>>88687571989, mini-pretenders, featuring Bludgeon and frens.
>speculation that Longtooth and Stranglehold's factions were switched, since monster and human bean>nevertheless ended up with 1 of each water boy (maybe that's why?)>Longtooth, undersea defense, amphibious transport>Octopunch, salvage, crabA bunch of usually-balanced releases of land and air vehicles after that, 4 releases of G1 guys with shells, Megas getting transformable shells that bots can combone with, Thunderwing and 2 Autobot randos. Ultras were.. I'll just.. quote the wiki here.
>Ultra Pretenders are even more complex than the Mega Pretenders. The small inner robot fits inside a transformable humanoid shell; the shell's vehicle mode has an open-cockpit section the inner robot can sit in. The humanoid shell can then fit inside an even larger vehicle shell, which has a small "battle platform" the inner robot can operate.Then it's 6 uggo rando Decepticons that combone. 6 little weirdos that were given no personality in IDW, just get in the way for categorizing/filenaming, but have bios I'm obligated to read since I'm now self-aware of my hatred for them.
But that's 2 years of relatively consistent releases of water boys, in any case. Betting that it was due to "hey split-open-able toys might be fun in the water" or "hey it's almost the 90s, other toys/companies have water gimmicks, can we make some water vehicles or submersibles real quick" or both, but open to hearing better speculation.
