- The Doctor Who promotion for Walls' Sky Ray ice lollies meant you got printed cards featuring stories about the Doctor on them. The company didn't have the rights to use the likenesses of either of the actors who had played the character at that point, and so the artwork featured a Doctor based on a fusion between William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton.
- BIONICLE (2015):
- Ekimu is a composite of at least three characters from the original run:
- Mata Nui: ancient Big Good praised by his people, enticing jealousy from his (metaphorical) brother Makuta, which leads to the latter becoming the Big Bad. Falls into a coma from which six legendary Toa heroes have to awaken him.
- Artakha: hammer-wielding mask maker who wears the Mask of Creation. Like Ekimu, Artakha also had a feud with a less talented "brother", with the latter getting banished to a place of darkness — in essence this makes the new Makuta a composite of the original Makuta and Artakha's aforementioned rival, Karzahni.
- Takua/Takanuva: an islander with a short stature who eventually becomes the Seventh Toa, the Toa of Light, although Ekimu adopts this form only briefly and modestly rejects the title.
- Ekimu being an exposition-delivering but suspiciously secretive mentor also makes him similar to Turaga Vakama (who was likewise a mask maker), though Ekimu shares this role with Narmoto, the Protector of Fire.
- Umarak the Hunter combines some traits of G1's Dark Hunters, Nidhiki and Krekka. Umarak was also hired by Makuta to help him acquire a more powerful form, and upon donning the Mask of Control, becomes a hulking (and somewhat slower-minded) brute like Krekka. Even the name Umarak was said to mean Shadow Hunter, a nod to the Dark Hunters. He also shares their fate: Makuta betraying and absorbing him to attain his full might.
- Toy-wise, the 2015 Tahu melds design cues from the original 2001 Tahu Mata (mask, basic colors, arms controlled by gears, flame pattern on the swords), the 2002 Tahu Nuva (bulkiness, layered armor, dual-purpose weapons that work as a surf board) and the 2004 Toa Lhikan (gold accents, enormous combining swords). The other five 2015 Toa also share similarities to their '01 Mata and '02 Nuva counterparts, but also add novel elements.
- Ekimu is a composite of at least three characters from the original run:
- The Crimson Dynamo figure featured in Hasbro's Iron Man 2 line is the original Anton Vanko version, but sports the armor of Dmitri Bukharin, the fifth user of the name in the comics.
- Transformers:
- Generations Blitzwing, while based on the original G1 character, features a face-swapping gimmick with a "cold" and "crazy" face alongside his default one, just like Blitzwing in Transformers: Animated.
- In a similar take, one of the figures of the incarnation of Blitzwing from the Bumblebee movie also gives him a face swapping gimmick, but this time the "crazy" face is the only other option.
- As a curious Easter Egg, removing the faceplate on Masterpiece Wheeljack (based off his G1 incarnation) reveals a fully sculpted face
◊ that resembles Wheeljack's Transformers: Animated incarnation. - When the Classics line introduced a revamped version of Combining Mecha Devastator, since it was a recolor of a figure from an earlier line that had five members instead of Devastator's traditional six. Because of this, Hook and Mixmaster were omitted... and in their place was a new character named Hightower, who seemed to be written as a combination of the two (Mixmaster's chemistry skills, Hook's snobbish attitude and crane altmode). Due to the somewhat vague canon of Classics, it's very possible that Hightower could be a future version of either of the two, or even a literal merging of the two.
- The Titans Return line revolves around the Titan Masters; small Cybertronians that function like the Headmasters in the original toyline. However, while they're complely robotic (as in Transformers: ★Headmasters), they bond with sentient Transformers like the original Nebulans did, as opposed to controlling lifeless bodies. In addition, they bestow powers onto their partners and are fought over by both sides for these, much like the Mini-Cons in Transformers: Armada. Finally, they came with tiny vehicles and are meant to be used with playset characters, reminiscent of Micromasters, and many of those vehicles have weapon modes, evoking Targetmasters.
- The TakaraTomy Legends line (that features repainted and often improved releases of western molds from the Generations lines starting from midway through the Thrilling 30 line until Titans Return) retconned all the Titan Master figures into Headmasters, with the comics (both online and inside the packages) explaining how many characters got turned into Headmasters and forced to use Transtectors based on their old forms. Also, in the later waves Targetmasters (which are not found in the Hasbro releases) are introduced: while the ones that were in the Headmasters anime are still robots, the ones that were seen only in The Rebirth (Firebolt, Recoil and Haywire, respectively found with Hot Rod, Kup and Doublecrossnote ) are made into human characters transformed with Masterbraces: Firebolt is Shaoshao Li from Kiss Players, Recoil is Suenote and Haywire is original character White Lune (who is supposed to be the younger sister of Beastformer White Leo, AKA Pirate Lion from the Battle Beasts toyline)
- The Power of the Primes line features the Prime Masters, small sized incarnations of the Original Thirteen who give powers to their partners Mini-Con style, and go around wearing "Decoy Suits" to disguise themselves as the Pretenders from the original line (Vector Prime goes as Metalhawk, Liege Maximo as Skullgrin, The Fallen as Bomb-Burst and so on), and the suits also transform into weapons for larger Transformers, akin to Targetmasters.
- As mentioned in the Comic Books section, the G1 Jetfire figure was just a licensed repaint of a VF-1 Valkyrie from Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Due to Takara not wanting the TV show to promote a toy made by a rival company (Takatoku Toys, whose rights to the Valkyrie toy later passed to Bandai), the cartoon replaced Jetfire with an Expy named Skyfire, who had a radically different appearance (even by the standards of the show). As a compromise, most modern toys depicting G1 Jetfire combine elements of both Jetfire and Skyfire, usually with a vehicle mode based on the former and a robot mode based on the latter. The Jetfire figures from the Classics and Thrilling 30 lines took this a step further by having his standard robot face be Skyfire's, while also including an attachable "battle mask" based on the original Jetfire/Valkyrie toy's face. The War for Cybertron Jetfire, meanwhile, is a very faithful recreation of Skyfire in both its vehicle and robot modes, but still includes an attachable mask and armor based on the original Valkyrie design.
- Generations Blitzwing, while based on the original G1 character, features a face-swapping gimmick with a "cold" and "crazy" face alongside his default one, just like Blitzwing in Transformers: Animated.
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