Post by machsabre on Feb 8, 2018 18:18:55 GMT -5
So as an early wedding present to myself, I picked up Slash and Windcharger today. And it brings up an interesting question... Does Hasbro got some sort of undying love for Windcharger?
Of all the Minibots, this guy has had a surprisingly high amount of toys just in the past five years. There was the Reveal the Shield toy, the Combiner Wars Toy and this new version for Power of the Primes. He was the only one of the Minibots to get an Alternator. (Not even Bumblebee got that one, but that wasn't due to a lack of trying.)
Windcharger has never been a major player. He's never been the kid friendly guy like Bumblebee or Wheelie, or the ascended underdog like Tailgate or Swerve. He never had a major story dedicated to him, like Cliffjumper, Gears or ANY of the '85ers. He was always a secondary character. There's no alternate universe versions of him in any of the other universes they've had. No Armada WIndcharger. (There's a Superlink Combiner out of the Minicons, but even that one was a bit weird, because he was WINDcharger as opposed to just Charger.) No Animated version. No movie version. The Aligned universe guy was just a quick screenshot of the blacklisted Autobots from the council, and the Shattered Glass version had to be confirmed that it was him on Twitter of all things. His original toy was never reissued in G2... In fact, his most prominent moment I can think of in fiction throughout the franchise was:
1. Using his magnet powers to create the holographic combiner in the G1 Show.
2. Helping Orion Pax, Skids and the gang infiltrate the Primal Basilica in MTMTE, and he was just the transport.
3. Arcee dragging his dead ass next to Wheeljack.
How the hell does this guy keep getting toys made? I mean, I like him. But HOW?
Of all the Minibots, this guy has had a surprisingly high amount of toys just in the past five years. There was the Reveal the Shield toy, the Combiner Wars Toy and this new version for Power of the Primes. He was the only one of the Minibots to get an Alternator. (Not even Bumblebee got that one, but that wasn't due to a lack of trying.)
Windcharger has never been a major player. He's never been the kid friendly guy like Bumblebee or Wheelie, or the ascended underdog like Tailgate or Swerve. He never had a major story dedicated to him, like Cliffjumper, Gears or ANY of the '85ers. He was always a secondary character. There's no alternate universe versions of him in any of the other universes they've had. No Armada WIndcharger. (There's a Superlink Combiner out of the Minicons, but even that one was a bit weird, because he was WINDcharger as opposed to just Charger.) No Animated version. No movie version. The Aligned universe guy was just a quick screenshot of the blacklisted Autobots from the council, and the Shattered Glass version had to be confirmed that it was him on Twitter of all things. His original toy was never reissued in G2... In fact, his most prominent moment I can think of in fiction throughout the franchise was:
1. Using his magnet powers to create the holographic combiner in the G1 Show.
2. Helping Orion Pax, Skids and the gang infiltrate the Primal Basilica in MTMTE, and he was just the transport.
3. Arcee dragging his dead ass next to Wheeljack.
How the hell does this guy keep getting toys made? I mean, I like him. But HOW?