Part of a Discussion on RID Toys and Transformers Character Templates in General as well as my Lamentation of a lack of Jazz toys. ------- But what I was talking about isn't so much say how G1 Grimlock was followed by Pretender Grimlock and Actionmaster Grimlock so much as How I was talking about the principle of Character Templates. The Movies do this to some extent too and with some problems arising from that such as 2007 "Devastator" or 2009's Skids. But the issue is slightly different with the Movies - with the Movies they don't so much take a character as the borrow a name. this leads to what should have been called Demolishor or Brawl being called Devastator or what should have been called Bulkhead being called Hound. (because of G1 nameslappery). Hotshot is an interesting one as at one point he was supposed to be Bumblebee but then due to some name problems became Hotshot who in a way became less Bumblebee like and more like Hot Rod over time. Then when the Movies were being developed Hotshot nearly became the main Character instead of Bumblebee. But looking back at least they were not being as ridged in how the characters fit together as seems to be the case in the 2010's. I just get this horrible feeling that Hasbro has this list in their head and yes they might add to it now and again and very rarely they might even make a new character (very very rarely) but at the moment those few totally new Characters seem limited to the plot needs of minicons and Decepticons in RID and in many cases they had no intention of ever making a toy of any of them. So I approve of the RID Decepticons being in the main new Characters. with the odd name slap (like Overload) but I just wish they'd offer the same consideration to the Autobots. As without that desire to at least mix it up now and again the effect we get on the toyline isn't desirable. We got Two Sideswipe colours for example instead of a Sideswipe and a Red Alert ( I mean the white one - not any blue/gr...