A Sequel??

How about the new story could look something like this?

Believing their homeland to be somewhere in South America, the Gorgonites wind up near the United States/Mexico border. The Commandos are revealed to be doing some sort of anti-terrorist operations in Juarez or something who are led by a now older and experienced veteran Chip Hazard. Somehow the Gorgonites cross paths with the Commandos who are running ops and although the Commandos have been under a different directive for many years the underlying programming of "destroy the Gorgonites" is still in them.
The commandos could have also received some upgrades due to their new mission and market as well as a new look that is possibly less toyish and a little more serious. The Gorgonites could have also fashioned weapons from nature as a contradiction to the technologically enhanced Commandos. It is also possible the Gorgonites freed some more bretheren such as Flatchoo or other ones that were not displayed heavily in the film.
I think it would also be a bit better if the Commandos roles as "bad guys" was left a bit more ambiguous or complicated. Put the good in evil in the gray area.

David Cross who played Irwin is a possible return for the film as I have seen him in lots of obscure stuff and low budget things like the Tim and Eric show on Adult Swim.

Perhaps the new cast of characters could be a young boy and his family who live in an impoverished area near the border, and the boy takes a liking to the Gorgonites whose journey home and across the border seem inspirational to him.

I would only hope that CGI is used respectively and not over done like in Real Steel where the clunky looking robots are so fluid they don't resemble robots at all.

This is all of course just fantasy and wishful thinking.

Here's my rough outline for how a sequel all these years later might work. I posted this in the Independence Day: Resurgence board as kind of a semi-joke at first but the more I think about it maybe it could work. Here it is:

Small Soldiers: Re-Activated


Nearly 20 years since the events of the first movie. Alan Abernathy is now an adult and has married Christy Fimple. Both have two teenaged children in their early teens, roughly the same age as Alan and Christy in the first film. Alan has had a successful career as an inventor and Christy is a peace activist. The Abernathy Family resides in Southern California and unknown to them, the Gorgonites at the end of the first film have found "Gorgon" or rather an unhabitated space of land in Northern CA where they'd peacefully lived for nearly two decades, but they still remember Alan and miss him occasionally.

The Commando Elite makes their return when a lone Chip Hazard figure re-activates old figures of the other Commandos. If you remember at the end of the first film, the unshipped Commandos that got recalled were instead going to be used to aid rebels in South America. That plan went awry so the Commando Elite line was cancelled altogether but not before a lone Chip somehow got away and re-activated the other Commandos who somehow after all this time track down the whereabouts of the Gorgonites and assault their home.

The Gorgonites flee in horror and it's around this time the Commandos also learn of Alan's whereabouts. Wanting revenge, Chip leads the Commandos to Southern California where the Gorgonites have found their way and are re-united with Alan and Christy, and getting to befriend their children. Once the Commandos arrive, all Hell breaks loose again when they take their war to the streets in an attempt to eradicate the Gorgonites and all traces of their allies, no matter the cost.

I'd watch a sequel that is just the gorgonites sailing on that boat searching for gorgon