Looks like Takara is, indeed, going to expand the Missing Link concept to other characters besides Optimus Prime. This popped up this morning:

https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/04/26/takara-missing-link-bumblebee-cliffjumper-possible-first-look-510074

In concept it's similar to the unofficial Impossible Toys versions of Hill-Jumper and Bumble-Bug that were widely available a number of years ago, but the proportions on those were always a bit weird. The Takara versions, besides being official toys, seem to have nailed the G1 proportions exactly, and yet still incorporated an impressive level of articulation.

Zob (honestly, I can't wait for a whole toy line full of these things... Starscream, Soundwave, Jazz, Grimlock... and there's nothing to stop Takara from doing Megatron, too)

This is definitely the box art accurate line I have been dreaming of. I would willingly replace every modern era update of every character with these. Even Masterpiece is rendered obsolete by this. I can want for nothing more. I can live with just this.

MissingLink Wheelie will still be terrible, though.

GoBackaTron wrote:

> This is definitely the box art accurate line I have been dreaming of. I would willingly replace every modern era update of every character with these. Even Masterpiece is rendered obsolete by this. I can want for nothing more. I can live with just this.

> MissingLink Wheelie will still be terrible, though.

I agree with you 100%. This is the updated TF I have been looking for all these years - posable versions of the original G1 toys from 1984-85. I have always wanted to pose them to match their box arts. I don't know if I'll buy them though. If they had been available 20 years ago onwards I would have bought those instead of buying the Masterpiece toys, Fan Toys as well as the various sublines. Now it is 40 years too late. I promised myself not to buy any more G1 toys because I already have too many of them in a room.

If Takara ever does Missing Link Megatron I hope they are not faithful to the original colour scheme. The original Megatron toy had chrome on the arms and chest but not on the barrel, the helmet and the shins. To realistically imitate a Walter P38 gun, all those parts have to be the same colour. Either chrome Megatron consistently or don't chrome him at all as long as they are all the same colour.

Megatron would be cool if they would use elements of the prototype
design with the gun barrel on his back.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Earlymegatron.jpg

Do we know if these are still the same size? That’s a lot of tiny pieces if they are, but I could definitely accept them being upscaled a bit.

GustavoWombat wrote:

> Do we know if these are still the same size? That’s a lot of tiny pieces if they are, but I could definitely accept them being upscaled a bit.

Well, Missing Link Optimus is precisely 1:1 scale with the original G1 toy from 1984. So that sets a precedent. I would assume Missing Link Bumblebee would be the same, but who knows? Agreed, he will have some very tiny parts.

Zob (and a tiny little gun! Squeeeee!)

Optim wrote:
> I agree with you 100%. This is the updated TF I have been looking for all these years - posable versions of the original G1 toys from 1984-85.

If they announce a MissingLink blue Bluestreak I will dump every Transformer I have bought since 1992 in the Toys For Tots bin this Christmas.