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Originally Posted by Pascal
Then it'd be cool to have the Cybertron version of each character released at some point (at least for the ones seen in the show).
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I don't think it would necessarily work. We never actually see the Cyb alt modes for Bulkhead, Prowl or Bumbles which tells me they probably couldn't (or simply didn't want to) pull them off in toy form, and the one that we do see for Ratchet looks rather thrown together and done solely for the two seconds it appears in the show. IE: someone was told just to draw tracks instead of wheels, but pretty much leave the rest of the design as-is. I have a feeling they all would look pretty much exactly the same, but just have some out of place looking treads thrown on where wheels are on their Earth forms along with different painted areas. Nothing as dramatically different as, for example, G1 Earth forms vs original War Within Cybertron forms... which is pretty much evidenced by the two Animated toys of Prime we've already seen considering how similar they are to each other.
I also think Hasbro probably deems it as a bit redundant considering their Earth forms are already so futuristic, subsequently taking the "wow" factor out of their equally futuristic looking Cyb forms. Not unlike how few differences were seen in the War Within versions of futuristic characters like Springer, Kup, Blurr, Hot Rod, Arcee, etc. If one didn't know better, it would be easy to assume their Earth forms *are* their Cyb forms.
Not trying to shoot down the idea or anything
Just offering a drawn out explanation instead of bluntly saying it would likely be redundant and not worth the effort on Hasbro's part. I think the only reason they're making exceptions for Prime & Megatron are because they're Prime & Megatron... and are also 'teaser/preview' figures similar to what they did with the Movie protoforms of Prime & Starscream.
