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Originally Posted by SMOG
The thing here is that Liokaiser is a uniquely Japanese fave character, one who is unrecognizable to many western fans. The Hasbro release is already an oddball choice, in and of itself.
So far, Takara has been quite pointed about doing their own variants of all the combiners. It seems really strange for them to omit Liokaiser.
I don't know about re-engineering the torso into 2 bots, but considering what they've done for Hasbro's Powermaster Prime mold (into Ginrei), including doing their own Godbomber figure from scratch, as well as new molds for many of the other CW Combiners to make them more G1-accurate, it seems really weird for them to skip Liokaiser, of all bots.
Maybe they won't... but it doesn't fit their pattern to ignore this one.
zmog
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I think it fits their pattern well because Takara only released Combiners that were Scramble City combiners, using the combiner wars port system. Liokaiser is not scramble city and is a 6 member team. So Takara can easily ignore it since the current system wouldnt do right by him and they could work on him way later as part of another line and new technology, not meant to be compatible with CW/UW. Kinda like Devastator.
