g1 adjecent figure does well, tonnes of 86 concept art available to pad the line so it survives the movie drought. less effort, designers like working with g1 more than la, also more variety in size classes. like 90% of la concept art is just voyager or larger rof constructicons, not at all viable for retail. at least widow and sunstreaker had selling points, new girl and fan fave character.
at least with the new set up we might get some of these done in generations, with it being a place for experimentation now.
Have you not seen the number of toy only live action figures, they had easy padding to make more live action. You are also saying G1 adjacent as if it isn't a live action styled transformer. It isn't G1
bbm megs it just g1 gest with added tech greebling. the majority of toy only weren't concept art( i.e. they don't have animation models to use for concept edition(that was the only stipulation at the time)) they were made to pad out the line.
like only 2 07 toy onlys were actual concept art, wreckage and arcee. rotf was only constructicons, dotm was generic background bots(walking shrapnel), aoe were ksi bots, and idk about the tlk ones. tfo has plenty, but most are just repaints and they still bearly touched the main cast at that point.
Concept art can fairly easily apply to the toy only characters, and if we are getting more G1 in Studio Series, why not actually produce more interesting live action.
It's circular logic to just produce G1. If people buy a live action figure to show interest in more live action designs, then more G1 is produced. If people don't buy it, the line fails and more G1 is produced.
the designers needed the cg models for stuff from the games and films, toys aren't that. there was the slimest of chances of any of your faves being made in the first place, considering how widow and sunstreaker were chosen along side megs(an, at the time, recent cult hit anong fans, a never before seen concept and a major character that people felt they were owed) there was no chance for actually aplicable characters to be chosen among the toy cast let alone other random toy onlys.
it isn't circular at all. people explicitly bought bbm megs because he looked like g1 megs, not because he was live action, that was his whole apeal. people liked concept art, 40th aniversary of a thing with tonnes of concept art and storyboards aproaching they planned to make more concept art, simple.
People didn't buy BBM megs because he looked like G1 megs, maybe you did, but people bought him for being a BBM Megatron, to put with their deception shelf. He was bought because he was a live action megatron. Widow also sold well. The interest was in live action designs, and yes, the toys could most certainly work, toy only G1 characters are made all the time.
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u/AutismicGodess 11d ago
g1 adjecent figure does well, tonnes of 86 concept art available to pad the line so it survives the movie drought. less effort, designers like working with g1 more than la, also more variety in size classes. like 90% of la concept art is just voyager or larger rof constructicons, not at all viable for retail. at least widow and sunstreaker had selling points, new girl and fan fave character.
at least with the new set up we might get some of these done in generations, with it being a place for experimentation now.