[TimothyR]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Which is why I think it might be cheaper/easier for Hasbro to go for the Datsun license first. No one said Hasbro has to follow the same order that Takara does. Hasbro has proven numerous times across multiple lines that they can skip some molds entirely or come back to others later as they see fit.

So just because Lambo came out before Prowl/Smokescreen/Streak in Japan, doesn't mean that Sideswipe must come out before Prowl/Smokescreen/Bluestreak in the US.

I'm much more a fan of toy accuracy, as my first experience with Transformers was the toys. The show, at least for me, came a few months later. That timeline of events has also affected a lot of my opinions regarding G1 (FIBRIR!).

Besides, my favorite of the Datsuns will always be Bluestreak. Kinda hard to mess up his deco (unless they decide to actually make him blue).

for me.. no matter if the show came first or not.. i grew up with the characters.. the toys were just an extension of the show for me.. when i played with the toys i didn't make up names for them and different identities, prime was prime, megatron was megatron.

i'm more of a fan of toon accuracy, i think it looks better, and it gives the characters more personality.. if hasbro were in charge of the datsun designs, each of them would be exactly the same mold, we wouldn't get the different heads or shoulder weapons. plus, i think it's hard to argue that hasbro's hot rod looks much better than takara's. not to mention it's the little things that takara does that puts them ahead of hasbro's. like with soundwave, takara's inner feet are silver like the rest of the foot.. whereas hasbro's are just plain grey plastic. and the red missiles in soundwaves shoulder cannon are nice and pointed on takara's, on hasbro's they're rounded off.

to each their own though.

i know that hasbro doesn't have to follow the same release dates that takara has.. but so far they've been equal other than grimlock and thundercracker which were flopped.