Talk:CHUG

Representative toy gallery

Is the repetition of characters here intentional? Is it meant to show some aspect of the concept? Or should we use a different character for each toyline? --Khajidha (talk) 12:25, 14 February 2018 (EST)

When I put the gallery together, my intention was to use different versions of the same character to better illustrate differences between the lines. This seemed most relevant between the Hasbro/Takara versions but I felt like including PotP Jazz too for a comparison. My logic went something like this:

• Starscream - probably the most iconic CHUG mold
• Sunstreaker - yellow colour is a bit different, seemed like a "solid figure" from the line
• Drift - references the increasing importance placed on IDW and that characters from outside of G1 are occasionally included
• Jazz - I think widely considered the best CHUG Autobot Cars mold?
• Springer - not a deluxe like all the others, has a third mode, best-received figure of his line
• Defensor - a combiner that isn't made up of just cars or planes that also neatly shows the different design methodology between CW and UW (re: Groove)
• Hardhead - wave 1 autobot that was always a headmaster
• Jazz - not explicitly a member of a combiner team, compare to RTS jazz

I debated how many Decepticons, if any, to include, but settled on just Starscream. Anyway, that was my reasoning. I definitely feel like sticking to one figure per line is the way to go, but as to what figure that is there's probably room for improvement here. The Wadapan (talk) 12:43, 14 February 2018 (EST)

Authentics section

"Evergreen is a generic brand of sorts made for merchandise and budget markets, featuring designs strongly influenced by the original Generation 1 versions of the most prominent Transformers characters. Its compatibility with CHUG is often debated, as most toys do have relatively rudimentary engineering in comparison to the more intricate figures released under the Generations label, but the G1-based designs of characters like Megatron and Shockwave, coupled with the fact that they generally scale well enough with regular CHUG figures and might provide a solid basis for customization, has resulted in some of them being surprisingly desirable for collectors. The Power of the Primes version of Starscream is also directly based on his Evergreen design."

This sentence doesn't make much sense, and I think it should be rewritten.

• Why is the Evergreen brand considered a toyline even though it's just a term for the current aesthetic of franchise-less Transformers merchandise?

• It seems like this sentence is claiming that the Cyber Series is part of the Evergreen brand, when it's not.

• Outside of possibly the small Bumblebee and large Optimus Prime and Grimlock, Authentics figures don't really "scale well enough with regular CHUG figures". The small Optimus, Megatron, and Starscream figures would fit decently into a Legends-scale CHUG collection. If this part is talking about the Cyber Series, then only Bumblebee, Prowl, and Sideswipe wouldn't fit into a CHUG collection scale-wise, since most car-bots in CHUG are Deluxe Class.

• About the "solid basis for customization" part, I have yet to see a customized Authentics figure, and if it is talking about the Cyber Series, most customs I've seen for that line are just knee articulation mods for Starscream and Shockwave.

ShootingStar7X (talk) 15:20, 4 August 2018 (EDT)