Onslaught Six wrote:Picture this: Hasbro has decided to do two combiners, Bruticus and Superion, each with four unique limb dudes. Someone says, "Hey, you know what, what if we did Devastator too?" So they hack out Blastoff and Swindle, and use Swindle's design as a basis for the Bonecrusher guy. Cybertron rolls around, they need a quick US-exclusive Basic dude, they throw in the cancelled Swindle design as Hardtop. Shit, I mean, they even coloured him yellow and released him as Swindle later!
Perhaps, but that doesn't really jive with how they do business or how they did those specific Energon combiners, those were always designed to be 3 molds per combiner, so I'm not buying it, sounds more like wishful thinking than anything else.
BWp wrote: Like the other two Energon "Maximus" combiners, the five component robots of Constructicon Maximus are made from only three molds: a central Deluxe torso, and two Basic limbs with two color schemes each. According to Hasbro representatives at BotCon 2005, this was done because the budget for the tail-end of Energon allowed for only nine-to-ten new molds, so they had the choice of two groups of five, or three groups of three. They went with the latter.
So yeah?
So no. What that is saying is that they had planned them in budget to be a certain way from the beginning because they knew they couldn't afford to do a Bruticus at all otherwise. They had the choice of doing only Superion and Construction Maximus with 10 molds, or making 9 molds but getting 3 combiners out of them - if there had been a design change in that process, we wouldn't have gotten all 3 combiners in a single wave, there would have been delays as they shifted gears and changed budgets and ordering. That's not how Hasbro works, they don't do things like that at the last minute.
See, that one's a camcorder, that one's a camera, that one's a phone, and they're doing "Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no evil", get it?
