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@Solitude  
Like a three step MTO  
There’s an entry in the almanac on decepticon weaponry by Ironfist and at the end he says “serious consideration should be given to lifting outdated bans on the research on weapons rather than powers”  
With Sentinel “Magnus” in charge leading a more militant autobot society that’s all very likely

@Background Pony #E77A  
Yeah, but I like the thought of Hardhead being literally built for war. An Autobot created to be a soldier and nothing more, without any thought of what would happen to him should they win the war. It’d tie in nicely with his G1 persona.

@Jarkes  
Most of those references early on were for new fans who jumped on because of the movie it gave them something familiar to latch on to

@Solitude  
Well autobots in animated “eschew such barbaric instruments of destruction” to quote Prowl from the almanac instead they relie on powers and tools  
The thing on Warpath’s chest is described as a radar he Mod-ed into a sonic pulse cannon
 
All we’ve seen of animated Hound is his head which is G1 based with a beret but after AOE I think it best to make him with Bulky’s body for diversity’s sake
 
The Magnus body I like to think is only for the autobot supreme commander when the council agrees on who the next Magnus is that bot gets an upgrade

@Jarkes  
A bit, yeah, now that you mention it. But I thought G1 was alright and the first Bay movie was eh so I’m more inclined to see G1 first.

@Solitude
 
Animated also had a lot of reference to the first live-action movie…

@Background Pony #E77A  
Ah, I thought we were going off of G1, since Animated is a big G1 homage anyway.
 
If you’re going for movie Hound then yeah, Bulkhead fits.
 
Hardhead still needs a cannon, though. Gonna need some retooling.
 
Energon Rodimus was also a truck, though.

@Solitude  
The movie version of Hound is basically Bulkhead so it seems logical to make the animated version have the same body type
 
I say also that Hardhead has a Bulky style bod because his earth mode in IDW is an APC (plus they both have head in their name)
 
And before his prominence in IDW Thunderclash had a con exclusive toy that was a redeco of Energon Rodimus
 
Those are my reasons anyway

@Background Pony #E77A  
Speaking for myself:  
Hound’s a jeep so I think he’d be more along the Ironhide line. Bulkhead seems a bit to bulky for him.  
Hardhead’s a tank so he’d be more along the lines of Warpath.  
Thunderclash is a truck so I’d put him more along the Optimus/Ultra Magnus route.

So I’ve been looking through the complete allspark almanac and it’s caused me to face palm at Hasbro a little cause so many characters are redecos/retools of other characters (proto-molds they say in-universe) for instance Drift has a design based on Blurr’s (because Blurr got a toy out Drift’s mold) it feels like Hasbro could have really milked all their animated molds
 
Anyway here are my thoughts on what animated characters who haven’t been shown in full (if at all) would look like based on body types that have been established
 
Autobots:  
Hound=Bulkhead  
Trailbreaker=Ironhide(specifically his unused earth form)  
Smokescreen=Jazz  
Bluestreak=Prowl  
Chromedome=Wheeljack  
Getaway=Rodimus  
Hardhead=Bulkhead  
Tailgate=Bumblebee  
Windcharger=Bumblebee(and an elite guard member)  
Thunderclash=Rodimus  
Whirl=Highbrow  
Devcon=Mirge  
Hoist=Longarm(not Shockwave just what he looked like as an autobot)  
Grapple=Longrack  
Skyfall=Powerglide
 
Decepticons:  
Onslaught=Stika(lots of characters get gender flipped in animated: Nightbeat Dragstip even Sunstreaker)  
Ravage=Oil Slick(Beast Wars style with a feline head like Cheetor)  
Rumble=Ramhorn

@OptimusPrimevil  
Good questions. I mean when stuff like this can get produced.

questions about third-party toys:  

@Solitude  
can you imagine strika bringing obsidian home to those two…and he fears nickel more than tarn

@OptimusPrimevil  
I can image how they react to that.  

@Background Pony #E77A  
by ‘samus aran’ i meant the outward appearance hides a more feminine body. outside of metroid, a lot of full female body armors still go for the feminine look (curves, noticeable bust, high heels, etc).
 
and speaking of nickel…  

 
too bad strika is slated to appear before there’s any chance she’s the offspring of these two (and she’s camien).

sam humphries(uncanny X-force, avengers AI and starlord) would be a fresh face on the transformers comics

@Background Pony #CB9E  
James Roberts
 
Oh wait…

@OptimusPrimevil  
That really doesn’t work here
 
The Samus reveal wasn’t about what her body looked like under the armor it was that she was a woman period there was no hints or foreshadowing it was a well executed surprise
 
But Strika we already know is woman so this “twist” adds nothing new to the character and if anything takes away from her
 
And just to be clear while I am happy to see more diverse body types for femmes I have no problem with the more traditional slender frames
 
There’s been a disgusting trend in discriminating against skinny/in shape characters it is as wrong as if were done against fat ones  
It’s body shaming pure and simple

@Background Pony #CB9E  
hirohiko araki

who do you guys wanna see write transformers comics for IDW?

@Background Pony #E77A  
i was going more of a ‘samus aran’ kind of reveal (bulky suit = svelte frame).

@OptimusPrimevil  
Strika with a more feminine frame would be stupid  
Now if she turned out to be a tiny thing like Nickle then maybe but the big strong character turning out to be small has been done enough best to leave her as is

i once had an idea that strika (beast machines) should be a loadbearer when she makes her IDW debut (she has a more sleeker, feminine form underneath her traditional, non-feminine form) but too much time with ‘steven universe’ (not all females have to be supermodels) and some backlash about windblade’s “too feminine” opinions made me reconsider my idea. but is it interesting?

From Youtube subscriber walruslaw
 
TFADV Optimus Prime TAV21
 
Since TakaraTomy and their patrons are not content with the 3-step Big Optimus Prime toy, TakTomy decided to tease their patrons with this figure 1 ft (30 cm) tall in robot mode (about Leader class) with lights and sounds and that game code sticker in/on his left shoulder to those who have downloaded the RID 2015 Android app  

 
Remember the name Hisashi Yuki, toy designer working for TakaraTomy.
 
 
While the J-dub of RID2015 is on hiatus after episode 13 (I watched those episodes before they were geolocked), Q Transformers season 2 is up to temporarily fill in the gap. Q Transformers, BTW, is its own gag continuity.

rumor: transformers robots in disguise to replace sonic boom after the 2 weeks of new episodes are up