Quote Originally Posted by Verno View Post

The wonderful thing about the Pretender Beasts is that the originals came with accessories -- helmets and blasters that plugged into the shell. What if Hasbro took a character like Catilla, made it an organic saber-tooth tiger which had accessories plugged into it (like the original shell), that could transform into a robot and said accessories could combine and transform into a smaller saber-tooth tiger.

This does away with the potentially troublesome shells altogether.

Am I making sense?
I7m a bit confused with this idea. So, you have BW type robot with a target master buddy or something?

I'd like pretenders to come back somehow, I've always liked the look of them as space adventurers and rather liked US marvel comic's look of the Autobot pretenders in their shells.

One way it could be done is give them organic looking helmets and armour that makes them more organic looking, or monster looking for the Deceps and the armour becomes accessories/weapons etc.

So imagine, a toy like TR Blurr, but you plug bits on him to hide his robot look and the bits can make an artillery cannon or something like that when not ebing used as armour. ,Personally I'd like to see the toy keep it's pose-i-ness too.

Overall, I think the pretender concept is a bit hard to engineer well, and will also be expensive to make, so I'm not going to hold my breath. Or we'll end up with basic one step changers shoved into a static shell...