Talk:Starscream clone (Animated)

"G1 redeco will be a store exclusive"

Any idea which store will be getting the exclusive? Perhaps Target because they got the movie g1 starscream redeco?--Skyglide 16:34, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Army-Building reference in the trivia

• The Starscream clones clearly only exist to sell toys

I think that is prefect for the trivia. The fact that there is a lot of seemingly same deco(A) starscreams makes it seem like hasbro is encouraging army building of the Starscream figure. The fact that because of the movie line, the toys and episode doesn't line up seems irrelevant to me. As does A Prime Problem. We are all very aware that the fictions only purpose is to sell toys. If in the fiction there are numerous identical starscreams, I think the connection is obvious.

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--Skyglide 23:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

There is no reason to believe that the clone army is a toy-sales-driven move. We've seen no altered-color-clone redecoes announced, which would be the big indicator... and at this stage, odds are appropriate redecoes would be created-after-the-fact items like the Premium movie toys. I really can't fathom Hasbro going "hey Marty, make Starscream clone himself so we can encourage multiple-buying of this one toy." It is far, far, FAR more likely that the genesis of the clone story is the simple "wouldn't it be neat to reference this thing that happened in G1, just like how Starscream died but came back". To claim unambiguously that it's a toy-sales-driven move is weak and tenuous at best. "To sell toys" is kind of dependent on "toy first". If Hasbro REALLY wanted to go that route, one of the clones would have been Skywarp, who we HAVE seen officialy announced as a toy... and Hasbro said he wasn't intended to be a show character. --M Sipher 04:49, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

And, sad to say, it's the most logical approach to a bunch of guys with the same body type. Bit more interesting take on it than G1, even. Having an army of them has an in-story purpose, and having them all resemble Starscream is easily explained by his vanity. This being a continuity that, aside from some noteworthy exceptions, has largely unique body types for each character.--Rosicrucian^Talk 05:27, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

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