Sabrblade wrote:Quoting what Diem wrote about this in the
Titans Return thread:
Diem wrote:I think calling it a retool is a stretch, it looks like the only parts shared are the hips, upper legs, and possibly the waist extender and inner shoulders. There's certainly engineering shared, but there's a big difference between sharing designs and measurements on a toy blueprint and sharing real life plastic parts.
I think the fandom as whole needs to come up with a new nomenclature for this:
1. Complete revamps that significantly change the figure like Metroplex/Fort Max, Highbrow/Scourge, Chromedome/Dead End, Sky Dive/Air Raid.
2. The pieces fit together differently but a lot is the same like First Aid/Offroad, PMOP/Ultra Magnus, and Springer/Sandstorm.
3. Most of the outer pieces have different details, but it uses the same guts like Dead End/Streetwise, Rook/Swindle and Cyclonus/Silverbolt.
4. New head like Prowl/Streetwise and Blitzwing/Double Dealer.
5. Different paint job like seekers.
I think 3 is remold, 4 is retool, and 5 is repaint, but I don't think 3 and 4 are very good descriptions and and 1 and 2 have no general descriptions. I'm not even sure about grouping a lot of them in 1 and 2. Then you can also get into the places where the transformation is exactly the same like Fireflight/Sky Dive/Offroad. I'd really like to see someone like Yuki's thoughts on it.