[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

What? This makes absolutely no sense to me. Of course there was/is variety. Aside from Optimus, Bumblebee, Skids and Ironhide, there was plenty of new stuff to choose from:

Starscream/Thundercracker, Roadbuster, Topspin, Skyhammer, Shockwave, Megatron and Sentinel Prime for the larger classes and the Cyberverse line is just pure win all around.

You misunderstood me then. I ment visual variety. There's like, two dozen characters out, but aside from like half a dozen, they're all cars and trucks. And not just cars and trucks, but they're also all very simular colors.

Welve got a miniature blackout helicoptor, a large Skyhammer helicoptor, a tanned tatooed jet, a bright blue jet, a purple mess of parts that's a tank because they say it's a tank, and a vtol that turns into a bird because they say it's a bird.
That's about the extent of the variety. The rest are very blandly colored cars and trucks.
So yeah, I stand by my statement. And it makes perfect sense. There's almost no variety in the first few waves of DotM.

And yeah, G1 *was* mostly cars and trucks, but there were also a ton of helicoptors, almost as many jets as cars, a fair few dinosaurs, plenty of fictional fantasy vehicles, and it's fair share of beasts. G1 had a variety that hasn't been met since, save for Cybertron.
I'm not saying that DotM should have all that, but it would have been nice to make some of the off-creen characters something different than the onscreen characters, just to break up the monotony. Throw in a tank, or a couple more jets, and bump off screen characters like Barricade, Skids and Mudflap to later waves.