Kurona wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:King Kuuga wrote:Emerje wrote:Gnaw was likely designed long before even Combiner Wars for a 2014 release so it makes sense that he wouldn't have any Titan Master interactivity, same may be true for Legends Brawn who was originally supposed to be Gnaw's wave-mate. However, it makes no sense for the new Legends Cosmos to not be able to hold a TM since since we already have a normal Cosmos.
Emerje
I know Gnaw was designed for an older point in the line, before Titan Masters, but he is nonetheless being released among the Titans Return figures with no Titan Master integration (that we know of) aside from literally biting down on them. I'm counting it on a technicality.
By the by, if this is indeed the case, it wouldn't be the first time Hasbro released a toy designed for an older/different line into the current one:
- The Beast Wars Mutants were originally Animorph toys, but were retooled when that line bit the dust
- Beast Machines ended with toys still in development: Air Attack Optimus Primal, Megatron Megabolt and Bruticus were shifted to RiD 2001, with the last seemingly having incomplete features.
Makes you wonder if Legends Brawn is still possible... I'd say 50/50, because people probably thought "Hey, Gnaw is getting released, so Brawn must be too!"
Looking at recent toys, I believe that CW Devastator, CW Skylynx, most of the non-Headmaster TR figs (Blurr, Galvatron, etc) were in the same boat, design-wise. Looking at them, it's clear to see different sizes (Devvy), redundant, gimped or missing parts (Galvatron's extra jet mode, the cavity seemingly designed to take a full head in alt mode), etc.
Galvatron and Alpha Trion were both confirmed to be designed before Titans Return but got moved into it. Saying everyone who wasn't a headmaster before being designed before TR and just getting moved to it is something I'd say is more than a little insane though, considering the original 1987 Headmasters can at most make up two deluxe waves.
Devastator is bigger because they needed a Titan Class and because if you want to do him accurately he's going to be incompatible with the rest of CW, so you need to go this route.
I think Sky Lynx was just a case of them going all-out and having fun.
I'd say Legends Brawn is a stark possibility; assuming the recent leaks about a few previously Titan Master-only characters (Nightbeat and Apeface) apparently getting actual toys later in the line. Which does make sense, I remember that originally a lot of the Titan Masters were instead designed to be original characters with original designs but got turned into guys like Nightbeat for some star power. Which is a shame, because while I do love the Titan Master class regardless it'd be cool to see some new guys. Rook, Alpha Bravo and Offroad made CW tbh.
I disagree, as it's not "insane". Devastator doesn't need to be larger, and there was no need for a larger figure. The design seems to suggest that they were going to be Masterpiece, or that more and more figures were going to become bigger, but more hollow (CW Megatron, Jetfire-Seekers, Constructicons, etc). Even if that was not the case, Devvy's combination system (based on its G1 system) and scale were simply not in keeping with the play system designed for CW. Considering non-headmasters have been shoe-horned into TR, and non-combiners also so in CW, then it's puzzling to have a you, so large, so unique and so unable to be remolded/repainted into anything else, released.
As for the likes of Blurr, Galvatron, Scourge, etc, then it's not strange to suggest that they were not designed to be HM. Ignoring their non-headmaster past and looking at their current designs, it's possible to see that Scourge can keep the had on in alt mode (needing only a cover for the back of the jet to cover a rotated face/head), Galvatron has a chest cavity for his head and Blurr has space inside his front canopy (with minimal modding) to include a permanent head.
These are probably linked to the disconnect (which is not necessarily a bad thing) between the toy designers, marketing and range/play style designers. Toys get designed for existing or proposed ranges, or created to represent existing characters, only for marketing or other areas of design (play patterns, etc) to finalise other design mandates (marketing being notorious in game design for requesting "trending" features, for example), leading to last minute changes, to existing designs.
As for new designs, I agree. In fact, the whole point of genetic coloured transtectors(black, white, grey, red, people, etc) with silver/black heads would enable kids AND collectors to make their own characters.
