Who plays the part of Mati, I wonder...
They should have repainted the CW/PotP molds so we could have Captimus Planetron
Went ahead and pre-ordered Cloudcover on Walmart. The comments here about their pre-order history has me leery, but they give me free shipping and didn't feel like paying $7 shipping on a $35 on Pulse. So, will take my chances.
It'd be cool to know what some of the thinking/discussions were about all of these cancelled G2 designs. I always wonder if they were intended to come out at roughly the same time as (or instead of) the other G1 mold re-uses, and got thrown out for being too 'out there', or if they were intended for later down the road, and then thrown out when they decided to shift to doing new molds instead. There does seem to be a mix of approaches - some guys are nearly the same as their originals (Optimus, Inferno, silver Dinobots), other guys have similar but subtly different decoes (Jazz, Starscream), some guys have the same deco with one major color shift (Constructions, second wave Dinobots), then there are some guys with wildly different color schemes (Ramjet, Aerialbots, Combaticons).
I've also gotten word about Prowl and Crashbar, plus Skyquake a couple days ago. Still no shipping notice for my Omega Sentinel, alas.
Is he popular in the west?Because he's part of the legacy of Transformers?
You already asked that.How come Lio from Japan is in the Legacy line?
Because the current Transformers team at Hasbro is made up of people who are fans of the Japanese side of Transformers, and they wanted to make the new toy of him in honor of the 25th anniversary of Beast Wars Second.
Same reason why they made Metalhawk in this line, for the 35th anniversary of Super-God Masterforce.
What does popularity matter? I think he's known in the west and that kids love animals. He seems like a perfect fit into the Legacy line to me.Is he popular in the west?
I really would love to see some additional Beast Machines characters in the Legacy line though. I know I've talked about this far in the past in this thread, but a Commander Class Tankor would just make my decade. Deluxe Thrust and Voyager Jetstorm would only make my dream even more magical.