For some reason I was more expecting a Sentinel Prime-esque plot twist where Drift is revealed to be an Evil Human-Built Transformers all along, betrays the team, and takes on his helicopter altmode (it would explain why they're pumping Autobot Car Drift way more than Helicopter Drift, if Car Drift isn't meant to be a spoiler). Either way, it might at least explain his creepy ultra-human face (which I still want to get carved off so he can basically be Bludgeon).Onslaught Six wrote:Drift is also rumoured to be a "former Decepticon" and the more and more I see it, the more I'm thinking he is also human-created and switches sides mid-way through the film, changing from helicopter to car form when he does so.
But the non-movie guys are always the coolest part of the line! I'm insanely happy we got Mindwipe and Skystalker in ROTF over...more Constructicons (with the exception of Scrapper, I would've loved Scrapper).Onslaught Six wrote:Regardless, some of them aren't gonna be in the toyline proper, I'm guessing, so that'll suck. I hate when they do that, but take the time to do new-mould non-movie guys in the mainline.
At any rate, Transformers Has Changed, especially in regards to the movies. This is no longer about Hasbro designing a bunch of TFs to be made into toys, then handing all that off to a studio and going "Make something". The media is conceived first and takes priority, and all the TFs involved are generated with that in mind, and Hasbro works with that to make toys alongside it. It's why faux-kibble is increasingly common, as guys who design things for the movies or games like WfC/FoC, or shows like TFPrime go "Fuck it" and don't make things really meant to work as toys, so Hasbro has to kind of BS it. So you also end up with elements in the movies like Lockdown's crew of generic probably-not-transforming 'bots, that aren't really conducive to the toyline, so Hasbro has to go "Fuck it, bad guys don't sell that well anymore anyway".
Given that Swindle and Payload were warming shelves like champs and were some of the only Deluxes you could find AT ALL in 2007, Hasbro probably doesn't want a repeat of that.Almighty Unicron wrote:Even if there were only a handful of decepticons in the film (like with the first TF movie) I was holding out hope for toyline only decepticons like Swindle from the first movie (you know, all those decepticon dudes with the lens-faces?)
Still, we're barely in the initial round of the Movie line, there's a chance we may see more/different stuff in the latter half, maybe when it switches to the inevitable subline imprint (Allspark Power/NEST, etc). That's when all the cool shit in ROTF came out, anyway.