Repurposing your transformers

[kup]

Yeah, I just go with whatever the toy is officially meant to be. Sometimes during toy play I might mix and match some toys from different series - but at the end I always put them back on their "correct" shelves.

How are you handling the Hasbro 'Classics' releases with the simultaneous but separate lines?

[autobreadticon]

Oh i realised some people are using DOTM Spacecase in their classicverse collection, i prefer the original G2 toys, love the interesting designs

[autobreadticon]

Classics Runamuck

[GoktimusPrime]

How are you handling the Hasbro 'Classics' releases with the simultaneous but separate lines?

I lump all of CHUGUR together as my "Classicsverse." Anything that's not part of CHUGUR doesn't go on those shelves.

Oh i realised some people are using DOTM Spacecase in their classicverse collection, i prefer the original G2 toys, love the interesting designs

The G2 Cyberjets are indeed awesome designs. 1994-95 saw a lot of cool designs coming in, creating the first Transformer toys that could transform into articulated pose-able robot modes. The Cyberjets were among the first to widely incorporate the use of ball and socket joints. While this practice became standardised during Beast Wars, it was later G2 toys like the Cyberjets, Laser Rods etc. that pioneered the concept of Transformers as transformable action figures - putting the poorly articulated and non-transformable Action Masters to shame.

I keep mine on my G2 shelves though - but it is cool how they still stand the test of time pretty well.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Ive just got DOTM Skyhammer off laybuy... was thinking of absorbing him to the ranks of Classicverse but somehow for me it doesnt fully sit well to be a G1 skyhammer classicverse equivalent... so Im trying to think of a character match alternative for him... any suggestions guys... else he will just end up as .. well, Classicverse Skyhammer sans the shell of course, which was the copter in the g1s but the innerbot was something else, which is prolly why Im not fully comfortable with a direct equivalent repurposing.

He's going into the Odieverse as Classics Whirl.

Classics Runamuck

Brilliant. Please get on this Hasbro, I really want some official smallish Battlechargers.

[GoktimusPrime]

This and this. Sadly they'll be limited exclusives though.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Yeah, I saw those but the Wheeljack/Tracks mold for the Battlechargers just doesn't do it for me. It makes a great Tracks/Wheeljack but the vehicle mode is too far off the BCs G1 look, and if they were going to go for something less G1 but 'chunkier' I would have preferred a Movieverse Lockdown remold or something similar that looks actually badass.
The ideal would be a pair of new-mold/remold Scout class toys with ample C-clip options so you can get that 'full of guns' look.

[autobreadticon]

does any1 use timelines Nightbeat in their classicverse collection? i like how you can position G1 Muzzle when Nightbeat is in vehicle mode

I am also starting to collect Beast Wars Timelines toys, i already have timelines Airrazor, intending to add DOTM Quickstrike, Energon Ravage and Universe Ratbat (during the time he wasn't a bat dude), interested if any1 had ideas of other toys from Unicronverse they would consider BW timeline toys.

I was thinking Strapmetal could be BW Inferno

[liegeprime]

Classics Runamuck

erm where's the head? , nice reuse idea though quite feasible. A black spray paint over and you get Runabout....

[GoktimusPrime]

does any1 use timelines Nightbeat in their classicverse collection?

I don't have Timelines Nightbeat, but if I did, I would display him with my Timelines Transformers and not with my Classicsverse Transformers. I would probably play with him as part of my Classicsverse Transformers though.

well, Cybertron Longrack is meant to homage Beast Wars Neo Longrack

Yeah but I display him with by Cybertron Autobots. Although I agree that he would make a neat repurpose as Cybertronian Long Rack. Not that Cybertronian Long Rack did all that much considering that he was a new recruit when he started serving under Big Convoy in BW Neo... so he might have been a civilian then. Maybe a construction worker?