Should Third Party Makers Create Obscure Transformers Characters as Toys?
An older thread at TFW2005 has surfaced, with fans weighing in on whether or not the third party Transformers toymakers should devote resources to creating toys of the more obscure Transformers characters. I think yes, but that’s because I continue to want Scrounge.
First appearing in issue #17 of the Marvel Transformers comic, Scrounge (see the TFWiki) was an Autobot who wasn’t all that respected by his teammates. A little guy, Scrounge has a special arm with recording devices that could telescope and extended to spy on events happening pretty far from his body. These days this design would have used robotic drones, but since Scrounge is a product of the mid-eighties his fingers project wires with one audio and one video recorder.
It’s very unlikely anyone will ever create a comic-accurate Scrounge — he transformed into a wheel — but I continue to hope that we’ll one day see this guy as a toy.
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OMG, I haven’t thought about Scrounge in DECADES! Seeing that picture of him brought back a flood of memories. Down the Googling hole I go, weeee!
Yesss they especially need to make human characters in scale with the generations line. love to see an ida spike and jimmy pink in uniforms. Also machination characters would be cool.
idw spike that is.
So, no one has made a Scrounger yet? Does he have to transform into a wheel thingie? I could whip up a non-poseable resin 2 inch tall one for Kaiju Kaos: Smackdown.
He looks like he’d not be too hard to work out a working wheel alt mode form for. You’d make it so the backs of the legs and arms are arcs that form the rim of the wheel, put a circular hub piece on his back, and massage the rest of the forms to get it to work right…or maybe some clever use of hidden bits in hatches. I could see it being done as a 3D printed creation if not a 3rd party figure.
Aw, I remember poor Scrounge…but if a third-party type could get on a six-inch scale Death’s Head for me. Best of all, unbound by safety regulations, they could make him good and pointy!
I’d love a Death’s Head from the UK series. Circuit Breaker too.
Speaking of which, did the early Marvel Transformers comics ever get a compendium release? Dark Horse did a great job with producing very handy/readable mini books (in color!) for the Star Wars line. I know they don’t have the TF license, but something like that would be perfect.
IDW has the TF comics now–More Than Meets The Eye is really, really good–and they had a Humble Bundle over the summer with 50-some Marvel issues. (I don’t think #3 with Spider-Man was included…) I know they did reprint singles for a while, but I don’t know about collected.