william-james88 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:If Nautica were to share a mold with Brainstorm and Blurr, I can't believe it. That mold already has 2 different uses.
Yeah, thats totally unheard of, I mean the Dead End mold was only used for Dead End and Streetwise right? Oh, wait..
And this is the reason for it. While I adore combiners, that much mold reuse actually did tire me out. They form combiners so the individual modes are kinda lost to me mainly for the combined mode (but only partially) so I could get over it.
now when they have no choice but to be individuals, then it becomes bothersome. In Thrilling 30, they used the Bee mold 3 times, one for bee, one for Goldbug, one for Nightbeat. I only bought nightbeat, and it seemed odd to use that mold when it already had 2 good uses with minimum retooling.
a similar thing goes for combiner wars in a different way. Will said he felt the aerialbots were all some sort of baseline skeleton. well, using that example that all the aerialbots were the same mold just retooled, it was boring to have the individuals. They all transform the same and while they look different they are just too similar to really enjoy.
So really, yes the molds can look different and there can be a lot of retooling. but I would prefer have another mold get reused for another character than have a mold be used 3 times in the same line.
Also, do we now realize that essentially, if we go by what the podcast says since it is coming true a lot, that we almost know the entire first 4 waves of TR before it is even released, let alone put up for preorder besides the wave 1 leaders? That hits me as ridiculous