was that any of the figures from the ROTF and movie 1 lines can't be used, as Paramount has an interest in all of them (Paramount is mentioned on the box of all them, even non movie characters) and thus it becomes to expensive/complicated for FP. Which is a bummer.

This applies even to non on screen characters (I wanted Wreckage as Grimlock or BW Dinobot but it just wasn't going to happen).

One would assume that Hasbro would have similar licensing issues trying to reuse them for different lines - which I think is why they're sort of just going for the morphing of the RotF line into generations, because it gives them more room to manouver as opposed to if it was a distcintly separate line.

Anyway, I'd like to see some new molds based on IDWs TF Ongoing - I'd give an arm and a leg for that new F22 seeker mold and Hot Rod's current format (based on a Pagini Zonda if I'm not mistaken - you can even see how it transforms just looking at the art).